#seeking help and medication

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[gertritude-art]

blow dried my hair for christmas and ended up looking upsettingly like wokemas mordred

[violetsandshrikes]

actually all this talk of wellness trends and health has reminded me of something.

if you're AFAB, you may or may not known what a decidual cast is. this can be useful to know, for example - one of my friends called me crying/terrified because she thought that she had internal bleeding or something else critically wrong, and by chance i happened to actually be able to look at a photo and be like ah, i think i know what's happened here.

[aspiringnexu]

Star Trek but Starfleet HQ has portraits of every Admiral and/or historically important person and they act like the portraits in Harry Potter.

Jim is forever leaving his portrait and snuggling up in Spock’s. They're most often seen napping together in a frame nearest one of the windows (because Vulcans are basically cats) but, due to their fame, they have many portraits around the Academy campus so really it's a toss up where exactly they'll be. They're always together, though.

[redheadlesbianfreak]

I'm really sick of how people dehumanize mentally ill people who take medication to improve their mental health.

So many assholes say that anti-depressants turn you into a zombie. Or how anti-psychotics make you an idiot. How about you fuck off and mind your own business?

I know that medication doesn't work for everyone, and it doesn't solve every single problem. But it really can save someone's life, and people need to understand how deadly untreated mental illnesses can be.

[mozzaremi]

[sprinkleofquirk]

I’m so tired of being honest about my pain level and having no one believe me because I don’t show pain the way they expect

[preacherboyd]

House M.D. | 3x21 Family

[sunfloralchaos]

Man it's weird to continuously grieve yourself, your own health, your ability to do things,

It's heartbreaking to go through the comics I've made about it

Im so increasingly desperate and hopeless, I need help badly but I also know there's no point because I have never once been given genuine help from a fucking doctor

The older I get and the longer I've dealt with this the more upset I am that the only "help" I have ever been offered is antidepressants, anxiety meds and telling me to get a different job or to listen to diet podcasts. I've waited over a year for an appointment to be told to be mindful about my nervous system malfunctioning

I have so many more problems than currently on paper because I know I don't have it in me anymore to do that fight again for things I know I won't get help for

[seeds-of-life-daily]

rei and kaworu would probably wear glasses because their (inferred) albinism, or contacts, i don’t judge, but i feel like if they did wear contacts kaworu would forget to remove them and have like a collection of contacts behind his eye giving him super sight (that is how that works, trust me)

Day 53 K: Wait.. do you have to take them out before going to sleep? Why are you making that face..?

[tittyinfinity]

Stop treating disabled people like we don't know what we're doing.

Stop treating disabled people like it's our fault we're disabled because you think we "haven't tried anything."

Believe disabled people when we tell you we've tried something and it didn't work.

Stop giving us unsolicited advice in the first place. It's rude as fuck to assume that we haven't tried the most basic solutions, like physical therapy and heating pads.

Stop assuming how we feel based off of how we look. We are not exaggerating our symptoms when we show them. We are not faking our symptoms when we mask them.

No one goes out of their way for years straight to see multiple doctors and somehow scam them into believing they have fake health issues so that we can "give up on life" and be constantly broke.

(I want to preface this next paragraph to say that I know that some statements aren't about disabled people and are said to help others – but the wording of certain things hurts disabled people whether you like it or not – because people don't believe us when we say we're disabled and they think we are helpless addicts)

Stop treating us like we're "victims" that "need help" if we don't want to give up our means to function. Someone taking pain medication daily or smoking weed daily so that they can function is not a sign that they need help getting off of the drugs. And drugs don't affect everyone the same way! Just because a drug fucks YOU up doesn't mean that we're constantly fucked up all the time.

There are some forms of pain and symptoms that can literally only be treated with drugs and you're gonna have to get over it.

Not being able to take a tolerance break isn't a sign that the medication is ruining our lives, either. Even if we are addicted to our medication. NOT BEING IN EXCRUCIATING PAIN IS ADDICTING AND QUITE FRANKLY, EVERYONE IS ADDICTED TO NOT BEING IN PAIN. THAT'S WHY YOU KEEP TYLENOL AND IBUPROFEN IN YOUR HOUSE. We just happen to have pain that can not be cured by regular means. It is safer to take a couple of pain pills a day than it is to be taking the max dose of tylenol and ibuprofen all day – which DOES NOT EVEN TOUCH OUR PAIN.

This is not to invalidate the fact that you can get addicted to drugs for any reason. But again, anything you say about addiction does affect disabled people. And yes, other disabled people can very much spread ableist ideas.

My final point (for now) –

Just fucking listen to us.

[girlbob-boypants]

You know there actually *is* a really interesting read to be had with Jade Shadows through the lens of how when a man's political beliefs uphold oppressive systems (even to his own detriment), it does often come with a similar belief that his wife's body is His to decide what to do with.

It creates the question would Jade have survived if her husband was willing to change his ways or swallow his pride sooner? Will he even see it as that or does he still believe it was his choice to deny her the medical expertise of the Tenno's Cephalon because he's pro Imperialism and the Tenno are revolutionaries?

[opal-sparks]

I really hate to ask for help, but my fiance had to get a wisdom tooth removed and around the same time, he also had a back injury at work. I'm asking for help to pay his dental bill and his upcoming specialist visit.

His job is requiring him to see a specialist before they allow him to return to work with restrictions. In the meantime, I'm using a credit card, but we are struggling financially and cannot afford to pay off all this debt. Any help is appreciated. Money is used to pay for dental, medical visit, and prescription medications.

Even if you can't donate, reblogs are greatly appreciated too.

https://gofund.me/bad1675d

[fenrichaita]

On one hand, I want people to talk about misdiagnosis of mental health issues by doctors. But that does have this sort of implication that 1. having the "correct" label put on you is somehow more benevolent or deserved and 2. does not really talk about how most MH labels are subjective by nature and are utilized as tools of social abjection and violence. I really do not think that anyone can consent to that. Not with how these labels are utilized by clinicians and authorities today.

[istherewifiinhell]

Feeling kinda. Chest sore. Pressure? Congestion? lung thing. Maybe. Fuck this i dont have time to give a shit. Wheres the echinacea tea

[heartvisor]

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