#medicine cw

[carnivorousyandeere]

This is really fucked up but thinking about a yandere taking care of you while you’re having medication/drug withdrawals….

Maybe they’re comforting, patient, heart breaking at the pain you’re in. Don’t worry, they’ll help you through it, love you through it. Their love will fix everything, just try to relax in their arms…

Maybe, secretly… they enjoy the sight of you sick and helpless, feverish and delirious, begging for relief. Maybe it scratches a sick itch deep inside them to watch you suffer. Maybe they enjoy wiping your tears and pressing kisses to your mouth as you cry a little too much.

Or maybe, this is a punishment. You haven’t been behaving well. Fighting, trying to escape, saying things just to hurt your captor’s feelings… maybe they think you deserve the nausea and skull-splitting pain. They brush the side of your face gently, and smile when you flinch away.

Holding the next dose, the next hit as a way to keep you in line. “Say that you love me?” You’re so tired, been fighting so long. You say it. “Say it again.” You say it again, voice hoarse and trembling. “Say it again, like you mean it this time.” You can’t.

[ghcstcd]

One of my pills is shaped similarly to a guitar pick. So every time I take it, I'm shredding for mental health.

[astralix]

  Act 006 Medication

Pretty Guardian ✶ Sailor Moon

Characters: Original Characters, Canon Characters-mentioned Rating: Teen-Older Teen Genre: Angst, Action, Fantasy (Magical Girl) Song: “Unwell” Matchbox 20

Disclaimer: I do not own Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.  Naoko Takeuchi does.  My version of Zodiac Senshi, Ophiuchus, Andromeda, and Phoenix are mine.

This fic depicts someone having PTSD. Do not take my information for fact as I am not a medical help provider. Please seek professional help as needed.

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Hold on Feelin’ like I’m headed for a Breakdown And I don’t know why ✦✶✦

  Flashbacks to her various battles only worsened the pain.  The flashbacks from when she was Sailor Icarus and now Sailor Phoenix.  Having to watch as people she loved hurt themselves for the sake of the enemy.  Having to watch her friends die protecting her as much as they are able.  It was just too much to take in.  She had to wonder how Sailor Moon accepted this.  She wondered how Sailor Moon got through this.

Perhaps, she did not.  Perhaps, she is always looking for a way to stop the fighting.

Sailor Phoenix or Nakano Tenmei could only hope there was a way to stop the fighting.  Could only hope there was a way to stop the death and the agony.  Could only hope there was a way to stop the sorrow.  To stop the sacrifices in her name.  To stop the sacrifices in her enemy’s names.

Tenmei had a hard time with the aftermath of the battles.  There were people she had killed that haunted her.  There were figures of herself in uniform and eclipsed that would appear before her.  She relieved the pain.  She relived the sorrow.  She relived the sacrifices.

Tenmei clung to the blanket she was covered in.  She could only gaze around her room at the bright colored walls.  Her eyes peeled over the cutesy decorations of baby phoenixes and suns.  It really did not fit her much anymore, but she still loved the decorations enough not to take them down.  It was just… maybe a partly cloudy painted sky would fit her better now that she has been through so much?  It was better than ruminating over the battles she won or barely survived in.

“Mei-chan?”  there was a knock at the door.  Her friend from another star was here, Sailor Andromeda.  She knew a great deal of what Tenmei was going through.  However, she also needed help at one time.

“Yes, Sara-chan?” Mei answered from her bed.  “C’mon in.”  She welcomed Sara, and tried to keep a smile on her face.  She did not want to alarm the girl.

“I just took my medication, did you want yours?” Sara asked.

Sailor Andromeda or Sara was from another world, but she was also very delicate and sickly on other worlds such as Earth.  She needed the medication to enjoy a better quality of life.  Still, she braved the journey alone while the rest of her own guardians and handmaidens fought on.  She needed help, and had asked Sailor Phoenix for it.  During the struggle, they became very good friends and like sisters.

Tenmei looked down.  “My Abilify?” she asked, and Sara nodded.

“Sure,” Tenmei says, and Sara leaves to get some water and her prescription bottle.

Tenmei continued to look down as Sara reentered the room with the water and the bottle.

“Sara-chan, do you take something like Abilify?”  Tenmei asked.

“It’s what you use for PTSD, right?  Well… yes,” Sara asked, looking down at herself after placing the water and prescription bottle on the nightstand.

“Did you have to lie to your doctor about what really happened?” Tenmei asked.

“No, but I imagine it’s different here since the people aren’t awakened to the battles you fought,” Sara answered.  “I’m really sorry, Mei-chan.”

Tenmei smiled up at Sara.

“It’s okay, I just was curious.”  Tenmei opened the bottle and shook it a little to get her needed prescription.  She swallowed it and grabbed her drink.

