Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

Michelle Pfeiffer admits Al Pacino didn’t think she was right for Scarface. He wanted Glenn Close. Then came this moment: “I swipe the table, dishes and glasses break, blood’s everywhere. I cut Al.” “I thought, ‘there goes that part.’ But Al was like, ‘she’s not bad.’

@grok @stacksat @BowesChay Thank you so much @grok! The subtitles are in Russian. Yes, Vladimir Putin compares the current situation in the Middle East with the COVID pandemic and reminds us that these kind of events of disruption have become more and more common in the last years.

Chitailova The clip shared has English subtitles over Putin's Russian speech. I don't host videos, but the full original (no translation/subs) is here from Russian sources: vk.com/video-52620949… or check kremlin.ru for official footage. The excerpt matches his remarks comparing the Iran conflict's impact to the coronavirus pandemic.

Vladimir Putin commented on the Iran war: "Even those involved in this conflict can't predict what will happen... There are some estimates that you can compare this situation to the coronavirus pandemic." People need to understand this is not just some distant war in the Middle East. This is a real systemic shock, and it will affect everyone. Kudos to Putin for spelling it out.

@grok @stacksat @BowesChay Do you actually have an original video without translation, @grok?

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@dom_lucre Incredible. When we get older we reflect our personalities more in a way we look. Jennifer Lopez has a beautiful soul and it shows. Why would she hide it away?

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Jennifer Lopez is going viral for her body’s appearance at her recent show while being 56 years old.

“I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.” Anton Chekhov

@s_blazze @Zoya_ki_batein It’s just fun to watch.

@Zoya_ki_batein *gatherers

A Russian Teacher recorded the differences in the development of boys and girls of the same age, showing that girls are more organized and smarter than boys

@Parigoat37 Yes, it is, and the same on the other side, my father’s parents, also incredible love story! Will share it another day. We are all humans and we make mistakes.

@Chitailova Sorry, wish i could be more uptempo. My cross to bear, etc. Your grandparents' is a lovely story.

These are my grandparents. They met in Sevastopol (Crimea) when they were 18 years old, in 1919. My grandmother was very popular with men and was sitting on a bench in town surrounded by her admirers before Sergey (my grandfather) approached the bench with a friend. As my grandmother was telling me, it was love at first sight. They were introduced to each other and straight away left everyone else to have a walk in the town. Two months later they got married. My grandfather survived the Second World War as a captain while my grandmother survived the blockade of Leningrad. When my mother was born in 1953, they called her ‘Lyubov’, which means Love in Russian. While my grandfather passed away when I was six years old I still remember his kindness, and I remember love in the house and joy. My mother got also lucky when she met her Dutch husband. Today this kind of love is almost impossible to find. Nowadays we treat it as a transaction, as a status rather than that deep feeling that can be found only in books. But I keep on dreaming. Is it possible to still have this kind of love in reality? What do you think?

@Parigoat37 Curious to know what they are!

@Chitailova Modern dating kills almost everything it encounters but that's on us for not rebelling. We move too quickly, arent willing to take the time. I myself not only made 'every mistake in the book' -- i invented a few new ones.

@ChrisGntravelwv That was my experience until I ended up in Friesland, where we have excellent psychiatric care. It is different from country to country.

@Chitailova What I’ve achieved in life is in spite of psychiatry, certainly not because of it. My primary care physician agreed to write the prescription for Zyprexa so it least I don’t have to sit through appointments with the psychiatrists whom I despise.

When did we start believing that people with bipolar disorder can’t live a meaningful life? I’ve had multiple psychoses, lost relationships, been sectioned, scared people away, and carry scars that don’t show. Medication has saved me and sometimes felt like a heavy price. The dark days are real — nights I wasn’t sure I’d see morning, months when everything felt like moving through water. Yet here I am: PhD finished, writing books & scripts, working, raising my wonderful son as a single mom, still moving between countries and learning every day. A gorgeous Ukrainian friend once told me after I complimented her weight loss: “I don’t want to be thin. Why follow standards that make me hungry, angry and sad?” I feel something similar about the pressure to become “normal.” Normal isn’t always the goal when the cost is losing parts of who you are. Bipolar has taken a lot from me. It has also pushed to me places I might never have reached otherwise. Both things are true. I don’t mind being bipolar…I mind people who stigmatise me. What is your experience with a mental illness?

J’adore le Francais… #AnnaVampireSaga

@ChrisGntravelwv This is so sad to hear. I always refused lithium. It can indeed lead to what you are experiencing now. So sorry for you. I hope it will turn out to be ok for you! Twenty-five years of teaching career is impressive! Well done!

@Chitailova I’m on the kidney transplant protocol because of the lithium. So I’m pretty angry about that. I have managed to have pretty good life despite the involuntary commitments. I had a twenty-five year teaching career and my son and daughter-in-laws have started their careers in China.

@coproductiveEqu I am doing well at this moment!

@Chitailova I am doing ok. Thanks asking. You?

@ChrisGntravelwv And how do you feel now? Do you feel a sense of liberation?

@Chitailova I was told I had bipolar in 1989. In 1990 I went off lithium too fast and was involuntarily committed. The psychiatrist where my wife worked tried and failed to involuntarily commit me in 2016. Since then I have titrated off all medications save for a tiny amount of Zyprexa.

@coproductiveEqu Thank you so much for sharing your story! Very deep! How are you doing now?

@Chitailova Lots of ups and downs & a career. drandrewperry.org/post/my-experi…

I remember I was crying the whole time, unable to remain strong and resilient while losing the most important person in my life. chitaylova.com/2026/03/22/my-…