The first part of healing from trauma is going back over the causes of trauma, so we can understand it and reprocess it in a safe environment. It's hard. Its incredibly painful. And we often learn things about ourselves that are hard to live with for a while.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're going to talk about Growing Up Broken--how just existing as a trans kid is inherently, and terribly, traumatic.
One of the hardest parts of recovering from trauma is realizing--really facing--that our trauma doesn't end until we choose to end it. We carry it with us, reinflicting it upon ourselves, because the pain becomes so familiar.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we face the truth of how we use Slivers of our own trans trauma to keep that pain alive in ourselves. Forever, unless we choose to stop.
Facing a complex trauma diagnosis is usually terrifying. After all, if we have complex trauma, it means we've endured some of the worst pain people can endure.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, the incredible Joscelyn Inton-Campbell walks us through coming to terms with complex trauma, in Complex Trauma Disorder? I hardly knew her!, a Facets article.
The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous and compelling psychological studies of all time, told us a tantalizingly simple story about human nature....
#privacy is such an interesting subject to me, because on one hand it's "a basic human right" but practically it's the right to lie and deceive each other.
I don't have a very good memory, and I believe that information wants to be free. So privacy has always seemed like a dangerous thing to me; like fighting thermodynamics.
That said, if I were a competitive person I can see how my attitude might need to change; hard to win when you're giving away all your secrets.
A few years ago, Amanda Roman challenged the question, "It's just a fetish, right?" and changed the world for a lot of trans people.
But what if it's not just a fetish? What if it's never just a fetish?
What if fetish doesn't even work that way?
Come join me this week on #StainedGlassWoman as we look Beneath the Surface at how trans people in denial use fetish to meet needs we're not ready to acknowledge yet.
While we may tell ourselves that This Is Fine, living in the hurricane of a legislative reign of terror has real, physical consequences on our bodies--things we need to take concrete action to physically heal, or they'll eat away at us. This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're talking about the stress response cycle, and the things you need to do to keep your body healthy so we can do more than fight--we can win.
Despite its sensationalist pulpy title and #ColdWar premise, Jack Arnold's adaptation of the #RichardMatheson novel is an existentialist treatise.
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) plays with the understanding of what it means to be acknowledged as a human, and one's place in the world. The story is told through the eyes of the titular Shrinking Man – Scott Carey – who after being exposed to strange fog, finds himself increasingly lost in this world.
Recovering from cPTSD can be a difficult journey--but it can be the difference between surviving and thriving, for many trans people.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we'll be Holding the Girl with @JoscelynTransient as she shares one of the most tender moments I think has ever been published on SGW. Come join us to learn more about recovering from trauma, EMDR therapy, and why it's important to take the time to heal.
I think Twitter is an automated Skinner Box and we are the rats in an experiment run by Elon.
Let me explain:
Classical Conditioning is associative. Pavlov's Dog is a prime example. Show the dog food and ring a bell. The dog salivates. Keep doing that and soon enough just ringing the bell is enough to make the dog salivate.
Ever since playing with ChatGPT, I've become sensitized to the way false rationality sounds ... there's a particular vibe to what is basically coherent nonsense. And now I've started to notice when people do it too. I get this crawly ChatGPT feeling when somebody is obviously making up an "authoritative" answer to a question they know nothing about. #AI#chatgpt#psychology
When I was studying #psychology I learned about the theory of semantic memory - how people will remember the meaning of something better than raw facts.
This is certainly true for me. I can remember long strings of numbers if I have time to give them a context. And this must be what mnemonics and memory palaces do: give data a semantic structure and context to help us remember it.
THE ILLUSION OF MORAL DECLINE by Adam M. Mastroianni and Daniel T. Gilbert (Nature, 2023).
"In a series of studies using both archival and original data (n = 12,492,983), we show that people in at least 60 nations around the world believe that morality is declining, that they have believed this for at least 70 years and that they attribute this decline both to the decreasing morality of individuals as they age and to the decreasing morality of successive generations. Next, we show that people’s reports of the morality of their contemporaries have not declined over time, suggesting that the perception of moral decline is an illusion. Finally, we show how a simple mechanism based on two well-established psychological phenomena (biased exposure to information and biased memory for information) can produce an illusion of moral decline."