Sara sat down in the desk chair she brought over.  “You can tell me everything, though,” she said, as she offered her hand.  “I understand if you don’t wish to.”

Tenmei’s eyes widened as she set the empty glass down on the nightstand.  She eventually smiled a little bit.  

“Very well,” she said.  “I will.  It’s a long story.  I could only show you pieces of it,” Tenmei continued as Sara nodded.  “Thank you,” she said to the other princess and Sailor Senshi.

Sara smiled back.  “No problem.

[schizosupport]

This might be extremely niche topic but I find it incredibly funny that for me, when I’m having a tough psychosis day I’ll take my medication aid and then I’ll be like “it’s not really hitting I’ll take one more that’ll do it” and then five minutes later the first one starts working and I never learn to never take a second one (To be clear my doctor is ok with me taking a second one) but there seems to be an overlap between people who take drugs to get high and me who takes medication to feel normal and how we both decide to take more right before the desired effects take place. Like I’m going to be a little out of it for the rest of the day. And by out of it I mean more normal than an average joe lmao. Anyway your blog came up on my dash and I thought about you and wanted to say I hope you’re doing well and to maybe lighten the posts on your blog a bit cause they can get heavy topic wise

I had this ask sitting for so long lmao, sorry, but I read it and appreciated it a lot already when you sent it!

I think it's so classic honestly for all manner of short acting agents taken as needed. I think it's bc we all have a tendency to put off taking the drug until we're completely sure we need it. And by then we will be unwell to a degree where it's really hard to wait for the first pill to kick in and keep any track of time. And then one can also get scared that maybe the one just wasn't enough and oh god, don't wanna wait for the second one to kick in before any relief and better take it quick! Afterall we might now realize we should've taken the first pill quicker.

It's definitely a situation I can recognize, even with something like otc painkillers.

Can I ask out of curiosity what you've been prescribed as a psychosis aid? I'm thinking of whether there's something that could work for me in that way when needed.

And thank you for the wellwishes!! I'm doing ok on average I would say, though I'm under a lot of pressure.

I'm working an internship two days a week at a daily ware store. I'll be done in December, and then most likely I'll be approved for the flex job/partial disability scheme in my country. I'm very happy about that.

I hope you are well too!

[wrxthfulguard]

(X) @winters-club​

Window shopping often led Don to shops he’s never seen before, usually discovering them in his daily walks around the city.

He had wandered into the shop after the scents of various teas got his attention, silently browsing the shelves until the owner came up to him, turning to observe him before answering his inquiry.

“Just browsing, sir... But I’m interested for a tea that helps with insomnia, I don’t have a steady sleep routine due to my rotating schedule at my workplace.” That, and something to quell the nightmares.

He wasn’t versed in medicine... Or poison.

“Are you the owner of this shop?”

[sidhewrites]

Seeing isolate ignore ibuprofen posts ….I remember the time when I was one of you……the time when I could take ibuprofen….

[miloutic]

there are two wolves inside you. one is terrified of being in pain and/or nutrient deficient and requires swallowing pills like painkillers and multivitamins to prevent those from happening, the other is terrified and paranoid about the pharmaceutical industry and doesn't trust any pill as far as it can throw.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Okay, I know people as a general rule tend to not care about invertebrates as much as cute, fuzzy mammals, but this is a must-read if you care about animal welfare. The short version is that horseshoe crab blood has been used for decades in medicine as a way to test whether something is truly sterile; the blood clots in the presence of bacteria. Since then millions of horseshoe crabs have been captured and drained of blood, even though a synthetic alternative was developed a few years ago.

They go through a pretty brutal experience in the process. They're caught by fishermen who often throw them by their tails into a pile in the open air, and they're then trucked to a bleeding facility where they're strapped down and their blood is removed with needles jabbed directly into their hearts. Over half their blood may be taken, after which they're supposed to be returned to the ocean. However, it's likely many of them never make it back, instead turned into fish bait and sold by the same fishermen who caught them in the first place.

Apart from the fact that this is a horrific thing to put any animal through, the attrition due to fatalities has put a serious dent in horseshoe crab numbers. This is compounded by massive habitat loss, pollution, and the capture of horseshoe crabs as food, particularly as the females of one species are considered a delicacy. And other animals that rely on horseshoe crabs are suffering, too. The American rufa subspecies of the red knot, a medium-sized shorebird, is critically endangered as the horseshoe crab eggs it must have in order to successfully complete migration have become increasingly scarce, and it is likely the bird will become extinct if trends continue.

While there are guidelines for medical horseshoe crab harvest, they're considered optional. The few laws that exist are poorly enforced. Short of a complete ban on horseshoe crab blood in favor of the synthetic alternative, these animals are in very real danger of going extinct after a history spanning over 400 million years on this planet.

