#pain -

[support]

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[neil-perrys-suicidal-tendencies]

What is the number on the pain scale you have been experiencing on most days from the past 12 months.

If you take any pain medication- choose the option you would think would be the case without the medication.

[shortboxcomicsfair]

A tour-de-force from Violet Kitchen, 'Allodynia' follows Tess' decision to volunteer for an experimental medical study in the hopes of repairing their relationship with chronically ill partner Jules. 'Allodynia' is a slow, tense dive into the murky spaces between sickness, empathy, and desire, and a study of the body in pain.

This comic will be released digitally in October as part of ShortBox Comics Fair, an online-only event that will see the release of over 100+ new, original comics from artists around the world!

[violent138]

Not to make the show that's actively avoiding Batman about Batman, but the idea of him throwing himself completely into helping fix the current mess of the city? Guarding those emergency centres, helping distribute supplies, conducting rescues when something gives away and personally overseeing the rebuilding of the sea wall. It hasn't been a good time to mess things up in Gotham for two years now, but this is the worst time, because the city's reeling and half-drowned and Batman has a clear-cut, unrelenting focus to stabilize the city. Outside of the disaster zone, you're still fine, but screw with something in the hardest hit areas and you don't get a chance to do it again.

[stufftoinspiremetowrite]

You ever think that Telemachus is going to show up with two friends some day wanting to hear about his Dad's adventures and they look at him with eager expressions and wonder in their eyes and for just a moment Odysseus sees himself and Polities and Eurylochus. Everything they used to be and might have been if war had never touched them.

[voidic3ntity]

our muscles tear & retract as we reach for those violet endings:

biology remains subtle in tact but overt in tactile complication,

the scent & the sight, vermilion droplets ascending to heaven;

tears which fall like rain, for our hearts always beat in unison.

[how-much-for-a-whump]

Akrep 23. Bölüm

Prompt: "Bullet Wounds"

source

[just-here-for-the-whump]

Roswell, New Mexico 1x5 Don't Speak

[incognitopolls]

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[feral-ballad]

Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Notes on your dramatic exit from the house party”

[Text ID: “OH YOU DO LOVE THEM / YOU DO / JUST NOT / IN THE WAY THAT LETS BOTH OF YOU LIVE”]

[zosanbrainrot]

part 2 of Zoro in WCI

01 02 03 04 05 06

I tried to write something to sum up my thoughts on this, but then it got longer and longer and tbh I'm itching to write a fic set in this AU djjdkf I think I could develop on their inner feelings more than in the comic form

Before posting the first part I didn't realize people had such strong opinions on how this would play out lmaooo

imo, of course Zoro wants to fight Sanji, not with actual intent to harm (they threaten each other on the daily, come on), but because that's how they are together, how they communicate. He respects Luffy's decisions and their goal here, which is to learn what's really going on with Sanji, but he's gonna be pissy about it all he wants. They both have so many intense and conflicted feelings about this and neither has any idea how to resolve them. So they fight.

ofc yall are free to headcanon this interaction any other way you want <333

[boghermit]

People complaining about Veilguard's art style are so funny. You wouldn't last a minute in the asylum where they raised me.

[welcome-to-alice-in-helll]

[yousaveeveryonebutwhosavesyou]

[copperbadge]

The thing about pain, that I never really knew until this happened to me in my thirties, is that if you are in bad enough pain or for a long enough time (and that's in weeks, not months or years) it can give you depression. Even if your quality of life isn't otherwise impacted -- if it doesn't impede your mobility or exhaust you so that you can't go out -- even if it's "just" pain, being in pain is depressing. And the thing about both pain and depression is that independent of one another, when you are in either one of them you tend to make poor choices. You aren't able to pay full attention to the decision and depression impedes your ability to envision your future, effectively making you feel as if there are no consequences or rewards for your actions.

Now, the nice thing about being a little older and having gone through stuff like serious physical injury, particularly a brain injury, is that it's a lot easier to recognize when you've begun to make poor decisions, and put a stop to it before you make some really poor ones. You can't necessarily just tell yourself "hey stop doing that" but you can readjust your risk assessment and also stop trying to make as many.

Like, you catch yourself walking in front of a car that probably can't see you at a dangerous intersection, and for the rest of the day you make sure you don't cross against the light even if you think you could probably make it. You take the ramp instead of the stairs. You move more slowly. You don't buy anything. You walk away when you might normally pick a fight.

I'm fine -- I injured my foot last night so walking is very painful today, but the wound isn't see-a-doctor serious and I'm getting around okay. I did have to come in to the office for a meeting, which necessitates walking, catching and boarding a bus, and navigating a downtown street that's still pretty busy even at seven in the morning. And I did catch myself walking in front of a car coming out of a driveway because I wasn't watching the driveway as I normally do, because I was in pain. So, for the rest of the trip, I moved as slowly as necessary, stopped at crosswalks if I didn't have a clear walk signal (ie, no flashing red hands), and kept my eyes on the ground. In the office today I'm going to stay quiet and I've made a mental note not to speak in the meeting unless directly addressed. I might catch a cab home, though that has its own perils and the bus is arguably more safe given my muscle memory of public transit. And that's just because I made one bad call after being in pain for like, twelve hours. But I know me, so, a couple of days of caution it is.

Anyway the only real point of the post is to let people know, because nobody told me, that if you're in longterm or serious pain, a) it can materially impact your mental health, and b) you should move a little slowly and not make any serious decisions if you can avoid it.

[voidic3ntity]

scar tissue from the broken glass shards:

bone fractures from bruises which fade,

brain disruptions from chemical binges,

these marks are the trail left by trauma;

you are not evil but you are really hurt.