#Illness

can y'all please stop assuming that mentally ill people "show their true colors" during breakdowns and/or spells of severe illness. mental illness =/= true personality. "trust me, I KNOW this
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This is the perfect time to revive discussions (especially in Jamaica) about mental illness. A thread... 1. Having a mental illness does not mean you have been sentenced to death.
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Dr Dan O’Neill: “we need to start to move away from what the owner wants, and towards what the pet needs”Just because people ‘want’ pets which appearances that compromise their
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Poverty and Mental IllnessPeople with mental illness often live in chronic poverty. Conversely, poverty can be a significant risk factor for poor physical and mental health. https://ontario.cmha.ca/documents/poverty-and-mental-illness/ &quo
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Why do we need to listen to those students and academics with lived experience of mental illness? Why are their experiences valuable, especially in research, teaching and service?This is why.
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Non chronically ill people seem to think it's a sign of faking if someone has a laundry list of illnesses and symptoms, but what they fail to understand is that
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interesting news on one of those premature Morrison government announcements that was uncritically lauded by the entire press gallery:Oxford coronavirus vaccine trial on hold over unexplained illness, AstraZeneca says.https://www.abc.net.au
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(1/5) Thoughts on criticism of the term ‘mental disorder/illness’:Issue: it is used to mean some variation of an internal (bodily) dysfunction—with the all consequences/commitments that come with it. This idea
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I am humbled by all the support I've received as I've shared about my twin brother. Until now I have withheld the circumstances of his death, because it was profoundly
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The COVID vaccine is already being marketed to be 90% effective. Just like with every marketing campaign there is a catch. The catch here is that the effectiveness pertains to
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Medicine believes in psychosomatic illness because the belief is useful despite being false. It allows them to stop medical investigations at some point instead of continuing forever. It allows them
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There is a thin line between validating and enabling. Case study: B was abused and bullied as a child. She developed a binge eating disorder in order to cope with
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I have one specific thing to add to this: the attacks against the legitimacy of FND as a diagnosis hit me particularly hard in their (perhaps unintended) dismissal of mental
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i dont really care for kanyes music since he became outwardly a fucked up dude and started doing irredeemable shit. i find it hard to listen to his stuff in
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Chronic hidden illness is being trapped in a body that appears functional but makes life frequently impossible to fully enjoy and occasionally quietly miserable, while being incredibly difficult to truly
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It was important because it's very much my story, my experiences and my reality. I've never seen anything about my illness in books & in fact, I think when we
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