Ryan Breen LCPC

Preventing childhood #trauma from destroying #relationships by applying trauma expertise to couples therapy & coaching. #PTSDChat

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Shouldn’t the nominee be decided by a party vote? Democracy etc …

[Sycamore Track/XC @IndStXCTF]

Big day for the distance crew, all five Sycamore entries in the 1500 score points with Jason Dworak (3:50.05) and Rachel Conhoff (4:25.93) leading the way!

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[Sycamore Track/XC @IndStXCTF]

THE CHAMPIONSHIP TRADITION LIVES ON IN TERREDISE 🏆

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[Sycamore Track/XC @IndStXCTF]

Took a little longer for it to go final, but the distance crew came through in yesterday's prelims 🌲

Sycamores are sending five to 1500m finals, with multiple qualifiers on both sides

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[Ryan Breen LCPC @Ryana720]

@MiddleBrownie @Protestia @alexcostX Mental illnesses as categorized by the medical community are social constructs & the book he referenced is fascinating to read. However, his explanation of PTSD is minimizing the condition. Whatever you wanna call it, the people who are struggling need to be met where there at.

[Ryan Breen LCPC @Ryana720]

@jordanbpeterson Success has been glamorized because of the online illusions we consume everyday. So we miss the opportunity sitting right in front of us as we lust after what we don’t have or can’t attain. The unhappiness that ensues needs someone to blameso we blame society. Perpetually victims

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The Dirty Little Secret About Homelessness Is Also The Key To Ending It

The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about what cities can and cannot do to end homelessness.

"What if there is a bed available in the Gospel Rescue Mission, but Ms. Johnson, a person, doesn't want it? Doesn’t wish to leave their pet. Her Rottweiler's not permitted there. So that is a difficult question for a person and a difficult policy question..."

What everyone agreed on was that homelessness is a difficult problem.

"Many people have mentioned this is a serious policy problem… So, the policy questions in this case are very difficult….Martin speaks in terms of someone who is involuntarily homeless and that raises all of those policy questions… We usually think about whether state law, local law already achieves those purposes so that the federal courts aren't micromanaging homeless policy…"

I think most people listening to the Supreme Court would agree: it isn’t going to solve homelessness. That is a job for state legislators. So why haven’t they? Why has homelessness gotten worse?

The answer that many homeless advocates give is that it’s because we don’t have enough homes, and poverty has increased. But neither is true. Poverty has steadily declined since the 1980s, when homelessness first became an issue of public concern.

And very few people are on the street simply because they can’t afford the rent.

The evidence is overwhelming that the majority of people on the street are there because of untreated mental illness or addiction, which leads people to use all their money to support their drug habit and be high, rather than work.

People who can’t afford the rent but are able to work and aren’t in the grip of addiction or untreated mental illness find a cheaper place to live, move somewhere cheaper, or live with family and friends.

It’s true there aren’t enough shelter beds, case workers, group homes, and psychiatric hospitals to care for the homeless.

But a big part of the reason for that is that advocates for the homeless have, for 40 years, demanded that funding for dealing with the homeless go into giving people private studio apartments rather than building sufficient shelter beds.

They call this “Housing First,” and its record is awful. Few stay in housing, and many die because it fails to treat the cause of the problem, addiction, and untreated mental illness rather than the symptoms.

Studies find that cities that prioritize basic shelter over expensive housing reduce the deaths of homeless by 3-fold. And so in LA, homeless die at a rate 3 times higher than New York because living inside protects people from murder, drug overdose, and car accidents.

Making matters worse, homeless advocates, along with the ACLU, have opposed expanding psychiatric hospitals, and mandatory care in general, because they believe it’s worse to mandate hospitalization for people who are dangerously psychotic or manic than to simply leave them on the street.

But it’s not. Last year, 112,000 Americans died from drug overdose and poisoning because we failed to mandate treatment. Two of my friends from high school would still be alive today had we mandated they get treatment for addiction rather than letting them die.

