1.) My boyfriend broke up with me on Friday, after barely a month together, and it seemed to come out of nowhere. My heart is a bit squashed around the edges, not least because this is the first relationship I've had after developing PTSD, and it took me four years to feel ready to try anything like...

I think it's very natural to be angry and to say something like that in the heat of the moment. I don't think the person who criticised you was being very empathic towards you. I had an adapted tricycle stolen from me when I lived in an inner-city area of Manchester (CCTV footage showed three men sm...

1.) I feel so worried about my cat. :( Since the kitten arrived she's seemed depressed. She gets on with him well enough (no signs of aggression other than the odd hiss when he tries to treat her tail as a chew toy) but she no longer comes trotting up to me as soon as she sees me, she doesn't purr ...

All the qualified psychologists on here have pointed out that an AP job is not necessary to get onto training. In fact, I think I remember Miriam saying that statistically the competition for AP roles (at least in the NHS) is higher than competition for doctorate places. I had a similar thought to e...

1.) I feel so worried about my cat. :( Since the kitten arrived she's seemed depressed. She gets on with him well enough (no signs of aggression other than the odd hiss when he tries to treat her tail as a chew toy) but she no longer comes trotting up to me as soon as she sees me, she doesn't purr a...

The main reason I'm worrying about accepting the job I've been offered is a friend of mine used to work in a similar role and has *strongly* advised me against it. She's said that you spend most of your time either fending off physical / verbal violence or you're just cleaning / cooking and not lea...

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Wed May 29, 2019 10:19 am

Am I allowed to just think he's an arrogant prick or do I need a more nuanced argument than that?

Yours is what we call a concise argument. Why expend two hundred words when you can say it in two?

1.) I have just distinguished myself by winning an egg-and-spoon race on horseback. This needs to go down on my CV as an example of multitasking and coproduction of knowledge. (The horse was an absolute champ who had some very good ideas for keeping the egg on board - he seemed to sense that we were...

Maybe I am missing something, but I am not aware of any counter examples who have had the same impact of Peterson. I agree that there are intelligent and articulate men and women who have made a case against his views, but they haven't got hold of the popular imagination or had the same resonance. ...

Instead of smearing his name, I would like to see him go head-to-head with someone with the same cool head, precision in their words and sniper-like debate style... a CP version of Sam Harris perhaps? Me too. I sometimes reflect on why this hasn't happened already as somone could probably build a g...

I'm sorry for misunderstanding you. When you said that you found his talks useful yourself, I extrapolated and assumed that the clients had discovered them through you. Not to discount anyone's subjective experience, but if ever anyone said that the only reason they decided not to end their life was...

1.) Work today was fantastic. I feel that I made breakthroughs with two students who both struggle with significant trauma-related anxiety (and challenging behaviour as a result of their anxiety). Once I would have hesitated to have such a frank discussion about the exact sources of that behaviour, ...

Do you think Peterson's videos are actually that original? All of the useful things he says are things that are well known among psychologists. They aren't his original ideas. The only difference between him and those other psychologists are that he is a YouTube personality - and he owes that public...

Oh, there is no danger of dogs or chickens. They would eat into the money I'm saving for the horse. :wink: I'm sure if we split the costs we could manage a horse share. Also, swashbuckle is an excellent name for a kitten! It suits him down to the ground. He looks like a little silvery tiger. I hope...

Oh, there is no danger of dogs or chickens. They would eat into the money I'm saving for the horse.