danielle
@_danielle_carr
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The first time Dan asked me to be on the dig in 2018, I agreed and then had a full panic attack during the recording and Dan was like “uh…. Don’t worry we can do it later.” Today, we bring you that “later.”.
So pleased my long-planned interview with @_danielle_carr is out on @thedigradio! On history and present state of American unwellness and how that’s been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones and social media—and so much more. Link👇
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one of the most beautiful women I know in Los Angeles told me that when she got in trouble w the IRS, she asked them if she could serve time in jail instead of paying and the case worker started trying to connect her to mental health resources.
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The Russian guy I hired through task rabbit to help me move is telling me all of the things that are wrong with my diet that are making me so weak.
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you should have one mentor who tells you you're a genius and one mentor who is pained on a regular basis by the depth & borderline medical quality of your stupidity.
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I asked the guy at bibis bakery if I should get the tuna melt or the hummus plate and he goes “well, they’re very different meals. If you’re that confused, I don’t know how to advise you.”.
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Congratulations to everyone who has managed to say absolutely nothing, take no stand, completely hide in the droidlike incentives of their little careers, their little lives. A whole year! What can’t you do? A genuine achievement.
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If you’re going to get anything worthwhile done intellectually you have to be able to let your house occasionally descend into complete chaos without thinking it means anything about you as a person. This is one thing I’ve learned…… as a woman…. .
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I ask what is the craziest thing that ever happened to him on task rabbit. He says he helped a porn star move and later they had sex. “For her, it was an ordinary day. But for me, this was my dream come true about America”.
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He’s like “I can do three or four tasks per day. But you— cannot even do one.” Which is very true. Perhaps this man can write my book.
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I’m going to be honest with you all: I do not understand the economy. Have a lot of other good qualities tho and I try to focus on those.
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it's fine to have a masters degree but it's not the kind of thing you should ever bring up.
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He tells me if I work hard I can become strong, but probably not very strong, and maybe I should just work on my book. I cannot recommend this man enough. Efficiency of a marine. I won’t put his info on here but if you need help moving and want his info dm!.
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it's awesome that identity politics are over for everyone except white american jews.
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My 23 year old sister keeps saying that all of my crushes are “OK GO coded.” Which, as you can imagine, is hurtful.
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Who amongst us has not had an emotional scene in an eataly.
Sandra Lee causes a scene in Eataly outburst: ‘I’m Andrew Cuomo’s EX-WIFE!’
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As someone raised by evangelicals I do feel confident in saying that many white women have psychosexual issues that are expressed via a certain Intensity about Christmas.
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Well well well if it isn’t the party that offered its base nothing but contempt and browbeating sucking shit.
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Back cover image of the dec 1975 issue of “issues in radical therapy”
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Ok to wrap up here (a) this did happen! (See below), (b) not giving out his info now obvi (c) advice was I need to eat more than two Luna bars per day and cut sugar lmao and (d) last unforgettable quote— I say “wow you are so quick” and he says “it’s bc I don’t enjoy this”.
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when we say cops off campus, one of the reasons is that cops are *quite literally* turning campus into a jail.
Police are currently holding arrested UCLA students in Dodd Hall
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it's so freaky when white people change the emoji skin color to white.
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Of course the first faculty to do a work stoppage in protest comes from a state school 🫶.
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Gen z has had the vision and courage to ask “what if we did occupy but not annoying and it worked”.
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After 7 years as a grad worker at columbia, I am not often shocked by the administration’s signature blend of hypocrisy, evil, & incompetence. Still, even for them, suspending Ilhan Omar’s daughter the day after Omar intervened in their congressional clown show is amazing work.
i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP, in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings. i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.
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With less than one month’s notice, Columbia has announced that it will not pay people who are TAing and can’t make it back to the United States. Not because it can’t— peer institutions are able to— but because. they won’t. I’m too mad to make this tweet funny.
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Isn’t this the sort of thing people who got mad at climate extinction chalking Stonehenge would be mad about.
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I’ve needed to say this for a long time. If you are going to post a hot pic (as is natural & your god given right), do not try to make it about anything else, least of all politics or something intellectual or (heaven forbid) anything about struggling w body image. Have dignity.
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Actually it’s very important to point out who has irrevocably lost credibility rn.
