Alina V
@AlinaV_Psy
Mainly posting about movement, health, outdoors. In search of the middle path, the grey area in between extremes. Psychiatrist & medical psychotherapist
I’m pleased to see that @grok takes such a balanced view.
Yes, critical comments from the antiD brigade can harm patients by fueling stigma and misinformation, deterring treatment-seeking. In developing/underdeveloped countries, where >75% of depression cases go untreated (per WHO), this exacerbates risks like suicide and dysfunction,…
And the reverse of this, our teenage child tells me that young people from her generation are looking up friends’ parents' Facebook accounts to find embarrassing pics of their friends from when they were younger to tease them
Have in mind that whatever you say and do can be shared by your child with everyone they meet
Have in mind that whatever you say and do can be shared by your child with everyone they meet
Experimented with swimming and noticing hunger levels I get hungrier than usual if I swim fasted; much better (like usual hunger) if I have a small meal an hour before
Swimming is excellent! Makes you hell hungry though!
2 weeks after I started my holiday, I finished all the leftover work tasks and admin That's why I need (relatively) long breaks. This week I won’t do any work. Maybe I’ll have the chance to edit my blog - some automatic update messed up the fonts and line spacing and it’s…
How to carry a load of pretzels skillfully PS: I wouldn't recommend crossing the road in the middle of traffic though, unless in Turkey, of course
Had a conversation with someone that I post a mish-mash of things mixing personal with professional and random stuff and should choose one. I'm not sure. I may need different accounts to post different things to avoid confusing people. What do you think? Not trying to sell…
Very clearly explained
🧵 Humans are BAD at Probabilistic thinking - Risk Analysis of SSRIs in Pregnancy 🚨1/12 The recent FDA panel on SSRIs highlighted that clinicians often struggle with probabilistic thinking. For most of human history, binary thinking kept us alive: safe or dangerous? But in…
We’ve never been to a restaurant that had valet parking 😜 Maybe because they know how chaotic driving is in Turkey, so they want to make sure you park safely to eat there 😂 A really impressive place, nice setup, great food and surprisingly not expensive (compared to England and…
The carnivores would love this place You can select the meat you want cooked from the display fridge, and then they cook it for you @ Karakabey restaurant in Ölüdeniz, Turkey
The carnivores would love this place You can select the meat you want cooked from the display fridge, and then they cook it for you @ Karakabey restaurant in Ölüdeniz, Turkey
This may upset some people, but I have had people unhappy for NOT receiving a diagnosis, but very rarely after receiving a diagnosis (mostly when patients were psychotic with a lack of insight)
MAHA is the political equivalent of a diet fad Will be ineffectual and soon forgotten
I can last a few seconds maximum minutes in the heat without shade or the sea or pool. Even at the gym, it's 30C with AC on (maybe not the most efficient?) But then we drove past a hotel where people were having lunch without shade 😳 From tomorrow it's expected to be “cooler”…
Other observations about Turkey: -there seem to be no traffic rules; everything goes. Some roads don’t even have the centerline marked. You can’t rely on pedestrian crossings, as cars don’t stop. -parking is equally chaotic. There is no parking available in busy areas, so cars…
What I noticed in Turkey apart from the heat and Viagra at the airport pharmacy, is that there are flags everywhere. They must be very proud of their country. Or they just like the flag 😜
This will become the new standard in terms of summer holidays. A swimming pool that is long enough to swim (25m will do) and quiet in the morning when we usually go to the pool. So far, I have been swimming at least 1km every morning, and the good part is that the little one…
I have a friend like this She always tasted everything, every new flavour of packaged foods she had to try, but was very slim. We were pregnant at the same time and she hardly added any weight apart from the baby’s weight, although she was eating well But at some point, it…
I am sitting next to a family at the cricket Mum and Dad maybe late 30s Son and Daughter maybe 10 or 11 All skinny Since start of play they have (non stop) been hoovering item after item from M&S food like they are on a bonus scheme to try every one Relentless
True But the way to make serious money out of psychotherapy is to extract concepts from established models, mainly psychoanalytic, give them a cute name, do a few quick short-term research studies, prove that they work, and then sell the training and accreditation courses. And…
The deeper I dive into psychoanalysis/psychodynamic the more every other modality seems like a niche diluted version of their predecessors. I find myself writing in the margins near concepts, "cf ACT", "cf IFS", "cf Existential", "cf EMDR" etc.