The movie is available on Netflix and Prime. Here's also an article by the Smithsonian Magazine about him: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/one-man-against-tyranny-53850110/

Just a tiny comment from a country who has already tried the fascist dictatorship 🇩🇪

Today I can't stop thinking about the Oscar-nominated movie 13 Minutes, featuring the story of Georg Elser who tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939. I don't want violence to be a normalized part of politics but as a woman born into a democratic Germany I honor Elser's moral compass + courage. I guess history will tell how these events will go down.

Highly recommend the movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5-NdI9Lr3o

@KitMuse When I'm confronted with IMPOSSIBLE choices, I do pair-wise comparison. There's better explanations but the basics are:
- list all projects + add both mental and physical health as items
- compare all items 1:1 by asking "If you could only do A or B, which would you choose?" (eventually there's the decisions between projects and health items, these are usually painful but sobering)
- rank the items by matches won
- look at the bottom items and figure out what needs to be done

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@KitMuse Or you could look into Freudenberger's stages of burnout, I found them quite illuminating for myself.

If any of the questionnaires indicate a problem, I'm afraid there's probably only these ways to go:
1. You choose what to let go of/get help with and build more recovery into your schedule.
2. One day your body will drop anything it cannot manage anymore, and this is usually chaotic and frightening and you might end up with much, much less than if you made the trade-offs.

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@KitMuse @neurodivergence I second everyone's worries that you might be in burnout territory, but maybe it's useful to get an objective view of your energy levels first.
- for short-term mental fatigue, there's the VAS-F questionnaire: https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4419-9893-4_100
- for mid-term mental fatigue there's the Need For Recovery Scale: https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc1765728?pdf=render
- for long-term fatigue (aka burnout) there's the Maslach Burnout Inventory with surveys for several populations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslach_Burnout_Inventory

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@Furthering Oh lots, actually! Breaking up with someone who wasn't right for me, people breaking up with me who weren't a great fit after all. Quitting my dream job because it made me an exhausted mess.

Is something hard coming up for you?

@dyani it really means a lot to me too, I'm really moved to hear that 🥹

@JulieB ooh, that's a handy way to remember how to care for someone or yourself. I do know the movie and I liked it so much. It's such a good story about the value of challenging feelings.

Thanks so much for the kind feedback 💫

@dyani 💜💜💜 As a reader, I just want to tell you, that yes, it's okay to feel so much and I see what a big deal it is. Even the words "big deal" seems too small, too normal to address this extraordinary pain. I just want to let you know that I'm a witness to it and that I care.

(And also, I think I can somewhat relate to being absolutely overwhelmed by terror and I think you expressed this so well. I'm grateful you wrangled those words out of yourself.)

@Furthering oh wow, thanks for sharing that. Her name rang a faint bell for me but I knew barely nothing about this case and it's just harrowing 😳

@Furthering this sounds lovely!

@Engelsbaeckerei danke, das ist mega lieb, ich schreib dir eine DM!

@christianknaut tut mir leid, dass du schlechte Erfahrungen gemacht hast!

@edi cool, hab mir die Website angeschaut und das klingt spannend! Ich schreib dir eine DM!

@juliar@imaginair.es Just did a quick google search and there seem to be some, for example

Long-term Outcomes of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety-Related Disorders https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6902232/

Long-Term Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Routine Outpatient Care: A 5- to 20-Year Follow-Up Study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31121580/

Maybe it is just the best way of doing therapy - within that specific paradigm.

@Furthering If you want to have therapy covered by health insurance it used to be that the therapist needs to be certified in CBT, psychodynamic therapy or psychoanalysis. I just checked and saw that systemic therapy is covered now as well, but the number of IFS therapists is just really, really low still.

Anyway, I don't have any stats, but to me it feels that CBT is always touted as the only real + evidence-based therapy.

@juliar@imaginair.es oh god, yes, 100 % agree. They'll always claim that they're evidence-based but I just don't see people becoming healthy and whole personalities within this paradigm.

@nlarson830 ah yes, I looked it up, it sounds like a valuable resource. In the podcast linked above they're also discussing the overlap and differences between the 12 step programme and IFS.

@Furthering yes and yes! although I feel it's been mostly gaining more traction in the English speaking world, in Germany I find it rather invisible.