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Yesterday I was trying to explain the dialectic to my undergrads & I think the example that actually worked was that breaking up w your boyfriend and getting back together (negation of negation) is not the same as having never broken up (the identity of identity and nonidentity).
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Mid 30s guy at pan pacific park is PLEADING w his dog, who is named Beverly, to behave. He’s like “Beverly, please!!”.
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once was TAing for a v famous ancient anthropologist& someone asked what we should do if a student came to us "in personal crisis." "If a student comes to you w a personal crisis," he says "it shows that there has already been a lapse in boundaries such that i cannot advise you".
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straight up the best question a student has asked this term so far is "wait what DO marxists mean by 'material reality'? " exacttttly my young friend. everything depends on this q. .
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one of the things they teach u in anthropology grad school is that it is ppl who are the most precariously included in a social hierarchy who must incessantly perform their inclusion to outsiders. make of that what u will!.
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For New York Magazine, I profiled Bessel van der Kolk, explained the popularization of trauma science, and ruined my life.
This week’s @NYMag cover story by @_danielle_carr examines the career of psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, the author of the bestselling book “The Body Keeps the Score,” and how he popularized the once controversial trauma diagnosis.
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Everything is very simple right now, actually. In moments like this, everything becomes extremely clear, and you know who stands for what.
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This is literally
Charles M. Schultz put some understated proto-MRA sentiment into Peanuts.
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Let the bodies keep the score.Let the bodies keep the score.Let the bodies keep the score.Let the bodies keep the score.
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hellooooooo god its like I bring you literal scientific discoveries and it is LOST ON YOU PEOPLE????
I'm going to just present this information as neutrally as I can, to avoid biasing your reactions. This is a picture of Usha Vance's father. Remarkable.
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A friend says about her boyfriend “he really does just sit down and read Hegel in German for three hours at night.” That’s not real, I say. That’s something guys pretend to do, I say. “That’s what I thought too, before,” she says.
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Sorry to recycle group chat material on you all but it’s too long to type out again
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When I was a kid, we did not have TV (evangelicals) and we had to run 1/4 of a mile to earn 5 minutes on the internet. We kids would save up internet time for weeks & blow it on one glorious Saturday internet binge. In retrospect my parents, otherwise nuts, rlly got this right.
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It really is so amazing that it’s impossible to predict whats going to set you freaks &perverts off.
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all dumb novels now are titled ALL THE SONGS SHE NEVER SANG and all smart novels are titled INFERNO.
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I actually cannot believe my eyes here. Can you IMAGINE if this had happened under trump 1??? The entitlement to complete immunity from basic accountability the Biden team has shown is beyond sickening. It’s hard to grasp. And this is the admin that ran on “defending democracy”.
Reporter @samhusseini was just physically dragged from Blinken’s briefing. “Why aren’t you at The Hague?” he asked.
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unironically, the left has to start making gramscian inroads into the self help cultural sphere.
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Why doesn’t bernie call one of those 30 thousand person rallies at an ice detention facility and deliveries would probably end up getting stopped just a thought.
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The most fuckboy type of instagram behavior is the guy whose last tagged photo is from 2018 and who posts nothing except for like every 53 days will posts a photo like this— zero socially relevant information. Who are you hanging out with, sir? No sense of duty to the audience.
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At a brunch at an undisclosed LES restaurant, a woman says to her gay friend “have I told you about my solitaire addiction?” and he goes “you’re not addicted to solitaire babe. You’re addicted to cocaine.”.
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lacan says that a child becomes a psychotic when it is engulfed by the maelstrom of the Other's Need without any intervening barrier. this is also a good way to describe my experience of living with my roommate's cat.
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Some of the most insipid writing you’ll ever read is the result of someone expecting you to be as moved by the spectacle of their self pity as they are.
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every explainer i hear on inflation is like "greedflation is a bit of a misnomer for the phenomenon, because it implies bad actors. Actually, companies are just raising prices under the cover provided by COVID and the Ukraine War as much as they can, bc it's rational to do so.".
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my psychotic landlady, who is will smith's lawyer, angrily just called me an "expert at googling".
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i'm sorry for relentlessly making fun of columbia faculty for the past two weeks. this is amazing.
NOW: Columbia University faculty link arms and form a wall in front of the entrance to the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ as hundreds of students encircle the both lawns. Students remaining in the encampment were told they could face disciplinary action after 2PM
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I am at spiritual war with everything Bo burnham is and represents.
