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- My Little Family Is Still Being Abused Just Like I Predicted We Would
- 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
- Well That Was An Entirely Too Interesting Few Months
- First Meeting With My Psychiatric-Nurse Was Also My Last | WTF Was That!?
- Music Friday: “Pull Your Head Up Off The Floor, Come Up Screaming…”
- From Mine To Yours, Happy Christmas & A Happy New Year
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- Another Conversation With My Psychotherapist… Now With Less Mom Talk
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Natalia Antonova
Natalia Antonova- My father’s greatest hits and misses
- The Longest
- I’m a Rape Survivor With #MeToo Fatigue: Here’s Why
- Matilda’s New Digs: An October Ghost Story
- In memory of Mikhail Ugarov
- I talked about abuse and made you uncomfortable? Good.
- Mirrors eat remaining light
- My theory of seamless love
- “Do Marines like cake?” “Does God have a butt?” Conversations with a five-year-old
- Laura Palmer and the end of the world: news of note from me
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This Girl’s Got Curves
Ride On My Mood Swing
Behind the Mask
Delusional Predisposition- Neutrality, The Lost Middle Step on The Journey to Self Love -aka- Holding Myself in Neutrality, Because I’m Not Ready to Even Like Myself Yet
- Opposite: A Lost Personality Post Psychotic Break, and Other Things
- A Voices Dialogue, and Having Chronic Pain with Schizoaffective Disorder
- Hypothyroidism and Anhedonia, Along with Being “Too Much” and Losing Trust in People
- Chronic Pain, A Divorceiversary, and the Other End of an Episode
- The Pains of Chronic Illness, and, of Course, Even More Doctor Appointments
- More Appointments, More Anxieties and Even More Medication Acceptance
- Dealing with Anxieties and Friendship, and Accepting my Medications as Tools
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Science-Based Medicine- “Learn to love MAHA” vs. “how to make the CDC great again”?
- A Letter to the American College of Surgeons: Don’t Censor Dr. Marty Makary, Amplify His Voice.
- Why Should We Trust Journalist David Zweig Regarding COVID and Schools When He Pals Around With Proud Child-Labor Advocates?
- A shoddy, ethically-challenged cancer study gets published… for now.
- NYT Article on Rapid Prompting Method
- “Naturopathic Medicine” in Crisis
- “Abolish the NIH”? Dr. Scott Atlas gives the antiscience game away
- Dr. Joseph Marine: Defend Your Article “Why Doctors Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love MAHA”.
- Should We Treat MAHA/MAGA Doctors as Serious Scientists or Political Actors? Their Own Videos Provide the Answer.
- Is the Homeopathic Industry “On the Ropes”?
skeptic insight- The Search for Consciousness
- Mysteries, Meteors, and Foo Fighters
- The State of the Trans Debate, 2026
- The Detransitioner’s Dilemma: The Road From “Sunk Cost” to “Radical Acceptance”
- The Seven Mountains Mandate: The Latest in Christian Nationalism
- The Science of the Declaration of Independence
- Sciencing With a Primate Brain: Reflections on the Nature of Scientific Thought
- How Hype Becomes Automated Consensus
- The Terrorist in the Brain
- God Isn’t Dead: The World Is Becoming More Religious
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
- RFK Jr. guts ACIP to pack it with antivaxxers
- Scott Adams vs. a cancer quack
- The soft eugenics of MAHA: RFK Jr. on autism and Dr. Oz on your patriotic duty to be healthy
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- Doctors critical as Health Canada loosens oversight of natural medicines
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- Global Control and Regional Elimination of Measles, 2000–2011
- The Biologic Basis of Bipolar Disorder
- Elizabeth Manley's journey through darkness
- Prince Charles Alternative Medicine Charity Closes
- Why Some People Blame Themselves for Everything
- Competitors Form Partnership to Develop Autism Drugs
- Mind-Controlling Parasite May Increase Brain Cancer Risk
- Top 10 Films Where Mental Health Matters
- Antidepressants linked to higher risk of miscarriage
- Insomniacs die earlier, study suggests
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Patient Anonymous
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The She Chronicles
Seaneen- Bipolar, pregnancy and mumhood
- 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
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- 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?
Don’t Drink & Don’t Die- This Practice of Admitting One’s Defects (Step 5 continued)
- June 4, 2026 (this day)
- Too Busy for Meetings?
- April 3, 2026 (this day)
- So Intense, Though, is our Fear (Step 5 continued)
- March 14, 2026 (this day)
- Tolerance Part 2
- Tolerance
- January 22, 2026 (this day)
- AA Experience has Taught Us (Step 5 continued)
The Underground Bunker- Trump’s adventure in Iran becoming the usual forever war
- Media reacts to ‘Teen Wolf’ actor describing his involvement in Scientology
- Mitch McConnell ends speculation with a photo: He’s recovering
- Scientology still selling miracles at top dollar: When will you join the superhuman club?
- US Senator Lindsey Graham dead at 71
- Hey, kids! Scientology wants you to come learn the thousand-yard stare today! Fun!
- Q patriots love that libturds in Florida will have to land at DJT airport
- How Scientology convinces politicians that it’s the good guys
- ICE wasn’t even looking for the guy they killed
- Another political council votes to give Scientology leader David Miscavige what he wants
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
- A Curiously Written Coronavirus Paper
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- The Ethics of "Human Brain Surrogates"
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Category Archives: Psychiatry
Back On The High-Wire Without A Net: Goodbye To My Psychiatrist And Hello Again To My Blog
My psychiatrist retired in July. At our next-to-last appointment he told me I was doing well enough that he decided not to refer me to another shrink, instead my family doctor will be treating me. Which I’m a little nervous … Continue reading
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Neuroplasticity: it’d be so much easier if our brains were made from Play-doh
I’m poor. Constantly broke. I’ve lived in poverty my entire life. I was raised, first by a political collective of people who believed poverty was a virtue and an ideal, and then by a single mother who had no support … 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
Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | An alternate recovery tool and a psychotic Granny
I purposely missed my last appointment with my psychiatrist. Something happened, I was angry at myself and depressed as a result, and didn’t feel like talking about the incident. So I skipped. It’s the first time in a long time … Continue reading
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There are no absolutes in blogging. You can start a blog about knitting then, three months later, add a regular feature about Norwegian Death Metal. Not a big deal, because it’s your blog and it’s free and, really, why the … Continue reading
Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | Finding My Father In Me And My Grandfather Plans His Funeral
Doctor: “But there’s a big difference between you and your father.” Me: “[long pause] …okay, what’s the difference between me and my father?” Doctor: “You’re not evil.” Discussion between my doctor and myself; June 4, 2010 Appointment: Friday, June 4, … Continue reading












