Tag: awareness
Wellbutrinversary
At Patheos Ride the Spiral, Nornoriel Lokason talks about his experience with antidepressants and the rhetoric that taking medication is a “crutch”.
“Even Thor needs Mjollnir to fight giants.”
When A Patient Says ‘Everything’s Fine,’ A Doctor Should Be Wary
The retired cop was an easy patient, who took his medicine without complaint. After an operation, the man went into a mental tailspin that his doctor realized had been in the making for years…
When A Patient Says ‘Everything’s Fine,’ A Doctor Should Be Wary
Depressed person: “I just couldn’t do it.”
Non-depressed person: “Why not?”
Depressed person: “You know how you have a ‘survival instinct’ – that vague internal force that just stops you from knowingly hurting yourself?”
Non-depressed person: “Yeah.”
Depressed person: “It’s like I have that, only it’s all wonky. When I want to do something that’s good for myself, or that I need to do, it just stops me.”
Me, trying to describe what it’s like to have depression, and why I can’t just do the things I need to do sometimes. (via archers-bones)
So accurate it hurts
(via kiriamaya)
Learning disability awareness isn’t about reassuring people with learning disabilities that they’re ‘still smart’, it’s about recognizing that intelligence is a highly variable social construct and that an individual’s worth is not attached to that subjective construct.
I absolutely love seeing this photoset getting this attention it’s getting for just because you NEVER see deaf people advocating for deaf people. Not that it doesn’t happen, it happens all the time everyday. It’s not ever In the public eye. the people you always see in the spotlight are hearing people. Hearing people are praised left and right for being deaf educators or interpreters or advocating for deaf people and that’s great, don’t get me wrong. I applaud them for helping the cause, but the face of deaf advocacy should be deaf, at least I think so, and this isn’t something you see a lot of.
So shout out to rikki poynter for this video and highlighting these issues in a humorous way and getting hearing people to understand this
Dad Refuses to Give Up Newborn Son With Down Syndrome
When Samuel Forrest heard a baby crying from outside his wife’s hospital room, he knew his life would change forever…
Holding the Bowl 