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🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 my mom has leukemia and I am struggling. If anything, for the dog food so my baby can eat.

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My take on a different version of the Two-Spirit flag! (Yes I am Two-Spirit myself) I didn't like the feathers just being slapped on top of the rainbow flag so I made the rainbow lighter and going a different direction because I still like the idea of a rainbow. I also took inspiration with the circles from Patrick Hunters Two-Spirit flag representing ancient indigenous artistic traditions. One version with and without the circles.

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I told my new psychiatrist that I have hypersomnia and she prescribed me trazodone?? From what I read trazodone is an antidepressant that also aids in helping insomnia. I'm really confused as to why she prescribed me this because I don't have insomnia, I have hypersomnia. If anyone might have any insight please let me know. And I know she didn't miss hear me because she wrote down in her notes (that I can access online) that I have hypersomnia.

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"Two-spirit is just the indigenous version of being Nonbinary." Omfg no it isn't. Please stop saying this.

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"Agoraphobia is such a silly issue. Just go outside."

1.) Phobias are not just "little fears" one can overcome with a little will power. Unlike normal fear, a phobia is out of proportion to the actual danger, often causing people to structure their lives around avoiding the trigger.

2.) While cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure therapy, and anti anxiety medication can be useful, it's not always a quick fix and not always effective for everyone. This phobia can be lifelong.

3.) You can develop agoraphobia at any time in life. Stressful life events like losing a job, divorce, or the death of a loved one can trigger the development of agoraphobia.

4.) Early childhood trauma, such as abuse or parental overprotectiveness, can be a factor and contribute to more likely developing agoraphobia later in life.

5.) Lots of people with agoraphobia do in fact go outside. Many people usually have safe spots while still avoiding certain areas like bus stops, movie theaters, or crowds of people, for example. Lots of agoraphobic people can and do go outside, they just carefully navigate where, when, and for how long.

6.) There are some agoraphobic people who do live in severe isolation and confinement to their homes, which just goes to show how severe and disabling this phobia can be. Not everyone's agoraphobia is this severe, but without treatment or support it can get to that level. Which is why it's important to take this condition seriously. It's not just some "I'm a little scared of going outside" thing. It's a real disabling disorder that ruins lives.

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Hi everyone. My mother was recently diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (blood/bone cancer) with the Philadelphia chromosome type.

It's been a really hard month for her and I. I've been staying with her in the hospital the entire month right beside her while she gets treatment. The treatment has been really rough and she's not going to be able to get back to work anytime soon. We are actually worried after all her paid time off is used up, that they are just going to fire her.

This being said, I would like to ask a favor. As some of you may know prior to this we had just gotten out of homelessness. Not even a year into getting our apartment she gets diagnosed with leukemia. We are worried we will lose the apartment because I alone don't make that much money.

If anyone could help with money, that would be greatly appreciated. I hate to ask but I'm desperate.

PayPal: @AmorAyala

Cashapp: $dampducks

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I've concluded that I don't think I actually have ADHD. You can meet all the criteria for something but it doesn't mean you have that thing. This is something I've recently learned talking with my new psychiatrist.

Lots of different conditions can have the exact same symptoms and mimic what ADHD can look and feel like. I've come to the conclusion that my symptoms are better explained by my other conditions and that I didn't really exhibit these symptoms before I became sick in childhood; which is a key factor into knowing if what you have is ADHD or not.

And just because I have autism doesn't mean I also have ADHD. While it is a common pairing, lots of autistics don't have ADHD. I wish people would treat them like separate disorders instead of lumping them together. It's what got me questioning if I had ADHD in the first place because a large portion of the community lumps them together and the definition/symptoms get blended.

I think it would be better if people could use ASD+ADHD instead of AuDHD. Because it further pushes the notion that they are "basically the same" or that ADHD is just "autism lite" or that all autistic people have ADHD by default.

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No matter how much you don't like someone, whether they're the biggest asshole or not, and you threaten to call ICE on them because they happen to be Latino, you're a racist prick. It's not funny or cute.

