if your disability activism doesn’t support belligerent disabled people, disabled people who refuse meds or therapy, disabled people who don’t trust the system that’s fucked them over too many times to count—if your disability activisim depends on disabled people being nice or respectable or willing to be made into inspiration porn—it is not good disability activism.
Month: February 2015
Old traumatic memories are recalled differently than new ones
People with post-traumatic stress disorder often experience prolonged and exaggerated fearfulness, even when they’re completely out of harm’s way.
The long-term storage of painful or fearful memories is a defence mechanism of sorts. It can help animals (humans included) evade dangerous and potentially life-threatening situations. But in humans, it can also cause severe psychological distress.
Scientists have tried to understand what enables fearful memories to persist with such vigour (and some researchers have even suggested sleep might play a role). Figuring this out could help alleviate the negative psychological effects endured long after traumatic experiences occur.
Now, researchers funded by the US National Institute of Mental Health think they have uncovered an important clue.
In experiments with rats, a team from the University of Puerto Rico discovered that an old fear memory is recalled via a separate brain pathway from the one used to recall the memory when it was still fresh.
The team has published its findings in Nature.
“While our memories feel constant across time, the neural pathways supporting them actually change with time,” explained lead author Gregory Quirk in a press release.
“Uncovering new pathways for old memories could change scientists’ view of post-traumatic stress disorder, in which fearful events occur months or years prior to the onset of symptoms.”
thelothbroks:
“When there is no time for anger, when there is no time for hate, when there is only time to move forward and take the fate that we have been woven, I hail S I G Y N. Strongest of women, W I S E S T of sufferers, martyr without wounds.” (x)
Seizure First Aid.
Learn it. Share it. Know it. Use it.
100% correct medical information on tumblr for once; also consider calling 911 if you don’t know how often the person has seizures and ESPECIALLY if the seizure has lasted 5 minutes or more (which is why the watch is critical)
This happened to me on a train ride. Don’t ever hold anyone who’s having a seizure you can actually damage they’r spine, also open they’r mouth by using his or her chin never use ur fingers. When your actually in a situation like this you will know what to do. Don’t panic.
If you can put a blanket over their legs just under the waist. Sometimes bowels and bladder can empty out from it. This will help with decency.
Please in any case of seizure call 911 and don’t let them go home like this. Seizures are really important matter and they should consult with a doctor because it is very tiring for the victim. They will need medical assistance after a fit.
In the Library—WIP
This isn’t finished yet, but I had to share. Loki and Sigyn are being dorks together. ❤
Incontinentia Pigmenti International Foundation
WHAT IS INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI?
Incontinentia Pigmenti (IP) is a genetic disease of the skin, hair, teeth and central nervous system. The condition was named because of the way the skin looks under the microscope. “Bloch-Sulzberger Syndrome” is another name commonly used for IP. Other names are: Bloch-Siemens Incontinentia Pigmenti, Melanoblastosis Cutis Linearis, and Pigmented Dermatosis, Siemens-Bloch Type.
Incontinentia Pigmenti (IP) is a rare genetic disorder. The cause has been traced to a defective gene on the X-chromosome called NEMO. The disease varies from very severe to mild and clinically inconsequential. The signs described in this brochure vary in severity from person to person, and there is variability even among affected individuals in the same family. The prevalence of IP is unknown. As is often the case with rare disorders, it is likely that IP often goes undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. A woman with IP has a 50% chance of passing on this gene to each of her daughters. For male fetuses, of the 50% who inherit the IP gene, the great majority will result in a spontaneous abortion (or miscarriage) as IP is nearly always lethal in a male fetus. But for extremely rare exceptions, any live born male will be unaffected. There is no known ethnic or racial predisposition and cases have been reported throughout the world. Treatment is symptomatic and supportive. There is currently no cure for IP. Genetic counseling for affected women, parents of affected children, and relatives at risk is recommended. However, with the discovery of the gene, NEMO, and the relationship of mutations and alterations within NEMO to IP, prenatal diagnosis is now possible.
Winter and CP
As a person with CP, I hate winter. I’m always cold which isn’t good for my muscles because they get stiff and it can get really hard to move. They also get achey. And some other people have mentioned that they get cramps. It doesn’t help that winter is like the longest season ever…. ~Mx2
Every time I hear the kenning for Loki “Burden of Sigyn’s arms,” it brings to mind Michelangelo’s pietá, not the one in Rome but the one in the Uffizi in Florence which shows Mary, Joseph, and the Magdalene holding a Christ made doubly heavy by the burden of a dead body and by the burden of grief. Here Michelangelo caught something essential about the nature of grief: it has a terrible weight. Shakespeare said in King John, where he has a queen sit down on the floor next to the throne having lost a son (and Sigyn is a queen) “for my grief is so great that none but the huge firm earth can bear it.” That to me, is Sigyn. She bears the unbearable. There’s no glamour in Her ordeal.
Fuensanta Arismendi
Holding the Bowl 