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I mentioned to my manager what was going on and asked if I could use some of my admin time this morning to go to boots and sort it and they've insisted I take the rest of the day off and rearranged all my patients for me even though it's really awkward for them 
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You already have your answer but in addition I would suggest that regardless of why you feel a certain way, if that way is undesirable for you and you have the capacity to change it then I don't really see an issue with doing so. I have long thought that perpetual abject misery is the most rational response to the world but unaccountably most people, myself included, do not feel that way, so my conclusion is that we are not rational and that's ok, it probably doesn't help anything to feel like that even if it makes perfect sense to.
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Jul 23, 2021 11:41
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the absolute perfect article header (if for some reason you want to read it)
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Jul 23, 2021 11:48
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If Jess Phillips is proposing to replace Jess Phillips with Marcus Rashford then I agree.
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Jul 23, 2021 11:57
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Hurrah! The Olympics finally starts tonight! Can't wait ..... not to watch them but an end I hope to those godawful Purple Bricks adverts with 'Alice the Estate Agent'. I will never ever use Purple Bricks ever because of those tedious ads.
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Jul 23, 2021 12:02
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"Marcus Rashford is better at politics than most of Labour" isn't a wrong take, Jess Phillips just mistakes which side of that line she's on.
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Jul 23, 2021 12:03
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minema posted:how do you distinguish mental health problems caused by realising we live in a hosed up society that's only going to get worse as climate change kicks in more and more from actual mental health problems caused by biochemistry it's the biochemistry. You don't have a unique relevation about the world no-one else has put the picture together to realize, it's just that your haywire biochemistry has hooked onto that thought process this time instead of more "normal" ones. Hope you get it sorted and your manager continues to be understanding.
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Jul 23, 2021 12:05
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God I love this thread. We hate the fash, the libs and centrist melt cunts, and we support our comrades every time. I hope reverting back to the old meds helps you, minema 
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Jul 23, 2021 12:08
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Nothingtoseehere posted:it's the biochemistry. You don't have a unique relevation about the world no-one else has put the picture together to realize, it's just that your haywire biochemistry has hooked onto that thought process this time instead of more "normal" ones. Hope you get it sorted and your manager continues to be understanding. Ehhh. I do think that most people don't have a real grasp of just how bad climate change (for example) really is and is going to be. I certainly think everyone has a vague sense of unease but it's diffuse (and/or blamed on blm cuck sjws or trans people or forrins). But that's not the same as the sheer naked horror of truly grokking the state we're in, I think. Obviously having strong mental and emotional reserves is a big part of coping with the everyday realities of capitalism, racism, patriarchy, plague, and incoming climate apocalypse, but I'm intensely wary of purely internalising/medicalising emotional distress. Not least because it's pretty drat atomising and neoliberal. It's not just defective brain meats. Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Jul 23, 2021 |
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Jul 23, 2021 12:10
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Yeah, brainbad can exist on top of, mostly separately from, and/or be exacerbated by society. Sometimes the social response is part of the bad, like the common feminist argument that the mass prescription of valium and barbiturates to women in the middle of the past century was just papering over the harms of patriarchy with chemistry, but it still may have helped many of those women as individuals if smashing of said patriarchy wasn't on the table.
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Jul 23, 2021 12:24
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tbh if it's all going to poo poo at some point in my life, I would rather not spend the time remaining until then despairing and obsessing over what's going to happen. I try to live as much of a sustainable life as possible and donate to climate causes, so why not be in denial for a bit. The alternative is just ruining more of my life where I could be enjoying the moment. And most of the time I do that and I'm aware I'm doing it and feel I've reached some sort of acceptance of everything, this week I've not been able to find that balance at all. Part of me is saying that's because you can't live in denial forever but on the other hand, humanity seems very talented at that so why not try! Thanks for the support, everyone, I appreciate it!
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Jul 23, 2021 12:29
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Living is by definition in denial of death. You might as well get your money's worth of denial if you're going to do it.
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Jul 23, 2021 12:30
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Hurrah! The Olympics finally starts tonight! Can't wait ..... not to watch them but an end I hope to those godawful Purple Bricks adverts with 'Alice the Estate Agent'.
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Jul 23, 2021 12:32
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OwlFancier posted:Living is by definition in denial of death. 
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Jul 23, 2021 12:37
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I always try to make it about what I can control. As my Nan says ‘what you can’t alter you have to learn to live with.’ Now, that’s not to say you shouldn’t try and do something about climate change and capitalism if you’re feeling up to it, but you have vastly more control (even if it often doesn’t feel like much control at all) over your own mind - it’s almost irrelevant to wonder which factor it is, because it’s both, but there’s only one you can change without a massive confluence of millions of social factors.
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Jul 23, 2021 12:50
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Yeeeah whilst not in relation to OP I'd be careful saying it's (MH that is) all just badbrain when it's patently obvious antidepressants/bIoTruThS are used to depoliticize and obfuscate what could be seen as a physiological response to social and material pressures of our current hellscape.
