dumping a bunch of stuff out of my head
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flamingswordCut for anxiety about covid.
I am trying not to fall back into the hole that is thinking too much about the pandemic while dealing realistically with planning for a future that includes a long endemic stage of this plague. I want to be excited for things like ever seeing movies in the theater again, or having outdoor parties in the lulls between getting effective vaccines and the rise of a new variant. Meanwhile I was supposed to have my Day of Mourning yesterday, and I kinda didn't feel like it. I'm too grateful to think of grief right now, especially in light of one of my friends going through a trial separation and one having just lost her grandfather. I'm doing alright, all things considered. It's not going to be fine anytime soon, but for me, for now, I'm okay. And that's not insignificant.
CPR does not save very many people, especially as they get older. So if you have ever tried to resuscitate someone and failed to do so, it's not your fault. TV gave us all unrealistic expectations. Definitely try, but blame the cube-square law and entropy for it mostly only working on children.
The hardest sudoku puzzle I've ever tried, and I'm not halfway through it yet.
The practice of using ABA/"Applied Behavioral Analysis" on autistic children has a bad reputation for a reason. As one accredited therapy dog trainer says:
Playlist of the best of Yoko Kanno, reigning anime soundtrack queen.
12 signs you have a fake N95, KN95, or KF94 mask, from Wirecutter, the NYT product-rating sister-site.
Does anybody have good resources for retraining uncertainty tolerance for anxiety and avoidance? Most of the stuff I've seen so far trains you to act different without helping you feel different. Which is not very helpful.
I am trying not to fall back into the hole that is thinking too much about the pandemic while dealing realistically with planning for a future that includes a long endemic stage of this plague. I want to be excited for things like ever seeing movies in the theater again, or having outdoor parties in the lulls between getting effective vaccines and the rise of a new variant. Meanwhile I was supposed to have my Day of Mourning yesterday, and I kinda didn't feel like it. I'm too grateful to think of grief right now, especially in light of one of my friends going through a trial separation and one having just lost her grandfather. I'm doing alright, all things considered. It's not going to be fine anytime soon, but for me, for now, I'm okay. And that's not insignificant.
CPR does not save very many people, especially as they get older. So if you have ever tried to resuscitate someone and failed to do so, it's not your fault. TV gave us all unrealistic expectations. Definitely try, but blame the cube-square law and entropy for it mostly only working on children.
The hardest sudoku puzzle I've ever tried, and I'm not halfway through it yet.
The practice of using ABA/"Applied Behavioral Analysis" on autistic children has a bad reputation for a reason. As one accredited therapy dog trainer says:
"And quite commonly on Twitter, I’ve seen people call ABA “dog training for children.”
When I see that, I tend to go on Twitter rants in reply to it, because from everything I have read and seen of ABA, it is NOT “dog training” for children.
… I would never treat a dog that way."
Playlist of the best of Yoko Kanno, reigning anime soundtrack queen.
12 signs you have a fake N95, KN95, or KF94 mask, from Wirecutter, the NYT product-rating sister-site.
Does anybody have good resources for retraining uncertainty tolerance for anxiety and avoidance? Most of the stuff I've seen so far trains you to act different without helping you feel different. Which is not very helpful.
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