https://jessk.org/blog daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://jessk.org/blog/how-youtube-feeds-the-anti-trans-machine monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/233675fd-1736-4970-b7fe-5fceac072753/youtube_comments_likes.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Partial scrape of the likes and comments of YouTube videos over a three year period (n=5,409, approx 74% of data). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/3bf13c2a-0629-4afc-b864-1c92710d0b00/Screenshot+from+2026-03-12+10-29-39.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Ben Shapiro’s Facebook feed in Google News results. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/e148944c-301f-44d0-9e54-f92b2d492b5b/youtube_allkws.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/64c91e67-24c3-453e-ab19-1277119af6f2/social_media.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Social Media is an increasing portion of the news feed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/355f7507-fa4e-4a2c-83fa-ffa42984655c/Screenshot+from+2026-03-15+12-46-50.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Screenshot of RStudo hovering over a URL which contains multiple tracking tokens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/85a0d3f9-db32-4be9-bf09-68bc8dd8b858/Screenshot+from+2026-03-10+23-42-59.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/052d4ec4-b280-4982-8688-4417e7237437/Screenshot+from+2026-03-15+15-06-42.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Grok in the Google News feed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/55ab39a7-e122-4d0c-bd3b-5495e00f0f45/top_five_domains.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/122c89e5-c15d-427b-a7ba-b6ea216bc14a/youtube_total.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/7c8a4321-4635-4bbc-ade9-78f9653e5d69/Screenshot+from+2026-03-15+17-39-48.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/82e39ba1-7566-4874-93a4-3a82b5e56cb8/sky_news.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Bizarre grouping shows GB News and Sky News Australia pumping out identical rage-bait at a nearly identical clip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/cf31715a-80d3-493a-b58c-c6591fe32f54/skynews_vs_gbnews.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/40656adc-a358-4ea8-a410-b72cc7ed15e1/Screenshot+from+2026-03-12+15-19-27.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Channel statistics pulled using the tuber R package https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/a8130f28-58bb-401f-b48f-8ddf30f01266/Screenshot+from+2026-03-13+18-22-54.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out “description stuffing” shows keywords summarizing every top story of the day to generate clicks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/b1cf09a4-927e-4805-ba68-8de017010c2b/Screenshot+from+2026-03-13+18-43-09.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out The description was then located as the current description for an entirely different video. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/cbcfd142-8e06-4300-b008-522bc38a3701/Screenshot+from+2026-03-13+18-56-35.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out I promise I didn’t change any of this metadata, that is really the username of the person who left that comment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/42a675b7-e2ba-4308-98a5-c83928f1b7f8/Screenshot+from+2026-03-14+10-10-01.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/233675fd-1736-4970-b7fe-5fceac072753/youtube_comments_likes.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Social media engagement clearly drives the rankings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/ac91c346-61d3-4bf0-9352-dbf9b868ffe8/Screenshot+from+2026-03-18+00-27-44.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Not a single LGBTQ+ outlet was in the top 20 or the top slot for any year on any specific keyword. Most were vocally anti-trans, and skewed UK and Australia. The first neutral outlet is in 15th place, NBC News. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/28c93400-dc1e-4a4f-ad12-a3fa483a689c/gender_confusion.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out 2023 was the year of “transgenderism”, and the massive spike correlates with a wave of threats against institutions providing gender-affirming care. Much of the explosion of stories in 2023 can be directly traced to the harassment of Dylan Mulvaney for the crime of getting a beer can in the mail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/15f1dcd0-c048-450c-a102-97272d8d9540/Screenshot+from+2026-03-10+18-25-46.png Blog - May I have your attention? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://jessk.org/blog/architecture-of-an-outrage-factory monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/94cffa28-8cc3-46a8-b5ac-0618ec29a112/top_ten__us_3keywords.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory - Make it stand out Fox News publishes more about trans people than any outlet in the US — including LGBTQ+ publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1770402810148-V2KPC0AW4XPC5OQMV5KB/top_ten_us_trans_keyword.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1770402862397-MNZ8QQQ3JH43QT4FH1QW/top_ten_us_2keywords.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/bd9a8906-337f-41ef-a34a-28f64b41aa0a/4outlets.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/40baae10-aef8-4b09-bf6b-c90959296658/Screenshot+from+2026-02-07+15-36-52.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/6ca2a744-7881-4230-8af3-185254a9d7ce/top_ten__uk_3keywords.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory - Make it stand out The Daily Mail provided more coverage (derogatory) of trans people than any other outlet in the UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1770402873078-R8B50OL38C0X5HP57VSC/top_ten__uk_trans_keyword.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1770402221528-LQQA2R23LJJI0Y6QLJFJ/top_ten__uk_2keywords.