"Depression can be the brain’s evolved signal that something in a person’s life needs to change."— Justin Garson

The therapisation of education is priming children for a life of constant introspection. The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the over-examined life can be a torturous one which fosters procrastination over meaningful change, acceptance, mastery and achievement.

Have many concerns about the rationale for this, the quality of evidence supporting it, and its delivery, but there is also an irony in having divisive CRT-infused antiracism training potentially running alongside empathy training in schools. tes.com/magazine/news/…

"This correlation between spirituality without religiosity ought to give us pause.... For example, one more recent study (Vittengl, 2018) finds that people who are more spiritual than they are religious are at greater risk for the development of depressive disorders."

*cries while booking a train to Newport

"depriving male rats of the kind of rough play they want leads to adult male rats who never learned how to manage their aggressive impulses. They actually end up more rather than less aggressive. They fail to cooperate...they fail to find mates." ted.com/talks/carole_k…

"A paediatric staff nurse withdrew her autistic daughter from class after she received inappropriate photos of a man in bed with a child and messages on self-harming from her school LGBT club members."

The "Thomas the Tank Engine" books started out as light-hearted fun but by the end were tackling themes of free will, existential anxiety and identity over time.

Every trans person 🏳️‍⚧️ deserves to know *why* they have gender dysphoria, before a single doctor gives them a patch, a pill, a shot or comes near them with a scalpel. Doctors are misinforming 🏳️‍⚧️patients about the nature of their condition. This makes informed consent, impossible.

In England, the news that child safeguarding & wellbeing appears a priority (based on recommendations by the #CassReview), has been meet with huge relief by educators and parents. Will Lynne Neagle be directing Welsh Government Education to follow suit? Eluned Morgan Eluned Morgan

The success of OnlyFans is proof men want more than sex If all they cared about were nudity, they'd just use the million free p*rn sites online The reason OF is so popular is because it feels like a "digital girlfriend" who can message you and create a parasocial relationship

Recently watched 'Without Limits' and am now obsessed with Bill Bowerman and Steve Prefontaine. This quote alone has revived my love of running for all its absurdity.

"People tend to react negatively to research showing men outperforming women, and this appears to be driven by concerns of harm to women. The tendency persists across genders and is influenced by the sex of the researcher." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/why-people-r…

Antidepressants 'saving lives' again: "Number of US deaths involving antidepressants in a year on par with those involving heroin." #SSRIs theguardian.com/science/articl…

NOW can we have a sensible conversation about why the real-world application of Queer Theory necessarily means the dismantling of child safeguarding and inevitably enables p**d*p**les?

Renaming everything bad as 'violence' simply diminishes the seriousness of actual violence. Women will suffer most if we allow this corruption of language.... "There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language"—George Orwell

"The ‘gender divergence’ narrative, proposed by Lecturer in International Development Dr Alice Evans, suggests that although young women have moved to the left politically, young men have moved to the right."— Dr John Barry