#Health Awareness Days

[mukathospital]

Today is World Parkinson's Disease Day — a day to learn about and support those living with Parkinson's.

Let’s raise awareness and stand by the people affected.

Every small effort helps in the fight for better treatment and a cure.

Stay informed, stay strong.

[ventique18]

Chat is this true

[schizopositivity]

Kinda pisses me off when people with even the mildest mental illnesses say "I can reclaim lobotomies cause it would have happened to me"

1. You can't reclaim a historical tragedy that did not happen to you but had real victims. As a lesbian I don't make jokes about forced conversion because real people experienced it and I didn't, and I don't find their pain funny.

2. Lobotomies were not that common, not every mentally ill person got one. It was forced upon the most unwell people living in the psychiatric hospitals. And fun fact, after the invention of antipsychotics, many long term psychiatric facilities closed down because so many people were able to live outside of them, and at the time the drugs were nicknamed "chemical lobotomies". Lobotomies were maiming and torture done to the most mentally disabled people to make them "easier to deal with", most of whom in those facilities were psychotic.

3. If such a tragedy were to be committed today it would be done to the people living in psychiatric hospitals today, not you.

4. It's not a joke, stop treating it like one, take the crimes committed to the most vulnerable mentally ill people seriously and show some goddamn respect for the victims.

[covid-safer-hotties]

[chrystalmedeir3]

I can be yours forever, just tell me when to start..💞

[raining-at-ease]

[enii]

You are greater than your dark days💕

[girlwithrituals]

HOW TO INCREASE SELF AWARENESS?

1. pay attention to what bothers you about others.

2. pay attention to which negative emotion you dislike and avoid the most.

3. identify unhelpful thoughts and beliefs you have.

4. make time to clarify your values.

5. draw a timeline of your life.

6. send out feedback about yourself.

7. practice mindfulness meditation

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

A friend sent me this, knowing I'm all about the capybaras! From DreamWorks.

[thebibliosphere]

You know the dehydration was bad the moment you get some electrolytes in your system, and it feels like a hit from party drugs.

Like yeaaaah. feeling crazy. Might fuck around and sit up in bed for 20 minutes. Life on the edge (of syncope), baby!

[motivatedaily]

The child you once were, heal for it.

The adult you are today, protect it.

The person you were created to be, fight for it!

[covid-safer-hotties]

Source below

[byler-alarmist]

Do people know most paper receipts are harmful to their health?

I'm going to get up on my soapbox for a minute, but do people realize how pretty much everyone is being overloaded with endocrine disruptors like BPA/BPS on a near-daily basis??

I don't think many people understand that ever since most of the world transitioned to thermal paper receipts (cheaper than ink), almost every receipt you handle from the gas station to the grocery store to the Square terminal printer at the local co-op is coated with Bisphenol-A (BPA) or its chemical cousin Bisphenol-S (BPS).

These chemicals have not only been proven to cause reproductive harm to human and animals, they've also been linked to obesity and attention disorders.

Not sure if your receipt is a thermal receipt? If you scratch it with a coin and it turns dark, it's thermal.

BPA/BPS can enter the skin to a depth such that it is no longer removable by washing hands. When taking hold of a receipt consisting of thermal printing paper for five seconds, roughly 1 μg BPA is transferred to the forefinger and the middle finger. If the skin is dry or greasy, it is about ten times more. 

Think of how many receipts you handle every day. It's even worse for cashiers and tellers, who may handle hundreds in a single shift. It is also a class issue, since many people who work retail and food service are lower-income and will suffer worse health consequences over time from the near-constant exposure.

Not only that, receipts printed with thermal ink are NOT recyclable, as they pollute the rest of the paper products with the chemicals.

People don't know this and recycle them anyway, so when you buy that "green" toilet paper that says "100% recycled"? Yup, you are probably wiping your most sensitive areas with those same chemicals (for this reason, I buy bamboo or sugarcane toilet paper as a sustainable alternative to recycled paper).

This page from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has some good links if you want to learn more.

As consumers, we need to demand better from our businesses and from our governments. We need regulation of these chemicals yesterday.

If you are a buyer or decision-maker for a business, the link above also contains a shortlist of receipt paper manufacturers that are phenol-free.

If you work at a register, ask customers if they want a receipt. If they don't and you can end the transaction without printing one, don't print one!

As a consumer, fold receipts with the ink on the inside, since that's where the coating is. Some more good tips here.

And whatever you do, DO NOT RECYCLE THERMAL RECEIPTS

[enii]

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[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

if Crozier had a nickel for every time someone close to him kept a mortal wound secret from him he'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's definitely enough to give him some very specific trauma for the rest of his life

[versesbyaaliyah]

Antidepressant

Written by Aaliyah O'Neil

Sunlight in capsules—

I swallow artificial dawn

and smile, on schedule.

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