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Can We Make A Better Mental Health Diagnosis Plan Without Labels that Hold You Back?

The Total Mind Diagnostic Model replaces “what’s wrong with you?” with “what’s happening with you?”

Aug 11, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Recent posts

The Road That Should Stay Untraveled

Updates, Exhaustion, and One Thread Worth Pulling

May 4

So You've Decided to Reshape a Profession

A handy code of ethics for the ideologically committed institution

Apr 10

When a Code of Ethics Becomes the Corruption It Was Designed to Prevent

The NBCC's Curious Accreditation Requirement

Mar 30

The Shocking 35% No One is Talking About

Comply Without Argument, Affirm Without Questioning: The Milgram Experiment You Didn't Know You Were In

Mar 9

Still Mom, Still Fighting

Two years into this work, the ideology hasn't won — and neither has the silence.

Feb 23

The Erosion of Boundaries Is Breaking Social Work from the Inside

When “openness” becomes suspicion of any limit, therapists lose the tools they need most: moral clarity, professional distance, and genuine client…

Feb 9 • Nathan Gallo

Social Work's "Compassionate" Bait-and-Switch

How New Professionals are Roped into Ideology, Not Honest Preparation

Feb 2 • Nathan Gallo

The Hidden Rot in Social Work Schools: Students Speak Out on Ideological Takeover

Discover how MSW programs prioritize "oppression" narratives over real skills—and why grads are left muzzled and unprepared.

Jan 26 • Nathan Gallo

One Year Ago I Made a Crazy Plan. Here’s What Actually Happened

I didn’t end up at Starbucks. But I did end up with a searchable database, a legislative push, and a whole lot of fabric sitting on my table.

Jan 16 • Suzannah Alexander

Diogenes In Exile

Diogenes In Exile

Your compass for navigating the swirling seas of culture, psychology, and academia, where we occasionally roast elite ideas like marshmallows at a philosophy-themed campfire.

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New DSM-6 Disorders So Ridiculous, Even Your Therapist Will Laugh

Jan 24, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

The Hidden Rot in Social Work Schools: Students Speak Out on Ideological Takeover

Jan 26 • Nathan Gallo

How a Top Social Work Journal Published—and Then Erased—Abuse as Pedagogy

Aug 25, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

The Publisher Blinks: Why the Whitelash Study Was Pulled at the Last Minute

Sep 1, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

The Quiet Collapse of Scientific Standards

Aug 18, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

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Florida Fought DEI Indoctrination. So Why Is It Imposing It on Counselors?

As long as counselors must be accredited, they will steeped in DEI

Nov 3, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

How to Change a Law (Without Losing Your Mind)

You Don’t Need a Law Degree to Fix the Law

Jul 21, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

The War for Higher Ed Has a New Battlefield, Your State Capitol

Ideology goes in the classroom through the backdoor. These laws change the locks.

Jun 23, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Two New Laws Could Stop Professional Censorship in Its Tracks

You don’t have to comply with ideological gatekeeping—here’s how to push back.

Mar 31, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

State Laws Ignored: Counseling Accreditation and How to Demand Reform NOW!

The accreditation controversy and how to force lawmakers to take notice

Dec 2, 2024 • Suzannah Alexander

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Investigative Reporting

When a Code of Ethics Becomes the Corruption It Was Designed to Prevent

The NBCC's Curious Accreditation Requirement

Mar 30

The Shocking 35% No One is Talking About

Comply Without Argument, Affirm Without Questioning: The Milgram Experiment You Didn't Know You Were In

Mar 9

The Erosion of Boundaries Is Breaking Social Work from the Inside

When “openness” becomes suspicion of any limit, therapists lose the tools they need most: moral clarity, professional distance, and genuine client…

Feb 9 • Nathan Gallo

Social Work's "Compassionate" Bait-and-Switch

How New Professionals are Roped into Ideology, Not Honest Preparation

Feb 2 • Nathan Gallo

The Hidden Rot in Social Work Schools: Students Speak Out on Ideological Takeover

Discover how MSW programs prioritize "oppression" narratives over real skills—and why grads are left muzzled and unprepared.

