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My bpd is acting up

She hasn't read my message I sent 4 days ago and now I wanna end the friendship

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God made me this way because he knew I'd be too powerful if I had social skills

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friendly reminder that you're allowed to need people, in fact everyone needs people. needing the company of others does not make you weak. spending time with other people is how we learn and grow.

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Hey I'm back lmao

Not much has changed, still worried that everyone secretly hates me lol

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the ideas that “libido and attraction can be separate and for many aces they are”, “aces who have and enjoy sex are still ace” and “aces who do not have sex and don’t want to shouldn’t be pressured” and “you should accept aces regardless of their sexual behavior” can and should coexist

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self help comic yes i cried when i thought of this and drew it immediately

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Say it with me: I’m worthy of being loved, and appreciated, even when I may feel like I’m not.

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basically:

it is not a virtue to not set boundaries

ignoring your own wants and needs is not a healthy way to show love

people worth loving will respect your boundaries

people worth loving will not want you to set aside your own wants and needs to make them more comfortable

‘having no boundaries at all’ describes a person who is very hurt, not a person who is very virtuous

suffering for others’ comfort is not how you be a good person, it is just how you become very hurt

sometimes you need to make others uncomfortable in order to get your needs met

your needs are more important than others’ comfort

your comfort is equally important to others’ comfort

making other people uncomfortable is not, in itself, ethically wrong or morally dubious

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Hey, so I'd like to ask y'all a quick favor. I am honestly super worried about my mom - she's going back to school this fall to teach, and her school district refuses to do virtual learning (they're doing some hybrid alternate-day schedule, which reduces the risk of kids giving it to each other, but teachers still have to report to work every day so they're gonna become the vectors of transmission for COVID).

The schools are getting their guidance from the county health department on how to reopen. The county health dept ruled Friday that it's safe for schools to reopen. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. My mom lives in a COVID hotspot and people are dying all around her. She's in her mid-50s and has multiple underlying health conditions. If she gets it, she will likely die.

PLEASE reblog this!!!! And if you have a little energy to spare, click the above link, which takes you to a page where you can message the county health department! All you have to do is put your name and email, and in the dropdown under "Select Department" select "Administration - Health Officer, Board of Health, Fiscal, Personnel". This will send a message to the health officer! And in the message field, you can copy and paste the below:

Dear Dr. Lydia Mertz,

Hello! I am writing to ask that you recommend virtual learning for all schools in Elkhart County without exemption, and overturn your executive order to have schools in the county reopen safely.

In your recommendation, you said you consulted with the Indiana State Department of Health about the positivity rates of infection within Elkhart County, and determined that schools in communities with higher positivity rates were able to successfully reopen. However, I believe it is too soon to know what a "successful reopening" during a pandemic is. Is it that NO students contract COVID during the course of the entire school year? Is it that no student DIES from COVID? The criteria for a successful reopening is unclear and too soon to determine based on the start dates of schools in the state of Indiana.

In your recommendation, you also said that the Indiana State Health Commissioner, Dr. Kris Box, says that Elkhart schools have strong reopening plans. However, the reopening plans in even neighboring counties differ vastly from those of Elkhart County. In St. Joseph County, with a much higher population than that of Elkhart County, South Bend schools as well as Mishawaka schools have decided on a 100% virtual education plan. I feel that the Indiana State Health Commissioner did not do her due diligence to recommend a more consistent plan of reopening across all Indiana schools, especially considering that Elkhart is a COVID hotspot.

The amount of testing Elkhart County has performed has gone WAY down over the last few weeks, yet over the last week positive cases are up 5.6% since the prior week, and deaths are up 10.5% since the prior week. This indicates to me that the positivity rate for Elkhart is not going down, but is in fact going up. Elkhart County is among the worst in the state for per capita rates of COVID-19, and the chances of there being a COVID-positive person in a room of 10 people in Elkhart County is 24%. These are HORRIFIC odds when we consider that classrooms will be filled this fall with that many students, if not more.

Your original recommendation to schools needlessly jeopardizes the lives of both students and staff, as well as their family members. Please recommend to Elkhart County schools that virtual learning be the sole option for education until it is safe to resume in-person classes.

Thank you.

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PLEASE reblog this so that we can fill up the Elkhart County Health Department inbox with our voices of dissent!!! What Dr. Lydia Mertz has decided is NOT in the students' or staff's best interests, let alone that of the community, and we need to make that known!

For those who have Facebook, you can share my Facebook post on this: https://www.facebook.com/thegabster/posts/10223847418914780

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Designing my first pin is so much fun!!! I'm just trying to play around with colors right now to see what I should go with 🤍

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you are not a failure for not being on top of your game right now. you must not compare yourself to those around you who don’t struggle with mental illness, who’ve never known the darkness of depression, or ridden the extreme highs of mania that lead you down a path of destruction and crashing hard at the end, or the anxiety that suffocates you whole in most situations, or what it’s like growing up without the embrace of a supportive family, or how it feels to spend days on end in a hospital with other patients suffering the same pain as you, or to face the moment of not wanting to choose life anymore. you deserve to be proud of yourself for making it through day to day with all of this going on, to still manage to wake up every morning even if all you can do is sit with your pain. you do not deserve to beat yourself to a pulp for not making it on top everyday. you deserve to be compassionate with yourself, to be forgiving, to understand. you have to know i’m proud of you.