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I'm not the world's friendliest person, and I don't pretend to be. I don't want to be anybody's best internet buddy. I'd rather argue than have a boring conversation. I don't mind if people find my online persona arrogant. But there's no arrogance quite like the arrogance that is advising...

Riiiight. You don't care at about what people think. That must be why you've spent so much time and energy on Dissensus alone arguing the pros of a vegan diet. That must be why you took an offhand statement of fact I wrote and took it deeply personally--personally enough to plot a...

Oh but Mr. Tea, don't you get it--we're inflicting our dogma on them! Yes, dogma. The only field that exists that's founded on a necessity to be ready to change everything you've ever believed or held true at a moment's notice, and to know that any time you do have a hypothesis or theory, that...

it could be literally anything & you'd come into the thread, pick out one sentence of someone's post, miss the point entirely, add a dimension to what was expressed that could never logically be inferred from the words actually typed there, and then proceed to rant inexplicably about something...

In the U.S., CBT is primarily an adjunctive therapy, meaning it's never a "frontline" source--so you'd start with psychotherapy and then eventually supplement with CBT if your diagnosis fit the guidelines. I would be shocked if anyone told me they were "cured" through CBT alone, though.

My advice is: 1) You'll get out of therapy what you put into it. If you're just going to act bored and play games, you'll not get much out of it, and the therapist will stonewall. If you make a commitment to be emotionally honest and available (the hard part, much harder than it sounds) you'll...

And for all the people out there whose lives have been saved or greatly improved by psychiatric meds--all of the schizophrenics, the obsessive-compulsives, the borderline personality cases, the anorexics and bulimics, the compulsive eaters, the compulsive gamblers, the bipolars, the clinically...

Thanks for all of your insightful "criticisms" of the current state of pharmacological treatment modalities, Padraig. They've been truly enlightening. I've never thought of such a great argument against them--"the average American doesn't have much faith in psychology"...I'll have to pass that...

Massrock, nothing you're accusing me of here bears any resemblance to anything I've actually said. FOR THE LAST TIME: I NEVER SAID THAT VEGANISM IS BAD, OR THAT IT IS A DISORDER. I said that SOME shrinks categorize it that way. What in the hell is hard to understand about that? Are you some...

Agree with this. Eating foods that are very high in sodium and saturated fat replaces all cravings for healthy food you would normally have, because we're so hardwired to go for these foods (because originally they were very scarce in nature, so the point was, if you see it, run for it). As for...

Nobody did this. Wtf. It's like talking to two year olds. This is the most inane bunch of crap I've ever read in a single thread. Almost.

OK so I asked my friend (a vegan) whose dad (psychologist) originally told me that veganism is considered an eating disorder by some clinicians WHY this is the case. Here's why: it meets five of the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa. This puts it on the "borderline". So doctors who see...

RD Laing? Are you serious?

No, you didn't say it outright, but you implied that psychologists somehow billed outrageously high while other doctors did not. Well, that is very far from the case. In fact, $350/hr is on the lower end of standard billing these days--your average GP or pediatrician will bill anywhere from...

As opposed to the general practitioners, cardiologists, surgeons, and other doctors who charge a mere pittance? This sounds like an ignorant false dichtomy to me, kiddo. I'm sorry, but the passive-aggressive bullshit is not going to fly.

I always wonder what stoners will talk about when weed is finally legal. Nothing. They'll have nothing to talk about anymore.

That's funny, because this is the definition I found there: And you forgot this part from the alternate definition: And the "psychology" that's used in "warfare" is the same kind that used in the clinic. The clinical disciplines of psychology and psychiatry are legitimate, scientific...

See, like this. W.t.f.? Who repeated that? I never even said it once. I simply stated that veganism is associated with disordered eating by some psychologists, a claim that is controversial.

I'm sick of how you posit yourself in this ridiculous position as if you're beyond having a political situation of your own, and any mention of any group on anyone else's part is somehow a big bad meany generalization. (Btw, you've stolen that word "Other" straight out of psychoanalytically...

Which people are these who I've "clearly never met"? I grew up on the far end of the lower middle class, for a while my family was on welfare, Padraig, so come again? Please, tell me about who I've never met, please, tell me more. Please, tell me what segment of society I'm from, I'd love to...