Saw this on LSF and thought it would be a good topic for the podcast. Kick will broadcast gambling to kids but draws the line at this. He didn’t even touch the dude, and he cleaned up after he tossed the food. Idk what do you all think?
Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice from psychologists who were accepted into Clinical Psychology (or other psychology) Master’s programs after taking some time away from university.
I completed my Honours in Psychology in 2024 (First Class Honours, GPA 6.8), then took 2025 off due to significant health issues (I got diagnosed with MS). I applied for 2026 entry but wasn’t successful, and I’m planning to apply again for 2027.
I’ve been working as a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner for almost two years, so I’ve continued gaining relevant experience, but my academic referees are now over a year old and I haven’t been at university since 2024, and they provided it for my 2026 applications but not for my 2027 application.
For those who were accepted after a gap, what did you do to strengthen your application? Did you reconnect with your old academic referees, complete any additional study, or focus on gaining more clinical experience? I’d really appreciate any advice on what admissions panels are looking for in situations like mine.
Nobody is entitled to a wedding invitation. Couples can invite whoever they want, and if money is tight, have a smaller wedding. That’s completely reasonable.
What’s tacky is inviting someone to watch you get married, then effectively telling them, “Thanks for coming, now go home while everyone else celebrates.”
It’s even worse when it’s done within the same friendship group. Imagine growing up with someone, knowing them for 20+ years, sharing the same friends, only to realise you’re one of the few people who has to leave while everyone else heads to the reception. You don’t just feel excluded, you feel publicly ostracised. Everyone knows who made the cut and who didn’t.
People will say, “It’s their wedding.” Of course it is. That doesn’t make every decision immune from being hurtful or socially tone-deaf. You’re free to make that choice, and everyone else is free to think the choice reflects a bullying mentality.
If someone isn’t important enough to celebrate with afterwards, don’t invite them in the first place. Have an intimate ceremony with the people you actually want there. That’s far more respectful than making someone sit through the vows only to do the awkward walk back to the car while the rest of their friends continue celebrating without them.
A ceremony-only invitation doesn’t make people feel included. It makes them feel like they were invited to fill seats, clap on cue, pad out the photos, and then quietly disappear once the “real” guests arrive.
Either invite people properly, or don’t invite them at all.
Edit: Maybe this is an Australian only thing since I thought it was common around the world. Either way my point still stands.
Maybe it’s because with social media you are exposed to a lot of things really quickly, but I have this urge to just want to start a 70s peace protest after the exhausting amounts of coverage of innocent civilians living in fear from bombs. Just saw a russian related one where a mother is literally covering her child when they heard the explosion like from a split second of chilled civilian walking to bam on the floor covering her child from harm.
My feelings are not exclusive to Russia and Ukraine, it’s about everything war related that is going on in the world atm. I just wish there was more that could be done to pressure our governments to end these wars in the same way it was done in the 70s, let’s just become hippies and promote being chilled idk. Just wanted to vent tbh.
Just curious to know if people have their own ways of distinguishing between the two? I am pretty confident in what is right for me when it comes to what I think is a healthy friendship but I am wondering if other people share my thoughts or if there is a gap in my judgement.
I want to do more hobbies or activities in my life but I wake up everyday exhausted and the thought of doing more than what I can handle gives me such anxiety and then I feel guilt in myself like I’m not doing enough and am being lazy and struggling to find the fine line between what laziness is and what exhaustion is? I want to exercise more, catch up with people more and just do more things that bring me joy but some days I will sleep from like 9pm - 1:30pm because I am so tired and it just feels like my list of chores and things to do gets larger and larger. Has anyone found a way to understand the difference or if they struggled with these feelings, a reminder or phrase to quiet down their demanding and punitive part of their brain?
leave a comment for me to dm as I have the setting where I can only reach out. Getting super desperate.
I’m 29 and have spent years working towards applying for a Masters in Clinical Psychology. Academically and professionally, I’m in a position where I can apply and have a realistic chance of getting in, so the decision is entirely up to me.
The issue is that since being diagnosed with MS, along with POTS and endometriosis, I’ve had to reduce my work to part-time because fatigue and cognitive symptoms make full-time work unsustainable. I love my job as a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, but lately I’ve felt more mentally exhausted than I have in years.
For the first time, I’m questioning whether I want to take on the extra responsibility and workload that comes with a Masters. Not because I don’t want it, but because life already feels like a constant balancing act between work, health, appointments, recovery and trying to have some quality of life.
I’m struggling to work out whether choosing not to apply right now would be me listening to my body, or me walking away from a goal I’ve worked towards for years.
Has anyone else with MS faced a similar decision? What did you end up doing, and do you regret it?
I’m scared of burdening that responsibility on my shoulders one day, and I don’t think just always being authoritative or instilling fear would be good either.
Got some clients who are physically aggressive towards people when dysregulated, including biting. I have recommended the usual safe guards like arms guards, moving into a position to avoid being struck, alternative chews and so on with limited success because the behaviour is targeted to the caregiver’s skin. I am just wondering if there are actually any techniques I could implement one-on-one with the client that I could then teach the parents. Any recommendations?
That’s all, just want to get that off my chest.
Don’t know these people at all, I watch body cam videos for fun. I am really shocked with the sentencing of the kidnapper to an aggravated burglary via plea deal. Can anyone explain why the accomplice seems to have gotten a harsher punishment than the actual perpetrator? I’m just genuinely confused.
TL;DR: The perpetrator who kidnapped their ex at gun point as well as using a chokehold to force the victim into their van got a plea of aggravated burglary (of what though?) while the accomplice who was stopping the victim from leaving the van by holding their hair while inside the van got harsher bond/ charge (could be that they haven’t taken a plea yet but I don’t know).
From a pleb who loves watching court room and body cam vids 😊