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sleep apnea is more common in people who are fat.

society decided for some reason that this meant that being fat causes sleep apnea. its often difficult to get referrals for sleep apnea treatment if you are fat, because some PCPs will tell you try losing weight first.

turns out!! having untreated sleep apnea causes weight gain in a not-insignificant number of people. it also makes it fucking impossible for many people to lose weight.

my husband worked out the same amount before he got a cpap as he does now. there have been no major diet changes either. yet he has been losing weight -- and gaining muscle tone -- consistently since he started using a cpap in january.

also, his blood pressure -- which was high, which docs blamed on his weight/diet -- went down significantly within one month of starting cpap treatment, before his weight changed significantly.

ANYWAYS. this is getting long. two final thoughts.

- I Want To Strangle Medical Fatphobia With My Bare Fucking Hands

For example, it has been widely accepted to a certain extent since forever but especially so in the past five years that low levels of serotonin are not the cause of depression. This has been established over and over again through studies and is acknowledged by basically every psychiatrist. And yet you will get called anti-science for stating this well-established fact because people have been told otherwise by their therapists, their psychiatrists, mental health advocacy organizations, and instagram graphics.

On a larger scale, it is also known and reluctantly acknowledged within the profession that there is no known biological cause for any psychiatric diagnosis. (A small number of conditions in the DSM do have known biological causes, such as “Major or Mild Neurocognitive Disorder Due to HIV Infection”, but these are not primarily psychiatric disorders, they are symptoms of illnesses primarily treated by other disciplines where the patient may also see a mental health practitioner as part of their treatment.) But people also do not believe you when you say this because they have heard so many times from mental health professionals and organizations that mental illnesses are biological diseases like any other.

And second, John Brown was a white abolitionist who, rather than calmly debating with slavers and thereby treating them with respect and legitimacy that they didn't deserve, he chose instead to meet their violent crimes against humanity with militant opposition. Or in other words, he killed them. In several cases publicly and brutally. While there are an unfortunate amount of people who try to spread false myths about him being mentally ill, an indiscriminate terrorist, or basically a serial killer, most people who don't want to go back to the days of slavery and aren't trying to achieve moral superiority to everyone taking any form of liberatory action understand that his actions were an effort to bring about abolition in a way that didn't require those who benefitted from slavery to agree to end it. Given that his actions struck a fear and paranoia into white southerners that led to their secession, and eventually the American Civil War, it can easily be argued that his actions did eventually achieve his goal. Even if he was hung for treason by slavers before he got to see it achieved.

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Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

you're given an appointment at a blood donation centre and given a form to fill out

you're asked some questions about your health and eligibility to donate - there's some reasons you might not be able to donate, such as if you have hiv, or if you've been sick recently (yes, you can't donate if you've been sick!!)

if you're eligible, you're then told to drink lots of water to get ready

then you're taken to a special comfy chair that tilts back, and they put the needle in you

congratulations! you're donating!

you lie there for about five minutes while they take the blood, and you're told to move the donating hand (usually your non dominant hand, so for me it was my left hand) around to stimulate blood flow

worth mentioning you can listen to music or be on your phone with your other hand. you can also have someone else with you for the whole time if you're nervous ❤️

and the nurses are usually very nice to you!!! like. they're gonna be lovely almost definitely cos they really want you there

after five minutes, they remove the needle (**if it hurts, they will take it out early. even if you decide you don't want to, they'll take it out early**)

then you lie in the chair for a little longer, slowly getting tilted upright

after that, you help yourself to a well deserved drink and snack (for free and provided for you!!)

you may feel a little faint and tired - i did at first! i actually passed out lol XD but if you do pass out, again, they take very good care of you

overall it's very worth doing and the process only takes up to an hour!!

and you can save up to three lives!!!!!!