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Naura @startrek.website
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Burn it all down. It's the only way to be sure
  • Is your wife thinking about conquering her fears?

    Tl;dr : I conquered my fears but it took the help of a therapist and psychiatrist.

    I had severe anxiety of driving.

    I really wanted to drive. Even though I had the license to drive, even though I knew for a fact i could drive, even though I really really wanted to drive, my nervous system would go into fight or flight mode once I started even thinking about driving. so I asked my mental health professionals about it.

    I got beta blockers to slow my heart down and then I started desensitizing.

    I can drive now.

  • But they love him in the mirror universe.
  • What I think is that because they are incapable of empathetic thought, the message gets lost.

    TNG’s Time’s Arrow, DS9’s Past Tense, VOY’s Life Line are all just made up stories to them. No human condition there.

  • The IRS plans to crack down on 1,600 millionaires to collect millions of dollars in back taxes
  • My spouse works for compliance and usually you are given a chance to right everything before it goes as far as being audited. Like you said, mostly administrative issues is taken care at the first level and it’s no biggie.

    So if someone is being audited something is already very wrong and the first level folks have sent the case to audits or even criminal investigations.

  • The IRS plans to crack down on 1,600 millionaires to collect millions of dollars in back taxes
  • Compliance means that if you made a mistake, the IRS will give you a chance to correct it. And if you decide not to fix it? then they come for your shit.

    If you don’t want them to come to take your shit, FOLLOW THE FUCKING LAW. So simple!!!!! Isn’t that how it’s supposed to be?

    These right wing nut jobs are something else. Haha.

  • America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?
  • Actually that makes sense. studies show epigenetic gene expression and its connections to depression. Conflicts like world war 2, that happened 80 years ago could be affecting us today. Abuse our parents, grandparents, great grandparents had to deal with could be the reason why we are more depressed.

    I come from a family who lived in okinawa in 1945, my grandparents was part of children who were made to fight/work by the japanese imperial navy. They came here to the US for a better life. It was better but that didn’t change the fact that my grandparents went through that.

    My entire family (3 generations) suffers from depression. My kids have never been abused so they don’t have depression but they are one stressful event away from being depressed.

  • America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?
  • It's because it begins very young. I've seen my friend hit her SIX MONTH OLD because they reached out to grab glasses that she puts in front of her. To train up a child? some bullshit religious "child training" program is often used in religious communities.

    More frequent parental punitive discipline was significantly associated with smaller dorsal striatal volume in children, consistent with research demonstrating striatal differences following exposure to severe early life stress. Moreover, these results are consistent with a growing body of research linking normative variation in parental care with children’s brain structure. They align more specifically with recent work linking negative parenting (e.g., aggressive behavior, hostility) with reward processing neuroanatomy in adolescents and frontal-striatal functional connectivity in children.

    Smaller dorsal striatal volume was significantly associated with higher depressive symptoms in children, consistent with previous work that has mainly focused on MDD in adolescents or adults. Thus, this study extends previous work by showing similar associations in a community sample of children who did not have psychiatric diagnoses. These findings suggest that changes in striatal morphology may precede the onset of MDD, [Major depressive disorder] which typically occurs in adolescence or adulthood

    Parental Punitive Discipline and Children’s Depressive Symptoms: Associations with Striatal Volume

    People are literally damaging their children's brain by using punitive discipline / stressors.

    "I got spanked and I'm ok" just is not true.

  • What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
  • I started knitting for my kids when we were living in colorado.

    so I ended up processing wool from raw fleece -> hat

    raw merino fleece, raw alpaca fleece, Scouring soap, dye, dyeing classes with natalie redding, spinning wheel, drum carder, hackle, table loom, warping thing for yarn

    Math

    ended up going to school for math education (with pell grant $500 per 6 month term) I can't pass the exit exam. tried 5 times out of those I had to pay out of pocket for 4 of them $480.

    and surprise, I got dxed with ADHD. That's why I couldn't pass the tests. now I pay $50 a month for it (doc + meds)

  • Coping with humor

    Anyone else cope with their mental health by joking about it?

    My childhood was so absurd I just can't be serious about it.

    I take so many meds when my pharmacist asked me why I take two meds that do the same thing I told him that "that's just how much my brain is ~~f***ed ~~ messed up". He didn't appreciate it.

    my spouse tells me that people usually don't like it when you do that and that's why I have trouble making friends.

    Can anyone relate?

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