It's very location dependent. And depends what kind of birth you want. It sounds like you had external support and didn't want pain relief.

Lol, it's in a few weeks. Scrooges.

Women should be 'allowed' to request whatever procedure they like or want.

I do agree that society should stop seeing birth related PTSD as no biggie.

I still maintain that c-sections would be rarer if maternity providers gave a crap about women's pain, physical health and mental health.

It was for medical reasons. And unlike 'natural' birth, they were at least provided with effective pain relief.

it's remarkable how tied into all this stuff tobacco/nicotine is. i listened to a presentation by some UMich bipolar researchers who dropped the statistic that the average person with bipolar disorder dies to tobacco-related conditions

I would think it's also trauma related. Having undiagnosed and untreated ADHD is a constant source of stress. It makes sense that self medicating would follow.

And other drugs. Some folk will be all 'no one had ADHD in the 80s' and it's like... you did, it's just that people were taking diet pills and speed.

Nonsense. ADHD is a heritable developmental disorder. It can't be cured with exercise & painting.

Treating ADHD in childhood is strongly associated with marked reductions in development of mood and anxiety disorder, substance abuse disorder, interaction with the legal system, accidental death and death by suicide.

They should publish a story reporting that hip fractures cause narcotic abuse.

ADHD is massively underdiagnosed and it's extremely difficult to get medication. In the UK under 13s can't be diagnosed at all.

I sometimes think doctors will try literally anything than the medicine that actually works.

A handful of outliers do not disprove that statistical fact.

I guess I can drink twelve coffees a day while chain smoking if you want me to do this in a socially acceptable manner, I just don't see how that's better for my physical or mental health than Vyvanse, y'know?

Well it seems to have worked with the BBC.

The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.

Yes. The Greens are the only real socialist party left. Labour certainly don't qualify.

Oh, that ship has sailed.