horrible omg. it’s killed and it will kill again!!

ugh, had to calm myself down and remind myself of very real historic abuses of ECT in order to not see red... terrible, irresponsible headline that will make patients and families doubt a treatment that rescues the most vulnerable. imagine “calling for a stop to chemo” for headache/afib prevalence

whoa this SUCKS. calling for the most-effective, highly-rationed treatment for severe depression or bipolar disorder to be suspended when us psychiatrists are recommending it to people who are severely suicidal, who can’t eat due to psychotic neglect??? this is for emergencies and it saves lives

oh yeah you deserve a poetic overheard snippet of a phone call where the therapist is emotional/exasperated with their own family member in the same way therapist has patiently questioned you for similar reactions

okay but the revelations hit sooooo much harder after 6-18 months of total reticence/witholding. reverse session should be slowly banked up like PTO

Gretchen Weiners “I don’t think my father who invented the toaster strudel would be too pleased to hear this” dot gif, irl

that’s how I imagine rich people’s interior monologues when they’re lounging around a tax-dodging wyoming ranch clad in ralph lauren. self-consciously reflective, probing, and incandescent with the loneliness of too much money

“I’m an adult, and I think it’s always better to get more time and attention for a possible health issue. There is no point at which this can backfire” — still kinda wowed by the prevalence of this belief persisting beyond spikes of stress/pain

I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices

no joke heard “I have to restart my olanzapine 30mg every night because my mom who’s a nurse said it would help my depression.” suppressed the urge to scream as I explained that a non-psychotic non-manic totally-fine-seeming young person might benefit from alternative approaches

sublime. why fund a hospital when you can start one out of the back of your car with cutting-edge treatments (handfuls of green almonds, a weak magnetic field, pentecostal tongue-speaking)

this is what it’s all about... the field of psychiatry salutes him for discovering both the cause of, and cure to, all human maladies

god I wish

it’s like rent, or food costs—I don’t want to sound naive but it’s truly insane how much a given person or family on wages is supposed to absorb infinite budget increases

sick title

sadly I think women being the only site of masculine ego-capital recapitulation or whatever will render the 2A thing moot. “it’s different because we actually respect mothers SO much [for dying]”

yeah, the comedian Louis CK fell out of public life for very good reasons but I’ll never forget his standup riff about abortion where he said it’s unreal that you can shoot an intruder in your house but not inside your body