Iowa Senate File 538- gender transition procedures related to minors strips providers of Medicaid funding from Sept 18 forward and doesn't allow Medicaid to be used by clients for gender affirming treatment. If a counselor has a transgender client, and has used the gender dysphoria code and many others (7 pages of ICD codes) then they will be retroactively stripped of funding. I am so angry for clients and for providers. As a clinician, I feel so mad that states are telling transgender youth in lower SES that they can't be who they truly are, and now they can't even talk to a counselor. I just can't. @socialwork@Email2TootBot#SocialWork#psych#psychology#iowa#lgbtqia#transgender#transgenderrights#counseling#counselor#therapist#therapy
I've been wondering what (if anything) the Asch conformity experiments might tell us about Covid-era mask-wearing
A few people have told me they decided to stop wearing masks, even in busy indoor spaces, not based on assessing the risk to themselves or others but because they felt stupid or weird being such an outlier
From a human behavior analysis standpoint, this image is absolutely fascinating. There is so much information about human behavior that can be extracted from the data represented here
EDIT: OMFG 1701 IS THE DESIGNATION OF THE STAR SHIP ENTERPRISE (NCC-1701). TREKKIES WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?!? :zerotwoevillaugh:
Anyone know a bookseller website that focuses on selling #academic works (and ships to the US)? Not a specific press, I know they often sell directly, but a more press-agnostic site. Think Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Waterstones, but for academic books. I'd like to browse various topics, knowing what I'm looking at is considered academic. And sometimes, I want to browse more in-depth or academic topics that wouldn't be on a general public site.
I suppose a university bookstore could work, but I think they tend to focus on what's required reading for the semester's courses, and I want a broader selection than that.
My interpretation of this article is that hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, etc. need to get links and repost icons for Facebook, Twitter, etc. OFF their websites. If you work for a big institution -- talk to your marketing team as they are used to doing this routinely. If you are a small provider, look at your website -- especially if you created it years ago back when no one thought of the problems and you just wanted some traffic.
TITLE: FTC, HHS warn health providers not to use tracking tech in websites, apps
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent a joint letter to about 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers Thursday, warning of security risks posed by tracking technologies such as the Meta/Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics.
<https://therecord.media/apps-website-tracking-healthcare-ftc-hhs-warning>
#security #healthcare #doctors #itsecurity #hacking #doxxing #psychotherapy #securitynews #psychotherapist #mentalhealth #psychiatry #hospital #socialwork #datasecurity #webbeacons #cookies #HIPAA #privacy #datanalytics #healthcaresecurity #healthitsecurity #patientrecords #infosec @infosec@a.gup.pe #telehealth #netneutrality #socialengineering #marketing #seo #therapy
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@infosec@a.gup.pe #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare
I'm copying a public post below from an interesting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Data Science at UNCC (not a medical doctor or psychologist).
Everything he is discussing is TENTATIVE but very interesting. I'm sending this out now because there is so little in the popular press about what can actually be done to help people with brain fog and other Long COVID symptoms. The research is still very early, and of course medical professionals should be consulted.
The article link from Nature Magazine describes brain damage caused by SARS-CoV-2 related to cell death and especially to synapse loss, leading to cognitive impairment.
The study in Bioelectric Medicine is extremely small, yet shows the potential of nicotine patches in the treatment of Long COVID symptoms including brain fog. (Another paper from the same publication also goes into why nicotine might help with Long COVID: https://bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42234-023-00104-7 )
He then points to a study on the NIH PubMed site reporting the encouragement of synapse growth from psilocybin.
A comment in the discussion thread also links to a British Medical Journal article on Metformin improving Long COVID symptoms ( https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1306 )
There's further speculation in the discussion thread that other psychoactive substances might be helpful. There are perhaps AI bots in the discussion thread discussing psilocybin microdosing, so be aware of that and maybe not get excited that so many "people" are discussing it.
From: <https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/111412769611401616>
Dr. Damien P. Williams
@Wolven
…HUH. Long-COVID destroys synapses, and is a major contributor to the brainfog. <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01786-2>
This goes some way to shining a light on the promising results they've been seeing in testing nicotine patches as treatment for long covid: nicotine effects synapse formation and receptivity (tests using patches because they don't habit-form and aren't, y'know, SMOKE [<https://bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42234-023-00104-7>]).
But what's super interesting to me is that another thing that's also been shown to encourage synapse growth? Is psilocybin.
<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34228959/>
From: <https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/111412769611401616>
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Increasing atmospheric CO2 by burning vast amounts of carbon is #geoengineering the #climate
So, it always strikes me as a crazy idea to promote using CO2 emitting Jet planes, to spray aerosols into the atmosphere, as a desperate attempt to mitigate #ClimateChange
Shouldn't we try not flying on Jets first?
If a person thinks that not flying on Jets is more of a crazy idea than using Jets to spray aerosols, considering the effects of burning carbon, whose plan is more rationale?
The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud. (www.vox.com)
The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous and compelling psychological studies of all time, told us a tantalizingly simple story about human nature....
Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida (phys.org)
"We got down from the car and went inside."