This collection of articles on Pocket might be a place to look for something else to do. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-destress-from-the-news Let’s face it, we’ve spent months dealing with bad news, uncertainty, and well, just kind of life being a mess in so many ways. Far too many people are feeling stuck in anxiety and depression, with no…
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This is the reality, and why the lies are not harmless.
“In reality, child trafficking in the U.S. doesn’t look like a bunch of Hollywood and D.C. elites performing satanic rituals on children they stole from suburban playgrounds. Instead, kids who are sexually exploited are often poor, children of color, immigrants, or some combination of the three, and they’ve often been in the child welfare system or run away from home. In 2018, 1 in 7 kids who were reported as runaways to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely victims of child sex trafficking, according to UNICEF.
I’m glad so many people are open to having a robot therapist, because as we have discussed many times, we don’t have nearly enough therapists to treat everyone who needs it, and you can’t just create more trained therapists very quickly. With good enough artificial intelligence programming, we CAN spin up more trained chat robots to meet the need. Is the programming good enough today? I don’t know. I’m guessing there is still some work to do, but at what point is it better than what we have now for so many people, which is nothing?
Not everyone is going to mope around and talk about feeling sad. Some people, maybe even people in your own life, are going to just be kind of irritable, maybe even mean.
You might ordinarily call this sort of behavior “acting out”, but it could be so much more than that.
Could it be that those “mates” of yours who seem tired, or drink a bit too much, or complain about other external symptoms, are actually dealing with depression?
It’s worth thinking about, that much I am sure about.
