Meanwhile, in Utah, a pair of new parents are becoming really charmed by the idea of ‘Brexit’ as a name for their next child.

This has all happened before and it will all happen again.

I’m so ambivalent about this change. I had fun in the BSA but it’s also where I experienced the worst bullying as a gay neuro-atypical kid. This was in a Mormon associated troop long before the schizm over how exactly to enable child abuse.

Not quite. I think you may be referring to their genome transplant. They used a natural cell and completely replaced the original genome with synthesized DNA. Whereas this project did not rely on existing cellular machinery.

You know what rhymes with ‘bucket’?

If chaps had an ass they would be pants.

Are you familiar with PAGANism? We offer goat leggings, discrete occult rituals and the virgin Connie Swail.

My main concern is Muskette will use this as an excuse to skip out on child support.

Those therapists need to have their licenses revoked. If a therapist doesn’t have the objectivity to keep their own preferences out of therapy, are they even qualified to be doing it? I’d say no. For some, the community of church is a healthy thing, for others it just adds to the trauma. A competent therapist would figure out what each client really needed before pushing the church crap.

Oh, it’s a very long story and so personal, but I don’t mind trying to express what has worked. I also was undiagnosed for ADHD until the age of 42. I had to take a series of psychiatric medications to heal up from the stress of being undiagnosed for so long and basically torturing myself to achieve in life, before I could even tolerate the typical stimulant treatments.

Once I got stronger, I could tolerate stimulants and it has been a god-send (irony intentional!). It didn’t cure me at all, but it gave me more wherewithal to apply the coping skills I have worked so hard to learn. So the same old things that never worked very well before quite suddenly became more effective. I feel sometimes like I am having to grow up all over again, which isn’t all bad because that means my life has more possibility now.

I too have to force myself to reach out, but the benefits are profound when I can actually open up with my trusted circle.

I know everyone’s journey is different, but I have developed some faith in modern mental health care. The field is full of people that sincerely want to help. Yes, I had to do most if not all the work myself, but the support and concern of some highly skilled people helped me get better results from the work.

If you can’t tell, I’m in a stage in life where I am ‘coming out’ about my own mental struggles. Hiding the pain has done me no favors, so I frankly don’t care anymore about what judgement people might make of me.

It’s so tough. I, too, have given up on getting better many times because so much seemed to be working against it. I’m far from ‘cured’ and dealing with the trauma will likely be a lifelong effort. But it has gotten better and I have found a kind of fragile happiness, at least in my better moments.

Thank you for asking about my experiences. It is nice to find some validation for a struggle that many are not equipped to even understand. I am sorry that you had to experience similar trauma. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could bond over something banal like the superbowl instead of our respective troubles caused by ignorance?

Oh, yes I left it behind long ago, never quite really believed any of it, although I conformed for social survival. All it took to leave was complete social suicide, I left behind my entire family for a few years (have since reconnected with the good ones). I lost all my friends from before the age of 30. It was an incredible cost. Fuck everything they stand for.

Yeah, I was smart enough to keep my mouth shut about my sexuality because my religion (Mormon/LDS) still practices electroshock torture for ‘fixing the gay’. I maintained my silence out of sheer terror that the people I was supposed to trust would want to hurt me that way.

Now that I am stronger, I will not forgive and I will not forget. Nor will I remain silent any longer.

I agree. A ban would be a counterproductive disaster. It’s something we need to grow out of collectively and that will take a minute.

We need to develop (we being humanity) a more moral equivalent to religion because it does fulfill some basic needs.

It’s such a minefield finding good help. I had terrible luck for years in finding steady care, so many dead ends.

I finally got connected with a larger group practice (USA based) and that’s when I started getting the help I need. The key for me was consistency of care, both psychiatry and therapy working together over longer periods.

The advantage of a group practice is that if you need to switch therapists (or, more commonly, the therapist or psychiatrist leaves the practice) they have a group of alternatives to choose from. A good group practice will work behind the scenes to assure continuity and tailored care.

I didn’t really start getting better until I had a real care team. Trauma physically changes the nervous system and it often takes neuropsychiatry (medication) and therapy to make progress.

The challenge is that these kinds of practices are only found in bigger metropolitan areas. I did have to wait almost 6 months to see a psychiatrist, but they got me in with a therapist much sooner. My years of trying to find some relief in smaller cities just seems like wasted time in retrospect.

What? Ridiculous. You want fair pay and non-arbitrary, non-shifting performance metrics? Cold day in h*ck when that happens!

And? Dealing with arbitrary rules and systems is a major life skill.

He hacked too much time again.

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Justice is not swift.

Sorry, no, I am not a lawyer. But it should be pretty simple, like just putting a directive to that effect in a will, I guess.