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Relabeling To Emotional Health to humanize the topic of "Mental Health" It's out of date. It has stigma attached to it. It causes the person suffering from anything under the label to be discredited, untrustworthy, unpredictable and dangerous, or crazy. I call bull....... - Mrs.Shire...
I grew up surrounded by addiction. I guess you could call them”functional” addicts, because they held jobs and kept us fed and housed. There was a lot of physical violence, too. My mom’s first husband whipped my brothers mercilessly day and night.... Hello All! So nice to find a social app that has sustenance to it! A little background- I'm soon to be 45, engaged to my childhood love, have 3 LARGE boys, some college (but intentionally self-educated) and speaking only from direct experiences.... - onI think the fact that you can't block the 'undesirables' on this site tells me most of what I need to know. You cannot subject 8 billion humans to this level of misery and expect to be welcomed at our cookout. These wounds are deep, not superficial.by
And, agreed these are very, very deep wounds. Would love to hear what you think we can do to help heal
- onHow is it we can celebrate anything while human beings are still dying from drugs and homelessness? by
There was no help no where only more pain school abuse pain church abuse pain scouts abuse pain home abuse pain cops beating and pain time and time and time again .Almost everyone around me dies and is attacked in some wicked way. To the very present day .... - Derek...
Personal Masks
So... these masks hit deeply personally on so many levels... feel free to drop your own takes on what they mean to you in the comments. The one that I will share here is on the artistic level.... - Jorlis...
Layers of Horror. Living Inside a Tragedy: The Earthquake in Venezuela
How do you describe what is happening in Venezuela? It feels like an impossible task. The scale of this tragedy is so immense that every attempt to make sense of it becomes confusing and overwhelming.... Without really knowing you the whole situation from a 50000 foot view, I would say, trauma, you experienced a lot of trauma during your life. And this is paralyzing, and when you start writing down those thoughts, you start remembering that trauma and your body goes back into... I went from having uncontrollable panic attacks even with maxed out doses of medication to not taking any medication for depression or anxiety and having zero panic attacks, and AI played a huge role in that because it gave me clarity where before there was nothing but malice and... - FeatherB...
I'm an avid student of humanity. I'm 56, passionately progressive: anti-racisist, (-classist, -ablist, all the -ists), harm reduction advocate, anti-prohobition, ally still unlearning and actively unpacking my own socialization. BA in American Social Critique.... - Tomo...
It doesn't feel invalidating to me, I think we're looking with curiosity at a topic that isn't backed by hearty public research. The more I think about the way I experience and have healed and explored very intense (mostly traumatic) childhood experiences, the more convinced I...