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17 votes
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Inequities in conversion practice exposure at the intersection of ethnoracial and gender identities
4 votes -
The rise and fall of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (2020)
5 votes -
NESN’s Jack Edwards opens up about his speech issues: ‘I’m slowing down all the time’
7 votes -
Finland used to have one of the highest suicide rates in the world – how the country halved it and saved countless lives
28 votes -
How US insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists
29 votes -
‘An experiment in ritual humiliation’: would a month of rejection therapy make me fearless?
19 votes -
Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear for the first time
30 votes -
West Virginia bill would mandate "curing" trans people under 21
47 votes -
The transformational power of queer-affirmative therapy – from patients whose lives have been changed
20 votes -
The case of Donnie Moss
6 votes -
US FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR
49 votes -
The Survivors - One year later, those who lived through the Club Q shooting are still healing. These are their stories.
12 votes -
How gender-affirming health care for kids works in Canada
23 votes -
Prosecutors in Finland have charged a hacker accused of the theft of tens of thousands of records from psychotherapy patients
9 votes -
Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts
14 votes -
There's hope for the US opioid crisis — but politics stands in the way
8 votes -
You're not traumatized, you're just hurt
20 votes -
It's very weird to have a skull full of poison
42 votes -
The false gospel of conversion therapy: "I went to sessions every week in high school. I came out as trans anyway."
24 votes -
A Utah therapist built a reputation for helping gay Latter-day Saints. These men say he sexually abused them.
13 votes -
Why therapy is broken
26 votes -
Boundaries are suddenly everywhere. What does the squishy term actually mean?
24 votes -
America’s therapy boom
29 votes -
Golden age of medicine
18 votes -
This is why it’s so hard to find mental health counseling in the USA right now
56 votes -
How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist
27 votes -
Villain therapy: Severus Snape
11 votes -
UK girl with deadly inherited condition is cured with gene therapy on NHS
9 votes -
Kiwixotherapy: A weird but working therapy for introverts suffering from sleeplessness
4 votes -
FDA approves most expensive drug ever, a $3.5 million-per-dose gene therapy for hemophilia B
6 votes -
AI’s new frontier: Connecting grieving loved ones with the deceased
7 votes -
Interrogating Gender-Exploratory Therapy (Perspectives on psychological science)
1 vote -
Vietnam says homosexuality ‘not a disease’ in win for gay rights
15 votes -
How to take things less personally and avoid mind reading
7 votes -
Five ways to help someone with depression
7 votes -
Textual healing: The novel world of bibliotherapy
3 votes -
Federal government introduces legislation to ban conversion therapy in Canada
13 votes -
UK Government accused of 'burying' conversion therapy report
7 votes -
To all the shrinks I've known before
Is this what therapy looks like for other people? I can't tell you how often I've come to the edge of sharing the following experiences--destructive, traumatic, bizarre: all the opposites of what...
Is this what therapy looks like for other people?
I can't tell you how often I've come to the edge of sharing the following experiences--destructive, traumatic, bizarre: all the opposites of what therapy is supposed to be. For months after the latest incident, I've needed to tell someone. I've struggled so hard with life and with putting things into writing, typing and erasing H-E-L- into the title field on Tildes over and over. Where do you go when therapists are the problem? Then, this morning, I woke up with this idea of squeezing the facts into a lightly comedic lyric. Try as I might, I guess I can't deny my métier. (I can clarify what gets lost in the parody.)
Sing along if you know the tune and have a high tolerance for aural ipecac from the 1980s.
To all the shrinks I’ve known before,
I was ten and your help I begged for.
You said, “Those aren’t real issues,
Please spare some of my tissues.”
You were a shrink I’ve known before.
To all the shrinks who somewhat tried,
Who thumbed their whiskers as I cried,
One had a light-bar toy
And called me a scared boy.
He was a shrink I’ve known before.The winds of fashion keep on blowing,
With each conference you attend.
The only constant is me going.
What won’t I do for friends!To the shrink who said, “talk speedier,”
Then stalked my social media,
You came to session with the flu,
And so I got it too.
Now you're a shrink I’ve known before.
One hid his grins with coffee mugs,
While second-guessing my psych drugs.
He phoned the very dude
With whom I had a feud,
Now he’s just a shrink I’ve known before.The pandemic brought us video,
Any doctor can be seen!
But it’s the same as ab initio,
Behind or just off screen.To the one who should have HIPAA claims,
Whose spouse listened outside the frame,
I heard him eating lunch,
But you dismissed my hunch,
Now you’re a shrink I’ve known before.
To all the shrinks I’ve known before,
Who apparently could not close doors,
You broke my fragile trust,
So say goodbye I must,
To all the shrinks I’ve known before.13 votes -
They told their therapists everything. Hackers leaked it all.
15 votes -
UK Government creating "hostile environment" for LGBT+ people
10 votes -
First patients to get CRISPR gene-editing treatment continue to thrive
21 votes -
Gene therapy, absolutely and for real
4 votes -
Why the extortion of Vastaamo matters far beyond Finland – and how cyber pros are responding
4 votes -
Finland's interior minister summoned an emergency meeting after patient records at a private Finnish psychotherapy center were accessed by hackers
5 votes -
Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears
10 votes -
How the pandemic forced mental health care to change for the better
6 votes -
Tele-health privacy concerns are a barrier to therapy
Here in the States, you hear about your insurance company waiving co-pays for tele-health therapy visits in these “uncertain times,” but searching for providers confronts you with even more...
Here in the States, you hear about your insurance company waiving co-pays for tele-health therapy visits in these “uncertain times,” but searching for providers confronts you with even more uncertainty. How do you evaluate their practices for safety and privacy? Every other practitioner subscribes to a different platform. Some, to my horror, use Zoom. Others have adopted a software suite to manage their entire practice. These therapists rely on the same company for scheduling appointment reminders, recording session notes, billing insurance, and running a video chat. When I have requested to connect via Signal, they express a preference for their platform, usually citing HIPAA compliance. One recommended a finding a provider who uses paper records as the only avenue open to me. But wasn’t there a time before companies like Spruce, SimplePractice, and TheraNest, where sensitive session notes were somehow distinct, less “networked” than today? How are therapists determining the privacy and security protections of their platform? How do I? Does anyone have experience with these companies?
13 votes -
The Eliza Effect
10 votes