Joshua Davidson Therapy

26/01/2026

25/01/2026

It is awesome when you have a person who can keep up.

If not, we have to wait. It's the rules.

25/01/2026

It can be both.

25/01/2026

When I seriously asked my third year lecturer why we needed to study statistics (poorly explained and taught compared to the lectures by the Math and Statistics Department) for two years, she told me, seriously:

"We average 650 students in introduction to psychology. We don't want to graduate 650 new psychologist every year. So we make you do statistics for two years to w**d out all the people who aren't serious enough."

I left at that point. It was the final straw to my long list of why I distrusted psychology and was done with the degree.

My top reasons are:
1) Terrible and often never replicated studies that:
A- would get rejected for errors in any other field of science
B- yet we take as foundational principles
C- which pollute the next generation of studies (garbage faulty assumptions in, garbage out) ["Unstated Major Premise" or " Begging the Question"
2) Discarding from the studies out-lier results (all my results were discarded when I participated in experiments)
3) Most impactful studies are restricted to WEIRD participants ( Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic [USA political alignment]) and not generalisable.
4 ) The psychology degree doesn't teach you how to be a therapist (you learn that privately after you qualify).
5) Psychology therapy almost completely ignores biology, falsely attributing almost all odd behaviour to "trauma".
- in my experience, almost all long term mental health struggles are due to biology, with a contribution from adversarial social contributors, and a factor of disrupted learning due to poor mental health and or neurotypical teaching.
6) The first paragraph + the papers that get submitted to journals generally have the statistics done by students from the Math and Statics Department, because most of the psychologists are terrible at statistics...
7) Psychologists don't learn about Autism or ADHD unless they do specialty education
- which is often taught by psychologists that don't actually know anything because they based it on terrible research and didn't talk to people with lived experiences.

That doesn't mean that talking therapy is inherently bad or doesn't work, or that we should discard all of the research done by psychologists. That does mean that we need to re-examine what was good science and think about therapy from both a biological and cognitive /experiential perspective.

25/01/2026

Schrödinger’s Do*****ag

When people say mean things, and when they get chastised for it, they will say it is a joke.

But the “mean version” is what they meant – they just want to change it into a joke to avoid being in trouble with you.

Often when people use this tactic, you should see it as a red flag for toxic people.

https://www.jomida.com/schrodingers-douchebag/

25/01/2026

Say "no" to n***s.

This is part of boundary testing and the first stage of Radicalisation; "Normalisation"

23/01/2026

23/01/2026

*coughs uncomfortably*

22/01/2026

A neurodivergent Perth colleague of mine told me about Befriend, where different community meet ups exist for various wants and needs.

Here's a link to their page.

https://www.facebook.com/befriendinc

Sparking human connection, together. www.befriend.org.au

21/01/2026

Toxic Faking: When the toxic person is pretending to be nice, but it won't last.

Most toxic people cannot maintain the faking for more than 12 weeks, 24 is rare.

It isn't hard for toxic people to act and pretend to be nice for a few hours, days or weeks. That is, faking it. Toxic faking it.

If we are concerned about someone's behaviour, and we don't have proof or confidence that they are toxic, then we need to give them a reasonable chance to grow. That means, talking it out with them and then watching to see what they do.

Good but ignorant people who make mistakes will learn and experiment with altenatives to try to do better (after all, they were ignorant, and the solution has to be something they can own, but is a solution!).

Toxic people will not learn, and won't grow. They may pretend by doing the things you've asked, but it won't last.

16/01/2026

Personally, I feel that all of the Barbie Dolls are representing realistic Autism. However, I also appreciate that there is a specific one created for "this is our intent" rather than "can also be autistic".

I'm also glad that Actually Autistic people were consulted in the development of this product.

My thoughts on Autistic Barbie:

Not for me, but that's okay. I haven't been into Barbies since I was a kid. Some have been complaining that it isn't good representation, but that's literally impossible. The autistic spectrum is so vast that they'd have to make a different Barbie for every single one of us. Would you rather they made their autistic doll a whyte guy?

The fact that they worked with ASAN rather than Autism Speaks is a win to me. They worked with actually autistic people to develop this Barbie instead of a bunch of Autism Moms ™️

I'm glad we have more representation that doesn't look like Sheldon Cooper. Do I use AAC? No. Do I use fidget spinners? No. But do I use headphones? Absolutely! I don't like making direct eye contact, I like stimming with my arms and hands, and I hate wearing high heals. No representation is ever going to represent everyone 100%

While I have no desire to own this Barbie, I'm glad it exists. I think it's a step in the right direction. It's not often that autistic women of colour get to be given representation, so let's not scare companies away from doing it again by throwing a bunch of hate around. Don't like the Barbie? Then don't buy it, and move on.

Thank you for reading 😊

16/01/2026

More Keys to Mental Health

Last time we looked at the top 4 keys to Mental Health, Diet, Exercise, Medication Therapy and Talking Therapy. In this we recognised that most of mental health is biological and some is to do with knowledge and understanding your experience. This time we are going to focus on that old wisdom – balance aka everything in Moderation. The problem is that “balance” varies depending on your biology, situation and culture.

Let us explore that a bit more.

Goldilocks Balance is about not too much, not too little, everything in moderation.

When you are feeling like you are in a Black and White adrenaline state, try Seeking the Midground.

Remember, while standards answers are quick, some things need to be Case by Case, which means flexibility, because one size doesn't fit all.

Life is Dynamic, allowing for change.

Assess, Accept, Adapt, Act, Achieve, Overcome.

Growth requires you to be Honest, have good Recollection, Insight into the consequences of your actions, Cognition to understand what is going on and Judgement to figure out right and wrong.

For the full explanation of these highlights: https://www.jomida.com/2026/01/16/more-keys-to-mental-health/

You may also like:

4 Keys to Mental Health
Solving Problems https://www.jomida.com/solving-problems/
Understanding the Freeze, Fawn, Flight, Fight reflex https://www.jomida.com/fear-reflex-freeze-fawn-flight-fight/
Humble Theory https://www.jomida.com/beating-social-anxiety-humble-theory/
The Goldilocks Zone https://www.jomida.com/education/neurology/the-goldilocks-zone/