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06/09/2026

Discipline seems to create a somewhat negative response from most people.

We associate it with restriction. With white knuckling through things we don’t want to do. With punishing ourselves into better behaviour. With the kind of rigid self-control that feels exhausting just to think about.

So people avoid it, choosing flexibility instead. They give themselves permission. They decide that forcing themselves to do things feels wrong and that real change should feel natural and easy.

And then nothing changes.

It took me a long time to understand that discipline isn’t restriction. Discipline is what creates freedom. The person who exercises consistently doesn’t have to think about whether to exercise today. The person who eats well doesn’t spend energy negotiating with themselves at every meal. The person who shows up for their work without drama doesn’t waste half their day avoiding getting started. And as a result they feel better in the moment and afterwards.

The negotiation is what’s exhausting. As well as suffering the after effects of not exercising, or eating well or stepping up at work etc. Not the discipline.

Every time you avoid the discipline you think you’re giving yourself a break.
What you’re actually doing is creating more decisions, more friction, more energy spent on things that could be automatic. And you end up creating the life you don’t want.

Discipline equals freedom. Not eventually. Immediately. conversations

06/08/2026

Thomas Szasz On Child Psychiatry


“Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.”
“I have long maintained that the child psychiatrist is one of the most dangerous enemies not only of children, but also of adults who care for the two most precious and most vulnerable things in life—children and liberty.”
Child psychologists and psychiatrists “rob the child of his most important possession, himself….”
“How can parents protect their children from the therapeutic state, that is, from the alliance of government and psychiatry? They can do so only by disabusing themselves of the idea that what ails an unhappy or misbehaving child is a mental illness, and that so-called psychiatric treatment can help him.”

Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, psychiatry's most authoritative critic, author of 36 books challenging his own profession

06/08/2026

“We have an epidemic of psychiatry, not mental illness.”

06/06/2026

06/06/2026

06/06/2026

“How They Rig Clinical Trials and The Price We All Pay For It

A practical guide to spotting doctored research and finding the therapies that actually help.

Scientific research has provided immense benefit to society, but as its success earned it power, prestige and enormous financing, incentives shifted from advancing humanity to protecting the status quo and ensuring vast profits for the pharmaceutical industry.

We spend more and more on science each year, yet the problems we’ve tasked it with solving remain unsolved, even when solutions already exist. COVID-19 made this painfully clear: dozens of treatments existed for the disease, but rather than utilize them, the medical establishment treated the infection as “incurable” and used that framing to justify a series of counterproductive policies which devastated the economy and left us with a death toll well over a hundred times greater than the poorest nations that did nothing at all.

Central to maintaining this orthodoxy is the belief that large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) must serve as the primary arbiter of scientific truth while other viable and proven research approaches are discarded. While RCTs are sometimes immensely helpful, their data often has minimal clinical relevance to patients yet their dominance displaces all the scientific data which does.

Because large RCTs cost tens of millions of dollars, only a handful of parties can afford to conduct them, which means they are typically done to bring profitable products to market rather than to advance health. Worse, since so much money rides on each trial, perverse incentives always exist to doctor the results so a positive outcome is guaranteed.

Over the years, a robust system of ways to rig trials has emerged, with tactics that exaggerate or fabricate benefits while downplaying or erasing harms. Despite being well recognized, these tactics persist because the regulators and medical journals who depend on the status quo turn a blind eye.

This article provides a concise summary of how trials are routinely rigged, gives you the resources to spot this manipulation and protect yourself from it, and highlights the straightforward solutions that could bring science back to something that prioritizes advancing humanity.”

A practical guide to spotting doctored research and finding the therapies that actually help

06/06/2026

The body knows before the mind does.

Before you can articulate that something is wrong — your body already knows. The tension that appears in a certain situation. The heaviness that descends before a specific conversation. The restlessness that arrives when you’re about to make a decision that isn’t right for you. The exhaustion that has no medical explanation.

Most people have learned to override these signals completely. To push through, to reason past them, to decide the body is being inconvenient or irrational or dramatic.

So the signals get louder.

I always start with the physical. Not because the body is the whole story but because it’s the most honest narrator available. It doesn’t perform, it doesn’t protect, it doesn’t construct a convincing alternative explanation. It just tells the truth — in the only language it has.

Learning to read that language changes everything. Not because the answers are hidden in the body exactly — but because the body is pointing somewhere the mind has been carefully avoiding.

That’s usually exactly where the work needs to begin.

06/04/2026

What feeling stuck is all about.