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deadly-voo:

candeezland:

Not the best pics, but this was an impromptu shoot after the fitting of my custom corset mock-up. It’s an Electra Designs rounded long over bust style corset. The finished corset is going to be grey – very plain but perfect for any occasion.  I’m purchasing it for daily wear to ease my fibromyalgia symptoms. The lovely squeeze from a corset actually detracts from my chronic pain caused by fibromyalgia. Not everyone is the same when it comes to fibro so a corset may not work for you.  Off the rack corsets can be very comfortable, but for my purposes I went custom.  I’m very fortunate to have snagged a spot from the designer. Her work and customer service is top notch.

I’m fairly new to the corset community. Any of you corset?

Oh my god, yes absolutely, when I can’t sit up because I’m exhausted or my back is aching my corsets are a godsend. The downside is that occasionally I get costochondritis, and I have to watch that the corset doesn’t bring on a spell o’ that.

That corset looks like it’s going to be GORGEOUS.

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huffingtonpost:

Man Successfully Controls 2 Prosthetic Arms With Just His Thoughts

Les Baugh is the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear two Modular Prosthetic Limbs at once, according to the researchers. 

For more on the incredible science behind this prosthetic innovation go here. 

(GIF Source: JHU Applied Physics Laboratory)

GOD I LOVE TECHNOLOGY sometimes I really regret not going into this kind of field 

DARPA: Bringing you the cyborgs of tomorrow, today.

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traumatherapist:

How to make your very own I Don’t Suck file:

It can be general or specific—A lot of my clients make general files with notes from loved ones or former students/clients/bosses of theirs or other supports. Or magazine clippings that remind them of goals or qualities they have. I am currently making one that is therapy related as a way to transition from my most recent job and prepare for my move abroad. It has notes from clients, supervisees and evaluations.

What you need: It can be as low maintenance as a file folder stuffed with notes or as high maintenance as a well-crafted scrapbook. What’s important is that you have a place to go when you need a pick-me-up.

You can gather things to build it—don’t have what you’re looking for? Start gathering!

  • If you have a friend or family member you trust to be supportive of you, see if they’d be willing to write you a note about what they like about you.
  • Next time you’re looking at a magazine or reading a blog and see something that resonates with you—save it for your file. Truth resonates, and you can’t recognize something that you don’t have, so if there is something you read or see that you admire and relate to, there’s something of you that’s in it.
  • Write yourself some affirmations when you’re feeling good—make your own or use song lyrics or quotes.

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emmisnotshortforemma:

Every day… 

I have to share the awesome app I use to negate this issue!

it’s called Medisafe and it’s a free app available in the app store or on google play and it allows you to input all your medications and:

-choose the shape, color, and dosage of each medication (including indicating if it’s an injection or a pill or an inhaler)
-notate the dosage and/or # of pills
-each time of day/night it needs to be taken
-add food or other special instructions
-schedule refill reminders
-add a med-friend (someone who will be notified if you forget to take it!)

The interface is great and i’ve found it very easy to use.  You can also add meds to take “as needed” so you can indicate that you’ve taken an out-of-time painkiller or booster pill etc.

When it’s time to take your pills it uses the text-notifcation noise on your phone to alert you- so it’s lowkey, but (usually) unmissable.  When it’s time, you have the option to snooze, dismiss, or take pills.  OR you can just shake your phone to indicate that you’ve taken them (I usually either snooze or shake the phone).

It tracks your progress too and you can export yourself an excel spreadsheet of your pill taking to give your physician etc if needed.

You can set the snooze time manually, the maximum number of alarms, all kinds of things- you can set your own alert sound too if you don’t want it to use your text-notification.

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I am TERRRRRRRIBLE about remembering pills (seriously, I forgot for 3 weeks).  I haven’t missed a dose since I started using it and it’s fantastic.

S I G N A L B O O S T

I know a lot of folk have trouble with this so this could be super helpful!

resources!

something like this wouldn’t work for me until i get my sleep schedule nailed down, but if that ever happens it sounds perfect.

ToyBox Tools – helping children with developmental disabilities learn how to play

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Hasbro’s fundamental mission is to bring joy and play to children and their families around the world.  But for some children play can be challenging.   For children with a developmental disability, play isn’t always accessible out of the box, relegating countless toys to the back of the closet or the donation bin.  But more importantly, the joy and benefits that play can bring, the connection between peers, siblings and other generations may be lost.