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Jul 23, 2021 13:22
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Jul 23, 2021 13:35
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ONS Population survey is out. Congratulation to the UK for probably hitting eight hundred thousand Covid cases last week and to the 1/70 of the population who contracted it in that one week period.
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Jul 23, 2021 13:42
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It's also worth bearing in mind that dangerous times, climate apocalypse, plague etc are hardly new features of existing, we just need to endure them like our ancestors did Id still rather be staring down the barrel of climate collapse in 2021 than the ice age or black death Were not even the first or second species to have annihilated the biosphere, it was just a matter of time before someone did it again
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Jul 23, 2021 13:54
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Communist Thoughts posted:Were not even the first or second species to have annihilated the biosphere, it was just a matter of time before someone did it again I think we're the first ones to be fully aware and yet say 'hold my beer' as we merrily accelerate the process. 
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Jul 23, 2021 14:37
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S. cerevisiae to wild grass as they decompose it, releasing carbon dioxide:Just Another Lurker posted:'hold my beer'
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Jul 23, 2021 14:44
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Communist Thoughts posted:It's also worth bearing in mind that dangerous times, climate apocalypse, plague etc are hardly new features of existing, we just need to endure them like our ancestors did And the next one will be gimped so hard that it mighn't get out of the stone age.
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Jul 23, 2021 15:00
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What was that sf novel where humans worshipped an upside down cross and it turns out that it was actually an atom bomb and humans had blown themselves up centuries before? (It wasn't Planet of the Apes as far as I can remember!)
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Jul 23, 2021 15:15
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 (I don't know, but it's a popular enough cold war trope that Wasteland 2 has a whole thing about monks who worship a titan missile.)
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Jul 23, 2021 15:26
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Another person to fling into the sea:
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Jul 23, 2021 15:50
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https://twitter.com/stellacreasy/status/1418542131065597957 No one contacted her.
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Jul 23, 2021 15:58
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fuctifino posted:Another person to fling into the sea:
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Jul 23, 2021 16:02
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Wait, Stella Creasy's ambition and purpose is to advance socialism? When did that happen?
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Jul 23, 2021 16:03
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can we please stop posting the letters page of the Fash Gazette
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kingturnip posted:Wait, Stella Creasy's ambition and purpose is to advance socialism? Stella Creasy posted:bile, which is our shared ambition and purpose
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Jul 23, 2021 16:08
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Comrade Fakename posted:https://twitter.com/stellacreasy/status/1418542131065597957 Ah, a good reason to use the downvote Twitter just rolled out
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Comrade Fakename posted:https://twitter.com/stellacreasy/status/1418542131065597957 Yeah but he said "Slimy prevarication" and talked about a widely disliked wing of the PLP so I can see why she thought he was.
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Jul 23, 2021 16:19
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I just recied this text from my doctors practice.quote:"Are you Unwell? Our practices and your local A&E are struggling with demand, please support us by considering self-management, talking to a pharmacist OR use 111 online or via the phone to help direct you to the best service, Help the NHS to help you. Thank you and keep well." So, I think its going great with freedom day and clearly isn't causing any stresses on the NHS at all.
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Jul 23, 2021 16:26
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Woo, brought my second jab forward to the beginning of August - I could have got it from tomorrow at other sites, but those would involve public transport, and no way in hell am I getting a bus without a second jab marinating in my body for a couple of weeks first.
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haakman posted:Yeeeah whilst not in relation to OP I'd be careful saying it's (MH that is) all just badbrain when it's patently obvious antidepressants/bIoTruThS are used to depoliticize and obfuscate what could be seen as a physiological response to social and material pressures of our current hellscape. for what it's worth I've yet to meet a psychiatrist who believes it's all down to brain chemistry alone, and that misery isn't to some extent a normal reaction to living in hell world. 'biopsychosocial' is the word that gets drummed in during psych training, but unfortunately our power to affect anything except the 'bio' part gets more limited by the year. The institutional reluctance to be 'political' doesn't help
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Jul 23, 2021 16:46
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CGI Stardust posted:the absolute perfect article header Just before I went on holiday (hi I'm back by the way) I coined the phrase "Bad Place Derek" to describe Jessflips and it's genuinely the best thought I have had in my entire life.
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Jul 23, 2021 16:58
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Comrade Fakename posted:https://twitter.com/stellacreasy/status/1418542131065597957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLmun1JEIw0
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Jul 23, 2021 17:22
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Julio Cruz posted:can we please stop posting the letters page of the Fash Gazette Prime examples should be highlighted and rightfully mocked.
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Jul 23, 2021 17:40
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fuctifino posted:Prime examples should be highlighted and rightfully mocked. if everyone starts posting their favourite moronic letters to the editor/tweets/Facebook statuses just to dunk on them then it's going to overwhelm anything actually newsworthy ITT especially when they're written by anonymous gammons from Bognor Regis or wherever the gently caress
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fuctifino posted:Prime examples should be highlighted and rightfully mocked. It's not particularly new or interesting though, "I, the straight white man, am actually the most oppressed" has been a lazy right wing talking point for as long as I've been alive and I'm old.
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