#communitycare — Public Fediverse posts
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YMHC Heart-to-Heart Registry. Sign up to make hearts: https://ymhc.ngo/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #YouthMentalHealth #ymhc -
YMHC Heart-to-Heart Registry. Sign up to make hearts: https://ymhc.ngo/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #YouthMentalHealth #ymhc -
YMHC Heart-to-Heart Registry. Sign up to make hearts: https://ymhc.ngo/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #YouthMentalHealth #ymhc -
YMHC Heart-to-Heart Registry. Sign up to make hearts: https://ymhc.ngo/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #YouthMentalHealth #ymhc -
YMHC Heart-to-Heart Registry. Sign up to make hearts: https://ymhc.ngo/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #YouthMentalHealth #ymhc -
#URGENTNEED for Sabina & elder
Today's hotel 100 PAST DUE, hours late. I'm struggling to advocate, as loved one passed overnight. Please help!
https://Ko-fi.com/sabilewsounds
https://PayPal.me/SabiLewSounds
https://Linktr.ee/sabilewsounds
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https://Venmo.com/toadlyturtle
https://Cash.app/toadlyturtle
*add note* Sabi#MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #CommunitySupport #CommunityCare #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2026
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Toadlyturtle/117237086564366993
#URGENTNEED for Sabina & elder
Only minutes remaining to raise a minimum of 158 for hotel by 11AM ET! They urgently need this on time!!!!Also nothing towards food, hygiene, etc
Disabled displaced Indigenous Latina family
https://Ko-fi.com/sabilewsounds
https://PayPal.me/SabiLewSounds
https://Linktr.ee/sabilewsounds
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https://Venmo.com/toadlyturtle
https://Cash.app/toadlyturtle
*add note* Sabi#MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #CommunitySupport #CommunityCare #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2026
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@SabiLewSounds/117095239942619604
#URGENTNEED for Sabina & elder
Only 9hrs remaining to raise a minimum of 158 for hotel by 11AM ET! They urgently need this on time!!!!Also nothing towards food, hygiene, etc
Disabled displaced Indigenous Latina family
https://Ko-fi.com/sabilewsounds
https://PayPal.me/SabiLewSounds
https://Linktr.ee/sabilewsounds
🐇
https://Venmo.com/toadlyturtle
https://Cash.app/toadlyturtle
*add note* Sabi#MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #CommunitySupport #CommunityCare #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2026
#DirectAid #Poverty -
YMHC Heart-to-Heart Registry. Sign up to make hearts: https://ymhc.ngo/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #CompassionInAction #ymhc -
YMHC Heart-to-Heart Registry. Sign up to make hearts: https://ymhc.ngo/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #CompassionInAction #ymhc -
YMHC Heart-to-Heart Registry. Sign up to make hearts: https://ymhc.ngo/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #CompassionInAction #ymhc -
YMHC Heart-to-Heart Registry. Sign up to make hearts: https://ymhc.ngo/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #CompassionInAction #ymhc -
YMHC Heart-to-Heart Registry. Sign up to make hearts: https://ymhc.ngo/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #CompassionInAction #ymhc -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@SabiLewSounds/117095239942619604
#URGENTNEED for Sabina & elder
Only 9hrs remaining to raise a minimum of 158 for hotel by 11AM ET! They urgently need this on time!!!!Also nothing towards food, hygiene, etc
Disabled displaced Indigenous Latina family
https://Ko-fi.com/sabilewsounds
https://PayPal.me/SabiLewSounds
https://Linktr.ee/sabilewsounds
🐇
https://Venmo.com/toadlyturtle
https://Cash.app/toadlyturtle
*add note* Sabi#MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #CommunitySupport #CommunityCare #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2026
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Share love with your child. YMHC Heart to Heart Campaign. https://ymhc.me/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #StudentWellBeing #YouthMentalHealth #CaringCommunities #ymhc #makehopehappen #compassion #peersupport -
Hope delivered to you. Receive a daily message of support straight to your inbox. A reminder that you are valued, connected, and not alone. https://ymhc.ngo/dms
#mentalhealth #mentalwellbeing #hope #ymhc #communitycare #peersupport -
One message can make a difference. https://ymhc.ngo/dms
#motivation #inspiration #positivevibes #mentalwellbeing #mentalhealth #hope #ymhc #communitycare #compassion #peersupport -
Know a Snow Angel — or are you one? ❄️
The City of Ottawa is recognizing neighbours who help clear snow for seniors & people with disabilities.
Nominate someone (or yourself!) and get a certificate from the Mayor.
https://ottawa.ca/en/forms/snow-angel-nomination
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Wild how “be kind to each other” is somehow the most controversial thing a leader can say.
