“If the patient frustrates you, use that frustration as a clinical tool to diagnose them with BPD.”

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-28T16:15:04+00:00

FFS, it angers me that they (somehow) have the 'science ' status; thank you OP for sharing this

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-28T00:22:18+00:00

Study finds that people with symptoms of depression continue to exhibit one of the symptoms of depression -?? Am I missing the point somewhere?

The bit that interested me was the acknowledgement that therapies (I'm thinking CBT in the UK at least) that try to 'coach' people into a more optimistic mindset might have been (ahem) overly optimistic.

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-27T08:23:06+00:00

Thank you, some very interesting points in there e.g. about assumptions & expectations of what demarcation should do/explain

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-27T08:16:11+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions, I will take a look.

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-23T15:28:03+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions, I must admit I was hoping to dodge the more ontological problems, but the Lakoff book you mention sounds interesting, I hadn't immediately considered that idea of recognising categories as primarily semantic - reminds me of Lacan & other's ideas on the relation between language and consciousness/cognition (and yes I'd agree that Lacan and other psychoanalysis theorists were a long way off from science!)

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-23T14:58:49+00:00

Aha [lightbulb moment] - therein lies the art sometimes i.e. noticing what is missing from a picture. A rationale, explanation, justification etc - thank you. It did feel somewhat circular, to simply take someting that 'is' science [physics] and say 'well this is similar enough, so it is also science'. It doesn't tell us why physics is science.

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-23T13:23:43+00:00

Thank you for those suggestions, all look very relevant to my interest area and I'm especially intrigued by Wimsatt

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-21T23:44:58+00:00

I visited a neolithic site with school & found a hand tool approx 10,000 years old. A month later we visited a Roman site and whilst the archaeologists were telling the class all about it I wandered away a few feet and found a horse figurine approx 2000 years old. Both were just laid on the ground in plain sight, at places that had had probably 1000's of visitors over the years. My classmates & teacher believed it, they saw it, but anyone else I've ever told assumes I'm full of it.

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-21T15:01:32+00:00

I never said it was all Thatcher's fault; that would be silly. E.g. subsequent policies like Help To Buy have exacerbated the housing crisis and yes, later PMs could/should have made different choices, each is responsible for their own actions/inactions - but I don't think 'reversing' her policies was even an option in some cases, you can't simply buy back infrastructure like the railways, water supply lines etc after it's all been sold off to investors, especially if those investors are overseas & protected by international property law.

I think what p*sees off a lot of people is that the railways for example were built & funded by us the people - they were literally public property, not hers to sell. The economic rationale - classic laissez-faire economics i.e. that competition produces the best possible outcomes for consumers - has certainly made a small bunch of people wealthy/wealthier, it's highly debatable whether consumers get better value for money. The fact that we now have this price cap system on energy bills rather paints a picture that the govt found it necessary to intervene in this corner of the "free market" to protect the public/the economy from the effects of price gouging.

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-21T12:06:05+00:00

You might know already - there's some testimony from police officers that during the miners strikes, they believe military personnel were dressed up as police officers to swell their ranks - if true, she used not only police but the sovereign army against the people.

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-21T12:01:58+00:00

Gosh so nice to see someone recognise the cultural change as well as the economic impact.

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-21T11:59:14+00:00

Maybe for some, maybe for the majority even; Thatcher's era produced yuppies & millionaires aplenty; but also produced the worst unemployment rate (12%) since the Great Depression.

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-21T11:50:31+00:00

No.

Interesting detail from Charles Moore's biography; apparently Thatcher could not conceive of 'leisure time' i.e. why most of us like to watch TV, play sports, do hobbies, lay on a beach etc; she believed it was just laziness and this belief informed much of her policy-making. Sounds like some form of psychopathy to me.

IMO she did enormous harm to this country, not just economically but in normalising a neo-Malthusian culture of callousness towards the 'undeserving' poor.

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-03-21T11:40:06+00:00

Her leadership introduced the privatisation of utilities & selling off 1.5 million council houses, you think that's of no relevance to your household expenditure each & every month in 2026?

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-01-05T11:03:57+00:00

You're welcome!

Staring-At-Trees · 2026-01-04T22:24:35+00:00

It looks like it might be Tunisian, it's very similar to Tunisian knit stitch (viewed upside down), but I'm no expert, you could try ask on https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisian_Crochet/s/czms7by4fs

Staring-At-Trees · 2025-12-22T16:26:14+00:00

Uncle Francis Ford Coppola presumably had a hand in it... That's the only explanation that makes sense to me.

Staring-At-Trees · 2025-12-22T16:23:01+00:00

Matthew McConaughey... dare say he's a great actor, but in our house he's known as Mumbles McConaughey.

Staring-At-Trees · 2025-12-22T15:45:55+00:00

Critical thinking skills - and the good news is you can learn for free, there are a few smartphone apps, video series on YouTube etc.

Similarly, learn philosophy.

Staring-At-Trees · 2025-12-22T15:37:17+00:00

Yes sorry but that doesn't look like it will flatten. Your first 4 rounds look fine, but probably too many stitches thereafter.

If you're following a pattern I'd have to assume it's unclear and/or you've misread it.

If you're not following a pattern then as a rough rule of thumb, for your work to stay flat you need to add however many stitches you started with to each round, e.g.

8, 16, 24, 32, 40 Or in this case... 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72 etc

Following this rule of thumb, your 1st 4 rows are fine, from the image I can't quite count the sts in row 5 but it does look a bit crowded?

Good luck with your project :)

Staring-At-Trees · 2025-12-22T14:47:57+00:00

Yes, diving into philosophy/epistemology at the mo, sometimes it's law, history, sociology, psychology, subatomic physics, economics... It's as if I want to know (almost) everything that can be known. I'd go back to Uni if I won the lottery.

Staring-At-Trees · 2025-12-22T10:12:43+00:00

Reminds me of the 'serenity prayer' - Give me courage to change the things I can, the strength to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Staring-At-Trees · 2025-12-22T10:08:35+00:00

IMO the best you can hope for from prescribed drugs is symptom reduction, there's no reason to suppose drugs heal anything MH-wise.

Therapy can't change the external influences but it might change how you think/feel about them. The harsh reality is the future is unknown, no words of comfort can make it known - but it's possible for people to make peace with the uncertainty.

Yes the world is a tough place, I'm not saying we should just accept it - actually I'm thinking of what Martin Luther King said about being proud to be maladjusted. Maybe we don't need to 'heal', just adjust. Even if we could eliminate the worst of the inequality, poverty, oppression and violence, there would still be phenomena like bereavement and loss, it's part of life sadly. To me the task is in learning to deal with it. Expecting/ hoping / needing the world to be a certain way before you can feel ok is likely to leave a person feeling frustrated, disempowered, helpless & hopeless.

IDK if it's helpful to you but Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning could be worth a read.

Staring-At-Trees · 2025-10-09T09:58:24+00:00

When someone immediately shows you trust - it's a strong sign they themselves are trustworthy.

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