bcarlyle

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by bcarlyle 9y ago
I agree completely. It seems that the ability to think about thinking and having an outside view of yourself is the big difference between sanity and insanity. The sane man knows himself to be a fool while the insane man believes himself to
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by bcarlyle 10y ago
I've recently spent some time within the burner community where polyamory seems to be common. Some people seem to be having wonderful polyamorous relationships while other seems to suffer in terrible relationships where they insists on
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by bcarlyle 10y ago
The idea of a divide between mind and body is strange. It seems like our consciousness is constructed in such a way that it's very easy for people to forget that we actually have a body connected to our head. Another interesting idea w
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by bcarlyle 11y ago
I'm a clinical psychologist who was in charge of the largest randomized controlled trial of online cognitive behavioral therapy for depression (n=500). There is nothing that annoys me more then the every person is a special snowflake a
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by bcarlyle 11y ago
People like building their own solutions because it is way more fun then just installing Wordpress and adding some plugins. But sometimes Wordpress is more effective. I've learned a lot about programming from a friend I worked on a sta
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by bcarlyle 11y ago
As a psychologist I get what the article is aiming at. But psychology is a science and clinical psychology has made remarkable progress in the way we treat mental health problems. In the last 50 years clinical psychologists have figured out
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by bcarlyle 11y ago
I'm a researcher on online cognitive behavioral therapy. I spend a lot of time answering questions from patients through instant messages. Most questions are similar in nature. My first thought was, can we make this for humans?
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by bcarlyle 11y ago
Clinical psychologist here. The doctors I work with prescribe cognitive behavioral therapy as the first hand treatment for depression and antidepressant when therapy is ineffective (which isn't all that common). One of the reasons that
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by bcarlyle 11y ago
I'm a clinical psychologists who work with ADHD patients and others who procrastinate. Many believe their self-worth is tied to personal accomplishments. This trips you up because procrastination creates a negative feedback loop where