I do think it's a lazy diagnosis but it definitely is hard to add a name to it. I agree with what the problem is but I don't think that psychiatrists are as nefarious as you're making them out to sound. There is definitely some maladaptive behavior going on and the psychiatrists are trying to help reduce that. I never worked on the medical side of things and was only concerned with the psychology of things. I think we'd probably agree that a lot of bad parenting leads to issues that we see in people diagnosed with ODD and I'm a huge proponent of therapy to help people overcome that. There are some fringe cases where certain people are so disregulated that they need some sort of mood stabilizer just to maintain their emotions enough to make progress, but I think the vast majority are capable over improving their lives without meds. They also want to need to change their lives. No person with behavioral challenges changes based on involuntary treatment. Personally, I think involuntary commitment should be reserved for psychotic and mood disorders. Also most likely autism and certain time of intellectual and cognitive disorders.

It sounds like you were diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder as a kid based on what little I've read from you in this thread. Not a conventional mood disorder or psychotic in anyway which is definitely shakey grounds for commitment as has hit or miss efficacy. The legal argument is often that it's done in good faith and does have some merit in reducing future criminal behaviors for a lot of patients. Most just grow up and stay mad at the system unfortunately.

I worked there for years. You're a liar and probably someone who's unwilling to accept consequences for their words/actions.

Worked in WPIC for years. This is pretty standard behavior for a fair amount of our paranoid schizophrenic friends who aren't on meds.

In my experience, pretty much all of them that I've been too are in that age window. I could be assuming won't, but it seems like you want to avoid the overly drunk fresh 21 crowd. For what it's worth, I haven't really seen that as a thing at trivia nights anywhere in the city. Something about the activity just fills rooms with millennials more than gen Z'ers from what I've seen

It is kind of odd that we don't have any locally owned high end steakhouses. It really seems like it would thrive in the Pittsburgh market. The more expensive places that are popular here tend to be food over ambience like gastropub type places where people don't feel the need to dress up. Steakhouses seem to fall in line to with that niche

Despite the weird disdain I've noticed on this sub, it's Dianoia's for pasta by a massive margin. You are really asking what the number two is IF you are looking for pasta from your Italian place

For non pasta entree options I'd probably saying Dish Osteria

Those areas tend to get a little bit more expensive pretty quickly. I agree with you, those are literally my 3 favorite neighborhoods in the city, but if you want a decent sized house or maybe a small yard, it jumps out of their budget pretty quickly. All depends on what they're looking for though.

I've lived in the slopes and have no complaints. Some areas come with beautiful views and some of the houses in that area can be a real steal. I completely expect that area to continue to rise in property value over the next few years because of continually rising interest from (shitty) rental companies buying up and "renovating" houses. As an investment, slopes might be the better move. That being said, I have a soft spot for any neighborhoods between the rivers. It's my personal favorite part of the city. I think I'd prefer Greenfield despite never having lived there.

I hope you don't mind hills with either one haha

Oh yeah that's definitely odd. Thought you were speaking about the poster themselves being cringey

How? It sounds like a person trying to find a new hangout with people whom they feel like they share something in common

Shh

It's truly a travesty that my favorite (affordable) rye whiskey, Kinsey, is from Philly

If you leave the city and go towards pretty much any of the various Amish communities they'll sell rolls of homemade butter. Always delicious

Ah that makes a lot of sense

Never heard of this place until right now. Not that it's a bad concept, but I immediately thought why would you do this here. Wherever you stand in the city of Pittsburgh, you are never more than 20 miles from Maine plots of farmable land. I understand the green element at play but this seems like an odd place to do this