I can count on one hand the days I've worn make up at work this year. I can not count on all my fingers and toes the times I've turned up to work (from home) post therapy with tears dried all over my face.

I call it self care 😅

I'm thinking about a discussion I had yesterday. The person said 'I was warned how traumatized they were, and all their negative behaviors. But I wasn't warned for they would worm their way into my heart and charm me.'

And I just.. it makes me sad, not endeared.

It makes me think if recovery was possible for everyone, how depleted our music, art, culture would be.

(And how I think I would be driven more crazy by living a life where I didn't make decisions - that could ultimately be terrible - every once in a while.)

mean the second meaning. The first one to me doesn't seem something you choose your capacity for, the latter can be improved with being in the zone of proximal development more often, and/or with therapy, support, aides etc.

I feel resilience shouldn't include both people who pick themselves up after extraordinary levels of life-altering trauma, as well as to describe an increasing ability to cope with the small daily knockbacks of life.

I think I only use the word 'resilient' in reports for young people, but I always

Possibly very tangential but have you read Sexuality Beyond Consent?

academic.oup.com/nyu-press-sc...

if funding then gets cut or therapists leave - which happens very frequently in my experience.

Thanks for the great article. Impeccably well thought through, as always.

Compared to someone who wants to think about lots of things with no real understanding of how to prioritize and what to prioritize.

I'm just a person who sits with young people who have experienced those therapies and often wonder how they could start to open up after a few sessions, especially...

I love this and I think the reason the NHS's short term therapies help teenagers less than adults is because '... how many struggle with an absence of meaning in life. They struggle to envision a future that resonates with them'

It's easier to help a divorced man or grieving widow in six sessions,