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I feel like this has to be a math/logic thing that has a name already and I wanna know what it's called so I can look it up when I'm no longer extremely drunk.

In this phone game the objective is to get all the people on all the same color floors with as few stops at any floor as possible. When the last few moves look like this, you just have to go through in the right order and only stop at each stop once (except the first/last floor).

But sometimes there's different little sub-sets of pairs inside the bigger set of pairs that are self-contained, and for each one of those there's another floor that has to be started and stopped on to complete that loop. That makes the minimum number of moves to solve: the sum of the number of pairs in both sub-sets together plus the number of subsets. (And only counting the number of pairs in both subsets because if one of the pairs is already matched it won't count for the moves).

So like these two are all one big continuous loop: A-E, B-A, C-B, D-C, E-D and A-B, B-E, C-A, D-C, E-D

And this one has one already matched leaving a single complete loop in need of matching: A-B, B-E, C-A, D-D, E-C

These ones, however, have two loops. one loop that's three floors long (four moves) and one that's two floors long (three moves): A-B, B-C, C-A, D-E, E-D and A-D, B-E, C-A, D-C, E-B

And these ones have one already matched pair, and two sub-sets of two that still need to be matched: A-B, B-A, C-C, D-E, E-D and A-D, B-B, C-E, D-A, E-C

What is this called?

Anyway my patient had bedbugs how'd y'all's weekend go?

(Works best for fleas since they're usually a summer pest, when that 90° weather is avaliable, but works for other things if the opportunity arises.

It just feels kind of gross having parts of me hanging out on the internet for too long. Like I haven't been able to wash my hands/face for a while. I do it manually occasionally, but I have to block off a morning or evening for it now when I used to be able to do it with a couple mouse clicks then go off to take a shit or w/e.

If this turns out to be good I'm gonna keep it in my back pocket for the next time I have a psych patient who really likes to creatively write (...and is also not actively detached from reality LOL)

Roll a 6-sided die 12 times

This is the pixelfed album.

This is the google sheet (idk how else to make a set of 6 tables vision-impairment friendly)

• What's your theme?
• What's your plot?
• Who's your hero?
• Who's your villain?
• Who's your side character?
• What's your wild card?
• ...what're you doing with it?

I told chat GPT to give me some prompts to help people with emotional processing/expression, and to get pretty weird/quirky, so some of them are kinda out there. I want that weird, stimulating creativity, but I'd like some help filtering out undesirable content/general bad vibes. Some of them also get a little trite, repetitive, or even just nonsensical, so it helps to filter those out as well.

There's a lot of them, but I told it to shuffle them for every person, so even if you just rate the first five or so it gives you it should help. My end goal is to narrow down to about 1/4 - 1/2 of each, so if you rate however many you do at about an 1/3 bad, 1/3 ok, and 1/3 good, I should eventually get a pretty solid list.

There's so many because I'm thinking about offering a daily challenge of one of each, and I want there to be almost no chance a patient will see the same one twice (I just feel like that would be really disheartening for someone stuck inpatient for a long time).

Feel free to share this around in any creative or mental health circles you run in!

• Writing Prompts
• Drawing Prompts

People don't wanna talk about it at all because it's too close to trans-ness being a mental illness but imma come at this from entirely the opposite direction:

The NO.1 predictor of a cluster B personality disorder is a consistently invalidating childhood environment.

What's more invalidating than spending your whole childhood saying "hey I think I'm actually a-" and every single person around you cutting you off right there and saying "no you ain't." Psychiatry ain't shit without social context but psychiatry is also coming to accept that being constantly invalidated as a child gonna do your brain the fucky-wucky.

It's ok to accept that trans ppl are at an increased risk of personality disorders due to our completely fucked societal norms. Accepting that we're at increased risk of mental disorders due to societal bullshit =/= saying being trans is a mental illness. If anything, it's an indictment of the society we live in.

TLDR; trans ppl are at increased risk of mental illness =/= transness IS a mental illness and we still deserve to acknowledge the trauma society done did to us.

Basically, whatever you were using done fucked your brain.

Think about what used to make you happy before whatever you were using. Think about it. Did you like Sports? Did you like Music? Did you like writing? ANYTHING. What did you used to love?

I'll bet you can get through withdrawal easy. That's just two days twitching and sweating. Withdrawing is EASY once you've done it enough.

But what're you gonna do after? How are you gonna cope with the next SIX OR MORE MONTHS of ANHEDONIA??? How are you gonna cope with the fact that for months at a time nothing you used to love will bring you joy without the substance you've been abusing?

Let's talk about PAWS, ok?

What is a "Safety Plan?"

• It is a plan that YOU create for YOURSELF (and which only needs to be accessible to you.)
• It is a plan that addresses (and hopefully decreases) behaviors that:
  • You don’t like doing or feel bad after doing
  • Decrease your ability to connect with others
• Examples:
  • Self-injurious behaviors
  • Substance abuse
  • Binge-Eating
  • Gambling
• This plan may not continue working if you do not
  • Seek treatment for a known mental-health issue
  • Do not use the activities more often when you are calm than when you are distressed (THINK PAVLOV, a calming activity must continue being associated with a feeling of calm more often than distress to continue calming you).

What does a safety plan include?

• 3x ACTIVITIES to do instead of the behavior that disrupts your life
  • Listen to a specific song that calms you
  • Take a hot bath
  • Do a craft you love
  • Do a sensory activity you love like playing with clay or paint
  • Play with a pet that loves you
• 3x PEOPLE to contact who will always pick up the phone for you (as many backups as possible to avoid strain on any one person)
  • A partner?
  • A close friend?
  • Family?
  • A mentor?
  • Another associate from your socio-cultural or religious background?
• 3x Public SERVICES to Access in Case of Emergency
  • Your specific mental health provider such as a therapist, psychologist, or psychiatrist
  • Local Mental Health Board
  • Local Service for a specialty or minority background such as LGBTQ, POC, or Veteran.
  • National Mental health hotlines
  • National Specialty hotlines for the LGBTQ, POC, or veterans.
• OPTIONAL for people whose home is not a safe place, where can you GO to feel safe?
  • The library
  • A public commons like a statue or fountain
  • A national or state park area
  • A church or other charitable organization’s property
  • A friend or acquaintance’s property

If you DO come in contact with the involuntary mental health system, can you answer these questions? (You likely can't create these answers ahead of time so just write them out and leave blank spots for them)

• What behavior OF MINE did the mental health system concern themselves with? They usually worry about
  • Real or perceived threats to self
  • Real or perceived threats to others
  • PROFOUND inability to provide for one’s own safety (think naked in below-freezing temperatures or wandering into interstate traffic)
• What part of that behavior did I MYSELF have control over?
• What will I PERSONALLY do to prevent this problem behavior from occurring in the future?
  • Did I have a previous safety plan either formally or informally?
  • What safety plan could I develop to address this specific behavior?
  • How could I modify my safety plan to address this specific behavior?

Examples of places to keep a safety plan:

• fridge
• wallet
• phone home screen

HELP! THERE'S A THING I DON'T HAVE 3 OPTIONS FOR!

• Well I reckon you know where to focus your recovery now, don't you? Start with the first listed option you don't have enough items for and find some things/people.

Thought you could use a mental health community.