HeyJaredPainting With Lightning
Psychotherapy, therapy culture (yes, they're different things) creativity, trauma, ADHD, addiction, meaning and relating. Trying to live well with the things you don’t want... perhaps even learning to use them well.
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Love is Cringe? Then Give Up Your Dog. (opens the original)
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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.C.S Lewis, The Four LovesThere’s a vignette I read once that lightly haunts me. I remember the cautionary tale almost word for word, but not the book or who wrote it (let that be a lesson to all aspi
“I Don’t Believe in Suicide Prevention” (opens the original)
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Overwhelmed, you chose to runApathetic to the stunnedIt’s your decisionIt’s your decision- Alice in Chains, ‘Your Decision’Before we had psychology, we had stories. The things that are hardest to think about tend to start showing up as narrative (or music, or art) before anything else becomes possible. All of psychology and pathology shares ancestry with storytelling. Morality tales, fables, symbolism, themes, myths, legends, archetypes. Suicide, being perh
Why Psychopaths Rule the World (opens the original)
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A disclaimer before we begin: I don’t find psychopathy1 particularly interesting or compelling beyond what it reveals about ‘normal’ human psychology. For one thing, getting too close to it — even as a clinician — makes you sick. It's a bit like exposure to radiation: sometimes an obliterating blast and mass cell death, viscerally shocking like that scene in HBO’s Chernobyl (don’t Google it if you’re squeamish, you can’t unsee it). Staying sane in the wake of that kind of psy
Social Media is a Trauma Labyrinth (opens the original)
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One of the most reliable markers of maladaption in a human mind is paradox. Two (or more) beliefs are held together and yet they cannot possibly both be true. The existence of one negates any possibility of the other. Yet there they sit, symbiotic but mutually destructive. An optical illusion. A Gordian knot. A pocket of psychotic thinking, a clue to any number of possibilities you’ll find listed in the DSM-V but most often the psychic blood-spatter of trauma. As a practitioner, you learn to rec
If You Don’t Want Treatment, You Don’t Have ADHD (opens the original)
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There’s a little-known medical condition insipidly labelled ‘Restless Legs Syndrome’ (RLS) that you might be familiar with.To the uninitiated, it sounds made up. Vague or benign if you’re feeling generous, fake and cringe if you’re not. “Oh, is that the thing where you jig your leg up and down when you’re nervous without realising you’re doing it?” “That’s the fancy word for anxious pacing, right? My brother does that. Never heard him complain about it or need a special label though.” Tell peopl
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