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Yep! That’s exactly how it is, I worked with this population in South Central LA as a therapist intern. They all had some “mental health condition” which prevented them from working and we were supposed to cure them. Except they were mostly malingering and didn’t want to “get better” at all.

@rawmilkhoney Plus she gets money from the baby daddies and has a boyfriend who lives with her (whose none of the kids father) [most likely]

Thinking about this girl I know who doesn’t work, hasn’t ever worked, doesn’t know how to drive or read and receives $15k during tax season for her kids, $600 ebt, wic vouchers, $1500 government cash aid, discounted housing and free healthcare. This is just how millions of people in America are living and everyone else has to pay for it.

@remarks Oh no. You mean gay people have less rights in Morocco than in the US? I thought Trump was going to send them into the ovens!

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Trump administration deported a gay asylum-seeker to Morocco where homosexuality is illegal. Being gay in Morocco is punishable by up to three years in prison.

@krassenstein @BenDempsey18 It only matters if Trump was in danger? It’s okay if he kills other ppl? That’s a rather strange perspective especially coming from you

Trump was not in danger here. In the US Capitol building, all of Congress was in danger and they had no clue if she had a weapon on not. Babbitt was warned multiple times to stop trying to enter the chamber. she didn't listen. She deserved to be shot just like this guy was shot.

BREAKING: The Secret Service has shot and killed a man trying to enter a secured perimeter around Mar-a-lago. Can MAGA explain to me how this is any different than Capitol Police shooting and killing Ashli Babbitt after she broke into the US Capitol building and then attempted to climb through a shattered window beside a barricaded door into the SECURED House Speaker's Lobby? Wouldn't you have claimed that this man was a HERO and a Patriot?

@ChristianHeiens The younger generations are overwhelmingly left leaning, GenX is the last generation that even wants to fight. After us, America as we know it, will be replaced by something else.

No one in America really cares anymore about what happens to "the other side of the debate" because there's nothing left to debate at this point. We view each other as enemies, not debating partners. We don't even view each other as Americans. People aren't looking for an objective set of standards that everyone will abide by because no one believes there's any possible set of standards that could ever reconcile the two diametrically opposed visions for what society should look like on the Left and Right. What they want is for their side to win and the other side to lose. They're not interested in finding a way to get along with an enemy they see as dishonest, dysfunctional, degenerate, and dangerous. The time for reconciliation has long since passed. There's no possibility for peaceful coexistence, so any appeals to principle, procedure, or precedent in the abstract are totally meaningless to them. "Why would I be concerned with fairness towards an enemy I am at war with in all but name?" they ask themselves. This is why the old conservative and libertarian arguments just don't carry the same weight they used to anymore. Too much of the Right has come to view the Left in the same exact way the Left itself has pretty much always viewed the Right: an evil that must be destroyed by any means necessary. Personally, whatever sentimental or empathetic feelings I once held for the other side are totally gone. I can't bring myself to care for those who have repeatedly demonstrated that they would celebrate my death. There are now millions who feel the same exact way. None of them are concerned whatsoever about appeals to procedural, proceduralist, utilitarian, or individualistic arguments for why we shouldn't systematically crush the Left with every tool at our disposal. The short-term future is just one giant power struggle while we all try to pretend otherwise.

I know there's an account called @reddit_lies (which btw I love) but someone should start another one called "medium_madness" for the ridiculous stuff people write on Medium. According to this one, it is now a Republican thing if a woman wants to have kids with her husband. There's also a trigger warning at the beginning for Taylor Swift fans, because Tay-tay is being called a Republican and that's so traumatizing you better not read it if you're a fan. You can't make this shit up... @navvyaa/taylor-swifts-republican-turn-is-less-about-race-and-more-about-keeping-up-with-america-s-e80651fc027c" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@navvyaa/taylo…

@krystalcasey827 @MeghanEMurphy Okay, fine, then I am victim blaming, but she is the victim of her own action or lack of action. Unless the guy has her tied up in a basement.

@Defies_All @MeghanEMurphy I mean considering that you're blaming the victim for being mistreated by saying that they chose to get into the relationship, I'd say that qualifies as victim blaming

I am tired of "mental illness." I am sick of people claiming that they cannot do normal things required of normal people in life because they have "anxiety" or "depression" or "ADHD." This is bullshit. If you lived in any other time in history (or in many other places in the world), you would have no choice but to get on with it. Claiming you can't do basic things like buy groceries, go to work, cook, or go outside and engage with human beings or the world because of "anxiety" or "depression" only makes your problems worse, and is also not true! Of course you can do these things! You just don't want to. And maybe it's hard. And I understand that these things can feel hard when you're struggling, but the question is: do you want to get better? Do you want your life to improve? If so, you have to get on with it! You have to do things you don't want to do like go outside and see people and go to work and go to the gym and walk your dog and get off the couch. I swear to god we were better off when all these labels for various normal humans and experiences didn't exist.

