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I'm being asked to give an informational training on simple and complex dissociation for my organization. I'm just a whee bit overwhelmed by just how much there is to cover and how many sources I need.

That being said, anyone have a favorite presentation they've seen? Or any specific sources they prefer? Anything specific they think should be covered? I'm just collecting ideas to form an outline right now.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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This post genuinely altered the trajectory of my life and how i make a lot of my decisions and i think about it so much

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Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.

Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.

And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:

They all fall to their deaths.

Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.

It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff.

Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took at step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.

Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.

It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.

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mutual reblogged my post which means they still love me 10002992 healed 383782728272 revived

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not sure if this will make sense to anyone besides me but: the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth

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It's weird. A part of me wants to talk about adjusting to life as a full time counselor now. Especially in relation to my own dissociation and the absolute fuckery known as my relationships. Another part is like... but won't that destroy trust in counselors as a whole? Or maybe it would be comforting? I don't know.

Like i have a counselor to talk to about these things, sure. But it's not the same.

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Throwing this question here because Google is useless.

Is there a word for someone who's immune system consistently fails to produce a fever even when it obviously should? (E.g. covid, flu, colds, infections, etc).

Searching the internet only gives me some variety of "chills without a fever? More likely than you think!" And never actually gets on topic.

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Victoria Chang, Obit

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Moving on is not the same as moving forward.

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I hate trying to figure out if one of my reactions is a normal response to something deeply disturbing or is it a trauma response or both or neither.

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I was supposed to start work 3 bloody weeks ago, and I am going to scream if I get stuck in paperwork processing hell for yet another week.

I had intended on going to the Healing Together conference in person this year, but apparently I'm bloody not. I won't get paid in time.

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“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

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Every now and then, my brain forgets that it has hobbies. So about twice a year I have to write a sticky note of things I like to do and leave it somewhere I'll see it. Otherwise I'll just indefinitely sit there vaguely sad, listless, and dissociated.

Usually takes me about a week to realize I need the sticky note of happy making again.

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