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My mom's dad died of this in 1965. :/ I wonder where we are now on research.

Today is World #PancreaticCancer Day! Join us by wearing purple and show the world we are #InItTogether. #WPCD http://thndr.me/MCBpF3

Because even though this year still has seven weeks left, I’m calling it early. 2016 has been the fucking worst.  (bonus:)

Why does this still has to be a part of our life?

Be like Neil!!

What do you do when you begin to feel numb again? What do you do when you’re sitting in class and suddenly it’s like a dark cloud is sitting over your head and everyone’s smiling and laughing but in your eyes it looks like everyone’s laughing at you, smiling at your pain. What do you do when the people you love ask if you’re okay and you try to explain but all that comes out is “I’m fine, just tired” and they nod and smile and the dark cloud begins to rain because you can’t.fucking.open.yourself.up.to.love. What do you do when everyday you wake up and it’s like what next? What else is there until I feel okay again? What do you do?

Your secrets are safe here (via thelovewhisperer)

This is my home. Smdh.

Watch: President Obama is officially out of f*cks to give

someone: so what is your biggest fear?

me, thinking about those times when you’re sat at a window seat on the bus and a stranger sits beside you trapping you there and your stop is coming up but you’re on a seat that isn’t near a stop button so you’re going to have to communicate with this stranger to move while the bus is still in motion and navigate to a stop button in time without falling but you’re bad at socialization and maintaining your balance: heights

Please reblog if:

•your anxiety has made it difficult for you to voice your opinion

•your anxiety has made it difficult to dress the way you want

•your anxiety has made it difficult to ask for help

•your anxiety has made you constantly worry if you are being annoying and wonder if your friends and family are valid relationships or if they just put up with you because they have to

And please know that you are not fighting this battle alone. You are worth more than your anxiety says. You matter and so does your opinion and your say. You are awesome

little psychosis things: THAT FUCKING WHITE NOISE RINGING SOUND

What is bipolar disorder? PART II

Hypomania  

Hypomania is a mood episode that mostly people with type II bipolar disorder experience (but people with type I can experience it too) similar to mania. The difference between mania and hypomania is that in hypomania, the individual does not require hospitalization and there are never any psychotic features present. Individuals in a hypomanic episode typically experience:  

 Increase in energy 

 Decreased sleep 

 Pressured speech 

 Increase in goal-oriented activity 

 Irritability  

 Elevated mood 

 Psychomotor agitation 

 Grandiosity 

 Disinhibition and focus on instant gratification that can result in spending sprees or risky sexual behaviour  

It is important to note that these changes in mood and behaviour are enough to draw the attention of others, especially family and friends.  It is important that you have a friend or family member that can act as your “life guard”….someone to tell you when they notice these behaviours, and someone who you trust enough to take their word on it.

Mixed Episode  

A mood episode that includes features of mania/hypomania and depression simultaneously.

Diagnostic Criteria for the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder 

Type I: One or more manic episodes.  A depressive or hypomanic episode is not required for diagnosis, but it frequently occurs. 

Type II: One or more hypomanic episodes and one or more major depressive episodes.     

Cyclothymia:  History of hypomanic episodes with periods of depression that do not meet criteria for major depressive episodes.  Low-grade cycling of mood which appears to the observer as a personality trait, and interferes with functioning.   

BD NOS (not otherwise specified): Catchall category.  Diagnosed when the disorder does not fall within a specific subtype.   

Types of Cycling  

Rapid cycling: Four + episodes per year.

Ultra rapid cycling: Several distinct episodes within a week 

Ultra radiant cycling: multiple episodes within the same day

i don’t know how to explain what it feels like to run and look behind and see nobody coming after you.

inkskinned (via apathyrevisited)

@yellowtreeelectricityfeminist replied to your post “Why are you celebrating woman scientists? How is that not…”

well i mean, non-able-bodied men are still men and still seen as capable of being scientists. and able-bodied men can still have been bullied or picked on or gone to the hospital as much as those who arent able-bodied.. i find sexism and ableism to be very very different issues and shouldnt have to be mentioned in the same post like this. not to mention that racism and sexism are different too since black men can still be sexist even if they face racism every day

Yes, that is true.  But we’re not playing Oppression Olympics here.  “Different” doesn’t mean “worse” or “less bad.”  I didn’t want to oversimplify by saying “all men” (I know I’m sorry lol), because intersectional feminism is so very important now.  But yes, intersectional bigotry is also a thing: brown men can be sexist and homophobic, gay men can be racist and misogynistic, and white women can be EXTREMELY RACIST.  (I’m not yelling at you personally, I’m yelling at my fellow white women who didn’t disavow a very bigoted presidential candidate.)  That is something that now, more than ever, I never want this blog to lose sight of.