Jan 26 • Nathan Gallo

Accreditation

When a Code of Ethics Becomes the Corruption It Was Designed to Prevent

The NBCC's Curious Accreditation Requirement

Mar 30

The Erosion of Boundaries Is Breaking Social Work from the Inside

When “openness” becomes suspicion of any limit, therapists lose the tools they need most: moral clarity, professional distance, and genuine client…

Feb 9 • Nathan Gallo

Social Work's "Compassionate" Bait-and-Switch

How New Professionals are Roped into Ideology, Not Honest Preparation

Feb 2 • Nathan Gallo

The Billion-Dollar DEI Pivot Nobody's Talking About

CHEA shaped policy at thousands of colleges. Now it's quietly backing away—and leaving taxpayers with the bill.

Nov 10, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Florida Fought DEI Indoctrination. So Why Is It Imposing It on Counselors?

As long as counselors must be accredited, they will steeped in DEI

Nov 3, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Friday Musings and Fun

The Road That Should Stay Untraveled

Updates, Exhaustion, and One Thread Worth Pulling

May 4

So You've Decided to Reshape a Profession

A handy code of ethics for the ideologically committed institution

Apr 10

The Candidate Who Finally Told the Truth: He’s Lying to You

An election ad for an age that prefers sincerity to integrity.

Nov 7, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

You Will Be Seen Shortly - Halloween Horror Fiction

The AI receptionist is polite. The patients are docile. The programs are soothing. And the price of peace is your mind.

Oct 31, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

From Occupied Academia! Bias Response Team Deploys Over “Microexpression” in Classroom Incident

When a professor’s nose twitched, the DEI SWAT unit rappelled in to restore ideological order. A comic glimpse into academia’s scent-sensitive…

Oct 17, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Humor

The Back-to-School Wars: A Dispatch from Occupied Academia

A satirical look at back to school shopping from the front lines of the culture war

Aug 22, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Just Hoping for a Healthy Baby? That’s Genocide, Bigot.

A leaked memo from the frontline of reproductive orthodoxy, where toe-counting is white supremacy and intent is violence.

Jul 25, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Posting the Truth on YouTube? You Might Be the Only One Who Sees It

When your words vanish and no one tells you, you’re not paranoid. It’s just the algorithm.

Jul 11, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

10 Hilarious ways to Fund a University Without Federal Dollars

What to Do When the Government Ghosts You and the Alumni Block Your Calls

Jun 27, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Breaking: Disneyland Converts Corporate Embarrassment Into Family Entertainment

This is what happens when Imagineers get stuck in HR training.

Jun 20, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Research

The Quiet Collapse of Scientific Standards

Journals now reward diary entries as “research.” Here’s how it happened—and why it matters for families and patients.

Aug 18, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Part 2 - How the F*ck Do Research Journals Work? Rankings

Unpacking the Status Games Behind Academic Publishing

Dec 9, 2024 • Suzannah Alexander

How the F*ck Do Research Journals Work? Part 1

Understanding the Knowledge Production Industry for Regular People

Nov 25, 2024 • Suzannah Alexander

Fiction

You Will Be Seen Shortly - Halloween Horror Fiction

The AI receptionist is polite. The patients are docile. The programs are soothing. And the price of peace is your mind.

Oct 31, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

The Village That Forgot the Real World

A parable for our screen-saturated age — what happens when a whole society stops touching the real.

Oct 10, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

The Back-to-School Wars: A Dispatch from Occupied Academia

A satirical look at back to school shopping from the front lines of the culture war

Aug 22, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

A Fairytale That Starts Where Most Stories End

What happens when the institutions we trust forget their purpose?

Apr 18, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

The Lonely Princess and the Flower Petals

The Tragic Fall of a Princess who traded wisdom for kindness.

Jan 17, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Psychology

The Erosion of Boundaries Is Breaking Social Work from the Inside

When “openness” becomes suspicion of any limit, therapists lose the tools they need most: moral clarity, professional distance, and genuine client…

Feb 9 • Nathan Gallo

The Quiz That Explains Why Your ‘Helpful’ Comments Annoy Everyone

Meet the Hair Splitter, the Puppetmaster, and other critic archetypes—then learn what your defenses are really up to.

Aug 15, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Can We Make A Better Mental Health Diagnosis Plan Without Labels that Hold You Back?

The Total Mind Diagnostic Model replaces “what’s wrong with you?” with “what’s happening with you?”

Aug 11, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

What If We Built a New Therapy Profession That Put Clients First?

Creating a new path for those betrayed by the current system.

Jul 7, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

Communal Catastrophizing. Or How Social Media Trains Us to Despair Together

Bad News Is Addictive. Even When It’s Fake.

Jul 4, 2025 • Suzannah Alexander

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