A Story About Them

“This is a story about them, says the man on the radio. And you are concerned because this is not a story you were ever supposed to hear. Welcome to Night Vale.”

[catasters]

[sarahseeandersen]

[frog-squad]

@straycatj

[straycatj]

That's so cute...

[wheresonichedgehogwnt]

Patient: I really don't like most doctors, no offense

Me: None taken, I don't like most doctors, either

[rarestsparkle]

Pay attention to your patterns. The ways you learned to survive may not be the ways you want to continue to live. Heal and shift.

[ladybluebottle]

You are enough just as you are.❤️

[log6]

there is a demon telling you to go to bed without brushing your teeth... do not listen to him

[instantaneous-lobotomy-deactiva]

If your 90-year-old grandma, who had Alzheimer's disease, cancer, and COPD, got hit by a drunk driver and killed, and some jerk implied that we don't actually have to grieve her loss or reconsider public policy about driving while intoxicated because she had so many preexisting illnesses and was dying anyway, you would probably want to punch that person.

If your 6-year-old child, who was born with a congenital heart defect and had Type 1 diabetes, got salmonella at Applebee's and died, and some jerk implied that we don't actually need to reexamine food safety rules and health codes in restaurants because a healthy adult wouldn't have died of that salmonella infection, you'd probably want to do more than punch that person.

That's what all this talk about comorbidities and COVID sounds like to me. It sounds like a lot of people saying that the lives of all people who are not "healthy" (whatever that means) and who have preexisting conditions, autoimmune diseases, chronic illnesses, disabilities, or just plain advanced age just aren't worth caring about all that much. Sure, it's kind of sad when old people in a nursing home die en masse like they're in Flanders field, but it's not a big enough deal for me to accept even a minor inconvenience to my life, right?

It's disgusting, and I don't know how anyone can consider themselves a good person while also actively promoting or supporting eugenics.

[actualaster]

Oh, at this point a lot of people have just stopped implying it and started outright saying it

It makes me want to punch them in the face even more

[sunsetpan0rama]

if cat don’t want to be held like a baby then why baby sized

[prokopetz]

Every time media depicts, like, a psychiatrist or something wearing a lab coat, I'm like you understand that lab coats are protective equipment, right? Their purpose is to protect against being splashed by dangerous chemicals. Exactly how is this character expecting this therapy session to go down?

[prokopetz]

(To be clear, I'm referring to a proper knee length smock with double breasted closure type lab coat, not the random loose-fitting white jackets that sometimes get called lab coats.)

[taken-aurally]

This was too good to leave in the notes

[highlandvalley]

[joeylikespizza]

this is the sweetes, purest, most adorable thing i’ve ever seen

[hanschensolo]

I played this while my cats were sitting next to me and they both immediately snuggled in harder and it was so pure

[human-nonsense]

This has the same energy of that video of that woman yodeling an old traditional herding yodel to make the cows come to her

[voxeterna1]

Woman who grew up on a dairy farm here. Cows LOVE music. When I was first learning to play flute, my mom would tell me to go practice in the barn so the cows could listen ( and also probably because she didn’t want to hear Hot Cross Buns for the 900th time). I would stand in the hay loft overlooking the main corral and they would all gather around and stare at me and swish their tails.

[diedfromembarrassmentlikeasim]

@dairyisntscary

[katamarei]

[oe6]

[drtanner]

The MELODRAMA

[phcking-detective]

you SLAP miette?? you slap miette ACROSS THE ROOM

oh! oh!!!

insurance fraud! insurance fraud for

ONE MILLION DOLLARS

[taratnel456]

the idea that meds/therapy can’t fix problems caused by situational/societal issues can coexist with the idea that meds and therapy can be very helpful for many people and shouldn’t be demonized or presented as useless for risk of scaring people away that might really benefit

[noisepartythumpingmusic]

#god yeah i am so sick of this new wave of pseudo woke doomerism#about how mental health treatment is pointless bc the world is such a mess#like yes there are many many problems in the world but that doesn't mean getting help for your mental health won't make you feel at least a#like any worldview that boils down to 'the correct response to our current situation is abject despair'#is just not something i can get behind#so pls don't peddle messages of hopelessness to people who are already inclined to believe them

Strong strong strong cosign @storybookprincess

[dankmemeuniversity]

[officialromaniantranslatiuni]

[owlmylove]

#if my therapist had one of these bad boys in his office he could unlock a spectrum of mental disorders only perceptible to shrimp

[guerrillatech]

[ems-tumbo]

the cure is kissing your cat on the top of their head

[icedcoffeedad]

so...

whom is gonna teach me every language known to man? if i don’t know 10 languages by the time i’m thirty imma off myself