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/bcae5c99-d23f-4c20-b885-b0846cd80b76/bigfive.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory - Make it stand out The Daily Mail has the distinction using the phrase “gender ideology” more than even “transgender” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/8720eb11-daab-4c4c-b741-953bb36d133c/crooks.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/20845a62-99b5-4d5a-9fab-53ae5b100efd/youtube_results.png Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/34a3d6f6-86c5-48c8-a547-1eeeed4f1ba8/sexrej.jpg Blog - Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory - Make it stand out dplyr “tibble” summarizing distinct occurrences of the term in the entire 300MB corpus. https://jessk.org/blog/what-we-choose-to-emphasize-and-the-trauma-of-history monthly 0.5 2026-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/340b8e0b-e122-49c6-9313-a147a34912ea/bafkreichzv2amb3sxrypin5owxuigxuxejpczxfkgkei6ttq7m4nnlqpgq.jpg Blog - “What we choose to emphasize” - Make it stand out Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images https://jessk.org/blog/streamripping-democracy monthly 0.5 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/dda6c37b-ff93-4d18-884f-ea72cefb69a9/Screenshot+from+2025-12-28+11-34-18.png Blog - Streamripping democracy - Make it stand out right-click menu on Massachusetts legislature archive page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/ced32748-0a2a-4879-bd36-f5597a5d055c/Screenshot+from+2025-12-28+22-30-30.png Blog - Streamripping democracy - Make it stand out Alabama uses Vimeo. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/d69ff3a5-a0e5-4ed5-b2ae-1382d1ebbbe6/fs.PNG Blog - Three more school bathroom bills pass, and how we got here - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://jessk.org/blog/psychoanalysis-and-epistemological-violence monthly 0.5 2025-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/424caea1-0e6f-4d22-a65b-416ee6f9d2eb/brown.PNG Blog - epistemological violence & psychoanalytic theory - Make it stand out Brown, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1958 https://jessk.org/blog/an-automated-legislative-calendar-using-ifttt monthly 0.5 2025-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/6c098114-805f-4897-abe0-fdee117ac9dd/calshot.PNG Blog - An automated legislative calendar using IFTTT? - Make it stand out Screenshot of google calendar showing bills matching search “gender” in LegiScan, which are automatically added as they are updated in LegiScan’s database. 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First google sheet generated by the IFTTT applet. https://jessk.org/blog/category/tech monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/category/news monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/category/trans+health monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/category/history+of+psychology+and+psychiatry monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/category/therapy monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/category/writing monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/category/history+of+gender+medicine monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/category/essay monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/category/commentary monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/category/research monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/projects monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/reflections monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/reproductive+justice monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/LGBTQ%2B+rights monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/media monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/psychology monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/gender-affiirming+care monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/litigation monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/conversion+therapy monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/disability+justice monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/transgender monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/public+health monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/policy monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/legislation monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/blog/tag/misinformation+%26+disinformation monthly 0.5 https://jessk.org/home daily 1.0 2025-12-14 https://jessk.org/contact daily 0.75 2025-02-22 https://jessk.org/grounding daily 0.75 2026-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600559014949-8J6QPQVSKAUAZXXW1AWJ/image-asset.jpeg What is grounding? - Your brain on overload. We live in an exhausting world. Even the most even-keeled person gets a little overwhelmed sometimes, and often it’s only once we’re too overloaded to stop it that we notice. Grounding is about figuring out what works for you to “reset” your brain during difficult moments. Whether you’re a survivor who has flashbacks or someone who gets panicked in crowded rooms, there are different strategies that might work for you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600628288294-LWFVSUQHSJRD3DKMFJV0/image-asset.jpeg What is grounding? - Panic & anxiety. As I talked about with my series on the human stress response, our body’s adaptations to fear naturally take certain parts of our brains offline and reroute certain tasks to others. What we’re hoping to do is find ways to gently bring those parts of your brain back online. While grounding won’t suddenly fix everything, it will help you access your rational thoughts to take whatever steps you need to take next to care for yourself and get support. