Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with mental-health
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Tim Barrus In the New York Times
TRUMP’S NANNY No one goes to the issue of mental health. Fear is relevant. If any of the rest of us exhibited overt threats and claims and lies and the puffing up of the chest to assert power over class, public policy, Constitution, Congress, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve, porn stars,…
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Rabbit Hole
Boys with HIV kill themselves at rates eight times the rate of typical adolescents who attempt suicide. Children who kill themselves, kill themselves for a reason. And society recoils. The institutions of society need for the people in that society to want to stay. Or at least pretend to want…
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FireHead
I have asked the Smash Street Boys to bounce off a response I made to David Brooks in the New York Times. Brooks writes about suicide quite often. His work is excellent. This time, he is integrating the reality of AI into the examination of what makes people tick. Tick.…
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After the Rape is a Slow, Lonely Death, and a Grim-Visaged Dirge
It took him a long time to understand what had happened to him. Slow. Slow. It was as if he couldn’t blink. He couldn’t move. He couldn’t scream. He couldn’t do anything. Slow. Slow. Ninety percent of the boys in the developed world who have been raped multiple times will…