Tricks donβt work long term. Itβs a short term hack that loses effectiveness over time.
Thatβs why itβs better to learn your autonomic nervous system, what stimulates you, what releases pent up energy, whatβs rewarding etc so you can be in conversation/collaboration instead
Overall, autistic children displayed depression at an earlier age than nonautistic children, with a steady increase through adolescence. Depression prevention efforts are likely to be most impactful if geared toward those whose identities, life experiences, symptoms, and environments put them at higher risk depression.
Timing and Risk Factors of Depression in Autistic Youth https://t.co/9xjPa1qj25
The difference in QUALITY πππ @loveislandusa fire whoever did the graphics for this season, they are directly responsible for the backlash π fr how was this even approved? πππ#LoveIslandUSA
Yall itβs grown people saying they donβt know the numbers that correlate with the months. Like this girl told her wedding makeup artist on multiple occasions her wedding was 6/26 and when the artist reached out a week before it was supposed to be, she said no itβs in July. She tried to argue that she said 6/26 and the artist wrong, like she doesnβt grasp that July is the 7 month. And itβs a whole comment section full of people talking about itβs hard to remember. We just may be cooked π
βromcom is cringeβ as opposed to what? love itself is inherently absurd. yearning is embarrassing, devotion is theatrical, and vulnerability has always carried a certain humiliation to it. thatβs precisely what makes it beautiful.
I'm officially a sports mom y'all.
I be yelling so loud at them soccer games whether the Feybies on the field or not.
I am the cheerleading captain at this point.
And y'all know I used to play so I'm calling out tips and all.
A quarter coach, if you will. ππ
I just feel like after you sue over a diss record youβre not allowed to diss anybody or reference it. You should only be able to make songs that make ppl dance and not think at all
as a woman it's so important that you learn how to be a Problem. I know what they taught you but fuck what you heard. you will people-please your way into an early grave
Everyone shut up I just learned a new word:
Eremition
(eh-ruh-mish-un)
The act of gradually fading from the lives of others, not out of malice, but a desire for solitude or renewal.
The video game industry is lobbying against Stop Killing Games
California is considering a new law called AB 1921, also known as the Protect Our Games Act.
If passed, the bill would apply to paid digital games sold after January 1, 2027.
It requires that if a company shuts down the online services needed to play the game normally, it must give players 60 days' notice and either release a patch so the game can still be played or offer buyers a full refund.
The bill does not require companies to keep servers running forever. It simply prevents them from making a game unplayable without warning or a solution for those who already paid for it.
The Entertainment Software Association, the main group representing video game companies in the United States, is lobbying against the bill.
Their arguments are basically the usual ones:
>games are licensed, not owned
>online services are complicated
>third-party licenses expire
>security risks exist
>this could be hard or expensive to enforce
Supporters of the bill, including the Stop Killing Games campaign, say this is basic customer protection because when you buy a game, it should not suddenly stop working with no remedy.
The bill gives companies clear options and applies only to future games. A hearing is scheduled for this Thursday in the California Assembly Appropriations Committee.
If you are part of an organization in the United States, especially in California, you can submit a letter of support to the committee. This is an important step for better rights for players who buy digital games.
Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.
He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.
Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.
Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.
Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.
Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.
Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.
The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.
Just would like to inform everyone that Project 2025 is only 53% complete. This is a 1% increase from where it was this time last year.
Why am I stating this as if itβs a good thing? Because it was supposed to be 100% done in Trumpβs first 90 days taking office.
It might not feel like enough but we are resisting and holding the line. We can and should do more but people will only be motivated to if they know the efforts they see now are working.