#Socioeconomic factors

[eridan-ampora]

valuable life lessons from minecraft:

eye contact is dangerous

don't eat rotten meat

you have to sleep sometimes or else the phantoms get you

[sunfoxfic]

We were so close to smoking not being cool anymore. We were so close. Then they flavored it mango and now it's taboo to criticize it anymore. People don't ask if they're allowed to vape indoors, they aren't considerate of people who may have health problems that are triggered by the chemicals or if it just bothers them, people don't care that they're supporting an industry built on corruption and greed, they can't see it draining their pockets and much less their health. We were so close to smoking not being cool anymore.

[fairiencarnate]

Why did no one tell me that the "chemical imbalance" theory has largely been disproven, that serotonin and dopamine can't cause mental illness on their own? Why have all mental health professionals been pushing this idea as fact? I've always thought the whole BPD diagnosis was bogus, just modern day hysteria slapped onto (mostly) women with complex-PTSD. Almost an official gaslight, like "your trauma wasn't traumatic enough to warrant the PTSD label so we're going to act like your brain is malfunctioning". So I'm not surprised to find all this out.

Can we finally begin a trauma-informed approach toward mainstream mental health shit? Especially mood disorders? Let's not rule chemicals and hormones out entirely, but let's acknowledge that trauma and genes have far stronger ties to mental health.

[pinkinsect]

they should let me cite my tumblr mutuals on academic papers

[theprinceandthewitch]

...The only response you should give to misogynistic men who insist "single fathers are better than single mothers in every way" is:

"I see... You're so right John. It's so clear to me now... men should actually marry each other! I mean, single fathers are much better then single mothers in every way, right? So, imagine the benefits of having TWO men raise children. We should transition to a system where men marry each other, men raise children and women can live as bachelorettes."

Watch the way the seethe.

[lukashaa]

Style experiment I forgot to post

[tysonfurybattlepass]

managed to shave my 13hr workday down to a 12hr workday #selfcare

[francisforever2014]

we really need to completely scrap the discourse on psychiatry and psychology and start from scratch

[girl-bateman]

Some days I'm pretty content with my childhood other days I'm ripping my hair out because it just doesn't add up !! someone is hiding things from me !! I don't trust anyone !!

[furby-organist]

// "Haven't you had a drink after a bad day?" "We don't have bad days" thank you Hazbin Hotel for this MARXIST/MATERIALIST ANALYSIS that the decisions people make are highly correlated to their MATERIAL CONDITIONS!!!!

[notbeyondbirthday]

When you follow a Kira stan blog for more dn content and they post about how they disagree with MOST conservative talking points but they are a MODERATE LIBERAL and censorship and liberal bias in the media has gone too far afahsjwlekwlejqpk BRUH

[fipindustries]

️‍🔥 Social Class

i think poor people are evil because money is the one single measure of moral and ethical worth in a person.

[umemiyan]

i'm just curious.... does everyone else know what first shift/second shift/etc. means when it comes to work?? because i was talking to someone yesterday and they were lowkey confused by what i was saying. like is it just them or is this not common terminology? idk 😭

[gothbaseball]

if you think autism and adhd are “overdiagnosed”, that’s how i know you don’t do a whole lot of listening to people with autism and adhd

[untitledgoosegay]

I agree with the vast majority of the commentary here, but I'm feeling complicated about the screenshotted tags' proposition of ecotourism as a solution. It's definitely an option, but tourist economies have their own consequences and problems -- just ask Hawai'i about that.

I saw this post and idk it made me feel some type of way. I may get flack for this but idc I feel it must be said. Poaching is a lot more nuanced than “bad people kill animals.”

Poaching, especially in Africa, is a byproduct of colonization and poverty. Although poaching existed prior to European colonizers, it was not done at a scale and frequency that would threaten wildlife populations. Poaching exploded under colonial rule where things like ivory, pelts, hunting trophies, and in some cases, land were prized and sought after by European settlers. This led to an initially boom that devastated local animal populations and cause some tribes to become very reliant on poaching as a means of subsistence.

Additionally, due to poverty, people are still being driven to poach animals, even endangered animals because it’s a more profitable way to support oneself and community, and predatory animals can be poached because they threaten and devastate local livestock. Anti-poaching measures rarely take into account the human and economic drive behind poaching. You’re shooting and killing poachers but what about their families and communities that they support? Are those animals in a better place when there more people waiting to hunt them? Anti poaching measures don’t actually care about eliminating poaching, if they did they’d come from the angle of human and economic development and community improvement. Because let’s be real, if those people living in their poor, rural, undeveloped, undereducated*, regions with not many opportunities turn to poaching, it’s not from a moral standpoint, they’re chasing survival.

African governments be corrupt af, keeping all the money for themselves and leaving masses in poverty then erect some anti-poaching laws to please smug westerners as if they aren’t driving people into desperation. And then poaching rings take advantage of this desperation, much like a gang would, and supply them with guns and a promise of a better life. And bam, you have a poaching problem. So long as you have people in desperation, poaching will still be a problem.

Like many social issues; drugs, violence, crime; a closer look and you’ll find that poverty and lack of opportunity are at the bottom of it...

[canadianno]

You know i cannot say nothing, because saying that my friends didn't influence me in a way is stupid because duh

BUT

lets say i pretty much make my way into everyones head in one way or another

-alz, the homiessssss

Hell yeahhhhh!! I knew you would have a close friend group of SOME kind, related to you or not, simply because isolated only children have a certain way of interacting with people and you don't interact with people like that