I also love that book so you’re not special. Take that.

The part of the US I’m in its associated with sketchy dudes cheating on their girlfriends. Or maybe that’s just my social circle.

oooh that’s a thought. I thought it was gonna be more like what their poop / excretions smell like because maybe some of them smell like those things they don’t like but now I’m wondering if it’s the other way around?

The good bit from the article (not that the methodology isn’t interesting):

What mosquitoes did – and didn’t – like

Each species showed clear preferences when it came to the odors and skin bacteria.

Aedes aegypti showed a slight preference for men over women, while the other two mosquito species did not discriminate on the basis of sex. The reasons for this are not clear, and the differences in odors and skin microbes between men and women were too great for us to tease out any individual factors driving mosquito attraction.

Aedes aegypti preferred people that had less of certain odors like cyclic alcohols, which are ingredients in some fragrances and cosmetic products. But they were attracted to people on whom Staphylococcus bacteria was more abundant. Meanwhile, lower attraction was associated with certain Pseudomonas bacteria.

Aedes albopictus was a little less picky, preferring people with plenty of odors. They particularly sought out people with high amounts of organic compounds called ketones. One of their favorite ketones was mesityl oxide, which has a sweet, honeylike odor. These mosquitoes also preferred people with more skin microbes, particularly when bacteria like Streptococcus intermedius and Anaercoccus octavius were in higher abundance.

But they also avoided certain bacteria, like the Mogibacterium genus. We suspect that these bacteria may produce odors that these mosquitoes don’t like.

Much like Aedes aegypti, Culex quinquefasciatus picked participants that had fewer odors overall. They were attracted to monoterpenes like alpha-pinene, which are organic compounds often found in essential oils.

Interestingly, there were no bacteria that were associated with high attraction for Culex quinquefasciatus, but there was a high abundance of the bacteria genus Actinomyces on the participants that were low attraction to these mosquitoes.

The results weren’t all differences: Some odors and bacteria were attractive across all three species. For example, all three were attracted to participants with the odor chemical ethyl 2-methylbutanoate, a fruity scent often found in fragrances. And all three species were less attracted to participants with lots of the odor 1-penten-3-ol, a chemical typically used in fresh- or crisp-scented products.

We also found that some skin bacteria were attractive across all three species. For example, people with more Corynebacterium kefirresidentii living on their skin were highly attractive to all the mosquitoes.

My family did this after hamstringing my ability to interact with the outside world by raising me fundie and teaching me ideologies that were incompatible with the outside world and that men would just like randomly attack me. Eventually I got a job with criminally insane men which bizarrely really leveled up my social skills then they put me through nursing school and now that I’m financially independent I don’t speak to them. Consequently my recommendation is to do a horribly unpleasant job for a few years, get through a trade school if you can, and once you’re financially independent cut contact. Best of luck!

Interestingly I have a fair amount of patients who cry more as they’re coming out of their depression than when they were in the thick of it.

Yeah this one’s vintage. There’s a reason it still comes around. They don’t make 'em like they used to.

If you do seek emergency mental health help, don’t use an emergency department as your FIRST choice. Try crisis stabilization or other emergency mental health service first, ED second if you can’t find one or they won’t take you. If you can find a psych-specific ED that’s also a good option but the keyword there is psych specific. Try to avoid a general ED if you can. Some good search terms (for anglophones anyway) are:

• crisis stabilization
• crisis services
• mental health
• behavioral health
• psych / psychiatric
• crisis hotline

You might also pair those search terms with emergency / unit.

A non-psych ED is limited in what services they can offer you. ED staff are not good at much more than rapid stabilization and often have poor psych-specific training. The main psych skill they’re trained / equipped for is rapidly medicating, which could be necessary, but might also be an overreaction in your case. It may also take a while to do a bed search for an appropriate psych bed and an ED is a very overstimulating environment for a person who is manic. If you wind up needing that it is what it is, but you’ll probably get better care if you try to find a psych specific emergency service in your community if at all possible.

Also try to make and take a Safety Plan with you. It will help them make sure you don’t wind up at a more intensive / intrusive level of care than you really need to be at.

I was gonna say, if your other options are poverty / prison, this isn’t actually a bad deal practically speaking. Not gonna get into the ethics of military service other than to say blaming individuals for trying to escape poverty isn’t the answer. When I teach about chronic institutionalization in a psychiatric context, the military is one of the susceptible demographics alongside prison and long term hospitalization.

This is the diagram I use to educate new psych workers:

Even had a patient ask why she spent a whole day crying a few weeks after starting ECT when she’d thought she was doing better. I was like girl ☝️, you ain’t just gettin’ the fun shit back and she was like ooooooh.

Get as much support out of them as you can stomach. Try to at least graduate a trade school if you can (some trades will let you get started in high school and be halfway done or even graduate with your qualifications). Say and do whatever you have to (within reason) to use your shitty family to get to a point where you can reliably pay your own rent and other bills needed for daily life. Then move to a new address and change your number and don’t tell them the new ones. Un-add and block them on all social media, email, etc. Pick somebody you actually like and trust to make your emergency healthcare decision maker and beneficiary on any life insurance policies or bank accounts (just don’t pick a romantic partner, you’re too young to know who is and isn’t an idiot in that context). Then go to therapy and stop talking to people that are mean to you.

Ty! This the the longer answer I was really looking for. I figured it was probably a scale problem but it’s nice to have that confirmed.

just randomly on the topic of Kessler syndrome. could we make a big sticky thing to just throw into orbit and like. Stick to everything. like a space lint roller or one of those slimes people use to clean car vents. Just turn it all back into one big garbage ball somehow. OR accelerate the process of forming rings somehow.

Peeping Tom is a character from the legend of Lady Godiva (real Lady, probably made up story). Basically Lord Godiva was an asshole / tyrant and Lady Godiva begged him to have mercy on her subjects.

He was all “well if you like them all so damn much go ride a horse naked across the whole land so they can all see yo hoeass”

and she was like “OK then you’ll stop being an asshole? Bet.”

and he was all like “do it then bitch.”

So she fuckin’ did and all the subjects averted their eyes and/or stayed indoors except some weirdo named Thomas who was subsequently struck blind or dead by some angels or some shit.

The euphemism treadmill is particularly annoying in psychiatry. People keep using useful diagnostic labels as mean names for people they don’t like then in an attempt to be respectful of the people we serve we use a different diagnostic label but then everybody has to learn and start using the new diagnostic label and by the time it reaches saturation it’s already an insult again.

Functional, but we’re going to have to turn one of these unhatched eggs into a new set of genitals eventually.

That anyone is out there sex trafficking random middle class children and young adults when it’s so much easier to just buy a toddler from a tweaker.

started writing tentacle porn again

Legit though I needed the creative outlet it turned out.

Also most serial killers don’t want to talk to the police. They just wanna be left alone to torture and murder people nobody will care to look for like teenage runaways working as truck stop prostitutes. The bonus is that if you’re a long haul trucker that frequently crosses state lines, there’s a low likelihood that the couple of police departments who even bother to try solving those crimes will ever actually talk to each other enough to compare evidence (this is an actual theory of something that might be happening).

Surprised they don’t do the consonant Hepatitises too. Maybe they do now if you’ve been out for a bit.