#Grief

WHAT IS DEPRESSION?#ThreadDepression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. The good part
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/THREADall neurotypicals think intrusive thoughts are is just "oh haha why im i thinking about that, thats so quirky and random" vs something that in its worse cases can be
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About the "defund the police" issue.The morning my husband died, I had to call 911 as he was not yet on hospice care. He was on palliative care as he
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Oh, and while I'm here and feeling irritable: to everyone who has come down on the side of, "Vulnerable people should just self-isolate so the rest of us can go
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@piersmorgan Good grief Piers, its not about Teachers not wanting anyone to see their wallpaper! It's about the fact that teachers have been threatened with disciplinary action if, for example,
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It's exciting to see people vaccinated, like maybe the end is in sight, but my story today has some tough news: We're going to need a lot more than immunity
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Hey, hi. Quick reminder that you're allowed to be not alright and you're not obligated to stare at the election or spend all your time not staring at it ~being
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“White nationalists, enraged at Black political power, staged a failed insurrection that could have resulted in the assassination of progressives of color.”- @britricanVETERANS/MILITARY MEMBERS: They did this in *our* image.We
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thinking again of the horror of waking up 23(ish) and hot off the trauma-griddle after 13(ish) years of being dead to find out that your brother and your boyfriend are
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THREAD: if you want to fix the Bears, I mean really fix them, you need to hire somebody to be ahead of the curve. The NFL is in the midst
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imo these are two different things (apart from conflating "joy" with "funny" in the thread): wanting joyful stories is one thing, but wanting joyful (or funny) stories to be recognized
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Can imagine people are feeling a spectrum of emotions today, from stress to anxiety to worry, so I’m going to post a thread of services that might help depending on
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yeah, the people arguing that we should give the Joss Whedons and Louis CKs a pass because they created meaningful stuff ignores all the meaningful stuff that *didn't* get created
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Stop Human Rights abuse at Sheldrick Wildlife Trust!How do you make a poorly paid Kenyan to sleep next to a dirty animal? Well, this is what the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
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Today is the feast of St Mary Magdalene, once known as 'Maudlintide'. A tender medieval prayer to the saint of healing tears, emblem of bitter grief turned to heart-piercing joy:
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I’m off from work today, but my mind is still in the emergency room. Sitting across from loved ones in the consultation room beginning that difficult conversation, “What do you
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