I might be me.

supernatural, sparkles, sunshine and snowflakes

[captainshimizu]

[joshdvn-deactivated20170914]

Stay alive written in Tyler Joseph’s hand writing

[afghanproverb-deactivated202412]

Be a good person, but don’t waste time proving it.

(via karmadunutte)

[theinturnetexplorer]

“The concept is simple. Take a blank sheet with nothing but the basic outline of a pinup girl and illustrate a unique scene around her.”

[myblackaesthetic-deactivated201]

That is so cool. Look how creative people are

[lucid-dreamzzzzz]

I love this.

[bitchyoucouldneva-deactivated20]

Shit kinda dope.

[wnq-anonymous]

You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

Andrea Gibson   (via daughterofgollum)

[outdoormagic]

Amaryllis by Laszlo Prising

[justummsomeguy]

Life with chronic illness

Nonstop pain. Debilitating fatigue. Feeling isolated from healthy peers.

But hey, we’re still standing, right? Well… sitting. Some of are laying.

But we’re still here. And that’s something.

[lifeisrosyworld-deactivated2014]

[1000drawings]

by Ireart

[mcdyke-deactivated20171112]

being a female means needing to see 10 different doctors to get a proper diagnosis because they always think you’re exaggerating and/or lying

[leftiesneedrights]

define proper diagnosis. I mean, does that just mean the diagnosis you want?

[mcdyke-deactivated20171112]

no :) it means going to 10 different doctors who disbelieved your symptoms until the 11th found cysts on your ovaries :) which may mean infertility :) sit on a cactus :)

[cobra-23-deactivated20151224]

I call bullshit

[40yodater]

Of course you do. Like the first 10 doctors. 😒

[cobra-23-deactivated20151224]

I call bullshit on the story. If you think you have an issue you should see a specialist not just your PCP.

[40yodater]

Like the 4 “specialists” I saw for the crippling numbness in my face and legs I had for over a year while they told me it was “stress”? When it was finally found that I had scars on my brain and spine? Those “specialists” we’re male neurologist who wouldn’t give me an MRI because “women stress too much”. Go fuck yourself.

[beesplosion]

MY SPINE WAS BROKEN FOR 2 YEARS BECAUSE MY DOCTORS TOLD ME I JUST HAD BAD CRAMPS AND REFUSED TO TAKE XRAYS. FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. WHEN WILL BOYS REALIZE THEIR EXPERIENCES ARENT STANDARD???? I ALSO LOVE THIS IDEA THAT YOU CAN JUST GO TO A SPECIALIST WHENEVER YOU WANT LOL IF OUR PCP DOESNT BELIEVE US WHEN WE TELL THEM OUR SYMPTOMS THEY ARENT GONNA REFER US TO A SPECIALIST YOU FUCKING MOLDY WALNUT

[proudly-pro-choice]

My parents began noticing something large in my throat, saw a specialist….Guess what? Told me to lose some weight..even though I wasn’t overweight. I would have my period for weeks at a time. Was told that it was teenage hormones and stress.

Two fucking years later I attempted suicide they ran a battery of tests as required and bam! They find out that I have untreated Hashimoto’s. The “thing” was a goiter. Possible symptoms of an untreated thyroid disease is the goiter, unexplained weight gain, and depression. All they had to do was test my blood, but they said young people don’t have thyroid problems. 😒

-Allie

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Ten years ago, my mother—who is a pretty tough cookie—started feeling both ridiculously wired, anxious, and incredibly emotional. Every doctor she saw told her she was going through early menopause, even though she was still menstruating. Her health declined to point where she was barely sleeping, losing weight, and crying constantly, which was a huge red flag because my mother never cries. Finally, she went to see another doctor 2.5 hours away who referred her to an endocrinologist. And what did the endocrinologist say? He diagnosed her with one of the most advanced cases of Grave’s Disease he had even seen, and said if she had gone just a few more months without being treated, she could have FUCKING DIED. 

Also, it turned out that her thyroid levels had been moving out of the normal range in a progressive pattern for years, but nobody bothered to look at her past test results until after the diagnosis. They would just do a test, see that it was “in the normal range” and leave it at that. She could have caught it before she even had symptoms, instead of basically being accused of having hysteria. 

[celestial-cat-prince-deactivate]

i had a brain aneurysm/hemorrhage ten years ago, doctors still tell me im faking my disability BECAUSE YOU CAN TOTALLY FAKE LIMITED MOVEMENT OF THE LEFT SIDE

[symphonicsadness]

My sister had intercranial hypertension which was causing headaches, dizzy spells and loss of vision, and you know what the hospital told her? She was being a hysterical girl and making it up. A few weeks later she spent roughly a month in hospital and had several lumbar punctures to relieve her RECORD HIGH spinal pressure that was causing so much strain on her brain and optic nerves she was being sent blind.

[fail-sage]

Everytime I see this post (and it’s been a good 5/6 times), it has different stories and experiences of women who have been horribly mistreated by doctors and it just blows my mind that this is so big. It’s absolutely disgusting how terribly women are treated in the medical world and something needs to be done about that.

[thechronicpaingame]

I’m too sleepy to post my story right now but I have a ‘main’ one and some other small bits that have upset me.

[enjolrasjosette]

I had distant seizures for an entire week and the ER staff and my neurologist both tried to lock me up in a psych ward because they were convinced I wasn’t having seizures and I was just having a mental breakdown. Yeah. Okay.

[insicknesspod-deactivated202412]

The sheer volume of these stories, and I get the when I talk to people for the podcast, and listeners email me their own, and people share them with me in conversation when I tell them what I do… it’s staggering. Absolutely staggering.

[samisoffthewall]

[wordsnquotes]

How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours?

Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies (via wordsnquotes)

[flares-of-fibro]

"I must be dying" the chronic pain sufferer says day, after day, after day.

[katefulleir]

                                            “I tried to hold these secrets inside me                                                  My mind’s like a deadly disease”

[vanaiza-deactivated20201025]

Supposed to be happy, but I’m only getting colder Wear a smile on my face, but there’s a demon inside

[fysw]

Carrie Fisher and Gary - Star Wars: The Force Awakens Premiere at Leicester Square on December 16, 2015 in London.

[rosalindrobertson]

So, this is important. Carrie Fisher has an invisible illness and disability - severe mental illness - and she’s been really open about it. Open to the point where she has her service animal Gary out on the press tours.

Yeah, a service animal. Not a guide dog, a therapy dog. Fisher has almost died because of her illness - and the reason she could DO Star Wars is because she has accommodations that work for her.

Everyone is talking about how Gary has stolen the show - but he is *important*. He is working. He is what she needs to go out and do this shit.

Next time someone with a disability asks for you to do something simple to accommodate them I want you to think of this. This is Princess Leia and this is her accommodation for her illness.

[nicocoer]

[Carrie Fisher holds hands with a  storm trooper on the red carpet. Gary, her service dog, gazes up at her with rapt attention.]

[mymoodyescape]