What is happening on homelessness is a record of failure. The number of drug deaths quintupled from 20,000 in 2022 to 112,000 last year. That’s more people dying per year than died in Hiroshima.

Homelessness is not a fundamental problem of housing. It’s a problem of enabling addiction and untreated mental illness, both of which lead people to give up on work, lie, steal, cheat their families and friends, and live on the street, where they turn to petty crime to sustain their drug habits.

This seems cruel to many people, which is why homelessness has gotten worse. In other words, the reason homelessness has gotten worse is because we’ve enabled it, and subsidized it, rather than funded treatment and recovery. Nobody has subsidized homelessness more than California, Washington, and Oregon. And it’s been in those states that homelessness has worsened the most.

Why? The homelessness groups really believe it’s more cruel to mandate care than to let people die on the streets.

But there is an ideology behind this, too. It’s the idea that people suffering from addiction and mental illness are victims of society or the system, which is fundamentally evil. And, according to their logic, to restore justice in the world, we must give victims whatever they want, including the right to camp anywhere and use hard drugs, even if it results in their death.

You might call this "pathological altruism. Think of the Kathy Bates character in Misery. Or of the mother who poisons her child in order to have a sick person to take care of, like in “Sixth Sense.”

It’s no coincidence that the same people who believe this also think civilization is evil and should be replaced by something more akin to primitive anarchism, like the kind romanticized by intellectuals since Rousseau.

The alternative to this dystopia is tough love. We need to give people the care they need, but that’s not through enabling addiction and illegal behavior, but rather enforcing laws and mandating care, as an alternative to jail, when they are broken.

It’s not enough to do what many Republicans want to do, which is to enforce laws and recriminalize shoplifting and hard drugs simply. We need to do that, for sure.

But states must also have caseworkers, group homes, and psychiatric hospitals so there is an alternative to jail, and so states can provide people with the specialized care where it’s available, which simply isn’t going to be in many of the small towns, like the one at the center of the Supreme Court hearing.

The dirty little secret about homelessness, which is also the key to ending it, is...

[Sycamore Track/XC @IndStXCTF]

Starting off Day Two with a pair of new additions to the program best charts in the 4x1600 relay!

🔵 Women (Gresham, Dyer, Miller, Conhoff) - 20:28.78, fourth in program history
⚪️ Men (Breen, Krieg, Dworak, Light) , 16:52.09, third in program history

#MarchOn | #StayRooted

[Ryan Breen LCPC @Ryana720]

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[Sycamore Track/XC @IndStXCTF]

Nothing but love for our senior class 💙🤍

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[Bruce D. Perry, M.D.,Ph.D. @BDPerry]

The most powerful buffer in times of stress and distress is our social connectedness; so let's all remember to stay physically distant but emotionally close. Reach out and connect; even a short text or smiling face on Zoom can help. Regulate, Relate, Reason.

[Ryan Breen LCPC @Ryana720]

@iamdavidwalters @jordanbpeterson Self care is a concept made up by people who are living out of balance. If you need to emphasize self care then you are fundamentally neglecting essentials in your day to day life. Sure, take care of yourself, but not without correcting the imbalance.

[Ryan Breen LCPC @Ryana720]

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[Ryan Breen LCPC @Ryana720]

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[The Good Men Project @GoodMenProject]

Narcissism: A full eclipse of self awareness by @Ryana720 https://t.co/VQcTfcWXb3

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

What are the odds? 😂

[Ryan Breen LCPC @Ryana720]

Day one, a meditation. Breaking free from #narcissism and #toxic #relationships. https://t.co/b7JqpKOw9C

[Ryan Breen LCPC @Ryana720]

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[Ryan Breen LCPC @Ryana720]

“Married to Trauma: What We Are Missing” by Ryan Breen
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[Annelise Lords @ThisisAnneliseL]

“How many gifts were given out of guilt? How much conflict arose because I attempted to remove the mask?” — @Ryana720 https://t.co/2NlNDNLfYh