#depressing cw

[snarp]

Medical providers love writing untrue things on documents they think the patient won't be able to read.

[kiyomitakada]

you have to kind of sit in silence with the nerve of this knockoff youraislopboresme site for trying to capitalize off a game about ai slop being boring by using an ai to summarize why ai slop is boring.

[b-beams]

Home visit physical therapy team apparently don’t have specific knowledge of hypermobility or chronic fatigue. Two things that I cannot imagine being productively excluded from significance in trying to make any kind of rehab plan for me. And I am also on a very long waitlist of indeterminate length. Practicing my #notdoomed powers but like. Ha ha. Ha.

My family are going to see if we can explore any other options. Our powers!!!!! And its time to eat lunch.

👍

[tabby-shieldmaiden]

My intrusive thoughts: “Hey, maybe the fact that your University graduate parents wanted you and planned for you was a sign that you weren’t actually a soul which needed to be here. Maybe that’s why you don’t intuitively understand yourself and your likes and dislikes. God didn’t push through to put you here, he just conceded to one-and-a-half mortals’ demands. Maybe that’s why you can’t stand the thought of who your “true self” could possibly be. Maybe that’s why you’re meant to be just a faceless member of society.”

My agnostic thoughts: “Or maybe you’re just tired and hungry and mad at everyone and dehydrated and about to start your period.”

[prospitianescapee]

If you are in the United States and capable of becoming pregnant, or text-message people who are, please install the secure messaging app Signal.

It doesn't matter whether you or your friends would ever want an abortion - if you can get pregnant, you can miscarry. In places where abortion is banned, every miscarriage is treated as a potential murder. Don't talk about pregnancy where law enforcement can hear you.

Signal Messenger: Speak Freely

Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.

[snarp]

Part of the job when you work for child protective services is acting as a scapegoat. Abusive adults do not admit to being abusive. When they can't hide the fact that they lost custody, they lie about why it happened. They blame someone else.

Sometimes, they blame their kids, their kids' teachers, their kids' other parent, or someone they think reported them. This can be very dangerous for their target. A restraining order against a single person isn't enough when that person has convinced dozens of others that you're evil.

It's safer for everyone when these abusers instead run a smear campaign against a government agency: a group of hundreds of adults, whose individual names the abuser doesn't necessarily know, who have lawyers and 24/7 security cameras and training on how to handle the situation.

Young people removed from an abusive household, when asked why it happened, will often say that the decision was made for them by social services and had nothing to do with what they wanted. This is the safest answer for them to give: saying "my dad tried to kill me and I never want to see him again," to someone who might report that back to their dad, is potentially-suicidal. They are doing exactly what they should be doing when they make CPS the scapegoat.

[snarp]

Sleep Deprivation Data Points

Sleep deprivation harms your ability to self-evaluate. When sleep-deprived, you make mistakes more often, and notice them less often.

Sleep-deprived people tend to perceive themselves as being able to think clearly and act normally on inadequate sleep. They think this because they are sleep-deprived, and unable to think clearly.

Sleep deprivation harms your ability to form memories. Even while fully rested, you will not be able to accurately recall your actions and experiences while sleep-deprived. You will not be able to determine whether you made mistakes or not. People reviewing recordings taken of themselves while sleep-deprived are often surprised and confused by their own actions and those of the people around them.

Some chronically-sleep-deprived people may respond to this information with anger, viewing it as an accusation or insult, equivalent to being called "stupid," "crazy," "incompetent," etc. This form of unconscious identification with the sleep-deprived state is especially common among people working in fields in which one's professional license may be revoked due to mistakes (ie, medicine, law, child care).

It is also common in professions in which mistakes can cause irreparable harm to others (medicine, law, child care), creating a sense of helplessness and shame which makes admitting to mistakes - even to oneself - painful and seemingly-meaningless.

[snarp]

Today I overheard a guy in maybe his 30s trying to sell healing crystals to a guy in maybe his 60s. It was not going smoothly because they held different generational beliefs about crystal healing and had different vocabulary and so forth.