@RanaAurora @WilliamGodAI @MeghanEMurphy The funny thing is, when it comes to other diagnoses, people are relieved if a doctor tells them "I examined you and you don't actually have XY disease." But when it comes to mental health, they actually get pissed off, as if the therapist wanted to take away their precious.

@Defies_All @WilliamGodAI @MeghanEMurphy This is not remotely true.

@greattalkruss @MeghanEMurphy You don't have to. Those that smell the challenge leave after the 1st session, because they know they can quickly find another therapist who will cater to them. Those that actually want to change, realize the opportunity and stay.

@ggo_excepcional @MeghanEMurphy What makes you think I was talking about you...?

@Defies_All @MeghanEMurphy I fell down two flights of stairs and hit my head when I was 9 months old in 1980. You have no fucking clue.

I didn't say "her skirt was too short." Sometimes people voluntarily get into situations, despite red flags, in which they are mistreated. Pointing that out is not victim blaming, it helps them grow and avoid such mistakes in the future. "Victim blaming" is another catch-phrase clients use nowadays to avoid any responsibility for their actions and thus get stuck on the level of a 5-year-old.

@Defies_All @MeghanEMurphy "A nasty boyfriend (which they chose)" hello victim blaming

@WilliamGodAI @MeghanEMurphy One of the rules we have is we are not allowed to diagnose anyone remotely, so unfortunately, I can't advise you on that.

@JoettaMoonChild @MeghanEMurphy I am not Christian, why ask?

@Defies_All @MeghanEMurphy Let me guess, “Christian counselor.”

There's high-functioning autism, the definition of which has also been stretched incredibly. The child who is non-verbal is most likely truly autistic. The other one may not be. That's not to say that all autistic people are non-verbal. For example, Rain Man. But just being peculiar, weird, a misfit, feeling like one doesn't belong, feeling misunderstood, isn't autism in and of itself. Autism is a profound developmental disorder and it's actually NOT FUN at all even if they are verbal.

I actually hate the term autism. Really used way too broadly. I have a niece who's an airhead. (Autism) and another relative whose child is 6, isn't potty trained, non-verbal, and runs in front of cars. (Autism). Way more wrong with that child besides "autism".

@BSeelaus @MeghanEMurphy Oh yes. It's easy work. They just listen to them complain and nod every now and then. No progress required, no accountability, no effort.

@Defies_All @MeghanEMurphy Unfortunately there are a lot of therapists who will continue to “treat” these people as it’s a good revenue stream

@viennasomerset @MeghanEMurphy Getting a diagnosis has strict criteria and they are mostly about observable behaviors, since anyone can report "feeling" anything. I suggest you get a DSM and leaf through it.

@Defies_All @MeghanEMurphy It doesn’t take a genius to see a list of 100 “ ways of being “ and know you do and feel all that .. somehow methinks you’re in the wrong job.

@no_men_as_women @MeghanEMurphy The so-called "ADHD coaches" are laughing all the way to the bank.

“Mental health/ illness” is a trillion dollar hydra of an industry based on wokeness. It is wokeness. Ask why people call themselves “mentally ill” and why very suddenly, in the 80s, the term “mental health” became so ubiquitous. I was born in 1972. You didn’t hear people talking about MH / MI until the 80s. It was obviously sinister language representing a sinister agenda but I guess not obvious to anyone but me. The term is like “trans” in that it’s undefined/undefinable. When you say “mental illness” what do you mean? But yes, for decades we’ve been told it’s a GOOD thing to consider oneself “mentally ill”. The industry was the mechanism for inverting and subverting our values and the truth. It’s based on denying reality. For example it ignores financial concerns as an impact on “mental health”. Study the industry itself to understand the results of it.

@JackPosobiec Did they get their hot cocoa afterwards?

The libs in Minneapolis are now trying to re-create the iconic Marines on Iwo Jima photo but with their fake Somali flag x.com/antontreuer/st…

@nypost Harrison Bergeron

Zohran Mamdani plans to phase out Gifted and Talented program in NYC elementary schools trib.al/yOv3dOo