It’s comments like these that make me wish lemmy had a react feature. Perfect place to drop one of these suckers: ♥️

I guess I wasn’t specific enough. 😅 Borderline is kind of just difficult to treat; what I said was my attempt at explaining why. At least, as I understand it. Yes, therapists can give you very useful skills and knowledge; not knocking them at all. (Ok maybe a little. One of them did have me kidnapped…)

But ultimately what people with BPD need is a healthy relationship, and that’s just not something a therapist can provide. (Unless they want to lose their license I guess. 🤷)

But anyway thanks for the kind words. :)

I think I understand; you don’t want your friend to see you at your worst. I hope that since you posted this you’ve gotten better self esteem at your job. 🫶

The truth is always important.

I remember watching a Simpsons episode about how deadly big cars are back when I was like, young. At least 15 years ago. We’ve known this for so long, how is it so difficult to just set a maximum height commuter vehicles?

(It’s a rhetorical question, but it anyone has an actual answer then count me curious.)

Nobleknight Adventures (I believe this is the entire short, but there are others on the channel.)

Yea, so Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast, which owns Magic The Gathering. One day, a guy that opens packs on camera got accidentally sent a pack from a set that hadn’t been released yet.

I forget the exact details, but WotC ended up sending some thugs to this guys house to retrieve the merchandise via intimidation, and the company those thugs worked for was related to the Pinkertons from your high school civics textbook. (Like, they had acquired them in a merger or something.)

I think gene theraly is a miracle technology that should absolutely be explored more. The thing is, we’re already at a point where we can do it in adults. So doing it on embyros, which can’t consent, is simply an uncessasary moral hazard.

That said, I think the doctor here sort of has a point, which is that medical research is sometimes so concerned with doing no harm that it allows harm to happen without trying to treat it.

It should work fine in OP’s sentence, but sadly the word’s been ruined… A while back I heard someone over 40 use it as a noun in real life. 🫤

Honestly, it would be a pretty lame T-shirt.

One time a colleague and I found that book just chilling under an unused desk at work. We had never heard of it, so we were pretty confused. 😆 Still kinda am, honestly.

I think the phrase has the same basic problem as a lot of common advice… the real truth is more nuanced than any pithy phrase could ever be. At best, it’s a quick way of reminding someone who already knows better but has temporarily forgotten.

I mean, it kind of is though? It’s a handy sentiment, but if you think about it, good data is just a well-curated collection of anecdotes. 🤷

Sorry, bit of a tangent. 😅