Compassion is a threat when cruelty is the system’s fuel. 😮💨🔥#KindnessIsRevolutionary #GoodTrouble #SolidarityNotSilence #LiberationForAll #AntiOppression #DoBetterChurch #RadicalCompassion #ChooseHumanity #CommunityCare
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I have founded a group for abuse survivors (of past or present abuse) and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".
I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.
So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!
And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.
I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.
We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.
Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!
The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out spam and abusers.
Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.
#abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor
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I have founded a group for abuse survivors (of past or present abuse) and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".
I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.
So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!
And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.
I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.
We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.
Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!
The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out spam and abusers.
Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.
#abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor
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I have founded a group for abuse survivors (of past or present abuse) and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".
I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.
So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!
And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.
I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.
We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.
Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!
The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out spam and abusers.
Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.
#abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor
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I have founded a group for abuse survivors (of past or present abuse) and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".
I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.
So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!
And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.
I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.
We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.
Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!
The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out spam and abusers.
Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.
#abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor
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I have founded a group for abuse survivors (of past or present abuse) and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".
I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.
So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!
And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.
I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.
We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.
Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!
The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out spam and abusers.
Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.
#abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor
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Mental health tip that is secretly antifa in action, that I learned from @DionRa:
When you are down on yourself or have intrusive thoughts or otherwise feel like "my brain hates me", "my brain is being mean" —
This has a source outside of you. It's not a part of you that randomly decided to make your life shit for no reason. That's not how brains or psyches or emotions or humans or mental health works. If you suffer, it's because someone MAKES you suffer!
You're being oppressed, you're being exploited, you're being neglected, your rights are trampled on, you're being threatened, you might suffer systemic violence and/or interpersonal abuse. You suffer from helplessness in the face of injustice and cruelty around you.
And I know many of you know this and I know it's often overwhelming to think about. I am living that right now.
But it is important to remember as often as you can, where that comes from. To try and get specific. Who in your life is hurting you or threatening or gaslighting? Who is exposing you to oppression? Who is abusing you at home or in activist spaces?
We can't fight our own brains and "win". We can't just accept suffering either. We can only work towards more safety and more freedom and more justice by getting as specific and unflinching as we can when tracing our sufferings back to their sources.
Then fight the source. Bring the fight to them. Just being clear in your own mind changes how interactions play out! It's not easy, but it IS worth it and it gets easier with every exercise.
Sometimes you can just disengage. Unfollow, block, give monosyllabic responses if you have to. You can cut your own parents out of your life if you want to. You can find ways to get by without bosses.
Otherwise, make them at least work for it. Don't give in easily to injustices, especially the very normalised ones. Be "unreasonable" and difficult! Use the privileges you do have. Keep asking "Why?" as if you're 4 again.
Just do what you feel like. Sit or lie down or jump around for no other reason than you feel like it. Eat what catches your fancy. Eat until you feel like doing something else, even if you're already "full" (diet culture messed up your perception of your body's needs!) Sing, laugh uproariously, swear and yell. Sigh. Just stare blankly into space if that feels peaceful. Sleep more.
Connect to your body, reconnect over and over again. Be THERE for yourself, be in yourself, in your body. Connect body, mind and action.
#MentalHealth #SelfCare #MentalIllness #AbuseCulture #RapeCulture #abuse #AbuseSurvivor #RapeSurvivor #SelfCare #CommunityCare #dissociation #grounding #DomesticAbuse #brains #NegativeSelfTalk
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Mental health tip that is secretly antifa in action, that I learned from @DionRa:
When you are down on yourself or have intrusive thoughts or otherwise feel like "my brain hates me", "my brain is being mean" —
This has a source outside of you. It's not a part of you that randomly decided to make your life shit for no reason. That's not how brains or psyches or emotions or humans or mental health works. If you suffer, it's because someone MAKES you suffer!
You're being oppressed, you're being exploited, you're being neglected, your rights are trampled on, you're being threatened, you might suffer systemic violence and/or interpersonal abuse. You suffer from helplessness in the face of injustice and cruelty around you.
And I know many of you know this and I know it's often overwhelming to think about. I am living that right now.
But it is important to remember as often as you can, where that comes from. To try and get specific. Who in your life is hurting you or threatening or gaslighting? Who is exposing you to oppression? Who is abusing you at home or in activist spaces?
We can't fight our own brains and "win". We can't just accept suffering either. We can only work towards more safety and more freedom and more justice by getting as specific and unflinching as we can when tracing our sufferings back to their sources.
Then fight the source. Bring the fight to them. Just being clear in your own mind changes how interactions play out! It's not easy, but it IS worth it and it gets easier with every exercise.
