u/TraurigKartoffel

My best friend has had the same therapist for about 6 years and she’s become very reliant on her. To the point where she needs to see her twice a week and if she’s unavailable, she self harms, or spirals. Shes on a bunch of medication but from an outsider’s perspective I don’t see how anything has helped her. Anyway, last night she texted me she was self harming because her therapist was out of town until Wednesday, and she was panicking because she didn’t get her laundry finished. This is not a rare occurrence and is happening almost three-five times a month. I don’t think she is telling her therapist that she is doing this. Can I contact her therapist via email and let her know my concerns? Therapist does know who I am, as my best friend talks about me a lot because I am her main support person. But I don’t know if I can mentally handle this anymore. I dread almost every text from her lately. I want to convey my concerns to her therapist that I think she needs to be admitted to the hospital or something. But I didn’t want to call the police about it.

Due at the end of January with a baby boy. We’ve decided on Isaac but are having trouble finding a middle name we both agree with. Our last name starts with R and is one syllable.

Middles we CANNOT use: Joseph, James, Xavier, Finn, Flynn, Thomas, William.

Middles we considered but ultimately decided are a no: Ambrose, Ellis, Gabriel, Gideon.

One my sons must’ve put theirs in my purse. It was half eaten. One of my sons has autism and struggles with consuming it, but still tries. So I assume he did it. He must’ve been embarrassed and put the rest of it in my purse. What do I do with it? 😭

I have two boys! They are 8 and 6. For the past month or so we’ve had such an issue with them taking forever to fall asleep at night and they keep getting out of their beds to play or wander around. We’ve had the same routine since they were legitimately babies, so I don’t know what has changed in the past month. Since they go to school and have to wake up early, they’re in bed by 7:30-8. Obviously tired, yawning. I read them a book. Tuck them in. They’re nice and cozy. They really are not falling asleep until around 10pm, leaving them exhausted in the mornings and at school, because they keep getting up, rolling around in bed, playing, etc. I don’t know how to break the cycle because it’s almost like they’re overly tired at this point and can’t settle. Ideas/advice? I’m pregnant with #3 and I wanna go to bed too lol.

It seems like it’s the new trend to hate mothers, babies, and children. I have two kids and am currently pregnant with my third. When I announced… I cannot tell you how many people were like “wow… a third? Really?” A friend even asked “do you want it?” Like omg, IT? When I go out in public I have started noticing women look at my belly and give me a legitimately disgusted look. Haven’t really noticed it from men… but women, they seem to act like I’m offending them? I’m seeing it all over social media too, the comments about kids being annoying, mothers being entitled, never wanting kids, I even saw one woman post “my infertility is my greatest flex.” What on earth? Has anyone else noticed this too? And of course not to mention, the absolute obsession with abortion access.

Can’t post. Can’t look at notifications. It says I have no internet connection. I can scroll. But other parts of the app won’t work for me anymore. What’s the deal? I tried clearing the cache and my draft storage. Kind of useless now. Anyone else?

Posting on behalf of my best friend. She is diagnosed with social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and OCD. She has been in pretty intense therapy for almost 7 years, seeing a team of different providers. One main therapist, one psychiatrist, one OCD specialist, and one food therapist because she is very scared of food contamination. She is on 5 different psych. meds, one of them being 200mg of Zoloft, and a few others that I can’t remember the names of. But literally nothing has improved for her and she is barely functioning and is about to get fired from her job because she keeps leaving to see her numerous therapists. Her main therapist is pushing her to take FMLA or even an inpatient stay. It’s been 7 years and everything they’ve tried has failed for her.

As her best friend it’s becoming increasingly more and more difficult to be there for her. I feel more like another therapist than a friend. I don’t know what to say/do anymore and am becoming burnt out with compassion fatigue.

I’m just curious, is this an example of true treatment resistance? Is there any hope for her?

For more context she is 36, single, works as a librarian.

1. Isaac Ambrose

2. Isaac Emmanuel

3. Isaac Gabriel

4. Isaac Xavier

My son is 8.

He is the most bored child on the planet. And when he isn’t constantly entertained, he is very destructive. He will break toys/household items. Get in to things he shouldn’t. He will also harass the dog and his younger brother for fun, poking them, yelling, flicking, pinching.

He can’t/won’t play and has no interest in toys. It seems like he doesn’t have an imagination and can’t maybe? The only thing he finds entertaining his being destructive or someone playing WITH him, but his brother doesn’t want to play with him because he’s too rough and ends up breaking things or hurting him.

So he wanders around the house whining and moaning about being bored, which makes him angry, which makes him spiral in to a destructive antagonistic attitude where he is harassing the entire house and making everyone miserable.

His teachers have said the same things that he just doesn’t play nice with others and seems to enjoy bothering people or antagonizing them, and always when he is asked WHY, he says it’s because he is bored.

His birthday is coming up and I have family asking what to get him and I’m like ??? I don’t know, because he doesn’t have interest in anything. He doesn’t play with toys.

Anyone have a child like this? It’s the most frustrating thing.

A rainy day comes along and my 6 year old is fine, he plays Minecraft, magnatiles, superheroes, builds a train track, colors, etc.

My 8 year old acts like he is being tortured with boredom and just wanders around the house seriously HARASSING everyone.

If you live in or are a frequent visitor of Hawaii, then you’re probably aware that a lot of Hawaiian natives very much resent and reject the tourism to Hawaii. On the more reasonable side, they claim that heavy tourism strains limited resources, drives up the cost of living, and puts the ecosystem at risk. On the more extreme side, some claim Hawaii should be fully given back to the Native population, that it doesn’t recognize its statehood in the US, and that tourists, primarily white people, have turned their sacred homeland in to a vacation playground. All real arguments I’ve heard over the past few years. From what I understand, Liberals in particular support this.

Thoughts from the conservative side?

I consider myself a very sensitive and empathetic person. I can watch a sweet video of an animal and just bawl. I love kids and animas and I love to participate in food drives/lunch drives with my church. I’m genuinely always so confused when I see liberals say that conservatives are low empathy. How does it make you feel and why do you think this is such a common thought amongst the left?

Every 2 hours, a Christian is killed for their faith in subsaharan African.

Nigeria remains the most hostile towards Christians where christians are targeted by African Islamists and beheaded or burned alive.

Ethiopia is another country where orthodox Christians in particular are being persecuted and their churches burned down.

In the Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique, ISIS-affiliated militants have continually raided Christian villages, beheaded residents, and burned homes and churches.

For whatever reason, I don’t see this being talked about enough.

How on earth can we highlight this more in first world media and attention?

… makes me think that societally we are really close to accepting or normalizing infanticide.

Every time I see this story posted, there are countless comments feeling sorry for the woman. NOTHING about the baby left to die in human feces.

“This wouldn’t have happened if she had an abortion”, mind you, this happened in Michigan where abortion is fully legal.

It makes me feel so sickened that I wish ill and harm on these people making these comments.