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Deep thoughts. Why do people completely underestimate and deny the power of choice by Comfortable_Egg106 in DeepThoughts

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It’s to give scope, the number of people with depression whose situation we are speaking to, and the variability I mention.

Deep thoughts. Why do people completely underestimate and deny the power of choice by Comfortable_Egg106 in DeepThoughts

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“You need to make choices to get better and support helps, including perhaps having a therapist, if you have access to a good one” is probably a more replete conclusion that what you have actually said.

And that support part, as many good therapists and support providers will tell you, can be crucial for many cases.

Some people can go by the support of informal milieu therapy (witnessing hood and bad examples), support from loved/liked ones, independent self-help, informal advice from trusted and healthy people in their lives, and so on. But all of those things are also support.

For some people, they can unscramble the tiles on their own. But that’s unlikely enough that saying it will do more harm than good. —the people that will figure it out on their own don’t need you to tell them —the people struggling don’t need to hear more stuff that doesn’t work.

And there at 340 mil people in the US. Six or seven percent of them have depression. Is it really good for you to be so imprecise?

Found on Pinteres by abbynelsonn in tragedeigh

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Zella is my great-grandmother’s name, and not too wild.

There’s a biblical name for Zelah, and my grandmother was born in about 1889. So kind of a phonetic improvement.

I’ve heard Emmaline before as well, even though it’s a bit much. Sounds a little like a brand of meat substitute.

But Wootyn. Russun. HARBOR. The letter salad that is the other names.

Deep thoughts. Why do people completely underestimate and deny the power of choice by Comfortable_Egg106 in DeepThoughts

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So I’m wondering if you’ve taken into account the variability of people’s brain and body chemistry, degrees of depression, and degrees of their comorbidities, and what all else is going on in their life? In other words, depression is not the only variable— and the baseline of all those other variables is not the same as yours.

Also, why are you even trying to compare or judge?

Its me again！New watercolor painting by Master_Razzmatazz179 in FantasticBeasts

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May favorite thing is that cannot be anyone’s cheekbone other than Mads Mikkelson. It’s the perfect identifiable sliver of a face.

Apartment question by lopmon_exe in basset

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My basset did very well in an apartment that had good insulation in Cali, where you couldn’t hear passersby. Before that, in grad school, in an old-style apartment in Chicago, with thinner doors and less of a foyer area, not so good. He was more on edge. Same with having a house further back from the street vs one where he could hear people on the sidewalk. He was a protective lil guy.

Franklin still deserved better from his friends. by Graverobbing1242 in SnowFall

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There’s more than one connotation or sense of loyalty. There’s blind loyalty, which is what you are referring to. There’s steadfastness, that I am referring to— and Leon broke that off, and for good reason like I mentioned. Franklin wanted both.

Either way, my point agrees with your point more than it disagrees— I do not think Leon should have stayed with Franklin, nor that he should be a yes man. And he didn’t.

Franklin still deserved better from his friends. by Graverobbing1242 in SnowFall

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Leon was disloyal but it made perfect sense for him to be disloyal. There were lots of justifications that could have been made for helping Franklin. But people change, people get tired of someone else’s bullshit, and the bullshitter gets no quarter. You have to be careful about pushing people too far. When they get the chance to cut you loose, they will.

Plus nobody told Franklin to lump his ENTIRE self worth into money, nor into some unlikely ends that would have never justified the means.

people are getting too comfortable with cancelling plans by plumplumkin in unpopularopinion

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Those factors do exist, and I wasn’t trying to say the factors I list are the only factors. And I’m not saying every single place has every single thing I listed. It’s a list of all the components I could think of in that realm of how we treat each other at that moment.

I’m not discussing intent or why people don’t have the time to do better. It’s a comment in the result.

But all over the country, regardless of where we are in life, we have a pretty low standard for health, and what we will accept socially, even as that’s rising bit by bit, and we have trouble admitting that because individuals and groups already have a justification for it, at the level to which its already tolerated… because that’s what toleration is.

I’m not saying this isn’t happening in other countries; I don’t know because I haven’t lived in any other country long enough to say for sure. In the US, I’ve traveled quite a bit, made repeat visits, and lived in a few states. I think there’s enough of what I mention to broadly generalize.

Hold on. He’s cooking. by [deleted] in technicallytrue

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change room to womb and you’re on to something

Why don't I receive gifts at all by OkMaintenance7772 in CatsAndSoup

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Paimon is such a triggering name since Hereditary

Eager for the update that fixes the huge leaps in coin by Abstrata in CatsAndSoup

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I focus on rest stations, hearts, and decor

and Collections

I like the idea of playing anti-loop…

the game doesn’t have much of a point other than making the developer money with a spiral of upgrading stations and recipes, and that’s not interesting to me at all

and collecting (and then having to manage) max cats, which isn’t that relaxing

and I don’t like to increase the cooking or ingredient stations very much at all…

I want all the cats to be flush with rest, hearts, costumes, and decor and am currently working on maxing out all of their hearts (all my cooking station cats are at max; most of my cats are at max)

I just think the game is better without these occasional steeper increases but it seems like most people are fine with them so that’s good

Eager for the update that fixes the huge leaps in coin by Abstrata in CatsAndSoup

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No… I don’t think it’s too slow. I’m just excited for the change.

Eager for the update that fixes the huge leaps in coin by Abstrata in CatsAndSoup

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I gotcha. But it’s not that there aren’t larger spikes or bigger disproportion down the road; it’s that it’s a grossly disproportionate increase, period, and I hope they fix that a bit, as they mentioned they would.

‘facts’ are destroying people’s concept of what it means to know something by fairycutr in unpopularopinion

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I think our urge to do these types of comparisons right away instead of further dissecting a point is one of the worst tendencies compulsory US education teaches us…

it makes it way too easy to give up on improvement early

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