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- Finally Getting Divorced From The Person Who Abused Me And My Kids So She’s Had Me Charged With Assault
- My Biological Father Has Died… There Are No More Chances
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- Mirrors eat remaining light
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- RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 9): ProPublica reports, and a bump in the road to remaking ACIP
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- ‘Start low, go slow’: The smart, safe approach to drug dosage in the elderly
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skeptic insight- The Peptide Craze: Biohacking and Human Guinea Pigs
- What Media Consolidation Means for Our Reality
- Family Resemblance: Why Intelligent Extraterrestrials May Look Strangely Familiar
- Selling Fear and Half-Truths: The Latest 60 Minutes ‘Exposé’ on Havana Syndrome
- Remembering Robert Trivers
- Robert L. Trivers, Evolutionary Biologist Who Transformed the Science of Social Behavior, Dies at 83
- The Rise of Decorative Neuroscience
- Robert Trivers (1943–2026) Reflects on His Life and Work
- Confessions of a Former Chiropractor
- The Case for Free Speech Maximalism
Respectful Insolence- MAHA: The “we’re not antivax” mask has been dropped
- The Four Horseman of the Woo-pocalypse join President Trump to spread autism pseudoscience and quackery
- America’s Quack (now CMS Administrator) Dr. Oz goes authoritarian quack…again
- Dr. Pierre Kory promotes an old lie about vaccines and SIDS
- “Voices of the Vaccine-injured”: Old school antivax nonsense on steroids
- Antivaxxers will testify before a Senate committee…again
- Shameless self-promotion better late than never: Anti-Vax America
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- Study links parasite in cats to suicide risk in humans
- Mentally ill may be at risk of jail under new crime bill
- Prozac Might Help Some Adults With Autism
- Scientology vs. Psychiatry: A Case Study
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- Doctors critical as Health Canada loosens oversight of natural medicines
- Religious nuts are going to give us all measles
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Patient Anonymous
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Seaneen- Still Not Dead (Sorry, Dom)
- Our Mummy, Marie Molloy: 1957 – 2023
- How #TheGoodPlace Is Helping Me Face My Fear of Death
- Listen to our Christmas Mental Health Survival Guide: Access All podcast
- Derry Girls taught me the joy of feeling seen
- The Thawed Mother
- From calm to crisis – new BBC Ouch episode from me and Mark
- Mentally Interesting podcast – Episode 2: Shame
- Tell me your postnatal anxiety stories?
- Pregnant and mental in a pandemic. Not my best laid plan…
Don’t Drink & Don’t Die- So Intense, Though, is our Fear (Step 5 continued)
- March 14, 2026 (this day)
- Tolerance Part 2
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- January 22, 2026 (this day)
- AA Experience has Taught Us (Step 5 continued)
- January 2, 2026 (this day)
- To Thine Own Self Be True
- December 13, 2025 (this day)
- All of A.A’s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary (Step 5)
The Underground Bunker- Oops, Q patriots: Judge halts Trump White House ballroom construction
- Scientology wants its new children’s books in major bookshop chain
- Visions for a Trump presidential library are as classy as you’d expect
- Scientology wants even more days of arbitration from Valerie Haney, new judge says OK
- GOP senator says the quiet part out loud: ICE at the polls in November
- Tom Cruise and John Travolta showed up for Scientology’s leader in Florida
- No Kings protests draw millions in (often hilarious) repudiation of Trump
- Arbitration starts in Scientology labor-trafficking case, plaintiffs seek court relief
- Patel hacked, but Q patriots sniff victory in the Middle East
- Australian cults inquiry notified of Scientology’s sneaky use of UK-Aussie connection
Neuroskeptic- Goodbye Discover
- The Erection of a Placebo
- The Invisibility of COVID-19
- Dialogue With Dreamers
- The Man Who Thought AIDS Was All In The Mind
- Are Effect Sizes in Psychology Meaningless?
- Brain Stimulation's Complex Emotional Effects
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Category Archives: Granny
Conversations With My Psychotherapist Are Coming To An End
“…our biggest trigger while I was growing up, was me asking questions about my past. Any questions about the Cult we grew up in, or anything regarding my father, or even anything regarding my father’s side of the family, were … Continue reading
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Days from his ninetieth birthday my grandfather has to start all over again
We’re celebrating my grandfather’s ninetieth birthday this week. I’m having a hard time believing we’ll be doing it for ninety-one next year. There was a fire recently that left him and my grandmother homeless. At the moment the most likely … Continue reading
I spy with my red little eye something that is…
I’ve been crying steadily for almost two weeks now… but only out of one eye, and mostly because it’s infected, but there are times when it feels real. Like I’m actually crying for an emotional reason, and the infection is … Continue reading
My grandmother apologizes then spends twenty minutes telling me why she’s not sorry
My grandmother has apologized for her behaviour last February. We met at a local restaurant, and she did it right after the waitress took my lunch order. Ten months ago she attacked me for having had a baby with my … Continue reading
Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | Reexamining the causes for exile
This one has been hard to write. Not so much because of the emotions involved, more because just getting the context right is difficult. On August 29 my mother and I had a confrontation regarding my decision to prevent her … Continue reading
The True Nature Of My Being
The signs I’ve slid into a depression should be obvious to me by now. After almost two decades I should at least have a check list by my door, or beside my bed. Dressing in black for days on end … Continue reading












