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I’m someone who has had a drastic change in looks that wasn’t really finalized until senior year of high school. I had a severe overbite and wore braces 7th-8th grade and a retainer 24/7 until senior year. My self esteem looks-wise took its biggest hit all of 6th grade when my overbite was more pointed out by other peers for the first time and before I got braces. On top of this, my mother did not let me wear make up at all until senior year as well, which was very unusual for my peer group at least. I got my first boyfriend senior year as a result you could say…sparse attention from boys before then, at least compared to my friends at the time. Since then and until now, I get constant attention from just my looks alone if I go out anywhere. The first couple of years I did not know what to do with it at all, and the new attention was distracting but welcome for that first semester in college. I have definitely understood I am attractive in the typical objective sense now, and I even admire it in myself a bit vainly, but my GOD it took so long to embody that after all of my childhood and teenage years spent in constant turmoil over my appearance. There was no escaping it, especially because it was my face, and I just spent so much of my class time just being hyperaware of it and it would distract me from class or serious things I could focus on instead. It was pure anguish. Lots of times just spent in the mirror looking at myself and declaring myself ugly. It has been more than a decade since then, but I feel that familiar low self esteem sometimes if my mood is very shot down, not often at all thankfully anymore though. Yes, looks are important.

This song was on my Discover Weekly this week on Spotify. Came out last month. Lyrics in the bio, sweet and contemplative

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTgH43GkjZL/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Mamdani confronts border czar

https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/s/WaMwMF0zcV More direct video of the Santa Ana, CA incident. My back was injured in the 2020 protests by one cop who full force tackled me in Santa Ana, and 5 cops tackled and arrested my darker skinned acquaintance at the same time (his charges were dismissed of course). We were literally just kneeling 80 feet away from the police line. Especially dangerous city to protest in imo.

I was going to post the 21yo from Santa Ana too. I think this video is even more chilling and harrowing than the shooting imo, insanely enough. Couldn’t get the images out of my mind throughout the day with how inhumanly he was dragged away.

I think this means you’re just a bad driver

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-mamdani-become-texting-pals-215605605.html link w/o having to subscribe to read

Since I have been willfully ignored with all other previous points that I have made and instead have been responded with cute phrases and change of subjects…I’ll bite this new one. Bethpage is not NYC. Mamdani did not order ICE to detain him. Mamdani and other NYC council members have already called for his immediate release. An emergency habeas petition had been filed to keep the worker in New York. I imagine there won’t be any feedback with the information I presented, just like with the previous ones, so what’s the new change of subject now?

I’ve been lucky enough to work as a medical assistant/clinical coordinator for a psychiatrist for a little over a year now. It’s private practice, so just me, the psychiatrist, and the physician assistant. Along with seeing patients in the general sense, we also run TMS sessions and Spravato (esketamine) sessions with patients here. My main role is to run those sessions since I obviously have no part in the general patient therapy room. I still talk quite a bit with the TMS and Spravato patients as I run the session, though I know it’s not in my current professional role to actually deep dive hard and give them therapy etc… I keep it light and human. My main goal in getting hired here originally was to help with running the Spravato sessions, since eventually I want to become a psychedelic-assisted therapist one day (not a psychiatrist). As time went on and I got to know my boss more, I’ve really grown to have a brighter light on psychiatry, which I didn’t expect. My boss spends 30-60+ minutes with her general patients each session, focusing on psychodynamic therapy along with the medication management. There is quite a lot of deep diving with the person, and there tends to be a weeding out of new patient calls that want simple quick 5 minutes medication appointments (which plenty of other psychiatrists do anyway). My boss wants patients to really work for their progress, which is a refreshing perspective. Very level-headed, dignified, and confident person overall. It really is more about who the psychiatrist is as a person, not psychiatry itself I feel naive to say. Not sure if that really answers anything, but overall I still feel like there’s some tiny things missing here and there, but it’s much more respectable than I imagined. Work on yourself more than anything tbh and make sure you yourself are in check, that’s what patients really need.

@Elliott 5D chess feels more like not acknowledging he isn’t mayor until January 1st, and that there was no follow up with how the NYPD is above the mayor etc.

https://bsky.app/profile/zohrankmamdani.bsky.social/post/3m7fynvtkgs2t

He isn’t mayor until January 1st… and I would argue doing all of that is green and what he is doing is actually yellow by meeting with Trump.

You do realize he is not actually the mayor until January 1st, right?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRV60QRiCio/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== 🫢

Mamdani appointed Lina Khan, like guyysss just hear him out a little🥺🤏