05/12 - Mental Awareness Friday

I was very tempted to answer those randomly just to see what would happen.

 

Also, googling 'parabanjology' turns up 1 facebook group, a r/mturk post, a thread from MTC, a thread from MTG, and these http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1395&context=oa_theses https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-014-9357-6 academic articles about using that set of questions in surveys

I like googling particularly weird ACs to see if any academic papers turn up

 

You've received a bonus from Priya Ganapathy for work related to 35YHTYFL1GCL8S5V5M656JDK3ADFVP.

The value of your bonus is: $18.00 USD

Good start to the day.

 

Great hits get posted but they're gone before I can click on them.. (sigh)

 

Title: Rating sentences with complement clauses on their acceptability | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Edward Gibson [AV5ZXNTTPTOV7] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 3.59] [Fast: 3.87] [Comm: 1.00] [Fair: 4.73] [Reviews: 38] [ToS: 0] TO 2: [Rate: $15.76/hr] [Pen: -- days] [Res: 100% of 1] [Rec: 100% of 1] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Description: Rate 68 sentences on a scale of 1-5 based on how acceptable they are in regular human speech. Time: 2 hours HITs Available: 55 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is greater than 100; HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 95; Location is US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.21.10​

 

TFW your HIT won't submit at the end and the email address bounces back as undelivered.

 

As soon as they uploaded 2 more batches that hamster hopped off his wheel and rode off into the sunset.

 

Thanks. Didn't catch it myself.

 

There's another memorable one where it's a list of words you have to unscramble, and you get a bonus for number solved consecutively, but one is a really obscure name for an animal that basically nobody would know without cheating and googling it. Googling it, ofc, also turns up these papers explaining that.

 

I've been diagnosed with almost everything under the sun. Started with general anxiety and depression (still around) back when I was 9 or 10. Most doctors assumed it was situational because I had a verbally abusive father and a ridiculously sick mother whom I was the primary caregiver for. Around 14 or 15, they decided it was Bipolar Disorder. I went on the meds, gained a bunch of weight, and still had issues. High School was insane, and had I been in the public school system I would have been expelled for behavior issues. Thankfully I was at a private school that a) is known for having kids with issues so they know how to work with them and b) wanted my tuition money. Finally found a great "therapist" (APRN) who taught my about mindfulness and that was the first time I started to get control over myself. I quit the mood stabilizers after high school, I couldn't handle the side effects and I was feeling more in control. Depression has always been around me, so I was always on some kind of med. After going through the stress of my mom's death, my dad's stroke, selling my childhood home, putting my dad in a nursing home, and moving away from the only support group I had (two or three friends in CT) to Philly, I sorta had a breakdown, and all my old "out of control" symptoms popped up again. I finally was able to hook up with my current therapist (LSW - also not a true "therapist", help comes in many forms), and she and I realized I had been misdiagnosed all those years. I wasn't bipolar, I had borderline personality disorder, it's why the meds didn't help and the mindfulness did. (And explains why Girl, Interrupted was my favorite movie ever and I always identified with it) With her help, I went through almost 2 years of group Dialectical Behavioral Therapy combined with individual therapy. I've now graduated from Group and have started DBT informed couples counseling with my husband, as my issues have caused problems in my marriage.

It's sort of what brought me to mTurk in the first place, having to pay for therapy. It's around $3000 a year out of pocket because my insurance sucks and I'm fully aware I have one of the cheapest therapists out there, so I'm lucky. It's only $55 a session for individual, $25 for group, and $100 for couples. Still on antidepressants and probably will be for life, but I am starting to feel more in control with my emotions.

But yeah, stigma sucks. When I was first diagnosed my husband thought about canceling the wedding because I was "seriously crazy". I finally got him to understand that all my diagnosis was is a way to explain the symptoms I've had for a decade.

I recently came across a great article on cracked.com that is written by a person who has BPD and it is really good at explaining everything it's like. I highly suggest a read if you feel yourself unsure of what BPD is and how you feel about it. Or if you just want a good laugh:
http://www.cracked.com/personal-exp...ife-people-with-borderline-personalities.html

Just want to say that you guys are part of my family now, and you've helped a lot through the months I've been doing this (Holy crap, it's almost been a year).

and yeah...these are hard to end....so yeah

 

I'm out of here for the day. I wanna go try the new chicken chips from taco bell and go spend everything I've earned this week on crap i dont need Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

 

Hugs for everybody

 

@WimpLo I think its dead

 

Ok, for Gibson's Vanilla Donuts - what is he going for when he says "Sentence Rating" and then it's unnatural, possible, or natural?

Unnatural as in sounds like some who doesn't know english wrote it, or unnatural as in, WTF who cuts off their feet?

 

Smokestacks die?