basshole-astard:

fittingoutjane:

rarmaster:

basshole-astard:

this is a friendly little post to say: if you find that doing stretches for wrist/shoulders/back/whatever either 1) don’t help or 2) seem to make your pain worse, then please stop doing the stretches. the answer here is not to keep doing them becuase if you push through the pain eventually it’ll get better, right?

listen to me. listen. stretches never did anything for me and at age 25 i learned i had hEDS, which meant 1) most stretches would never help me 2) depending on the stretch, could hurt me, so please. if they aren’t helping. please do not keep doing them hoping that they will “eventually” help.

look into whether or not you have a hypermobility disorder or EDS or smth, great resource here: www.ehlers-danlos.com

#my wrists do not need to be more flexible them being flexible is the Problem

Also, fun thing I learned in PT very recently: Just because it sort of feels good while you’re doing it, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s helping. Muscles have stretch receptors and will temporarily stop hurting when stretched.

If the stretch was beneficial, it will actually produce lasting improvement. (Lasting like an hour or a few hours, at which point you need more movement.) If the reduction in pain disappears like a minute after you stop, the stretch didn’t actually improve things.

oh, useful addition! thank you

basshole-astard:

fittingoutjane:

rarmaster:

basshole-astard:

this is a friendly little post to say: if you find that doing stretches for wrist/shoulders/back/whatever either 1) don’t help or 2) seem to make your pain worse, then please stop doing the stretches. the answer here is not to keep doing them becuase if you push through the pain eventually it’ll get better, right?

listen to me. listen. stretches never did anything for me and at age 25 i learned i had hEDS, which meant 1) most stretches would never help me 2) depending on the stretch, could hurt me, so please. if they aren’t helping. please do not keep doing them hoping that they will “eventually” help.

look into whether or not you have a hypermobility disorder or EDS or smth, great resource here: www.ehlers-danlos.com

#my wrists do not need to be more flexible them being flexible is the Problem

Also, fun thing I learned in PT very recently: Just because it sort of feels good while you’re doing it, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s helping. Muscles have stretch receptors and will temporarily stop hurting when stretched.

If the stretch was beneficial, it will actually produce lasting improvement. (Lasting like an hour or a few hours, at which point you need more movement.) If the reduction in pain disappears like a minute after you stop, the stretch didn’t actually improve things.

oh, useful addition! thank you

bioethicists:

trans-axolotl:

saw a post the other day that said that psych survivors were overexaggerating and fearmongering for saying that people should be aware that having diagnoses on your record can be a danger + impede your life. and the more i think about it the more annoyed i am. because i think people need to know that there are exceptions to health privacy laws that can make having psych diagnoses and psych hospitalization history on your record risky depending on your circumstances. diagnoses follow you through your health interactions-you do not have to consent to have your information shared between providers. judicial proceedings are also an exception to the HIPAA privacy rule, so for things like custody battles, guardianship, getting orders of protection–the court can petition for medical records. there’s so many other situations where even if they can’t legally access your information without your authorization, people will require you to disclose diagnoses, records, previous hospitalizations and refuse to give you services/hire you/whatever unless you share that information with them. for example in many states anyone (a provider, a cop, friends and family) can disclose that you have certain psych diagnoses like bipolar to the DMV which then might require that you undergo drivers license review as frequently as every 3 months. my university is actively trying to kick me out right now because i had to disclose my medical record, psych diagnoses, and hospitalization history to them as a requirement to stay enrolled.

and i don’t want to scare people or make people think that having a diagnosis on their records is automatically going to mean that it is weaponized against us. because i do know plenty of people who have never faced issues with their records. but i do expect that the community supports the people speaking out about the ways that we have been harmed by diagnoses creating barriers to accessing necessary parts of our life. instead of attacking us or saying that we’re lying about things we are currently experiencing.

ok @seluvian ’s tags reminded me of how many black children are labeled with ‘oppositional defiance’ or 'conduct disorders’ for behaviors that their white peers are more likely to have diagnosed as adhd or autism or ptsd, which then fast tracks them into the school-to-prison pipeline as every teacher + para sees that they’ve been diagnosed with what is essentially Unruly Child Disorder. then this interacts with the social prejudice which paints black teens as being inherently threatening or unruly to begin with– these combine to become a self fulfilling cycle in which the diagnosis causes trauma by labeling a child as Pathologically Criminal, which spurns 'acting out’ behaviors which are then explained away as a result of the diagnosis itself.

most of the ppl i see defending the idea of diagnosis as a unilateral good are white ppl. they fail to grasp that a white child diagnosed with autism who received extra social skills support + speech therapy at their well funded elementary school may have their life enriched by diagnosis, while a black child diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder who was subjected to additional policing, poorer educational outcomes, + emotional abuse has their life destroyed by diagnosis.

riddledem0n:

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Yesterday the 12th of May was Fibromyalgia awareness day. I’m a little late uploading it, but spreading awareness is being done nonetheless. Lots of love for my chronic pain people!! <3

I guess I lied

I am also not killing myself bc I fear the committment of death. I can’t commit to anything

How the fuck do people live past 30? It’s hard for me to even picture me making it to grad school. I don’t see myself as getting old. I will die before then. Whether it’s by my own hand or someone else’s, I will not live to see that age

I am so incredibly close to killing myself right now

The only thing preventing from it is the fear of failing a suicide attempt and thus causing myself more misery

I keep replaying the same image of be blowing my brains out over and over

And over, and over, AND OVER

ladyyatexel:

barclaysbianca:

Meme news: The Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah came out as bisexual at the age of 76

That’s her, btw


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She’s an icon and also very talented. We Stan.

She just had to think about it for a while.

katerina-khimera asked:

Hihi! I really love your art and saw your newest post. I'd love it if you drew my OC, Lilian. I draw her for comfort all the time. I'll attach some of my drawings of her. Massive tw for gore for one of the drawings of her btw

Some facts about her are: she frequently dyes her hair because it makes her feel more connected to her body, she's a bit chubby, but has a lot of muscle under it due to boxing as a hobby, and she's a PhD candidate in psychology. I'd go more into her backstory but it gets pretty brutal pretty quick and I don't wanna put that on anyone

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yamikai:

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i like her a lot :)