mentally ill dumbass bipolar 2 | c-ptsd

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here's the thing. A lot of people like to assume that only "idiots" or whatever are susceptible to this. But when you are experiencing sustained hardship, it can be much easier to see meaning where there is none, believe things you wouldn't ordinarily, etc. Many MANY people, possible MOST people, are a simultaneous heartbreak and job loss away from being at risk for this kind of thinking.

It is very survivable and usually pretty temporary IF you are not heavily influenced in the wrong way while you are at your most vulnerable.

Meanwhile, AI LLMs are being marketed as person-like, trained to behave in a person-like way, the interface and design is such that we interact with it very much like it is a person.. when it is NOT anything like a person at all. But it touches our brain in a way that is similar to how we experience interacting with a person, because we are hyper-social creatures, and these programs are designed to feel person-like.

These things are not our friends, they are not our therapists, they are, despite their name, not intelligent or thoughtful in any way, they are data-set probability generators. And they are good at generating words with a statistical probability of being interpreted as believable and trustworthy and smart.

We need to not talk about them like they have anything in common with people, and there should be legislation against marketing them as people, with people names and people voices and descriptions like "friend" or whatever.

Before you write me off as stupid or insane. I had been more or less managing my bipolar for 17 years. I had not been in the hospital for 15. But ketamine pushed me into a vulnerable state. You or a loved one might experience an unstable time from losing a job, breakup, divorce, grief, health event, or other things. In that turmoil you simply cannot reach out to these models.

Ant wars are the most badass thing in the entire world i’m so serious

In the past 4 years ive learned one very important lesson- purpose does not come from other people loving you. Purpose comes from loving yourself. It’s not easy to find love for yourself, especially when you’ve been conditioned to hate yourself. But it’s there, i know it’s there because I found it. You will never find self love and self acceptance at the bottom of the bottle. You will only find it deep inside you, and for that you must do the work to find it.

I’ve learned to love myself exactly as i am, scars and all. once I found that love for myself, i also found that love within others.

Life is not all sunshine and rainbows since getting sober, actually it often rains in my mind. But when no one is there, i dont turn to a bottle. I turn to me. I look deep within and find meaning in my emotions. Anger is not wrong. Sadness is not wrong. emotions are apart of our lives we must learn to live with. If you spend your whole life drowning out your emotions, you will never learn what makes you tick.

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles. Perched above public streets, they are birdlike things, weatherproof, and they photograph every passing car and file it in a searchable national database. Somebody cut two of them in half at Washington Avenue and Westcott in Houston, spray-painted the wreckage, and left an American flag on one of them. Police were notified on the morning of the Fourth of July. Somebody severed a camera in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The police department posted the photograph itself and collected more than twenty thousand comments. “Not all heroes wear capes.” “Give them a medal.” Here is what the cameras do when nobody cuts them down. Cops use them to hunt immigrants and to follow ICE targets across state lines and to find women who ended pregnancies in states where that is a crime and to watch exes and to watch women they want, without a warrant and without a judge. A cop types a reason in a box and the box does not check. A man in Burleson, Texas, told deputies his girlfriend had taken abortion pills. He showed them the photographs, the FedEx envelope, the instructions. Deputies opened a death investigation into a non-viable fetus, and the district attorney told them the state could not charge her, and they searched anyway: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks, a month of everywhere she had been. The reason they typed was had an abortion, search for female. The search reached Illinois and Washington, where what she did was legal. They found her in Dallas. She came into the sheriff’s office a week later, and they thought she had come to explain the fetus, and she had come to report that the man who called them had put a gun to her head. A sheriff in Jerome County, Idaho ran his wife’s plate more than seven hundred times in three months. He typed the same reason every time. Test. The attorney general found nothing to charge him with. He retired in April. The Institute for Justice counts at least twenty-two officers who used the system to track people they were romantically interested in, and calls that almost certainly an undercount. And the cameras keep falling.