#Grief

1/ McKee: You’ve said that anesthesia and amnesia are the two primary “sins” of modern society.Weller: We go numb to try to cope with the fact that we have not
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Eight years ago, Spencer Cox died of #AIDS. He had access to #antiretroviral therapy, but in his own struggles with #depression and substance use, he stopped taking them. 1/https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/resources/tagline/tagline-wint
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The thing I always end up thinking about on Tisha B'Av is the concept of mourning and how TIRED you get when you're mourning someone or something. You're just... drained.
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Your house is on fire. You rush around, grab the kids, grab the coats, maybe a photo album, & you run. You run you run you run. You reach a
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As #ecoanxiety and #ecogrief have taken hold of society in new ways over the last few years, the tendency to prescribe activism as a tool to beat the feelings back
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My heart hurts knowing that pain drove me to alter my body, the extent the words of others wounded me left me consumed with self-hatred and influenced me to seek
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When my dad died, hundreds lined up to pay respects. I was amazed at how many knew and loved him. I’m still amazed when I think of it, which is
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The voight-kampff test measures empathetic responses. The questions asked are designed to elicit an emotional response. Most of the questions, in some manner, involve animals. Why does that elicit an
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It is not easy. It's hard. But every man will experience it. A woman will break your heart. You'll be alone in the dead of the night, listening to two
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There is not a COVID reporter out there who is not struggling mightily right now. The burden only grows heavier as time passes.https://twitter.com/dataeditor/status/1358939331071795201 I’ve been very open about the detrimental
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As we talked tearfully through another cancellation, my 12-year-old said, “It just seems like the bad outweighs the good this year.” And I got to tell her, “Life is not
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2 years ago today my life changed forever when I lost my Uncle T who happened to be the closest person in my life. Since then, his passing has taught
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Reminder: many, many people do not experience "have you lost weight?" as a compliment. Asking about weight loss as a way of complimenting someone asserts that thin bodies are inherently
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When u want to show deep cleavage but the Holy Spirit starts to side eye u.I hear Him saying, this isn't u.But I keep pushing, I must wear this thing.Till
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Real talk: I think there’s going to be a lot of affective reactions we will all be negotiating in not just private places based on what has happened to us
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Happy International Day of Disability! Here’s a thread of content written by + centering disabled folks, their work and their fight for care in an ableist world Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’
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