Man this mid-day meal egg conversation has brought out the worst bigots of this country in full force. If you had any glimmer of optimism for the future of this country, today should have put an end to it. These filthy bigots control everything now, and will do going forward.
🧵 The kind of breakdown in mentalization most discussed, it seems, is hypo, or the lack of ability to see that others have their own mind and mental states. Just as important a breakdown or lack in mentalization, however, is hypermentalization, when someone over attributes
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
“the final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. the exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”—Wallace Stevens
@organisedump not cbt per se, this is more of a psychotherapy for psychiatrists kinda course, the lecture part is a bit ok, but there are supervision groups which i am looking fwd to a bit
@organisedump i just a) feel unsure about my ability to help people w therapy, b) chhe thoda longterm patients and that is ok for me, c) feel like it was all my consults at one point practically, so also a conscious choice to move away and say no.