Sometimes you can just disengage. Unfollow, block, give monosyllabic responses if you have to. You can cut your own parents out of your life if you want to. You can find ways to get by without bosses.
Otherwise, make them at least work for it. Don't give in easily to injustices, especially the very normalised ones. Be "unreasonable" and difficult! Use the privileges you do have. Keep asking "Why?" as if you're 4 again.
Just do what you feel like. Sit or lie down or jump around for no other reason than you feel like it. Eat what catches your fancy. Eat until you feel like doing something else, even if you're already "full" (diet culture messed up your perception of your body's needs!) Sing, laugh uproariously, swear and yell. Sigh. Just stare blankly into space if that feels peaceful. Sleep more.
Connect to your body, reconnect over and over again. Be THERE for yourself, be in yourself, in your body. Connect body, mind and action.
#MentalHealth #SelfCare #MentalIllness #AbuseCulture #RapeCulture #abuse #AbuseSurvivor #RapeSurvivor #SelfCare #CommunityCare #dissociation #grounding #DomesticAbuse #brains #NegativeSelfTalk
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Mental health tip that is secretly antifa in action, that I learned from @DionRa:
When you are down on yourself or have intrusive thoughts or otherwise feel like "my brain hates me", "my brain is being mean" —
This has a source outside of you. It's not a part of you that randomly decided to make your life shit for no reason. That's not how brains or psyches or emotions or humans or mental health works. If you suffer, it's because someone MAKES you suffer!
You're being oppressed, you're being exploited, you're being neglected, your rights are trampled on, you're being threatened, you might suffer systemic violence and/or interpersonal abuse. You suffer from helplessness in the face of injustice and cruelty around you.
And I know many of you know this and I know it's often overwhelming to think about. I am living that right now.
But it is important to remember as often as you can, where that comes from. To try and get specific. Who in your life is hurting you or threatening or gaslighting? Who is exposing you to oppression? Who is abusing you at home or in activist spaces?
We can't fight our own brains and "win". We can't just accept suffering either. We can only work towards more safety and more freedom and more justice by getting as specific and unflinching as we can when tracing our sufferings back to their sources.
Then fight the source. Bring the fight to them. Just being clear in your own mind changes how interactions play out! It's not easy, but it IS worth it and it gets easier with every exercise.
Sometimes you can just disengage. Unfollow, block, give monosyllabic responses if you have to. You can cut your own parents out of your life if you want to. You can find ways to get by without bosses.
Otherwise, make them at least work for it. Don't give in easily to injustices, especially the very normalised ones. Be "unreasonable" and difficult! Use the privileges you do have. Keep asking "Why?" as if you're 4 again.
Just do what you feel like. Sit or lie down or jump around for no other reason than you feel like it. Eat what catches your fancy. Eat until you feel like doing something else, even if you're already "full" (diet culture messed up your perception of your body's needs!) Sing, laugh uproariously, swear and yell. Sigh. Just stare blankly into space if that feels peaceful. Sleep more.
Connect to your body, reconnect over and over again. Be THERE for yourself, be in yourself, in your body. Connect body, mind and action.
#MentalHealth #SelfCare #MentalIllness #AbuseCulture #RapeCulture #abuse #AbuseSurvivor #RapeSurvivor #SelfCare #CommunityCare #dissociation #grounding #DomesticAbuse #brains #NegativeSelfTalk
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Mental health tip that is secretly antifa in action, that I learned from @DionRa:
When you are down on yourself or have intrusive thoughts or otherwise feel like "my brain hates me", "my brain is being mean" —
This has a source outside of you. It's not a part of you that randomly decided to make your life shit for no reason. That's not how brains or psyches or emotions or humans or mental health works. If you suffer, it's because someone MAKES you suffer!
You're being oppressed, you're being exploited, you're being neglected, your rights are trampled on, you're being threatened, you might suffer systemic violence and/or interpersonal abuse. You suffer from helplessness in the face of injustice and cruelty around you.
And I know many of you know this and I know it's often overwhelming to think about. I am living that right now.
But it is important to remember as often as you can, where that comes from. To try and get specific. Who in your life is hurting you or threatening or gaslighting? Who is exposing you to oppression? Who is abusing you at home or in activist spaces?
We can't fight our own brains and "win". We can't just accept suffering either. We can only work towards more safety and more freedom and more justice by getting as specific and unflinching as we can when tracing our sufferings back to their sources.
Then fight the source. Bring the fight to them. Just being clear in your own mind changes how interactions play out! It's not easy, but it IS worth it and it gets easier with every exercise.
