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How Game Theory Predicts Our Current Political Chaos
The hidden forces driving us deeper into polarization and conflict.
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Suzannah Alexander
The Corrupt Cracks in the ACA’s Ethical Code - Part 2
When ethical codes serve politics instead of people, clients pay the price.
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Suzannah Alexander
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The Battle for Reform: 75 Days Down, Here’s What I’ve Pulled Off
I can’t do this alone—spreading the word is just as crucial as uncovering the truth.
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Suzannah Alexander
How the ACA Code of Ethics Puts Ideology Before Patient Well-being - Part 1
Counselors who refuse to conform to political dogma risk losing their careers
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Suzannah Alexander
🔥 "Welcome to the 2026 Oscars: The Night of a Thousand Struggle Sessions"!
We are getting ready early! With a new dress code: Inspired by medieval monks and Soviet-era ration lines.
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Suzannah Alexander
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The Psychological Takeover: How Therapy is Becoming a Tool of Oppression, Dispositions Part 5
The mental health industry is no longer about healing. It’s about ideological control.
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Suzannah Alexander
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10 Times ‘Settled Science’ Was Disastrously Wrong—And What It Means for Today
When everyone agrees, that’s when you should ask the most questions.
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Suzannah Alexander
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How Therapy Became a Re-Education Camp - CACREP Dispositions Part - 4
Future therapists are being groomed to see their clients as ideological projects.
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Suzannah Alexander
Why Embracing Discomfort Can Change Your Life
When ease becomes the goal, growth and courage are sacrificed.
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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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Trained to Betray: How Ideologically Captured Counselor Training Hurts Vulnerable Kids - Part 3
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Manipulation and Indoctrination in Counseling Education
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Investigative Reporting

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When Ethics Become Tyranny: How the ACA Code Strips Therapist Integrity - Part 3
The ACA’s ‘ethics’ code isn’t about ethics—it’s about control.
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Suzannah Alexander
The Corrupt Cracks in the ACA’s Ethical Code - Part 2
When ethical codes serve politics instead of people, clients pay the price.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
5
How the ACA Code of Ethics Puts Ideology Before Patient Well-being - Part 1
Counselors who refuse to conform to political dogma risk losing their careers
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
The Psychological Takeover: How Therapy is Becoming a Tool of Oppression, Dispositions Part 5
The mental health industry is no longer about healing. It’s about ideological control.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
16
How Therapy Became a Re-Education Camp - CACREP Dispositions Part - 4
Future therapists are being groomed to see their clients as ideological projects.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander

Accreditation

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The Battle for Reform: 75 Days Down, Here’s What I’ve Pulled Off
I can’t do this alone—spreading the word is just as crucial as uncovering the truth.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
The Psychological Takeover: How Therapy is Becoming a Tool of Oppression, Dispositions Part 5
The mental health industry is no longer about healing. It’s about ideological control.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
16
Trained to Betray: How Ideologically Captured Counselor Training Hurts Vulnerable Kids - Part 3
Therapists are being forced to adopt radical beliefs—or risk their careers, with kids caught in the crossfire.
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Suzannah Alexander
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Trained to Obey: Required Grading of Counseling Students on 'Dispositions' Part 2
When your future depends on ‘the right’ beliefs, is it really an education?
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Suzannah Alexander
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When Straight A's Aren’t Enough: The ‘Disposition’ Scam in Universities - Part 1
You can ace every test, pay every tuition bill, and still be denied a degree for failing to meet an ideological standard
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Suzannah Alexander

Friday Musings and Fun

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How Game Theory Predicts Our Current Political Chaos
The hidden forces driving us deeper into polarization and conflict.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
The Battle for Reform: 75 Days Down, Here’s What I’ve Pulled Off
I can’t do this alone—spreading the word is just as crucial as uncovering the truth.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
🔥 "Welcome to the 2026 Oscars: The Night of a Thousand Struggle Sessions"!
We are getting ready early! With a new dress code: Inspired by medieval monks and Soviet-era ration lines.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
2
10 Times ‘Settled Science’ Was Disastrously Wrong—And What It Means for Today
When everyone agrees, that’s when you should ask the most questions.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
1
Why Embracing Discomfort Can Change Your Life
When ease becomes the goal, growth and courage are sacrificed.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander

Humor

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🔥 "Welcome to the 2026 Oscars: The Night of a Thousand Struggle Sessions"!
We are getting ready early! With a new dress code: Inspired by medieval monks and Soviet-era ration lines.
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Suzannah Alexander
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America’s Great Renaming - The Official Guide to Never Knowing Where You Are Anymore
Remember when places had names? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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Suzannah Alexander
The Civilized Person’s Satirical Guide to Polite Encounters with Former DEI Officers and Other Progressives
A refined guide to dodging dogma while progressives detox from Social Justice brainwashing
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Suzannah Alexander
New DSM-6 Disorders So Ridiculous, Even Your Therapist Will Laugh
More labels, less accountability—mental health just got a glow-up!
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Suzannah Alexander
Breaking Up with Accreditors: A Satirical Contract for Academic Freedom
When accreditors go low, we go legal
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Suzannah Alexander

Psychology

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New DSM-6 Disorders So Ridiculous, Even Your Therapist Will Laugh
More labels, less accountability—mental health just got a glow-up!
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Suzannah Alexander
Counseling’s Political Purity Push: Unveiling the Identity Crisis That Hijacked Accreditation and Shaped a Profession
How Mental Health Therapy was Captured by Social Justice Ideology
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Suzannah Alexander
State Laws Ignored: Counseling Accreditation and How to Demand Reform NOW!
The accreditation controversy and how to force lawmakers to take notice
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Suzannah Alexander
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The Real Reason Science Is Failing Us: A Look into Psychology’s Blind Spot
Are we silencing the studies that could transform our understanding of human nature?
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Suzannah Alexander
Is Cultural Sensitivity Undermining Mental Health Treatment?
There is an epidemic of mental illness in Japan called hikikomori.
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Suzannah Alexander
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