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600640417975-L68IOOKDXL5T8F4N10OK/jessjones.jpg What is grounding? - Jessica Jones It should surprise no one that as a trauma therapist named Jessica, I watch this show. If you’ve seen it, you know that in the first season, when Jessica finds herself overwhelmed, she begins to list the names of streets. This is a specific type of grounding exercise, and if it’s what you need in the moment, it can be quite powerful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600635243003-R3IYS00BNIGMCJCPHYNU/image-asset.jpeg What is grounding? - Getting back to now While it’s unlikely you’ll ever need to perform your own Mental Status Exam, these three points are helpful benchmarks for establishing that you’re oriented in space. Anxiety is naturally disorienting, and post-traumatic experiences like reliving or reexperiencing (what is often called a flashback) take you out of the present moment. If this happens to you, you many want to go through these points out loud: who are you? how old are you? Where are you? Do you know you the current president is? * https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600961853849-RMGNORLL11J66W9DQNDC/image-asset.jpeg What is grounding? - Math? Without a doubt, the one technique people find most surprising has to do with numbers. This is not for most people, but believe it or not, many people find simple number puzzles helpful. Again, this goes back to the idea of distraction and which parts of the brain we’re trying to activate and how. If what you need is to temporarily refocus your brain, and numbers come easily to you, it may be worth doing something simple like counting in 3’s or a handful of random addition problems. https://jessk.org/stress daily 0.75 2026-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600207784474-QVMVV89ZOPCW5NKHCF8F/image-asset.jpeg The stress response - Fear Imagine for a minute you’re walking in the woods and you see a bear. It’s big and fluffy and slow, but it also has jaws that could rend a car tire in half without breaking a sweat. Your brain likely clocked the bear first; you’ll know because you suddenly feel that peculiar cool/hot sensation of an adrenaline spike. The adrenaline spike, or “rush”, is the body’s way of preparing itself for battle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600208335531-EF2V3WP2D32AB19QEFFD/image-asset.jpeg The stress response - Toxic stress But what happens when your body thinks there could be a bear around every corner? Over time our bodies lose the ability to flush the stress hormones out at the necessary rate. This is exacerbated in environments where the stressors are constant, such as those working as paramedics or firefighters. In this case, the body maintains a steady supply of adrenaline and cortisol to the body, effectively putting your entire body on high alert without a plan to come down. https://jessk.org/trauma-and-the-body daily 0.75 2026-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600293885141-P5NVXJIX0NIL8ZH7LKLJ/image-asset.jpeg Trauma and the body - PTSD Today, we consider trauma to be as much a bodily phenomenon as one in the mind. Scientists have found several key linkages between the body’s stress response system and the thing we now call “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” (PTSD). While our understanding of trauma, and how to treat it, is ever-evolving, one of the most critical pieces of information has to do with the recognition of just how complex memory storage and memory retrieval really is in the brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600293936328-2VXHEJCQ4OHO1D60Q7WV/image-asset.jpeg Trauma and the body - Memory While it may be tempting to think of memory as a recording, this is only accurate if we think of the most sophisticated of recording devices. Unlike even the best video camera, the brain also records olfactory and tactile data (eg, smell, taste, and feel). To a certain extent, it even records where our bodies are in space, also called “proprioception”. This is one of the reasons that if you concentrate really hard on a happy memory of going to the beach, you might be able to not only feel the sand under your toes or smell the salt in the air, but actually feel your body rocked by the waves. Our memories are complex recordings made up of a tapestry of sensations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600296593877-N000HNMQBBCEB0INOZBL/image-asset.jpeg Trauma and the body - Therapy However, many people find that self-soothing strategies alone aren’t nearly as helpful as they wished, and there are more long term treatment options for mitigating the long-term effects of trauma. These long term strategies include things like Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT, not to be confused with CBT) or EMDR. They often aim to take the disjointed memories we talked about farther up the page and work them into a more cohesive narrative. As we’re able to articulate and recall traumatic events more and more, they can be re-encoded in a more integrated fashion in our brains, ready to be taken out like any other memory. The side effect of this is that these phantom sensations, such as the feeling of panic around a certain smell or painful sensation of something that happened a long time ago, begin to diminish. When these triggers do pull up these memories, we can exercise more of our own agency over what we want to do about them. https://jessk.org/trauma-and-history daily 0.75 2025-02-08 https://jessk.org/family-therapy daily 0.75 2022-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600469020011-LDZUUJX90FKSH9BARUK9/image-asset.jpeg Family therapy 101: what is Systems Theory? - The thermostat Let’s think about the thermostat for a moment. How does it work? While it we may be that we just see a box that heats the room, obviously there’s far more to it than that. The thermostat dial is only one part of a system of several other related parts all working together. When you set the dial to a certain temperature, the computer sends signals to thermometers around the house to take continual readings and send them back to the computer. If the temperature