Thankfully, this article is not the first to bring forth the issues surrounding horseshoe crab harvest. Here are a few resources for further information and action (US based, though horseshoe crabs are threatened throughout their entire range):

Horseshoe Crab Conservation Network - https://horseshoecrab.org/conservation/

Wetlands Institute - https://wetlandsinstitute.org/conservation/horseshoe-crab-conservation/

Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition - https://hscrabrecovery.org/

[tapuhauko]

"Ugh..." He has to take his medicine. At least one of them is a bitter concoction, and he despises bitter.

[reasonsforhope]

"A study looking at the bearers of artificial hearts found that a subset of them can regenerate heart muscle tissue—the first time such an observation has ever been made.

It may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure, the deadliest non-communicable disease on Earth. The results were published in the journal Circulation.

A team of physician-scientists at the University of Arizona’s Heart Center in Tucson led a collaboration of international experts to investigate whether heart muscles can regenerate.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart failure affects nearly 7 million US adults and is responsible for 14% of deaths per year. There is no cure for heart failure, though medications can slow its progression. The only treatment for advanced heart failure, other than a transplant, is a pump replacement through an artificial heart, called a left ventricular assist device, which can help the heart pump blood.

“Skeletal muscle has a significant ability to regenerate after injury. If you’re playing soccer and you tear a muscle, you need to rest it, and it heals,” said Hesham Sadek, director of the University’s Sarver Heart Center.

It was previously thought that when a heart muscle is injured, it could never grow back.

“Irrefutable evidence of heart muscle regeneration has never been shown before in humans,” he said. “This study provided direct evidence.”

The project began with tissue from artificial heart patients provided by colleagues at the University of Utah Health and School of Medicine led by Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD, and a pioneer in left ventricular assist device-mediated recovery.

Teams in Sweden and Germany used their innovative method of carbon dating human heart tissue to track whether these samples contained newly generated cells. The investigators found that patients with artificial hearts regenerated muscle cells at more than six times the rate of healthy hearts.

“This is the strongest evidence we have, so far, that human heart muscle cells can actually regenerate, which really is exciting, because it solidifies the notion that there is an intrinsic capacity of the human heart to regenerate,” Sadek said.

“It also strongly supports the hypothesis that the inability of the heart muscle to ‘rest’ is a major driver of the heart’s lost ability to regenerate shortly after birth. It may be possible to target the molecular pathways involved in cell division to enhance the heart’s ability to regenerate.”

In 2011, Sadek published a paper in Science showing that while heart muscle cells actively divide in utero, they stop dividing shortly after birth to devote their energy to pumping blood through the body nonstop, with no time for breaks.

In 2014, he published evidence of cell division in patients with artificial hearts, hinting that their heart muscle cells might have been regenerating because they were able to rest.

These findings, combined with other research teams’ observations that some artificial heart patients could have their devices removed after experiencing a reversal of symptoms, led him to wonder if the artificial heart provides cardiac muscles the equivalent of bed rest like a person needs when recovering from injury.

“The pump pushes blood into the aorta, bypassing the heart,” he said. “The heart is essentially resting.”

Sadek’s previous studies indicated that this rest might be beneficial for the heart muscle cells, but he needed to design an experiment to determine whether patients with artificial hearts were actually regenerating muscles.

Next, Sadek wants to figure out why only about 25% of patients are “responders” to artificial hearts, meaning that their cardiac muscle regenerates.

“It’s not clear why some patients respond and some don’t, but it’s very clear that the ones who respond have the ability to regenerate heart muscle,” he said. “The exciting part now is to determine how we can make everyone a responder, because if you can, you can essentially cure heart failure.

“The beauty of this is that a mechanical heart is not a therapy we hope to deliver to our patients in the future—these devices are tried and true, and we’ve been using them for years.”"

-via Good News Network, December 31, 2024

[rookflower]

frost

[canisalbus]

✦ Mom ✦

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 136

 There is a small child floating in the Watchtower. 

They’re visibly not human, a too-big cloak of purple (what shade no one knows, all they can describe about the cloak is purple, nothing else) hanging from them as big Lazarus-green eyes glare down in something of a pout. The child huffs, blowing white hair out of their face despite it shimmering and shifting on its own already. 

How the child, inhuman or not, found their way into the Watchtower- without setting off an alarm no less- is a concern. A very large concern, but it can wait because there is a four-year old (if the child is the equivalent of a human child that is) at oldest staring down at them. 

 “Do you know where the speedsters are?” the child piped up after an awkward stare-down, none of the league members present quite sure what to do in this situation. It was probably around time to call Batman… or they could call Flash instead. 

[coulsonlives]

This has been a reminder

[freshbeeth]

does anyone know if it’s illegal to walk out of an emergency room with an iv still lodged in your arm

happy eclipse day to all the ER nurses who just walked out of the hospital to look up at the sky while i’ve been sitting in the waiting room in excruciating pain for 5 hours <3

[sirsmacks]

tried to experiment again