If you’re feeling better, that’s good!!! If you’re no longer feeling chained to your mental illness, even better!
But please please please please pLEASE do not stop taking your medication because you feel better.
You feel better because your meds are working.
If you stop taking them they’ll stop working.
And that means relapse.
So if you’re on meds and you’re feeling better, keep taking them!!!!!!!
This is really great but if you’re on the bp spectrum it’s good to keep in contact with your doctor, because while sometimes anti depressants are good for snapping you out of a depressive or dysthymic cycle it can trigger you into a hypo/manic cycle so they’re not good long term. I don’t see it talked about much on tumblr and this is really great but it’s just a PSA! After you’re not feeling depressed it’s good to see if a mood stabilizer would be better for maintenance.
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i know that people being on their phones has become like a symbol of apathy and uncaring but so many people i know use social media to share love. like yesterday i got to watch a wedding livestreamed to everyone who couldn’t make it. i’ve seen my friend slowly learn how to cope with being a teen mom because of a massive outpouring of “mumblr” support + tips. i’ve seen my friends come out as gay, learn to cook, discover the flaws in their feminism, work for social change, make good life choices, go to amazing places, develop passions, form educated opinions, learn to love themselves. i’ve seen people post the bravest recovery posts and shy political posts and everything in between.
and i don’t honestly care how edgy you think your art is. what you’re telling me when you draw grey people looking at a white screen is that you don’t care what happens to the other people in your life.
but i do. i care about the boy i’m in a long distance relationship with, but i also care about people i’ve never met. i’ve been following some people for three years and genuinely care about their experiences. i’m glad you’re still in touch with the people you love, even if you’re not paying attention directly to me! i get happy when you finally dump him! i’m sad when your cat gets sick! i give a shit.
i don’t think technology is taking empathy away from us. i think it’s changing it.
Roast beef and tots on a breakfast sandwich? This changes everything!
via Mitch Baird:
“We were witness to something beautiful today. These two men are the same two men who were in that picture that went viral. Only in that picture, the gentleman on the right was wearing red face and feathers and angrily screaming at Robert Roche on the left. Today this man came up and asked for the forgiveness of my mentor and all those present. True to form, Robert graciously forgave him and listened to what he had to say. This baseball fan used my megaphone to address the wrong in how he acted previously. I watched my hero become an even more honored and cherished elder in one moment. This is the moment they shook hands and peace was made. I’m blessed to have been witness to this. — with Bee Schrull in Cleveland, Ohio.”Never give up hope that people can change.
Don’t let romantic love be the only kind of love you strive for
(via Poorly Drawn Lines – Pigeon)
oh hell yeah.
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The panel discussion being broadcast was teens and adults with autism and how federal funding could better support them. As the show closed, the moderator asked if anyone on the panel felt a vaccine had caused their autism.
Silence.
One teen panelist spoke up, “no, but it hurts that you would ask that question.”
The moderator’s tone softened, he apologized and asked why. I’m going to paraphrase the boy’s response because it has been several years and for the life of me I have not been able to find a transcript of this event anywhere, which has driven me to madness. If anyone from C-SPAN reads this and knows the talk I’m referring to, please send me a transcript! The panelist’s response was incredibly moving and I wish I could give him credit for it and do his response justice.
As I recall his response was, “because it makes me feel like I’m damaged or broken, when I’m not. I was born this way. My brain just works differently than most other people’s. When people talk about vaccines and autism it makes me feel like I’m not a person but a ‘bad result.’ It reminds me that no one wants a kid like me and parents will risk their kid’s lives and everyone else’s just to make sure their kid doesn’t turn out like me.”
There was silence on the radio. By this time I’d pulled into our parking spot at home and sat in the car in silence as well. It was a moment of epiphany.
Oh bleep, I thought. I’ve never thought of it like that.
The panelist’s words were so loaded and unfiltered. He was speaking from the heart and I could imagine the pain he felt when he described that some parents would rather have their children die than turn out like him. That is an incredible and completely unnecessary burden for any child to carry around, yet any time vaccines were discussed, those assumptions were coded in language.
lesbianism is not inherently sexual! there r ace lesbians! there r children who are lesbians! to take smth so good & natural as women loving women & turn it into just a porn category for male pleasure is sick & im tired of it!
LGBTQ Muslims have and always will exist—we aren’t haram and we aren’t alone.
