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by bigfont 3y ago
I agree it isn't straightforward. Some things can lead to benefits, without themselves being beneficial. In psychology, diagnosis is sometimes like that. It can lead to treatment, accommodation, and funding, but the diagnosis on its ow
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by bigfont 3y ago
By saying why bother, I meant to discourage diagnosis, while acknowledging its benefits and costs.
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by bigfont 3y ago
I agree that knowing about something, and accepting it, is better than the alternative. Does that mean we need to diagnose it as a disorder? For instance, I have an introverted personality, and I accept that, even though I didn't recei
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by bigfont 3y ago
It sounds like the diagnosis marked a point of positive transformation. Before the diagnosis, your daughter attributed her math challenges to global stupidity and laziness. After the diagnosis, she attributed it to a specific difficulty wit
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by bigfont 3y ago
Why bother? Given the breadth of diagnostic classes these days, there's a good chance you can find a practitioner[0] willing to make a diagnosis. That said, aside from getting funding for treatment or acceptance of accommodations, rece
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by bigfont 3y ago
Your suggestion of housing density with retail and shops fits the description of my current neighborhood. I love it so much that I changed careers to find ways to support more of this kind of community.
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by bigfont 3y ago
Thanks for the thorough analysis. In British Columbia, and specifically where I live, much of our electricity comes from hydro electric, we have suitable pathways-with-boulevards for walking, and the streets have segregated or low traffic b
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by bigfont 3y ago
Nice initiative. Particularly for civilians doing daily activities, biking and walking seem like the best forms of transportation. They enhance personal happiness, increase community connections, make streets safer, and promote beautiful su
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by bigfont 3y ago
Good. If we want cleaner air and quieter cities, we have several alternatives to gasoline cars. I imagine a graph of CO₂ production goes a bit like this: Walk - Bike - Train ------ Electric Car ------------
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by bigfont 3y ago
Unlike those in public high school, students who aren't serious about medical school won't have earned the entrance grades. So at least in first year, most students will have a serious attitude. Are you suggesting that someone wil
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by bigfont 3y ago
One way to have skin in the game is to pay a considerable sum of money to join medical school. This reminds me of the Commitment and Consistency chapter in Cialdini's book Influence. In part it says we stick with things more after we e
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by bigfont 3y ago
I like this because it encourages affluent people to adopt electric vehicles. If we want to live in cities with clean air, quiet streets, and fewer gasoline stations, then it makes sense to encourage electric vehicle adoption. Many people l
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Justice vs. Change: Helping Clients Find Their Power(newharbinger.com)
1 points by bigfont 3y ago|1 comments
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by bigfont 3y ago
I find this useful on myself and with others. It gives an approach when someone (or my own mind) says, "None of this is my fault, so I shouldn't have to change." From the article: > In effect, our client is operating from
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by bigfont 3y ago
That doesn't sound fair to me either. The subset of people who have benefitted from polluting won't have to foot the clean-up bill. So those who want lush, temperate, and healthy surroundings may have to take charge, even though i
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by bigfont 3y ago
I feel convinced to participate in climate change in my work. I don't know whether we can reverse it or whether tech will solve it, but I do believe in its importance, and I want to understand it. I have incorporated all of this change
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by bigfont 3y ago
Thanks for the comment. It looks like we mostly agree. > The purpose of the "disorder" is to group common pathologies and their respective treatments (methods to improve). So nice to see this expressed. Classification helps whe
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by bigfont 3y ago
The video argues that yes, greater awareness has happened, and also, we have widened our pathological categories to include normal functioning. First we invented autism (etc), then we widened the definition(s). Widening the disorder criteri
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Psychopathology Ate Personality: The Thickening DSM and Erosion of Normality [video](youtube.com)
2 points by bigfont 3y ago|5 comments
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by bigfont 3y ago
From the video description: > Once upon a time there was a field called Personality Psychology, which concerned itself with normal-range individual differences between people, as distinct from dysfunction-inducing extremes classified as
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Psychosocial factors that impact psychological health and safety(guardingmindsatwork.ca)
2 points by bigfont 5y ago|0 comments
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by bigfont 7y ago
These are the books and resources that have been of the most use to me: # Assertiveness: Alberti, R. E., & Emmons, M. (1995). Your Perfect Right. San Luis Obispo, California: Impact Publishers. Paterson, R. J. (2000). The assertiveness