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Israel's torture of Palestinian doctors.
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There should be a way of telling Spotify that repeatedly listening to a song is epiphenomenal to a bout of transient mental illness and should not be factored into your algorithm.
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@ninabegus the trick is the one who thinks you're literally a moron has to still feel kindly toward you, as if youre a village idiot that has fallen into their care.
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you guys have to stop saying "societal." it's not a real word. the word is social. I am begging you.
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We have to not stop talking about the fact that Israel kidnaps civilian aid workers and rapes them to death in secret prisons with electrified rods.
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I had to explain occupy to students recently. Told them about the peoples mic and they were straight up like lol.
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feeling insane on the eve of the genocidal destruction of gaza and watching liberals, whose line has been "you have to break a few eggs" about ukraine, sincerely claim that there's nothing to be done about imminent slaughter except to denounce "violence".
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We require a kinship term for “your ex’s ex”. once again anthropologists asleep at the wheel of the zeitgeist’s most pressing needs.
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Really excited for the part when we learn that everyone we know was actually always against what they’ve stayed silent about for the 15 months.
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With dentists it’s always “ how many times per week are you flossing” & never “are you loved by your community?” or “are you seeking expressive integrity in your work?” “Are you challenging form while taking it seriously?” Etc. And by the way, I’m flossing a totally fine amount.
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The thing that Malcolm gladwell brain (or this American life brain, or nyt brain) gets wrong is that the truth about reality is not so much counterintuitive as it is obscene.
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i love meeting people who are in the beginning phases of something they are convinced is going to solve all the problems in their life.
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Wow. Amanda Gorman “tomorrow is not written by our odds but by the audacity of our hope.” . “The American dream is no dream at all but a dare to dream together.”. God, she’s magnificent. #DNC2024.
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Just heard a guy on a podcast say “I’m going to assume your listeners are familiar with 9/11”.
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"what would your job be on the commune" i would decide the state of exception.
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Joan didion Mike Davis. 🤝.
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My Estonian roommate says the fact I have strep throat means either that I spoke badly of someone or peed in a well.
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2850 academics, writers, and intellectuals have committed to boycotting Columbia and Barnard. This group includes over 1,389 tenured/ tenure track professors. Their demands are below. You can read the letter and see the full list of signatories here.
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(claude shannon invented information theory, warren mcculloch was one of the major impresarios of cybernetics, and i'm assuming you all know who L ron hubbard was).
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last night a man informed me that Miranda July’s All Fours was “not a hit” in his men’s group book club.
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Do you ever write an email so good that it should be more widely read.
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Men solve a late 30s crisis of personal fashion two ways as far as I can tell. 1- start wearing a blazer for some reason 2- begin dressing in Gear (camping, surfing, etc).
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this was completely obvious the entire time and a lot of people have permanently lost credibility.
this should be the nail in the coffin for the "U.S has lost control of its rogue state Israel" argument and confirms that the US in fact supported the genocide financially, logistically and ideologically and it would not have been possible without this support.
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For Gawker, I wrote about why I am an attachment theory truther.
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People are not appreciating this at all on instagram stories and I’m like… this is gold?
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We are trapped in a system of perverse incentives that rewards parroting anachronistic tropes, such that talking about actually-occurring reality becomes increasingly rare. I wd rather hear someone honestly describe eating a sandwich than stitch together these recycled bits
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Really upset the academy has imploded because I was looking forward to talking people in their early twenties into devoting a decade of their life to looking into some random bullshit that occurred to me in spin class an hour before our advising meeting.
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Today I bring you a little amuse-bouche, a short essay about adderall in which I hypothesize that not only is the drug not fixing the “attention crisis“— it is actively making it worse. Bonus features include my theory of millenial literature. Enjoy!
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I actually wonder whether universities are going to wake up and open some sort of supervised in person space w the internet blocked where students have to go to write their essays. Probably not bc that would make sense and cost money….
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I don't think it serves anyone to deny that cravenly cynical cooptations of righteous struggles exist in elite liberal spaces (eg ibram x kendi). it's like when people tried to deny "cancel culture" exists-- of course people get cancelled. You sound in bad faith denying it. BUT.
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For the Times, I wrote about the politics of mental health, and what reification means when it comes to disease categories.
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