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tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

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Also a lot of my anxiety and sleep problems ARE DIRECTLY FUCKING RELATED to adhd.

Anyway, complicating matters was when I went to get bloodwork as part of this assessment, they found a thyroid disorder (that has now been fixed with treatment) that “could explain some of my fatigue and lack of focus” or w/e, despite the fact the thyroid issue only came about very recently and the adhd stuff has been since childhood.

But anyway I pretty much gave up all hope at that point, because no matter what they seem convinced I won’t be diagnosed or treated, and I have overlapping conditions that make it a bit murky.

Months pass til now when I actually HAVE worked on my sleep and stuff, I rebook an appointment after putting it off for months, cause… adhd. she told me to come back when these issues have “been optimized” and then the office cancelled my appointment and asked me why I’m re-seeking treatment??

Also now they want me to redo a fuck ton of forms and surveys, and do these cognitive testing things that feel like pure torture and I’ve already done them!!! But I guess I have to start from scratch now o ly to likely be refused again.