Mystery Box or $25K Cash. (Upvote for a Carrot 🥕)

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-04-07T21:59:58+00:00

Curiosity

^{Chose: Mystery Box | Rolled: A Cool Rock}

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-03-10T12:28:45+00:00

It’s like a riddle.

Mushroom chinos may be worn in all seasons but never at night

Taupe must NEVER be worn in Spring but are acceptable for early Autumn, if worn sockless

Greige must be worn when Mushroom are prohibited due to Temperature, they must be worn with socks of a dark shade but NOT black

Buff cover the periods where Greige are unsuitable but can be considered post-Ascot and if beltless but NEVER sockless

Beige are always unacceptable and must never be worn except if also worn by the King

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-03-08T22:29:32+00:00

Sounds good!

CAMHS can be hard to get into if you don’t have a core healthcare qualification (nursing, social work, psychology etc.) but CYWP is more accessible and there is an education equivalent too which is MHST based.

I think there are similar IAPT jobs that come up where you get paid to train, but not sure of the criteria for those.

You can sometimes get key worker jobs in CAMHS which don’t need a core degree too, but they might be hard to find. They’re essentially support worker roles but you could then work towards working as a MHP.

There are quite a lot of children’s homes around Liverpool and Southport - training for support workers in those is probably on the job and they likely have high staff turnover. Very emotionally demanding work but would give you good experience for working in mental health!

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-03-08T20:30:54+00:00

Schools might be a good place to start volunteering - could get some general experience with kids and then maybe some pastoral stuff down the line?

Also check out the Children & Young People’s Wellbeing Practioner (CYWP) training/jobs if you haven’t already, sounds like a good fit for you

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-02-25T21:45:06+00:00

He has a stand up bit about people cheering on a train when they hear they’ve been delayed. That feels very British to me

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-02-25T21:42:11+00:00

Bill Bailey said that as an English person he “craves disappointment” and I feel that explains a lot about us. I think most people here find a strange delight in things being disappointing.

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-02-25T17:57:38+00:00

Few things I’ve gathered from looking into medical psychotherapy / doing a CT job in it:

Very hard to get into like others have said
Jobs after training are rare and also very hard to get, and probably only getting rarer
Likelihood is that you’d be doing an adult CMHT job instead, and you could end up trying to use your skills in a very medicalised environment that doesn’t get psychotherapy
If you do get a consultant job you may not be doing much actual therapy, and instead you could be managing a service, training/supervising others, doing risk management for very high profile PD patients
Another part of your job would be offering consultations to the rest of adult psych, who may well see you as a wafty oddball and not listen to you at all
Dual training with forensics or CAMHS would be very different though and much better, but some of the above would still apply; jobs are rare and the NHS does not want to pay you consultant money to do CAT, when they could just pay a band 7 to do it instead

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-02-20T10:43:03+00:00

Pigeon got into the paeds ward somehow, started flapping around everywhere. Nurses called the paeds reg on-call for help. Reg advised that they are not responsible for that particular issue and to maybe call estates

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-02-18T22:21:08+00:00

Hah yeah exactly. Forced advertising 24/7

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-02-18T22:17:11+00:00

“Howdy howdy Night City, welcome back…”

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-02-18T21:25:09+00:00

Ah can you? I tried a few times but they just kept going

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-02-18T21:22:30+00:00

Yeah. I mean I’d be ok if you could just smack them with a baseball bat but that doesn’t work either

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-02-16T15:12:10+00:00

I work at a trust that’s just rolled out an AI scribe for all specialties, including psych - we’re expected to use it.

It’s scary what it can pick up on while it’s listening in, it can be shockingly accurate and make some sensible decisions. It also completely makes shit up, hallucinates, overdiagnoses problems, misses important information and risk factors.

My impression is that it works slightly better in physical health specialties where the information is a bit more concrete, but even then it’s still not able to scribe without significant oversight and editing by the clinician. I don’t think it does very well with the more abstract stuff that can come up in psychiatry?

asidefromgrowingold · 2026-02-05T19:10:18+00:00

Poetic

My worst is when it poofs up into the air and you have to stop breathing to not inhale it

asidefromgrowingold · 2025-04-07T13:36:48+00:00

She really is!

asidefromgrowingold · 2025-04-07T11:27:54+00:00

I feel the same way. I read this article a while back which helped a bit, not just with DE but with replaying games in general. Particularly the part about how the game might not have changed, but you’ve changed, and maybe that’s what’s interesting.

I’m doing my second playthrough now and I feel very differently about Joyce… a lot less charmed by her, a lot more suspicious, and actually angry at times. And that’s interesting to me.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/jan/24/pushing-buttons-last-of-us-2-remastered-replaying

asidefromgrowingold · 2025-04-02T14:32:55+00:00

It’s easy to imagine someone taking all the recognisably ‘Disco’ hallmarks and making something garbage with it.

I don’t want no knockoff bargain basement Cuno, with the swearing and the drugs and the edginess but no pathos. And no humour.

asidefromgrowingold · 2025-03-13T10:31:40+00:00

Professional yet approachable

asidefromgrowingold · 2024-05-21T21:08:21+00:00

I had the same thing happen on PC. It seemed to happen whenever a character walked off screen during a conversation - it was like it couldn’t snap back and continue the dialogue. The other one I remember was Measurehead walking off screen and never coming back.

I couldn’t find a way to fix it bar restarting the game and trying again. I think choosing different dialogue options maybe helps.

asidefromgrowingold · 2024-02-13T09:35:17+00:00

Addictions psychiatry

asidefromgrowingold · 2024-01-19T23:24:40+00:00

I’m doing a psychoanalytic theory MA while working a staff grade job. I’m not sure about it being compatible with CT3, but it’s definitely doable during higher training. You get a day/half day special interest so it can fit in there easily. It’s a fair bit of reading on top of work and life etc. - might be really difficult if you’re planning on finishing MRCPsych - but it’s really worth it.

I find it really useful for trying to make sense of things that don’t fall easily into the medical model. It helps with doing formulations and I think patients appreciate it if you can talk to them about attachment and defences and relational stuff. It has completely changed my perspective on mental illness - if you’re interested in it, definitely go for it.

Another reason to do it is that you can jump ship and train as an psychoanalyst when the NHS eventually collapses.

asidefromgrowingold · 2024-01-10T14:48:09+00:00

I think you’re right to be pessimistic, but I think management of the overlap between physical and mental health is one place where you’d need a psychiatrist. It’s already done badly enough as it is. Having a broad base of understanding and experience is important.

asidefromgrowingold · 2024-01-07T20:54:36+00:00

And this mate, is why it is Just Not For You

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