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In the last 24 hours, Trumpās DOJ raided Ilhan Omarās home over paperwork her dad filed when she was a child, oil passed $107, Russia shredded Trumpās āceasefireā within hours, and the MAGA hit job on Talarico imploded. And thatās just the start. meidasplus.com/p/monday-afteā¦
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Been in The league 14 yrs. Had a 13 yr old he feels he doesnāt see enough along with 2 others. All with his ex wife
Heās been vocal about his mental health for years
On top of that both of his parents are sick and heās their caretaker. Literally missed training camp and days because of this.
And Stephen A Smith is on national tv making fun of him. This is pathetic work even for him.
Itās also the fact that no one intervened. No one stepped in to correct him. This is actually really, really shitty. Itās Wednesday. Heās had a whole day to come up with a take that wasnāt whatever this shit is.
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āļø This weekās post is up (3 min read)
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1. Don't fuck with the therapy frame
2. STFU
3. Donāt mistake the first session for therapy
Read freeš
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Bro I used to come home sometimes and my PlayStation would just be gone. And I wasnāt in troubleššš
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Training in psychotherapy begins in earnest when it finally sinks in that giving advice does not help.
And it sinks in that common-sense solutions didnāt help in the past and wonāt help now.
Meaningful psychotherapy is not an extension of common sense. It is something else entirely.
Why don't advice and common sense help?
ONE crucial reason is that the problem you see on the surface is rarely the problem that therapy needs to address.
There is the surface or āmanifestā problemāand there are the underlying psychological problems that give rise to it, and have gotten in the way of previous efforts to address it.
In other words, there is WAY more going on than meets the eye. What you see is almost never what you get.
Advice and commonsense solutions focus on āfirst-orderā causes. Meaningful psychotherapy addresses 2nd-, 3rd-, and nth-order causes.
This is why meaningful psychotherapy requires real expertise and years of training. *We are not addressing the same problems*.
This is why psychotherapy is so often misunderstood.
This is why therapists who are still trying to give advice or provide common-sense solutions are not expert therapists. Their psychotherapy training never began in earnest.
No matter what degrees they have or how how many years of experience, they are operating with a beginner-level understanding of human psychology and providing beginner-level psychotherapy.
āTraining in psychotherapy begins in earnest when it finally sinks in that giving advice doesnāt help.ā
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āļø Related essay: Much of What Is Called Therapy Is Not Psychotherapy
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Sen. Eric Schmitt thought he was Tom Hanks in "The Da Vinci Code" when in reality he's Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump" @JordanKlepper
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The internet is erupting in mockery after Eric Schmittās spectacular Jack Smith faceplant.
Now people are openly speculating: Did his team plant the glowing 2028 story AND coordinate with MAGA influencers in advance, exposing the GOP to MAGA influencer pipeline? meidasnews.com/news/eric-schā¦
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When the therapist cannot make it all better for the patient, the masochistic patient redoubles their efforts to persuade the therapistāas if they secretly believe the therapist has the power to make everything better but has not yet grasped the depth of their suffering, or is obstinately refusing to grant what they deserve.
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Your dog carries your stress in its body for months. A 2019 study in Scientific Reports measured cortisol in the hair of 58 dogs and their owners over a full year and found that the two rose and fell together. When you are stressed, your dog is stressed. When you calm down, so does it.
The synchrony was not driven by walks, weather, or the dog's own life events. It was driven by the owner. Dogs whose owners scored higher on personality measures of anxiety showed higher cortisol year-round. The dog's body was tracking the owner's emotional state over months, not moments.
The bond between a human and a dog is not a one-way relationship where the human provides and the dog receives. The dog is absorbing the household's emotional weather and carrying it in its endocrine system. Your bad month is its bad month.
This is what 15,000 years of co-evolution looks like. The dog did not just learn to read your face. It learned to sync its chemistry to yours, and the hair on its back is keeping a record of how you have been feeling since the last time it was groomed.
The next time someone says "it's just a dog," the cortisol data says otherwise. The dog is a mirror with a heartbeat, and the reflection goes deeper than behaviour. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3117ā¦
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Steve Kirsch is incapable of understanding data, untrained in handling data, and dishonest about using data.
Nobody should EVER trust Steve Kirsch with their data.
Tyler, do you consider his arguments to be in good faith? Is he honestly convinced by this "data" even when you (and others, i.e. data scientists like @jsm2334) point out his errors? Is Kirsch incapable or untrained to understand/interpret data correctly or he is dishonest?
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Therapy culture is not psychotherapy. But as standards in the therapy professions have declined, therapy culture has increasingly infiltrated therapyāto such an extent that we now have licensed, practicing therapists who literally donāt know the difference.
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š½ļø The 7 Principles of Psychoanalytic Therapy
A video introduction to in-depth psychotherapy
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Insanely irresponsible from the NYT
Thereās a very strange story in the New York Times insinuating Iām a paid influencer for Mamdani, premised on one tweet I made in March praising him for cutting a $9m McKinsey contract. They know the story is false but published it anyway.