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@ibdammed
HAPPY WORLD OSTOMY DAY!!!! 💩 💜
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I want to fucking cry.
Y’all ever practically kill yourself over a boy you’ve hardly even talked to bc mood
Who would wanna date a girl w a pooping disease anyways like I’m gross
STILL FUCKING ACCURATE EXCEPT INWANNA diE 28383X MORE
“There will come a day when you’ll be so grateful that you never gave up.”
— Unknown
I want to fucking cry.
Y’all ever practically kill yourself over a boy you’ve hardly even talked to bc mood
Who would wanna date a girl w a pooping disease anyways like I’m gross
I want to fucking cry.
Y’all ever practically kill yourself over a boy you’ve hardly even talked to bc mood
gentle reminder
it will pass - even if it feels like it won’t, whatever is troubling you will pass
“You look sad”
Yeah thanks it’s called depression
...anyways..,,, why am I still single
Hi, vegan and veterinary technician here with an important PSA:
If you feed your carnivorous pets a vegan diet I will swiftly knock your fucking teeth out and rescue them from their torture in the cover of night.
Thank you.
Stop taking people with dementia to the cemetery
“Oh yeah, every time that dad forgets mom is dead, we head to the cemetery so he can see her gravestone.”
WHAT. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard some version of this awful story. Stop taking people with dementia to the cemetery. Seriously. I cringe every single time someone tells me about their “plan” to remind a loved one that their loved one is dead.
I also hear this a lot: “I keep reminding mom that her sister is dead, and sometimes she recalls it once I’ve said it.” That’s still not a good thing. Why are we trying to force people to remember that their loved ones have passed away?
If your loved one with dementia has lost track of their timeline, and forgotten that a loved one is dead, don’t remind them. What’s the point of reintroducing that kind of pain? Here’s the thing: they will forget again, and they will ask again. You’re never, ever, ever, going to “convince” them of something permanently.
Instead, do this:
“Dad, where do you think mom is?”
When he tells you the answer, repeat that answer to him and assert that it sounds correct. For example, if he says, “I think mom is at work,” say, “Yes, that sounds right, I think she must be at work.” If he says, “I think she passed away,” say, “Yes, she passed away.”
People like the answer that they gave you. Also, it takes you off the hook to “come up with something” that satisfies them. Then, twenty minutes later, when they ask where mom is, repeat what they originally told you.
I support this sentiment. Repeatedly reminding someone with faulty memory that a loved one has died isn’t a kindness, it’s a cruelty. They have to relieve the loss every time, even if they don’t remember the grief 15 minutes later.
In other words, don’t try to impose your timeline on them in order to make yourself feel better. Correcting an afflicted dementia patient will not cure them. They won’t magically return to your ‘real world’. No matter how much you might want them to.
It’s a kindness of old age, forgetting. Life can be very painful. Don’t be the one ripping off the bandage every single time.
I used to work as a companion in a nursing home where one of the patients was CONVINCED I was her sister, who’d died 40 years earlier. And every time one of the nurses said “that’s not Janet, Janet is dead, Alice, remember?” Alice would start sobbing.
So finally one day Alice did the whole “JANET IS HERE” and this nurse rather nastily went “Janet is dead” and before it could go any further I said “excuse me??? How dare you say something so horrible to my sister?”
The nurse was pissed, because I was “feeding Alice’s delusions.” Alice didn’t have delusions. Alice had Alzheimer’s.
But I made sure it went into Alice’s chart that she responded positively to being allowed to believe I was Janet. And from that point forward, only my specific patient referred to me as “Nina” in front of Alice—everyone else called me Janet, and when Alice said my name wasn’t Nina I just said “oh, it’s a nickname, that’s all.” It kept her calm and happy and not sobbing every time she saw me.
It costs zero dollars (and maybe a little bit of fast thinking) to not be an asshole to someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Be kind.
gentle reminder
it’s okay to have set backs when trying to recover or better yourself - take your time and try your best to not beat yourself up over mistakes; and always keep in mind that you’re only human
me: theres no reason for me to be anxious right now!!!
my brain: …..debatable
gentle reminder
anxiety and panic attacks do not make you weak - you are strong, and you can get through this
“Start over my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to.”
— Madalyn Beck
“The trick is to care about everyone while not caring what they think.”
— Unknown
“Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”
— Unknown