returned is below the temperature you set on the dial, the computer instructs the boiler to produce heat. Meanwhile, the computer is still taking readings. If the temperature returned is below the target, it will keep heating. If it reaches the target— or exceeds it— the computer instructs the boiler to shut off. This is a system: a group of devices are working together to perform a task based on pre-defined rules. When the rules change, the behavior of the entire system will change as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600138834102-QG0XFLMSLZBBROUYPJ3F/geno1.jpg Family therapy 101: what is Systems Theory? - Palo Alto. The first application of this was the Palo Alto group in California. These were a group of psychiatrists who were attempting to devise a novel form of psychotherapy for patients with schizophrenia. In these experiments, patients and their families would all move into the hospital together. Given the heavy emphasis on parents from Freud, it was believed that perhaps sessions in groups might help facilitate healing. And, it turned out, it did. And then something strange happened: as the identified patient made improvements, and the schizophrenia symptoms abated, the relationships of their parents often started to suffer, or conflicts would arise that hadn’t arisen before. When the patients started to struggle again as a result of this conflict, suddenly these relationships would improve again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600473755256-00R8ZZJ8OC3YMK61X0JL/image-asset.jpeg Family therapy 101: what is Systems Theory? - Double-bind communication In a communication system like this, no one can win. If the identified patient declines to share honestly about their feelings, they’re seen as resistant. If they share their feelings, and these feelings contain things that are difficult for the other family members to hear, there are relational consequences. Haley and Bateson hypothesized that this “double-bind” put patients in an impossible situation, and that treatment would then by necessity involve several components: resolving these contradictory messages, helping parents hear difficult feedback and emotions, rebuilding relationships that had been neglected, and finally, then could they make room for patients to make progress that didn’t accidentally threaten the structure of the family. https://jessk.org/reading daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600703289295-KATU5P52LJBAUCZG1WO6/image-asset.jpeg Recommended Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600878183299-I38R2RG7YQAEMOS0DBF6/madsen Recommended Reading https://jessk.org/links daily 0.75 2020-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1601158465444-Z75R2E2NCHUYQEOGURIZ/translifeline.png Links https://jessk.org/what-about-deep-breathing daily 0.75 2026-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600989655872-UXDHJRQHJYZ9LL89TKUC/image-asset.jpeg What about deep breathing? - What is “deep breathing”? For the unfamiliar, deep breathing, also known as “diaphragmatic breathing” is a type of breath exercise where you consciously breathe from the very bottom of your lungs, filling them with air and moving upwards. If you’re doing this right, the inflation of the lungs will cause your diaphragm to put pressure on a specific nerve along your spine and activate your vagus nerve, which is partially responsible for calming the body. Combined with a specific ratio of inhalations to exhalations, diaphragmatic breathing is designed to calm the body and reset our internal alarm system. And for many people, it’s quite effective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1601400560495-W9X5IKDXHNZCKGIXT96Z/ibreathe.jpg What about deep breathing? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1601401232452-9A6S3FKZQQ53E2JR8UIM/breathly.jpeg What about deep breathing? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1601147557652-AVOPGRIHKIU0J6IVFQHT/image-asset.jpeg What about deep breathing? - Panic Disorder Panic Disorder is characterized by sudden and unexpected feelings of impending doom. While they seem random, there may be a physiological explanation, what is often referred to as the “carbon dioxide hypothesis”. Since we breathe in oxygen and breathe out CO2, our bodies have an internal regulator that measures the amount of CO2 in the air. When we’re in small enclosed spaces, the amount of CO2 in the air increases along with the number of people. As more people get on the bus, there are more bodies pumping out carbon dioxide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1600988273684-VIPLB08MXCB151FKR1WR/image-asset.jpeg What about deep breathing? - biofeedback In biofeedback, a computer provides visual data on things like heart rate, blood oxygen (SpO2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. The visual data allows you to adjust what you’re doing to calibrate your breathing to exactly what your body needs. As you adjust, you and your clinician can see the results on the screen and make real-time changes. https://jessk.org/research daily 0.75 2024-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1601871320517-CLOX6BB05DZJTTE9WATK/image-asset.jpeg Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1601871354439-GRNAWE5VAWXK34MJCR2H/image-asset.jpeg Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1601871607970-VQ1YPH91E3ADUINAH6Z0/image-asset.jpeg Research https://jessk.org/policing daily 0.75 2023-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ea5d224d62a59a4f54b17/1601869800407-1PCKRX2GBOAPP80A24YO/finalproduct.PNG research - policing - InspectionBrowser Currently, public health data on prisons and jails exists in hundreds of word documents and PDFs. Researchers looking for public health data on Massachusetts must hand tabulate these data for analysis. InspectionBrowser is a tool that downloads, parses, aggregates and analyzes all available data on facilities of incarceration in the state. 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