I’ve literally never traveled more than a few states away and I hated every second…

fr though traveling is sooooo stressful to me but people worldwide fascinate me. So different but so similar at the same time. Instructions unclear I now want strippers at my funeral.

OMG IT’S A SPINOFF POST I LOVE YOU TOO

History was always my weak point. It’s interesting but I could never keep up with the names and dates.

Only because the US is cheating. Somebody commented that and I agree.

I would never have guessed, this is what I made this post for.

Still getting calls for Charlie 2 years after changing my number. Although there’s some speculation that while Charlie Sr is deceased, Charlie Jr is alive, kicking, and in a not insignificant amount of debt.

to quote my incredibly hilarious husband on the topic of a similar work: “When you are the printer, the whole world must accept your typeface.”

who’s gonna tell him he’s a measurer?

I want a goat story mug that accepts a contigo autoseal top. That curved shape fits perfectly on my hip and the contigo autoseal keeps my stupid ass out of trouble. I messaged a company that does food safe 3d prints and they quoted me $600 at the least and I don’t even really have the skills to 3d print something let alone select the right material, make sure the nozzle is lead free and has never been used for anything else, then sand and seal (and I’d have to make sure the threads still accepted the cup after sanding / sealing). Alas, it is but a dream.

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The only difference between you and a dog is that you choose what you want to be trained to do.

Willpower as a concept is (mostly) fake and a significant portion of your life will be spent on autopilot. Make sure your autopilot is very well trained / programmed, and give it good environmental “rails” to follow to keep you on track.

Pavlovian conditioning is also more about innate reflexes and autonomic (involuntary) reflexes. The dog can’t decide (as much as it does decide anything) to drool when it hears the bell, it’s body (and salivary glands) have just associated the bell with the food deeply enough that the former stimulates the same response as the latter.

This means that you can gain more control over your involuntary reflexes by pairing them with external stimuli that you do control. The most common use-case is using sound and smell to calm oneself on-demand without pharmaceuticals. For example:

keep a small keychain or necklace with a sealed container with a cotton swab soaked in essential oil such as lavender. Mediate daily or at least several times weekly in a space you feel safe using breathing exercises and inhaling the scent of the lavender. Then, when you are in a space you feel less safe but need to be able to calm yourself (such as when giving a presentation to an audience) you uncap the container and smell the lavender. Your conditioning to that stimulus should cause your autonomic nervous system to calm itself (however, if you stop meditating,l / practicing calming yourself to the stimulus more often than you use it in the upsetting situation the conditioning will reverse and you will begin finding that stimulus upsetting).

I mostly use this for sleep, I always sleep to the sound of a raging thunderstorm which serves both this sensory function as well as covering unexpected noises that might wake me.

Hope you find this useful!

Oh I’m superstitious about a great many things but I try to make it as useful as possible by being the most superstitious about not practicing regular gratitude. So for instance I’ll “wish” or “bless” someone with something like “a boring shift” because that’s the kind of thing it’s important to remember to be grateful for. Or instead of saying it’s “quiet” (a common bad-luck superstition in healthcare), I’ll comment that “I have been blessed with a good night so far.”

A core component of my spirituality that I’ve reflected on lately is that regardless of what I do or don’t believe cosmologically, spirituality and religion offer a huge amount of emotional / psychological tools that have stood the test of time and appeared across multiple religions in various forms due to sheer usefulness. These include things like community and regular gratitude and mindfulness practices.

They absolutely can and have been analyzed and implemented in other ways, but that requires a lot of research and very careful coordination of a lot of individual components. Meanwhile I’ve found a remarkable amount of success emotionally and psychologically in connecting with a faith community that has all those things built in and which has a LOT of other people who are doing the same thing to support me sticking with it.

I’ve finally discovered the section of pysol that has “tarrock” games! It’s available on fdroid and the best game IMO is “pagat” which is very similar to freecell!

Yeah every healthcare job I’ve had has required a physical where the most intensive item is one squat + stand back up but also includes:

• basic push/pull against light force applied by the examiner
• a hearing and vision test that includes a check for color vision
• of course drug testing and fingerprinting.
• I also have to provide my shot records and provide any waivers for a specific allergy to something like eggs (in which case I still have to get the flu shot I just have to get a different one that’s slightly more expensive for the company to purchase).
• Then they’ll give me boosters for everything I don’t have a recent enough record of and either place a PPD with a reading appointment or (hopefully) just draw a quantiferon gold.
• Oh and I have to be fit tested for a respirator (which I better not ever run into in psychiatry buuut).

So yeah I have to be more physically fit to wash granny’s butt and babysit depressed people than the president needs to be to lead a country.

There’s been too many. At this point taking back one would just make another more glaring. I’m just like this. Starting EMDR on Monday and hoping they’ll be able to program out the random crippling guilt over literally everything.

When I worked forensic psych pretty much everybody who wanted to plead insanity was trying to weasel out of something horrible (time spent institutionalized NGRI is almost always waaay longer than an equivalent prison sentence so it’s only worth it if you’re going away for life anyway). Those ones would try to put on a good show on the unit but I only ever saw one of them commit hard enough (they literally faked it until they actually were mentally ill).

The people who were legit psychotic would just keep defending the psychosis as reality in increasingly bizarre ways. They’d demand to represent themselves because the court appointed lawyer kept trying to talk them into accepting treatment but noooo, they needed to make a public statement about how they’re not crazy and the gay bar really is full of alien pedos and their court date for public intoxication and indecent exposure is their big moment to let the world know.

So I guess you could. But nobody would buy it.

Idk they had me from episode 1. Best episode though imo is tikka to ride

and tbh straight fruit isn’t always good for you, especially not when they’re taking out the pulp / fiber.

…in theory.