She speaks to me.

A lot of people think it's cute to say "Namaste" or "Salaam" (I'm not Muslim) to me. Nope, my family praises Sri Ram with "Jai Ram Ji Ki". I was always confused at what white people were trying to say to me because of their well-intentioned racist greetings. "Sup bro" works just fine.

Yuriko Kotani /  Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central

Denver

Boulder

Portland

New York

Seattle

Detroit

Berkeley

Los Angeles

San Francisco

Dallas

Chicago

Miami

Expect more of this. We are uniting. We will be your worst nightmare if you take away peoples’ rights. We’re not fucking around.

This resonates with me. My brother is disabled and under the purview of MHMR, and I'm well on my way since my psychotic break. We're both POC and I'm gay. I also look Muslim, even though I'm not, but most of this country can't tell the difference between brown people making my visage all the more dangerous to have. I've also been sexually assaulted.

My PTSD says to be terrified. My paranoid schizophrenia is already pretty terrified. My depression is shutting me down. My anxiety will not abate, and has been a constant companion since the debates. Being in public is terrifying. As terrifying as it was to be in Kuwait in 2007, and introduced to Iraqis as American, during the war. (The only time I'm considered American is oversees, go figure.)

I consider myself Texan, born and raised, but I'm never considered a fully fledged person because some facet of my personality is constantly being denied rights, equal treatment, or under threat of those rights being revoked. When these benefits will be taken away, I'll not only lose any security left, but I'll also be viewed as less than a fully formed person because my rights will be nonexistent and the rights I still have will be misapplied and overlooked for not fitting in to any group. And don't get me started on being ignored and mistreated by other minority groups for not fitting in with them.

Please stop excluding disabled people in your posts about minorities who are being affected by the election results. Disabled people in the US are being affected too and we matter.

shoutout to people who cant/wont turn in their abusers because

they dont have proof of abuse

abusers were upstanding members of society

their abuse was legal

no one believes them

their abusers are old, dead, disabled, ill, or on their deathbed

their abusers are family members

they cant remember details of abuse

they didnt uncover abuse until later in life

they were abused by organizations

they dont know the names of thier abusers

theyve been threatened into staying quiet

they arent mentally stable enough to endure the investigation

and whatever other reason. people dont have to turn in their abusers for their abuse to be legitimate. so many of us cant prove what happened to us and are only left with the disorders that came with the horror we dealt with growing up.

it makes me sad that im seeing so many trauma survivors feel that they have to justify not taking abusers to court. some of us cant, some of us shouldnt, and some of us wont. please respect all survivors regardless of how they approach legal justice over abuse.

Kate McKinnon cold open. Hallelujah. 😢😍😭😖😚 SNL 11/12/2016. Host Dave Chappelle and musical guest A Tribe Called Quest.

free space is “if i tell anyone they’ll just pity me”

Chronic illness, chronic pain, and mental illnesses can create a sense of low energy in those who suffer from them.

The spoon theory is a way to discuss the use of energy in tasks as a kind of currency. People who do not have energy draining conditions have, in theory, infinite spoons to expend on whatever they please. People who have chronic conditions may awake with 10, 5, or 2 spoons on any given day.

Dave Chappelle hosting SNL with musical guest A Tribe Called Quest as musical guest. The most excited I've been in a very long time.

no offense but i need everyone to stop saying that “we survived” bad presidents before. like, i get it, the country has weathered people like andrew jackson and ronald reagan and will probably weather trump. but when you say “we survived” andrew jackson? tell that to the 4000 (of 16000) cherokee who died on the trail of tears. “we survived” ronald reagan? tell that to the 650,000 americans who have died of aids– a national health crisis which reagan refused to even recognize? 

you know who “survived” presidents like trump? people who never had to be afraid of them in the first place. 

It’s been an emotional week. I wanted to share this encounter I had with a very hateful man on the Pittsburgh bus because it reminds me that there are brave people in this world. Let’s all do everything we can to stand up for each other.

Veteran's Day

Happy veteran's day to those who protected rights I will never have nor fully enjoy.

JDJDJEEJEHEHWHSHEBWH

*hears a noise in my house* well not sure if that was real or a hallucination but I sure am gonna be paranoid about it!