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⌈ Secret Post #5891 ⌋

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General comments:

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Advice

[(Anonymous)]

ask it

Solo trip

[(Anonymous)]

I want to take a solo trip someplace in the US for 3-4 days. Just to see if I would enjoy them. Looking for a city with good public transport and museums. What would you all suggest that *isn't* DC.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Boston and Atlanta both have decent public transportation, and once you're in the city proper, Boston is pretty walkable, but has major accessibility gaps if you're mobility impaired. Atlanta is less expensive, but more spread out. Whose weather is better depends entirely on what time of year it is.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

in the same vein as the thread above, I’m thinking about going on a trip to New Orleans/Boston/Salem/New England-Nova Scotia area. I’m Australian and never been to America but have been to Europe twice before on my own so I’m not worried about travelling solo.

I mostly want to experience America in Autumn, as it’s my favourite season but we don’t see a lot of autumnal colours in my corner of Oz like they do in the New England area, and also want to visit some haunted sites. Any recs?

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I plan on moving out of state, loooooong distance. Do you guys have any advice about whether renting a u-haul truck and driving my stuff cross country would be the most practical thing to do?

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Boston has good public transit but while I loved the art museum I'm not sure it's a great museum city. The science museum was pretty run of the mill, but that was 20 years ago. The Chicago field museum is great and while I've never been to the art museum there I think it's within walking distance.

Advice/questions

[philstar22]

For all your questions or advice requests.

Re: Advice/questions

[philstar22]

Does anyone have any suggestions for how to let someone whose health is failing but who both hates not being self-sufficient and refuses to acknowledge how much help they need?

My dad isn't doing well. Mentally he's fading, especially at night. And physically he can barely walk or do anything. We have a nurse who comes once a week since his last hospitalization, and she came today. She told us it was time to find him a nursing home, which we're going to do. But in the meantime, he's not supposed to be alone unless asleep, and he's not supposed to walk on his own.

But getting him to let us help him is difficult. He doesn't think he's as bad as he is. I can see how much it is stressing my mom not only because of him being so sick, but watching him fight with us every step of the way.

How do I convince him to let us help him?

Re: Advice/questions: icon

[(Anonymous)]

Back in the LiveJournal days some people had a gif icon saying "no you can't have a pony/not yours", with pic of a pony and a crying dude. Does anyone still have a copy of that i can download?

Re: Advice/questions

[cakemage]

I'm thinking seriously of starting a blog where I do reviews of kids' horse books, starting with The Saddle Club series, but I'm not sure which site would be the best place to host it, and would welcome any advice on the matter.

Therapy on Social Media

[(Anonymous)]

What does everyone think about subsections of social media platforms where people talk about therapy (e.g. Therapy TikTok, Therapy Instagram)?

I admit I find myself complaining about it to my counselor every few months or so. For me, the phrasings of many of the posts come across less as encouraging and more prescriptive of everyone's experience. They all also seems to go on about the same three or four therapy concepts.

Re: Therapy on Social Media

[(Anonymous)]

They're pretty awful. Every one of those I've seen has been against my will. They vary from cringe to rage-inducing. They often get terms wrong, they slather personal-level advice around as if it were universal, and I'm pretty sure one of the more popular ones isn't even licensed??

Re: Therapy on Social Media

[(Anonymous)]

I feel this way about social media posts that talk about parenting styles because it's always people acting all stuck-up about how perfect this particular style is and how you need to stop doing X and do Y instead or you're ruining your child.

Re: Therapy on Social Media

[(Anonymous)]

It's a double edge sword for me. People buy into garbage easily, some will use these tips/ideas as a real substitute for therapy and pick and choose what sounds good to them and it's just a self-defeating circle jerk.
But on the other hand, this opens up avenues for people afraid of psychology or therapy to get a look into it and be more receptive to seeking out for help.

Hate the grifters/bad people who use this for insidious reasons, but on the more optimistic side it can be a good tool to help those who need some help/insight.

Re: Therapy on Social Media

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely hate what it is now. Before 2020-ish (and probably even before that, so at the very least mid-2010s), it was a nice idea to have more awareness and information available on mental health - especially for people who are trying to understand anything they've been recently diagnosed with OR for anyone trying to understand what might be wrong with them while finding symptoms that may resonate with them.

Now so many either take advantage of people who are unwell (such as convincing people to get specific apps or go to online therapists who have about as much of a qualification as a rotted chestnut), spread misinformation (along with harmful points of view like 'if you think bad things than you're probably a bad person' in response to someone describing something that sounded like OCD), and the whole thing with 'fake disorders' tiktoks - which has people making a whole career out of publicly making fun of 'fake mental illness' by their own standards and, more concerning, people who may be making a cry for help by acting out conditions they don't have.
The latter I know can be a mix bag depending on the individual since there are those taking the piss - but there's definitely those who are going through something and what's worrying is that there's a lot of kids/young people who are participating who may not have any support irl and are 'seeking attention' in a new generation of people raised by technology. The same kind of arguments where people accuse tv/video games/the internet of corrupting the youth without looking into the fact that children/teens are being left unsupervised or without education on navigating the internet safely - so when they seek help or a sense of community with strangers, it can put them at risk of dangerous people or the kind of people who disregards boundaries and take a toll on their emotional health.

Re: Therapy on Social Media

[(Anonymous)]

As a licensed therapist thankfully I have never seen it. Don't have TikTok or Instagram. Judging from everyone else's comments in here ("you're probably a bad person" if you have intrusive thoughts, seriously?) wish people would just ignore those things and actually seek therapy if they need it. Not because therapy is always better, but it often is and at least they can sue an unethical therapist.

Last Song to get stuck in your head?

[(Anonymous)]

For me:
Thank You For the Venom by My Chemical Romance

Re: Last Song to get stuck in your head?

[(Anonymous)]

Omg throwback

You won't forget me - La Bouche

Re: Last Song to get stuck in your head?

[(Anonymous)]

The Cult of Dionysus - the Orion Experience

Re: Last Song to get stuck in your head?

[pantswarrior]

...The "Good King Moggle Mog" battle music from FFXIV has been in my head for a few days since I got to that point over the weekend. XD

Re: Last Song to get stuck in your head?

[(Anonymous)]

The Bad Touch by The Bloodhound Gang.

Re: Last Song to get stuck in your head?

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, that's a great song to get stuck in your head! For me, it's "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" by Panic! At the Disco.

Re: Last Song to get stuck in your head?

[(Anonymous)]

Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead. Because I was talking about S1 of Westworld with my dad, and talking about Westworld always gets me humming Fake Plastic Trees.

venting

[(Anonymous)]

OK, I don't have enough mental energy to write all the CWs for a full rant I want to make. But I hope our fucking dictator and his kind will die in pain.
Sincerely, Russian anon