Invisible Disability Chameleon

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

The Lancet link about shift to PMOS. Spread this to everyone who works in health care now. People with uteruses and ovaries are in agony - yes, the whole body suffers a crisis every fkn month - and health care should help

Wait so depo-provera is linked to causing BRAIN TUMORS?????? HUH???????

Honestly I am so PISSED, beyond being linked to brain tumors and breast cancer!!!! which is awful!... *also! Progesterone can decrease insulin sensitivity by up to 40%!!! which if you have diabetes (LADA for me) is iEXTREMELY mportant, and a decade of doctors, specialists, hospital staff, no one could tell me this? when I had dka like 20+ times?!?? and I have degenerative hip dysplasia, and was told I needed a full hip replacement... Depo-Provera use leads to a loss of 5.7–7.5% BMD in the hip and spine after two years!! I am livid, WARN OTHERS!!!

having chronic pain for the last while has made me ironically really bad at processing pain. I have an absolutely skewed perspective on what pain is vs discomfort, mild or severe, I'm genuinely getting bad at realising when I'm in pain and how bad it is. Arhgh.

due to my degenerative hip dysplasia with laberal tears and my uterus lying against my tailbone that was injured, on top of the POTS, Endometriosis, etc,... my doctors are sometimes in literal tears lookign at my imaging, & like OMG how do you even walk!?... idk I am used to it? *shrugs*

agreed, tell them, "just do it, stay in bed" and they'll be like "no, I need money", etc. Then you can be like "me too!" 🙃

Smiles, everyone, smiles.

very important

It's so cruel that if a black schizophrenic person wants any kind of help, they probably have to call 911, a centralized line for all emergency services. Even if they don't intend to call the police, there's a chance of them being sent in place of other emergency services. If you ask for them not to be called, you'll rarely be listened to. Then, the advice for dealing with police is to be in complete control of yourself, not be erratic in the slightest way because it gives ground for your death. So if you are someone who is not in control of yourself, who has a disorder that effects your ability to control your speech, body, mind, etc etc, you cannot call for help without risking death or institutionalization

I think I made this post because I was thinking about the advice "don't call the police" and how nebulous that can really be in practice. Not only that, but if you're having delusions you might not even be able to understand the "calling 911" in your reality to be the "calling 911" you know is dangerous in your usual world. It's so cruel to see people made so vulnerable that their survival instincts are not functioning be punished for it with death, and to know the advice about self control and not participating in the system doesn't function for them

And I should say directly this is in response to the disgusting murder of Sonya Massey, a black schizophrenic woman. I pray for her and her family to find justice and peace in this world