
What Bipolar is Not
...and what all the jokes are really costing Are you tired of people throwing the word Bipolar around incorrectly? It’s been too much of a buzzword for quite some time now, and has escalated from mildly annoying to downright damaging. It is reinforcing the already present stigma of mental illness, therefore creating further barriers for people needing treatment. The latest mildly annoying example for me was last week in a hair salon. A worker actually referred to the fauce

Porn & Privacy in Relationships
…is it ok? We are quick to pathologize porn usage both in single status and more so in relationships. Hyper-sexuality and Sexual Addiction are quickly becoming concerning labels. While not completely innocuous (which we will look at later), might porn provide the very platform many people need to preserve the last little part of themselves that has become shared and conventional? IT'S REALLY A THING 35% of all website traffic is to porn sites. This is more than Amazon, Netfli