Sometimes you can just disengage. Unfollow, block, give monosyllabic responses if you have to. You can cut your own parents out of your life if you want to. You can find ways to get by without bosses.
Otherwise, make them at least work for it. Don't give in easily to injustices, especially the very normalised ones. Be "unreasonable" and difficult! Use the privileges you do have. Keep asking "Why?" as if you're 4 again.
Just do what you feel like. Sit or lie down or jump around for no other reason than you feel like it. Eat what catches your fancy. Eat until you feel like doing something else, even if you're already "full" (diet culture messed up your perception of your body's needs!) Sing, laugh uproariously, swear and yell. Sigh. Just stare blankly into space if that feels peaceful. Sleep more.
Connect to your body, reconnect over and over again. Be THERE for yourself, be in yourself, in your body. Connect body, mind and action.
#MentalHealth #SelfCare #MentalIllness #AbuseCulture #RapeCulture #abuse #AbuseSurvivor #RapeSurvivor #SelfCare #CommunityCare #dissociation #grounding #DomesticAbuse #brains #NegativeSelfTalk
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I’m still in shock over the story of an Alabama man who died after a Florida surgeon removed his liver instead of his spleen.
First things first - you can live without a spleen. You can’t live without a liver. They look nothing the same, are on opposite sides of the body and have different vascular structures.
I find it hard to believe this could ever happen by accident unless the physician was severely impaired or acting out of malice.
Why did no one else in the operating room speak out? Surely everyone in that room knew he was touching the liver as opposed to the spleen.
This - for me - is the most troubling part of this disaster. Hospitals (and especially operating rooms) are not environments that encourage speaking up. They encourage falling in line and not challenging authority. It can make things very unsafe for patients - and it’s one of the reasons I say that a disabled patient should never be left alone in the hospital. They need an advocate at all times.
Unfortunately in surgery you can’t have an advocate. You’re 100% at the mercy of the people in the room. You’re unconscious, paralyzed and in their control. You have to trust them to take care of you. Why didn’t anyone speak up?
I don’t know the answers - and I’m not sure we will ever know. I do know that as patients we have to put our full trust in our medical team - and that’s a hard thing to do when you’ve experienced medical trauma or you hear stories like this.
Hospitals reward people who fall in line and obey the chain of command. Surgeons often have a God like complex and take great offence to anyone (patients, advocates or other staff) questioning their judgement.
So people simply don't question them.The problem is that some people NEED to be questioned. Chain of command shouldn't matter when a literal life is on the line.
We all make mistakes - it's part of being human. The stakes are just much higher in medicine and especially in surgeryWe need to start changing the culture to one of collaboration. Patients should be permitted to be partners in their own care.
Their expertise in their conditions and their body welcomed and listened to.Other healthcare workers like nurses, social workers, respiratory therapists,
physiotherapists and dieticians should be brought to the table and treated as equals.
They should be encouraged to speak up if they feel their patient may be harmed.Advocates should be welcomed & encouraged at all steps in the healthcare journey. Too often we hear of disabled patients being separated from their advocate and this should NEVER happen.
We need someone watching out for us at all times - especially if we might be unconsciousIn a perfect world I would love to see all chronic illness patients given an advocate at the time of diagnosis. Someone like a disability doula who's job it is to help them navigate the complex medical system, keep them safe from harm and help them adapt to their disabilities
I recognize that's unlikely to be funded anytime soon - but there would be SO much value in a service like that - for patients AND physicians.
Until then - I ask that everyone who works in healthcare remember that your patient is scared, vulnerable and in need of protectionIf you see something amiss - say something.
If they're upset - listen to them. Wear a mask for them! If they request a mask be placed on them when they're unconscious ... honour that request.
Don't be the person who violates their trust and bodily autonomyLastly - if you're a patient - try and make sure you always have an advocate. I recognize this isn't an option for everyone... but if it's at all possible please have someone with you. If not you could phone or video a friend, ask for social work, nurse manager or chaplain
Anything you can do to get an extra set of eyes and ears in the room will increase odds of a good outcome.
My heart is with the family of the man who lost his life to this reckless mistake & with everyone who's suffered due to a medical error or neglect. We must do better.I would encourage anyone who questions HOW this can happen to watch or listen to Dr Death - the story of Christopher Duntsch. He was a Texas neurosurgeon who maimed and killed countless patients and the hospitals and medical board allowed it to continue until the legal system stopped him. It’s a chilling tale of how wrong things can go when organizations protect their reputation over their patients.
Full article on the William Bryan’s death here: https://globalnews.ca/news/10732577/florida-surgeon-removed-liver-spleen-dr-shaknovsky/
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