If you apply rough linear extrapolation to the rate of atmospheric CO2 increase observed in 1980, we would have expected to hit 500ppm by the year 2145.
But by the year 2000 the increased rate of CO2 level rise would have led us to expect to hit 500ppm around the year 2112.
By 2010 this estimate to hit 500ppm would have fallen to 2070.
In 2015 it was looking closer to 2040.
Without a major economic crunch, I reckon it will be 2030.
if you have kids today, they will not know a world below 400ppm, and your grandchildren will not know a world below 500ppm.
what effect does 25% higher CO2 levels have on human health and growth? I guess we’ll find out!
although we joke about going to live in domes, if we had the coordination to make that work I doubt we would be in this mess in the first place.
Someone will be able to own the domes tho. Someone will make huge amounts of money from their construction. Imho the domes are a much more realistic outcome then genuine action on climate change.
anyway blackout poetry not just as an art form, but as an act of violence against other works of art
taking a piece of text that someone probably put their heart and soul into creating and using it as your raw material, cutting out everything that you deem irrelevant to the point you want to make
i mean imagine cutting up a painting and using it to make a collage, or taking a marble sculpture and carving pieces out of it to make a different sculpture
just to be clear: i love blackout poetry, im not criticizing it here. i am just waxing poetic about it. i dont really know where im going with this i just have Thoughts about art being destructive
The idea of english as a mother tongue is so strange to me, in my head english is how ppl communicate when there’s no way in common to communicate, so english as a mother tongue sounds a bit like idk email as a mother tongue ykwim? Like english to me feels like the stuff that’s used to fill the empty spaces between languages
Ok English is my native language and unfortunatly the only one I know yet, but this reminds me so much of that passage in Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Different people respond better to different types of therapy, and most therapist will do multiple types of therapy with their patients.
CBT - Most common type of therapy because it works well for all mental health problems.
ACT - Especially helpful for treating anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, OCD, psychosis and substance abuse.
DBT - Specifically created for BPD. This type of therapy works really well for personality disorders, PTSD, eating disorders, substance abuse and impulsive control disorders.
Interpersonal therapy - Created to treat major depressive disorder but is now also used for other depressive and mood disorders.
There are lots of other types of therapy too (:
Gonna add my two cents as a research psychologist:
CBT does NOT work well if the individual has a history of being emotionally manipulated or gaslit, nor does it work well when the individual is working through traumas that have been used against them or disbelieved. CBT can feel like gaslighting, toxic positivity, denial of the seriousness of a situation, or emotional manipulation if not done very carefully. As such, it might be best to avoid it and find something else if you have a history of problems with the aforementioned experiences.
ACT also works REALLY WELL for individuals coping with sudden and “devastating” changes! It’s often adapted for use by disability specific clinics to help newly diagnosed patients learn to cope with the limitations on their environments. People with disabilities (PWDs) tend to feel pressured to not express their disability related distress around non-PWDs and, as such, tend to see those feelings as shameful. There’s a lot of “I should be more grateful” or “it’s not as bad as it could be” feelings around disability as a result of this pressure and ACT is great for undoing them!
DBT is generally amazing for stress disorders and preventing stress disorder symptomatology in at risk populations. It teaches you stress tolerance skills and how best to avoid or diminish conflicts, allowing you to avoid the sorts of environmental triggers that commonly worsen stress disorder symptoms.
Interpersonal therapy is also great for neurodivergent folks, victims of childhood emotional abuse, and children of parents with untreated/unmanaged psychiatric disorders. Essentially, if you grew up with difficulty interacting effectively with and relating to others, interpersonal therapy can help you understand why and change those interactions in the future. Healthier relationships and social interactions are a great way to break the cycle of abuse for those of us raised by parents who were emotionally abusive and/or had untreated mental illnesses.
Since no one has mentioned it on this post, I’d like to add that most therapists these days practice a sort of integrative therapy. They’ll take what they find most effective from each type of therapy for each individual problem, and piece together something a little more tailor made for their patients. This is part of why seeing an actual therapist is so important. Not every aspect of the aforementioned therapies will be relevant to every problem. Some aspects may even be harmful to handling some problems. The therapist is trained to pick out these things and adjust accordingly, unlike the average self help book or online resource. But knowing the types of therapies available and what you want to get from therapy is an immense part of finding a therapist that will suit your needs, so please research things carefully and think over what you need before selecting one!
Go to therapy, y'all!
Reminder that you can and should shop around for a therapist. Treat your first session as a job interview, where you are the one hiring. Ask questions about what therapy techniques they use, what techniques are likely to work for your specific issues, and if they have experience treating patients with your diagnoses. Above all, don’t settle for a therapist who doesn’t feel like a good fit. Manytherapists don’t charge for the first session specifically so patients can treat it as a practice/interview session.
There are different types of therapy & therapists, so please look around until you find what works for you.
[ID: a series of tweets from Dr. Jeff Cohen (@DrJeffCohen). The tweets read:
[fairy emoji] Fun Fact: Before I went to therapy, I didn’t know that there are different types of therapy. Today, I want to share 5 different approaches to therapy. These aren’t exhaustive definitions, but I hope these help people start their own research on different options for care.
[brain emoji] Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT): You identify thoughts and behaviors that you want to change, and the therapist helps you create a plan (using coping skills and other tools) to change those thoughts and behaviors. CBT often emphasizes practical solutions for problems.
[checkmark emoji] Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is about accepting our thoughts and feelings, without trying to change them. This type of therapy focuses on helping people do what matters to them in life. Put another way, ACT helps us get out of our head and into our life.
[balanced scales emoji] Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) incorporates a dialectical worldview which means two opposite ideas can be true at the same time. DBT balances the acceptance of ourselves where we are, while ALSO changing what we want to change to build the life we want to be living.
[face emoji] Interpersonal Therapy draws connections between your mood and relationships to underlying interpersonal issues. These issues could be adjustment difficulties in social or professional roles, complicated grief, and problems relating to others.
[couch emoji] Psychoanalysis: Developed by Freud, this approach focuses on “changing problematic behaviors, feelings, and thoughts by discovering their unconscious meanings and motivations” (APA). In pop culture, this is the “couch therapy,” where a patient is lying on a couch and talking.
So today I found out that the US and UK each have their own version of what a cup measure is and NEITHER of them are the same as what anyone else uses oh my godddd
“In the late 80s and early 90s there was a vocal group of radical feminists who believed that pornography inherently harms women, not just in its production but also in its consumption…
These anti-pornography feminists teamed up with the religious right and managed to get anti-porn laws passed. In particular, a law was passed in Canada preventing the importation of “obscene” material”..
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Guess what was seized first? “The Joy of Gay Sex” and the like. Guess what businesses started finding all their shipments seized or delayed – sexually explicit or not – to the point where they were being put out of business? Gay bookstores. Guess what wasn’t seized at all? Mainstream porn made for straight men…..
Here’s the key point: Strossen is a legal scholar who’s looked at a lot of attempts at censorship, and you know what she found happened every time? When you try to censor pornography, even in the interests of protecting vulnerable people, that censorship will be applied first, and hardest, against the people who are most vulnerable.They won’t come for actual abusers, they’ll come for the abused, and prevent them from accessing resources, education, talking to each other, creating art to express themselves, or organising against those who are actually causing harm.
This is old, old business, we’ve seen it more than once before, and it never goes the way the antis think it will. Censorship is a tool that gives power to abusers and lets them inflict more harm on those who are abused, vulnerable and discriminated against. Don’t fall for it.
