immediatesonder:

One of the hardest things to learn as a victim is that the world doesn’t pause and wait while you recover. You can’t expect people to cater to your triggers. You have to teach yourself to adapt while the earth continues to turn. Of course support is wonderful, but if you rely on others to survive then you’ll inadvertently hurt those around you. You have to be able to adapt by yourself.

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lithiumxbpd:

PTSD Symptoms and If Someone You Know Has PTSD

Symptoms

  • Nightmares
  • Guilt
  • Poor Judgment
  • Intrusive Memories
  • Poor Memory
  • Survivors Guilt
  • Flashbacks
  • Startle Reflex
  • Hypervigilance
  • Irritability
  • Anger and Rage
  • Self Destructive
  • Lack of Feelings
  • Insomnia
  • Poor Concentration
  • Hopelessness
  • Poor Self Esteem
  • Negative Self Image
  • Apathy
  • Mistrust
  • Isolation
  • Avoidance
  • Excessive Blame
  • Dissociation

If Someone You Know Has PTSD

DO:

  • Acknowledge the reality of their struggle
  • Offer to go with them to see a counselor
  • Listen to them
  • Encourage and support them
  • Try to imagine a day and night in their shoes
  • Accept you will never fully understand what they went through and are going through
  • Respect their need for space
  • Ask how you can help and support them….then do that

DON’T:

  • Call them crazy or weird
  • Say it is all in their head or they’re making a big deal out of nothing
  • Assume you know what they’re going through
  • Judge, pity, or try to fix them
  • Tell them to suck it up, move on, or just get over it

*Feel free to reblog and add more! These were just the things on the handouts I got during my most recent stay in the hospital.

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2019-theyearofchaos:

The mood for 2019 is respecting abuse survivors privacy and not demanding to know every detail of their abuse in order to deem them ‘believable’.

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gayunclejunkrat:

amorjackson:

destroy the idea that angels are blonde and blue eyed and fair skinned !!! destroy the idea of holy imagery consisting only of white people !!!

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iirc this is actually one of thomas blackshear’s main subject matters! so check out his stuff if ur interested

(via feminismandmedia)

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Doctors Are Now Saying That Menstrual Cramps Can Be as Painful as Having a Heart Attack →

fractiousrvt:

homoglobinopathy:

flyonthewallmedstudent:

kyidyl:

fan-musings:

thatsyawholethanghuh:

akiameokami:

phiralovesloki:

frenchswissborder:

onlyblackgirl:

foryoursexualinformation:

And in other news, water is wet

Not like women have been telling y'all this since the beginning of time or anything.

I mean, yeah, at one point three years ago I was curled up in a fetal position literally screaming/crying/gasping for breath on my bed in my dorm room, so my response to this headline is basically, “No shit.”

No wonder women are so likely to ignore heart disease/attack symptoms. If something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.

THAT LAST COMMENT

!!!!!

No seriously. There aren’t enough people who understand how important that last comment is. I lost my right kidney four years ago because of “if something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.”

My. Fucking. Kidney.

Don’t force people with periods to internalize and silence themselves when they have cramps!

Can confirm “can’t be that bad because period”.  I had a kidney stone and it took me like 2-3 days to realize it wasn’t my period because it basically felt like that.  Pain is normal for women (and other people with a uterus), it’s part of being a woman, and so we’re much less likely to know when the pain we’re having is bad because we deal with so much of it some much more often than men do.  Pain is not always a “something is wrong” indicator for us.  

jesus. I never thought of it that way.

Every woman rebloging this

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My mom said that her cramps were equivalent to when she was 7cm dilated during labor.

My cramps have always been significantly worse than my mom’s. I compare all other pains I have to my period cramps and because most pain doesn’t have me on the floor crying and vomiting I tend to ignore it.

I almost ignored my appendicitis because the pain from that couldn’t hold a candle to my cramps.

(via feminismandmedia)

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