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22 // international graduate medical student // feminist // foodie  // INFJ

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: Thanks to the generosity of @harperperennial, we’re giving away all eight of the brand new, limited edition 2017-18 Harper Perennial Olive Editions! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these books, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on November 18, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, Harper Perennial has agreed to make this an International giveaway! Easy, right? Good luck!

[smorgas-bord]

pleeeease

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

this is true love y’all (x) | follow @the-movemnt

[screengeniuz]

😂

❤️

[enchantechante]

pls let this be the start of a trend

[warbutt]

retweet this and your dream job will come into your life

[internetsurfing]

ok y'all this is crazy i reblogged this today and i just got offered a job. what the fuck

[ummno]

Worked last year. Give it a whirl, kids.

[medschooldreamdiary]

OK but like residency

[place0fperfecti0n]

mental health is important. let’s acknowledge it!!

[alwaysbewoke]

bitch ass nazis

[studyblr]

reblog for good things to happen to you

the universe will listen

[anancientheart]

ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

[anancientheart]

whenever i post this it works  reblog if u want to feel good things & the universe will bring u something sweet 

[drpathetique]

Facebook feed: TAG SOMEONE WHO INHALES THEIR FOOD *wacky gif*

Me: Shoutout to the dude with aspiration pneumonia, RIP

[thefibrodiaries]

“what if we finally started to treat mental illness the same way we treat physical illness”

then we’d be treating it just as badly as we do now.

[unidentifiedflyingoutrage]

Yes. Yes. Yes yes. As a person living with chronic illness and disability I want to scream everytime I see things like “what if we treated mental illness the way we do physical illness”

we already fucking do: people with chronic illness will struggle to get adequate medical attention when we need it, we will be told to suffer pain constantly because it’s “not healthy to be on medication all the time”, when a diagnosis can’t be found we get shuffled to the next doctor, we get told we are too young or too pretty or too smiley or too active to be sick, the only difference is we will get turned away from ERs immediately after we’re stabilized, fuck it happened to me today. The people in our lives will get impatient with us, strangers will treat us rudely for having to use disabled parking spaces or transit seats while “not looking sick”

It fucking boggles my mind how we can have conversations on ableism that shit so heavily on the rest of the disabled community

[letthebonesspeak]

Speaking as someone that deals with bipolar disorder and ehlers-danlos syndrome and fibromyalgia I can confirm that I have been treated equally abominably with both. In fact, once they get the full picture and realise I’m chronically and mentally ill they use both against me quite readily. 

The attitude to both mental and physical illness/disability is disgusting, both by the medical professionals and by all those professing that one side has it worse than the other. It’s not a useful discussion. Ableism exists across the board and you’re not going to combat it by throwing other ill or disabled people under the bus. 

[telep0rt]

The three top rules of medicine

1) Be honest 2) Don’t be a dick 3) Know when to ask for help

[md-admissions]

CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUUGGGHHHHH

[heartbeatsandrainstorms]

not all that different from something I found in the hospital on one of my rotations last year:

[softlenaluthor]

[alittlebitofpcos]

I used to be that person who read two 400-page books a week. Now I carry around a book with me everywhere I go to try and remember what it feels like to feel that connection within the pages because I can’t concentrate to read further than a paragraph, or remember it, for that matter. Every time I see someone engrossed in a novel, it’s bittersweet, because I miss what it is like to get lost in the written word. I just want to be able to read like that again.

[alittlebitofpcos]

October 29th will mark 2 years since I wrote this post out of frustration due to struggling with my mental health.

October 30th of this year I will be in my first class towards my bachelors degree. I’ve read 47 out of my goal of 80 books for the year. After a year in therapy, I have been stable for over 6 months, and I am no longer on anxiety medication. I can concentrate and remember again, I’ve been able to sit down and read for 2 hours at a time. 

I bring a book with me everywhere I go and use any free moment I have to get in a couple pages or chapter.

So to everyone who continues to reblog this, anything is possible. When I wrote the original post, i didn’t even think I would be reading again.

This is progress that I take pride in.

[evipineschi]

Day 7

[antiblackness-archive]

this is what we mean when we say proper or professional mental healthcare prioritizes whiteness and that people of color get the shortest end of the stick every time

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file under: things to avoid/work on/seek out resources for 

[thekwikemart]

[promotional-kitten-baskets]

My desired aesthetic

[saiasus]

Heathers (1988)

[powderblueee]

[xy0009]

(x)

[bloomflowersbloom]

a baby can be born right now at 12:00, on a wednesday, august 24 in new jersey while another baby is also born in the exact same moment but they are born 9:00, on a tuesday, august 23 in california, these babies that are born at the same moment are technically because of time zones, a concept that we created ourselves, born “hours” apart even though really they are born at the same moment just not the same “time”, one will be considered older even though in actuality they are the same

[2thicc2function]

Wtf

[queenconsuelabananahammock]

[bogleech]

hey just to make sure everybody knows

It’s completely, 100% natural and should always be acceptable to change your opinions. It shouldn’t be embarrassing. You shouldn’t have to pretend you were never wrong about anything and that you’ve always felt the same way about everything. You didn’t catch someone being a “hypocrite” when some older post of theirs conflicts with a new one. The simplest explanation is that they learned or reconsidered something. The ability to evolve your understanding of things should be something to celebrate and respect. How did we end up with this shitty fucking culture where a change of perspective is treated like a shameful flaw.