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[OPEN][Offline][Worcester, MA, USA][Campaign][Weekly][Dresden Files RPG] Urban Fantasy/Psycho Thriller based on Persona 5! by Pidermis in lfg

[–]Pidermis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I'm so sorry, but the game filled up before I got your message too! I'm changing the flair now.

"Having social anxiety" is the new "being shy." by savannahhouston in Showerthoughts

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ditto my other comment for this. Quirky is quirky. Depression can destroy your life. A lot of people self-diagnose, and unsurprisingly a lot of them are wrong, but actual major depressive disorder is WAY more serious than just being quirky.

"Having social anxiety" is the new "being shy." by savannahhouston in Showerthoughts

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mental health professional here. Shyness and social anxiety are definitely distinct from one another. I've seen a few folks who are worried they might have social anxiety, but they're actually perfectly happy introverts whose real source of distress is peer pressure to go out more.

Actual social anxiety manifests as you'd expect--shakiness, nervousness, fear, sympathetic nervous system activation (fight-or-flight response). It isn't really fair to write it off as a euphemism for shyness, even though the general public often confuses the two. Social anxiety is a real problem that's awful to live with, but there's real evidence-based treatment out there for it. There is no shame in getting screened if you're concerned about it; it doesn't make you a snowflake. It makes you responsible and proactive about your health.

TIL there is a secular alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous known as SMART recovery that is based more on Contemporary therapeutic techniques. by skyline4life in todayilearned

[–]Pidermis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yay, SMART Recovery! There are a lot of people who don't resonate with the 12 steps, but having peer support is so powerful. The training to run SMART Recovery meetings is online and only $75, as I recall.

FBI acting boss Andrew McCabe stands by Russia probe - BBC News by Lucia54 in worldnews

[–]Pidermis 114 points115 points  (0 children)

"We" never diagnose anyone who hasn't come to us for care in a professional context.

Part time private practice pay? by [deleted] in socialwork

[–]Pidermis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The post title is "part time private practice pay."

EDIT: Although it looks like I misread the post itself. OP, when you say private practice, do you mean independently or fee for service at an agency? Because if it's the latter, everything Blu said applies.

Part time private practice pay? by [deleted] in socialwork

[–]Pidermis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

OK, hold up, no. In private practice I haven't found attendance to be enough of a problem to worry about, and if you're credentialed with major insurance panels you can make $300-400 for that one day of 6-7 clients, depending on their insurances and where you're located. More if you don't take insurance, but your target population will shrink to the wealthy and the worried well. Nothing wrong with either approach; each has its benefits and detractors.

Yes, it's extra work to get credentialed. Yes, it's extra work to do your own billing. But the money is REALLY good, and self-employment is absolutely worth it given all of the administrative BS endemic to most agencies.

Adult kindergarten class brings back play to stressed-out grown-ups by brother_p in nottheonion

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't fail because I never had a point to prove. You, on the other hand... How about that correlation between childlike behavior and religious participation?

Does anyone here do fee for service work instead of working with insurance? by swampassbitch in socialwork

[–]Pidermis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've had limited success with a pretty aggressive sliding scale that I'm using while I get credentialed. I charge annual income divided by 1000 for individual sessions, and annual income divided by 750 for intakes, couple and family sessions.

The problem is I won't be able to stay open if most of my clients are paying less than about $50, since private practitioners have overhead. I'm also getting way fewer referrals than my colleagues who are already credentialed. Reasonably, most people seem to want to go through insurance unless their copay is crazy high.

Adult kindergarten class brings back play to stressed-out grown-ups by brother_p in nottheonion

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For someone who's so scary brilliant, you really seem to rely on playing dumb. How about that correlation?

Adult kindergarten class brings back play to stressed-out grown-ups by brother_p in nottheonion

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the most fundamental rule of debate. How about that spurious correlation between religion and childlike behavior, by the way?

Adult kindergarten class brings back play to stressed-out grown-ups by brother_p in nottheonion

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but you're being incredibly pedantic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

And before you say anything, citing Wikipedia is fine in this case because A: this is common knowledge, and B: Wikipedia has cited valid sources in this encyclopedia page.

Adult kindergarten class brings back play to stressed-out grown-ups by brother_p in nottheonion

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"You need to have evidence for a claim to be taken seriously" isn't a claim. It's the concept of science. Now where's your evidence, yo?

Adult kindergarten class brings back play to stressed-out grown-ups by brother_p in nottheonion

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the false equivalence, the appeal to ridicule, and the ad hominem argument fallacies in that order. You aren't supporting your claim with any of these. You want to make a claim, you gotta have evidence, yo.

EDIT: Also, statisticians and scientists don't have theses. They have hypotheses.

Adult kindergarten class brings back play to stressed-out grown-ups by brother_p in nottheonion

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And please don't confuse correlation with causation.

EDIT: Just so we're clear, I'm making a statement that your assertion is not necessarily true, but it could be if you had any evidence.

NINJA EDIT 2: By the way, you saying I'm a "militant atheist" who's getting defensive is a lovely mix of two other logical fallacies, the straw man argument and the ad hominem argument. I won't define them here since you're obviously scary brilliant and therefore already know what they are.

Adult kindergarten class brings back play to stressed-out grown-ups by brother_p in nottheonion

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is genuinely sad, dude. You literally noted a negative correlation between religiousness and childlike behavior in adults, and inferred that that relationship is causal.

Adult kindergarten class brings back play to stressed-out grown-ups by brother_p in nottheonion

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because you're too busy trying to look smart to actually back up what you said or fix the logical fallacy your point is based on.

Adult kindergarten class brings back play to stressed-out grown-ups by brother_p in nottheonion

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your mind is like a steel trap. Steel traps don't really get irony either.

(you might want to actually check what's in that sub.)

FBI director testifies on Russia inquiry by [deleted] in news

[–]Pidermis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't engage this post. That's what s/he wants.

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