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@ TherapyGary @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Being a bodyless head with a freak long tongue is not only okay—it can be an exciting opportunity

  • Do you have any allergies?

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  • I'm allergic to milk. Every time I tell people this, they think I mean lactose intolerant, and I have to clarify that I'm actually not an idiot

  • Medical professionals - Is there any benefit to a parasite cleanse?

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  • This is super not true. Parasitic infections can go on for years while remaining asymptomatic

  • Medical professionals - Is there any benefit to a parasite cleanse?

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  • THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE

    My father is a medical professional in a rural town, and he approached the ivermectin craze during the pandemic really seriously to ensure he was making evidence-based treatment decisions. He was coming across a lot of data showing significant improvement in supposed covid symptoms after taking antiparasitics in a significant number of individuals. The leading hypothesis for this effect, however, is that a fair number of people taking ivermectin probably had parasitic infections they didn't know about, and that's why they were seeing improvement.

    It's been both mine and my father's experience that many medical professionals in the US (and I've heard it's similar in other western countries) handwave away many concerns about parasitic infections. I literally had several worms come out of my damn nose, and every single medical professional I spoke to about it didn't believe me until I showed them the proof.

    Others in this thread are saying that if you don't have symptoms, why should you take a medication you don't need, but a lot of symptoms don't even get recognized as symptoms; chronic fatigue, digestive upset, and even psychological symptoms could be caused by an undiagnosed parasitic infection. (And parasitic infections can even be asymptomatic)

    Serious adverse reactions to ivermectin are rare, but be smart. If you choose to circumvent the medical system and seek self-treatment, triple check dosaging (if you're bad at math, ask a friend to check your work (NOT AN LLM)), review interactions and contraindications lists, and start with a small dose (ideally under supervision of a trusted friend and/or close to an ER) to ensure you're not allergic

  • bush rule

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  • Did you just edit the post to censor "bush" to get more engagement?

  • At what point should a Polycule have more than 1 tooth brush?

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  • There's no telling whether one or more partners might be a sink pisser, in which case your toothbrush could get accidentally peed on while you're none the wiser, so the best thing to do is not have a toothbrush at all and just use your finger

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    Supervisors of the fediverse, what is the best excuse a staff member has given you for being late?

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  • Not a supervisor, but I always use diarrhea as an excuse. No one has ever had anything more to say after hearing that

  • What's a lofty goal you had when you started your profession, did it pan out?

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  • I wanted to be a psychiatrist, and then I took organic chemistry, so now I'm a therapist

  • Does anyone else speak a mix of their languages ever?

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  • Not the same thing, but just the other day I accidentally started speaking French in the middle of a conversation in Spanish, and it took me a minute to understand why the guy suddenly couldn't understand me

  • Ah yea! 💪

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  • Is that what the DPRK has? Genuine question- not sealioning or w/e

  • What are your opinions on anti-natalism?

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  • I'm an amoralist antinatalist. I think having children is fucked up on many levels, but I wouldn't try to argue it's inherently immoral

  • Non-single people, how long have you been with your S/O?

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  • Yep! My best friend's sister, too 😅

  • Non-single people, how long have you been with your S/O?

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  • Partnered for 8yrs 4molived together 8yrs 9moknown each other 8yrs 10mo

  • The perfect use for spoons in the "bad spoon" drawer

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  • What does this even mean

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    Arm yourselves. Do it now.

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  • Whoa- suddenly all of my trans clients no longer meet diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria, that's so weird. Brb, writing official "rule out" letters for each of them to prove it

  • There will be signs...

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  • A $2 sandwich?

  • There's one voluntary hierarchy

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  • Awe, thank you ☺

  • There's one voluntary hierarchy

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  • Luckily in my US state (Florida), it's only legally required for persons under 18, and I don't work much with minors anymore

  • There's one voluntary hierarchy

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  • I feel like bad practices are the norm, but maybe my experience is skewed due to living in Florida lol (a blue part, but still)

    Most therapists I've encountered/been familiar with obv have new clients sign consent forms, but never actually review it with them; they create a treatment plan for them and say 'here, sign this'; they tell me it's inappropriate to list my own diagnoses and politics on my PsychologyToday page; they argue that bartering is less ethical than charging $150; and I've yet to meet someone IRL (therapist or otherwise) who wasn't surprised (and often lowkey sketched out) when I say I do sessions at parks & in homes.

    Also I forgot to add this one- other therapists are always absolutely floored when I tell them I don't do involuntary commitals

  • There's one voluntary hierarchy

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  • It's all so second nature to me at this point that I had to spend a good bit of time thinking about all the ways I incorporate my anarchist values in my practice. I'm sure there are more, but these are the most significant ones I could think of

    • No insurance, so I'm not forced to pathologize my clients and I'm not beholden to a third-party constraining what we're allowed to work on, etc
    • Extremely low cost, with no means testing, and I even accept bartering
    • Full therapeutic self-disclosure to help dissolve the power dynamic
    • Conduct sessions in neutral or client-centered environments (I have no public office- I meet clients virtually, outdoors, or in their home)
    • Peer accountability with a fellow anarchist in the medical field
    • Consent and boundaries are iterative and explicit
    • Session structure, modalities, etc, are collaboratively negotiated

    Edit: I realize this list probably sounds normal and benign to leftists, but libs react very strongly to these things