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Some sanrio dividers I made! Feel free to use! ♡

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Not all Two-spirit are Nonbinary.

Not all Two-spirit are Trans.

Not all Two-spirit are Queer.

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Being chronically ill with more than 1 chronic illness gets confusing. Cause do I really have ADHD, or is it the constant brain fog from my Hashimotos? Do I need new prescription glasses, or is it my Iritis flaring up? Am I having a depressive episode as a reaction to one of the 10 different medications I'm on for my illnesses, or is it time to increase my antidepressant medication? Did I break my wrist, or is it my Rheumatoid Arthritis flaring?

My life is nothing but a series of unanswered questions and random chaos. Yesterday my legs were working, today they aren't. I'm shivering cold one minute and burning hot the next. Random hair grows on my face, but the hair on my scalp falls right out. Idk what's even going on most of the time. This is exhausting.

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Trying to heal the hatred I've had for my brown eyes by making a pretty collage picture of my eyes in normal lighting vs. in direct sunlight. 🤎

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Movies, TV, and news often portray people with psychotic spectrum disorders (PSDs) as unpredictable, or "crazy," which is statistically inaccurate.

Negative media portrayals and a lack of public understanding contribute to fear and prejudice against those with PSDs, which often lead to being blacklisted from their families and left without a support system early in their diagnosis, which usually is onset around early adulthood.

The fear and misinformation surrounding this is one reason why it's so hard for those with PSDs to get help, stay employed, and live a good quality of life.

It is vital we all start educating ourselves and others about the "scarier" mental health conditions because it can cost someone their life; especially more so for people of color, who are disproportionately targeted and killed for displaying psychotic traits.

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Happy Indigenous peoples day to. . . .

🧡Gay/Lesbian Indigenous people

🧡Multi-sexual Indigenous people

🧡Aro/Ace Indigenous people

🧡Trans/Nonbinary Indigenous people

🧡Two-spirit Indigenous people

🧡Fat Indigenous people

🧡Mixed race Indigenous people

🧡Disabled Indigenous people

🧡Mentally ill Indigenous people

🧡Neurodivergent Indigenous people

🧡Chronically ill Indigenous people

🧡Homeless Indigenous people

🧡Indigenous veterans

🧡Indigenous teachers

🧡Indigenous healthcare workers

🧡Indigenous food/grocery workers

🧡Indigenous children

🧡Indigenous elders

🧡Indigenous parents

🧡Missing Indigenous people

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Being wyt and queer, and/or neurodivergent, does not excuse you from taking accountability for your racism.

Victimizing yourself and hiding behind these labels to defend and justify your bigotry when you're called out is not how this works.

I'm tired of seeing wyt people use queerness and use neurodivergency as a tool in means to disguise or get away with saying racist stuff without consequences.

Being a part of one or more minority groups does not give you a pass, or cancel out your wytness. You will always be wyt before you are anything else.

Sincerely, your queer neurodivergent Indigenous friend.

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Friendly reminder: You can not be Two-spirit if you are not Indigenous to the Americas.

Two-spirit is a culturally specific identity.🫰🏼✨️

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What's the difference?

《 Schizoaffective disorder bipolar type vs. Bipolar disorder with psychotic features 》

Schizoaffective disorder bipolar type and bipolar disorder with psychotic features can look very similar from the outside. Both can involve mood episodes and psychosis. The key difference lies in when the psychotic symptoms happen and how long they last in relation to mood symptoms.

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Schizoaffective bipolar type will have psychotic symptoms occur for at least 2 weeks without any mood symptoms at all. Psychosis is happening alone (hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking) without mania/hypomania or depression.

Bipolar with psychotic features, the psychosis happens only during a mood episode (mania/hypomania or depression). No mood episode = no psychosis. Psychotic symptoms will appear at the same time as a mood episode and go away when the mood episode ends. The mood disorder is primary, and psychosis is secondary.

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If psychotic symptoms linger outside the mood episode, it would no longer fit bipolar with psychotic features, which is when clinicians start suspecting you may have bipolar type schizoaffective disorder instead of bipolar with psychotic features.

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