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I’d suggest that a key exception to this is for state-funded, independent broadcasters such as the BBC, Deutsche Welle, the Australian ABC, NPR etc.

Because they have a profit-motive removed, I find that the quality of their journalism can often be higher than commercial media. Not always true (and it’s becoming increasingly untrue) but it’s the most common form of journalism that is both free to consume and of a relatively high quality.

I’m happy that they haven’t moved this month but disheartened that they’re considering further rises. Inflation has really started ticking back down and while it’s not back in the ‘goldilocks’ zone yet things are definitely easing. They really need to wait and see what the mortgage cliff towards the end of the year will do to the market before moving up anymore as they could be directly responsible for pushing us into recession.

Some banks aren’t passing on rate rises immediately; it could be that NAB is incorporating a previous cash rate rise into your new interest rate.

I think it depends a lot on where you are. As an Australian, I often find that psychiatrists don’t engage in talk therapies - they’re essentially drug dispensers. I’ve heard (mainly through US media) that in the US though, people will go to a psychiatrist for talk therapy as well as medication. Not sure how it is in the rest of the world.

The most important distinction to remember is that a psychiatrist is a medical doctor who specialises in neurochemistry, whereas a psychologist is an allied health professional who cannot prescribe medication. This means that psychologists only employ non-pharmaceutical therapies (like CBT, DBT, Schema Therapy, EMDR etc.).

Disorders are also often separated into being psychological disorders (mood disorders like anxiety, depression etc.) and psychiatric disorders (ADHD, schizophrenia etc.). The key distinction is that generally psychiatric disorders cannot be adequately treated without pharmaceutical intervention, and also that psychological disorders tend to be episodic whereas psychiatric disorder are usually lifelong.

I guess what you’ll get out of it greatly depends on the reasons you’ve been referred to a psychiatrist. If you don’t mind me asking, do you currently have any diagnoses, or are you seeking a diagnosis for your symptoms?

Good luck you either way mate, getting on top of your mental health is seriously important.

Source: studied a Bachelor of Psychology

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It depends on the group you join! I’m sure there are groups geared towards more casual gamers that have a shallower difficulty curve. I’m a fan of many-session tabletop RPGs (like DnD) and depending on who you have running the group, you can alter the rules to fit the skill set of the people playing. One time my mates and I were at the pub and played an impromptu game of DnD with no characters, spells, items etc - the guy running it just described what the situation was; we described what we wanted to do; and we then rolled a D20 with the guy running it deciding whether or not we were successful, or what unintended consequences happened as a result. It was tonnes of fun!

I miss watching Semesame Street

Yep, then bad faith actors will sell accounts that have recent top posts so they can be changed into advertisements, or could just end up trolling the fuck out of everyone who engaged.

On 2.: my anecdotal experience has honestly shown almost the opposite. Personally in the exams I’ve taken, those responses tend to be correct at least more often than not.

Other than that, the patterns seem to mostly be correct from my experience. Nothing much more to add.

To be fair, I haven’t taken an exam (other than work training modules) for over a decade, so my experience may not be up-to-date.

Wanting to comment to try to contribute as an ex-redditor, but I honestly don't have much to say! Today's my first day on the fediverse and I've been doing a lot of reading and learning.

At the moment, I'm almost glad that it takes a lot of extra effort to get to understand it and build yourself a great feed - it's a bit of a hurdle to increase quality of users. I'm definitely not there yet with my understanding and building it out for myself well, and I think that we still need a lot more content and contributors to get to that point, but I'm enjoying the 'small town' feel we have here at the moment.

It hit a million in late June; it's over 2 million now!

He really has perfected the Gish Gallop.