Cat didn’t seem to mind camouflaging into the kids chalk artwork. She did mind though me having to clean her afterwards.

“If the human brain (mind) was simple enough for us to understand it, we would be too dumb to understand it”. I don’t know who said it but my point is that I cannot imagine any health care pathology to be so simply one dimensional that it’ll fit on a continuum.

Perhaps it helps to understand that a spectrum can be comprised of a cluster of continua: a possibility space of which any subset can be observed. Like each colour in the light spectrum. The continuum notion in that case can refer to its brightness. Same in the case of emotions. We don’t just experience one emotion at any given time although there’s a prominent one and others might be subdued. How we cluster certain aspects, such as traits in mental health as well as the threshold to diagnose anyone is of course arbitrary. Severities in presentations are perhaps seen as a continuum, but the underlying structure that aids in defining it, is a spectrum.

I feel like people confuse the term spectrum with the term continuum. Fading from black to white through gray is a continuum. Rainbow colours are a spectrum. In mental health, most conditions have no aetiology - or it is not considered, and the condition is described or defined by signs and symptoms, and not something like a bloodtest. The weight of each of these signs and symptoms is what makes up the spectrum. When someone is on the spectrum of whatever condition, it means the sum of those weights exceed a value that causes some detriment to the individuals quality of life. Maybe I’m spliting hairs but I thought to share my understanding.

What break with Moskow? Arms deal means metal can be purchased by European countries for the war in Ukraine. The sanctions are threatened - not implemented. I cannot see how Putin could have it better without sitting in the white house himself.

There’s a lot of overlap in experiences of folks with different mental conditions. Whilst the root cause is different with a neurodiverse brain or mood disorders or personality disorders they might lead to similar experiences. The question becomes how much is it impacing someone’s life or how well can those behaviours stemming from these experiences be integrated. There’s also the fact that self-awareness might be picking up on those experiences better in one group compared to others.

Of all the things wrong with this, what sticks out to me how he seemed to be offended when you put down your boundaries. I feel sorry for your sister and i would share this with her. If he behaves like this with his own family, it doesn’t bode well outside of it. Yeah, perhaps replying wasn’t the best idea but i cannot put myself in your position vis-a-vis your state of mind at the time but it doesn’t take away the lack of appropriateness of his comments.

It relates to stuk, which means broken in this context. It can also mean a piece. You could read it as (broken) into pieces.

I’d have some ideas but I wouldn’t spoil other attempts. Also I just quickly typed it out, spelling and grammar be damned.

Gustavo was stuck and he tried to push past his anxiety arising from the lack of direction on what actions to take. Realising the incompatible between his competance and the challenge before him would make him chuckle, were it not for being in such danger. As he focused he became aware of a buzzing sensation. He and the beast locked eye contact. The buzz became overwhelming, electrifying, and he only could give in to it. He sensed some pattern emerging, as if his ears would pick out a sound, not unlike seeing ships or elephants in clouds. As if he was spoken to from within a dream he was sure he could hear the monster say “help us help us help us” to him. Not saying, but screaming. Each iteration more clear and more panic inducing. Abruptly the buzzing stopped and the troll turned around, running down the hall away from him.

What happens if you replace the last break in main() with exit()?

What other posters said, respond with the blinking. My son calls them eye kisses. It shows trust. In case you’re unfamiliar: you look at her and slowly close your eyes for a second. She might mirror it. Facing a fierce predator such as the one you pictured and confronting it willingly blinded, even for a second, takes courage. She’ll honour it most likely. Also food and clean water, preferably placed in separate locations.

I like learning languages so with that in mind: German, Dutch, French, Swedish, Estonian, Russian, Afrikaans, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Irish and Latin. I don’t speak all of them thought.

Childhood trauma affect people in lots of different ways. Some learn to retreat inward, preferring to live in their own mind over learning to emotionally connect with others. This could look like autism on surface level, however autism doesn’t result from trauma and is accompanied with an array of other signs and behaviours. If you’re still seeing a psychologist, try to work towards opening up your early experiences, especially how you remember your attempts to cope with the world. This is not easy of course but it could help to see yourself as an object of curiosity. Also keep in mind that it is hard to find a therapist who feels right to connect and open up to, even for the average person, so this might be more challenging for you. I hope this helps a bit.

There’s a lot to unpack there, and I don’t want to appear qualified to help you over this medium. In therapy you could get to the bottom of this, but it takes a lot of work and time. Please have a look into Dialectical behavior therapy, as this seems applicable for the picture you painted about your experience.

Have you thought about why you do this? What prompts you to seek help? If you want to cease this behaviour, do you know why? Is it because it doesn’t feel right, as in it’s not “you”, or is it because of the consequences? What worries you, should you live more authentic and truthful, about your social interactions and relationships? Envisioning that folks in most cases react very well if one takes their mendacious mask of, how do you feel about that? Change is hard and those are some questions I just came up with that should prompt you to contemplate in order to understand the root of these behaviours. No need to answer them here.

Don’t remember the movie or show but on aired in Korea I saw they would blur out parts such as cigarettes as well as arm pits (male actor) and a chef’s knife (prop was being held with the actors intention to defend herself).

One day he was going on about Kiki, how she does things in a certain way and I kept him going by say how interesting it was. He then turned to me and asked “You know that Kiki isn’t real, right, I made her up?”. He doesn’t like lying or being lied to, so within that frame I guess he wanted me to confirm that it was just play.

Our child has one. Her name is Kiki and she lives on a farm where she drives her tractors in a village called Plamplams. She speaks also an imaginary language. It seems like she represents experience he lives through vicariously expressing some image he has on how he fits in this world. We as his parents have always encouraged him; it is wonderful how he develops such creative images.