As a professional I'd basically be required to say the above, but I'm also watching from the inside as my country's health system decays starting with populations that were underserved to begin with like the mentally ill. In other news I have a hospice interview tomorrow. If nothing else I'll just get to focus on making people comfortable. That sounds so relaxing. I'm getting tired of having to tell people no all the time.

What's the opposite of eating the onion? Wishful thinking? Naivete? Unanswered prayer? In any case I just had it.

Fun history fact, this is also called Lysistratic nonaction after a play by Aristophanes and has been seen in both myth and recorded history for a variety of purposes, usually to end wars or other violence, but also often to protest the infringement of women's rights.

Yeah the line between adhd and bipolar is thinner than ppl wanna admit. ~~Lemme find~~ The Infographic.

Well its mixed because he still wants to be able to force his mistresses to get them. He just wants the poor to keep reproducing at uncontrollable rates because the best way to have parents not care that you're having sex with their children is to make sure they have too many to keep track of.

I am absolutely awestruck by the amount of bravery and critical thinking under stress that it must have taken to understand that you needed to sign a DNR for your 7 year old. Most parents in your situation would barely be able to add up 2+2, let alone comprehend enough of what the doctor was saying to make that kind of decision.

I'm also so happy for all of you that you wound up not needing that DNR. I hope she's adapting well to her life with those limitations, but often children that age have enough neuroplasticity to work it out. She's also certainly got parents who know how to put their own emotions aside and make sure she gets the care she needs, so under the circumstances she's got a lot going for her. <3

And if you're really dedicated to being a person who saves lives and its a big part of your personal identity, you'd also be risking the lives of the future people you'd be able to help and your identity as a person who saves lives. You can't help this one person in this specific life threatening situation but there's other peripartum hemorrhages you could help and many more you could try to keep out of that condition to begin with. But to do that you have to let this one person die despite knowing how to help them too. Absolute shit sandwich.

I'm working on developing a better work life balance but for the longest time working as a nurse has been the thing I stuck around on ye olde mortal coil for. It's what was worth sticking around to try and get through all that therapy for. I won't try to say it's healthy but if I lost my license I don't really have a whole lot left to stick around for.

On a related note, I've been thinking lately about how many older men have gone absolutely batshit on me for suggesting that they may not be able to safely pee standing up anymore. Its so hardwired in some of them that sometimes even bilateral amputees with enough dementia will insist that they need to stand up to pee. I've literally pulled back the blankets to show them their missing legs and they look right back up at me and keep yelling at me to get out of the way.

It's happened so much at this point that I'm very desensitized to it. They'll be threatening to kill me and I'm just "ah yes the good ol' standing piss argument." It's practically as developmentally normal as a toddler not being able to share toys or a teenager having an unstable personal identity. Not sure what the female equivalent is, most of the violence I receive from that population seems to relate to trauma / fear related to sexual assault; they have difficulty calmly accepting assistance toileting because they're worried I'm going to hurt them vs it being less common to be a pride issue with women. Although I suppose the pride just boils down to a fear of being taken advantage of for being weak.

TLDR; loss of independence is rough and in addition to the driving thing there's a few other interesting manifestations.

There's also practical benefits. As someone without children I'd really like to see more funds and attention paid to education because I'm getting really fucking sick of interacting with stupid people.

You hear this a lot in nursing too when people talk about how nursing assistants should make more. "But that's what I make and I have more education and am responsible for more!" Correct, your pay should rise as well.

The harm I notice Peterson doing is setting back men's mental health movements. A big barrier I run into working in mental health is not having enough male role models either locally in my area or public personalities online who are willing to discuss things like medication and therapy, but also to discuss the important lifestyle changes that have to be made, particularly in terms of healthy relationships. A big part of men's mental health needs to be men supporting men instead of competing for women to then use as their sole emotional support. In addition to placing an unfair burden on women, it's just frankly a burden that can't and ultimately won't be carried, leaving men with inadequate support when there's a better solution to be had. Instead you have peterson (and others, but Peterson has a fancy psych degree to hide his bullshit behind) perpetuating these antiquated ideas that men should be competing with each other. Men deserve better.

I like that they're selling this as "allowing men to control their fertility" because in addition to being a good sell, it's the truth. Birth control isn't a burden, it's a gift that men have a right to just as much as women.