My purely anecdotal experience—my [then] wife began seeing a therapist to help with her seasonal depression. She didn’t work, and spent a lot of time on social media. Her therapist encouraged her to ‘choose you, put yourself first, etc’, this encouragement gave way to her early midlife crisis, infidelity, divorce, substance abuse, and her losing custody of our young children.
Therapy can very helpful to many people. I also think therapy can be equally detrimental, (or more-so) to many people. Therapists are people doing a job. Some people are bad at their jobs. A patient implicitly trusting a therapist giving harmful advice can have far reaching, long lasting consequences.
I had a similar experience. Things were bad before but therapy increased my wife's (now separated) bad behaviors and instilled her with a newfound confidence that doesn't really fit her life situation.
many adults have experienced the same. or say they have, in my experience. as to if it’s denial vs reality? good luck untangling the biases in any attempt to figure that out!
‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ vs a world with a large segment of mental disorders basically resulting from someone having an existential need for something to not be broken (and no tools or time/resources to fix it).
I believe the author is talking more about movement within the solar system than about how to get to orbit. Skyhooks are amazing though.
For example, if you were on a station attached to
2019 BE5[0], that asteroid rotates once every 15 seconds. With a 60km tether, slowly unwound out from the asteroid, you'd be moving at something like 12km/s. (60km * 3.14 / 15s). All you'd need to do is wait until the plane of the orbit lines up with the destination to have in mind and release the asteroid on the end of the tether.
2019 BE5 is only ~55m across. A 60km tether that could withstand those g forces would probably be at least a few orders of magnitude more massive than the entire asteroid.
What's your definition of a "social scene"? I have lived in both and have known many people who have lived in both and you are probably the only person I've ever met (myself included) who thinks this.
My idea of a social scene is people doing things with strangers such that they can be social outside their existing friend groups and make new friends.
It isn't two far-left white dudes in suits talking politics and their Hill jobs at a ground level bar in some brutalist monstrosity while ignoring everyone around them.
Yeah there are some fun and quirky things but a lot of that was hurt by COVID too.
Can you elaborate? "Taxes" can mean many different things and, for my situation, income taxes in Virginia are far lower than in the other two municipalities.
In college, I went to bed around 2-3:30am every weeknight because that's what the people around me were doing. Also, I was regularly staying out at least that late on weekends.
In the last few years, I've been forced to get to work by 9:45am due to team standups. Also, my girlfriend-at-the-time was waking up around 6:30-7am to exercise almost every weekday. And I don't really go out partying at night anymore so waking up at 7:30am and not feeling miserable is doable.
Keeping the consistent weekend schedule is the key. I've been pretty driven to continue my CS education and self-teaching and so having more time in the day to continue that goal motivates me to get up early.