Believing that we could do more, a passionate group of Hasbro employees from across the Company, came together to team up with Autism Project – a long term philanthropic partner of the Hasbro Children’s Fund, to figure out a way to help.  The team learned that many classic Hasbro toys were being widely used by teachers and occupational therapists working in the field and that they were creating their own supportive play tools which provided structure that is critical to the way certain children manipulate concepts to help them understand play. ToyBox Tools was created to provide that structure through a series of tools, rooted in evidence-based and emerging best practices.  The instructional videos, printable materials and play-mats are designed to help families, caregivers and teachers unlock the power of play and to make play more fun and enjoyable at a child’s own pace.  ToyBox Tools recognizes that parents and caregivers know their children best and encourages them to use their judgment in selecting the right product and level appropriate for their child. 

Collectively our mission is to make “play accessible".

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ToyBox Tools – helping children with developmental disabilities learn how to play

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healingschemas:

DBT Self-Help Resources: Letting Go of Emotional Suffering

Emotion regulation refers to a person’s ability to understand and accept his or her emotional experience, to engage in healthy strategies to manage uncomfortable emotions when necessary, and to engage in appropriate behavior (e.g., attend classes, go to work, engage in social relationships) when distressed.

People with good emotion regulation skills are able to control the urges to engage in impulsive behaviors, such as self-harm, reckless behavior, or physical aggression, during emotional distress.

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huffingtonpost:

This Dyslexic-Friendly Font Could Help The 1 In 5 People Living With Condition

A few subtle tweaks to a letter’s shape can make a world of difference to some readers.

By creating a new typeface with slight but impactful changes, Dutch designer Christian Boer is making reading an easier task for those, like himself, who live with dyslexia. Letters of the Dyslexie font have heavy base lines, alternating stick and tail lengths and semicursive slants — all modifications that differentiate letters that can look confusingly similar to those with the condition.

To better understand how Dyslexie font works read our  interview with the designer of Dyslexie font here. 

Building Brain Implants To Fight Depression and PTSD

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The Bionic Mind: Building Brain Implants To Fight Depression, PTSD

The next step is much more sophisticated: a “closed-loop” system, with sensors in the brain, and feedback. So it can pick up when brain activity is going off course, try to correct it in real-time, and then tell whether the correction has worked.

If that sounds sort of like your phone’s GPS system, well, it is, says Dr. Emery Brown, an MIT computational neuroscientist who’ll be working on the algorithms for the brain implant.

If you’re trying to get from Boston to Providence and you go off course, your GPS picks up your error and points you back to the right road, he says. With the brain implant, “If I see that your brain activity is starting to move back into that state indicative of you not feeling well, toward a depressed state or toward fears associated with PTSD, then I’m going to stimulate to correct that. It’s wholly analogous, and in fact, the paradigm really follows precisely the paradigm used to build GPS.”

First, though, scientists need to learn how to recognize which patterns of brain activity — which “neural signatures” — indicate depression and PTSD.

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Flaredown – Decode Your Chronic Illness

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spookyautisticcombeferre:

empyreansea:

spookyjealous:

A simple, beautiful way to track your chronic illness.

HOLY FUCK SPOONIES LOOK AT THIS
29 DAYS LEFT LETS FUND THIS!

Flaredown is a web site and mobile app that lets your track your chronic illness and figure out triggers so you can reduce your flares before they ever begin.

It’s a spoonie-centric approach to figuring out what works. You can track your illness, and bring your data into your doctor. You can talk with other spoonies who have your condition and see what works for them. You can talk about drugs and see if the side effects are worth the benefits of medication.

it’s banding together in spite of illnesses that seek to isolate us.

it’s bringing light to symptoms that are not understood by doctors.

literally amazing

if you are not chronically ill/disabled and can spare the cash PLEASE fund this there literally are no symptom trackers out there (that I have found) that cater to people with chronic illness other than maybe crohn’s and there especially aren’t ones designed to connect the chronically ill and that is so important there is so much that even a great doctor can’t understand and the more you can connect to people with similar symptoms the better. I’m specifically addressing this to healthy people because those of us who need this most rarely have money to spare between treatments that may or may not help, testing and retesting, often being unable to work, lawyers fees for trying to get disability, special dietary needs (esp if those needs are considered a fad diet and the price gets jacked up and yes I am looking at you gluten-free stuff), assistive technology, transportation due to inability to drive, the list goes on but I’m going to stop here.

this app is so important and it is desperately needed bc seriously have you ever tried setting up a custom spreadsheet for this stuff it is hard as fuck and there aren’t templates for it and spreadsheets are less than ideal no matter how you set them up

Flaredown – Decode Your Chronic Illness