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[–] [email protected] 69 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I honestly want to know what world people live in where they like getting sick?

Aside from catching covid once (and that was from trusting a friend who I probably shouldn't have), I haven't had so much as a headcold since 2020 when I started masking

Why is everyone so fucking set on being a disgusting little plague rat?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)
  • wash your hands
  • have 40% of your population die

mayos in 1340 AD: thonk

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

mayos in 2020 CE: thonk

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I mean mayos can't even wash their ass so not spreading disease is beyond their capabilities

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm white and I wash my ass thoroughly nearly every day. Do a lot of white people not do this?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it's about bidets not being common in the west

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I actually have installed a bidet on my toilets.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You will be spared in the revolution o7

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I have been summoned! I am here to quash all the butt wiping liberals out of Hexbear. Send me your questions!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Apologies, I didn't know I would...or could summon you. My butt is nice and clean thank you for what you do 🙏

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I've always been too afraid to ask questions about them. How do you get the water to line up if you can't see anything? Also how do you dry?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I use the handheld one (see profile pic). Although if you have the fancy Japanese ones, you can pull your butt cheeks apart and adjust your hole position to line up to the water. With practice, you can position your poop hole with your hand so that it lines up with the water without thinking. It's weird at first, but becomes second nature very quickly. Just keep at it.

I was exaggerating about only liberals wipe. You can use a bit of toilet paper to dry the water. You could just sit there for two minutes to air dry, this happens when you're out of tp and it's fine, but most people don't do it regularly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've known and seen plenty of people online who think "skidmarks" are common and something you can't do anything about. I don't have a bidet so I just shower after I shit because toilet paper is never enough

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Nothing feels like getting in the shower to clean your asshole thoroughly

[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thinking your therapist is a fucking idiot on top of wanting to actively sabotage you isn't great for the therapeutic relationship. I'd have walked out right then.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know who any of the people involved in this screenshot are, but is this twitter post not just a joke? Like the therapist wants her to take her mask off as in be her true self, and she misinterpreted the therapist as saying to literally take off her covid mask?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Her therapist might be Dr. Katz if this is true.

But the second half of the post is too serious for me to think this is a joke. It'd be a joke if she started with mentioning wearing a mask due to COVID and the final punchline is the therapist asking to take off her mask.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The amount of therapists I have had to endure with unhinged takes. Complete clown profession.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My BILs therapist spent a full hour trying to convince him infidelity is OK, and if you do infidelity you shouldn't tell your partner.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

You see his rigid morality was causing him mental anguish, and confessing crimes is also kind of selfish don't you think?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Of all the therapists I've seen in my life, only one was remotely helpful and that's because they barely ever said anything.

I hate to tell people not to seek therapy, but I've started to warn people to be really vigilant in finding one.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

My last therapist was a massive lib, but at least he let me be me, vegan, leftist, covid conscious and all.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

my life is never getting better dawg

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

Look at my countrymen dawg

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My last therapist tried to get me to organize various negative and positive thoughts I have throughout the day. Which was fine but she was a little insistent we make 4 categories and name them Harry Potter houses. She also once said "My job is to make you a better employee."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wow that's terrible. My head would literally explode if mine said either of those things. My therapist and i have actually talked about the fact that me being psychologically more integrated and healthy actively makes it more duffucult for me to be employed, because we live in a sick system

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This is my issue with therapy - ultimately I'm actually very okay with the things that are "wrong" with me. They're only "wrong" because they make it significantly more difficult for me to be an exploitable source of labor. If I wasn't constantly being pressured into being more willing to accept my own exploitation, then I would be drastically more relaxed. The best they're gonna do is give me better coping strategies, which like... I guess that's cool? shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Once I told her I have a problem getting to work on time, and that's because I often practice quitting in the mirror before I lose my nerve and just go to work. I do this ritual because I can't stand my job and want to be free of it

Her advice was that I should make a weekly schedule on paper to wake up earlier, so I can more effectively get to work. Completely missing the main issue

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

What the fuck...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Really sorry for everyone who's had bad experiences with therapists. There's a lot of bad one's out there. I got extremely lucky and found a good one, and as a result its been really helpful for me. I even got her into Marxism lol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I rant at my therapist about liberals all the time and can never tell if I'm offending them lmao

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

therapists are fuckin wilding out, the cert process is not rigorous at all. go to psychiatrists, people

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've also had terrible psychiatrists.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yea ive just had it better in general with them. at least they can prescribe stuff, i have a low opinion of ptsd coping info from therapists. in general i feel like its a waste of money, you can just google it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's what I've found, unfortunately. I actually bought s $30 tape recorder recently and just started recording therapy sessions with myself. It's been way more helpful and saves me $150 by the hour.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

There's bad therapists, but good ones too. Psychiatrists give you meds, not talk therapy. Those are two completely different things

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

There are definitely some people who get their licensure and then become a "therapist". But if you do your homework and make sure that the person is trained and certified in certain therapy modalities that are clinically proven to help you, and then make sure that person is on-the-level culturally (practices trauma-informed care, non-heteronormative inclusive, culturally competent) you are much more likely to have a good experience.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

It’s ironic how they call literally everything soulless when their edgy contrarianism is completely devoid of substance and sincerity. It must suck being that empty inside. Leftist one day, right wing the next because a trans zoomer on tik tok did something cringe.