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I’m not deleting because I have a lot of content I loved and created and learned from. And it will be used as a great resource. But I want to make a newer space so I can be comfortable sharing my thoughts again.

It’s been almost 2 years since I had this blog. I’ll miss this, I learned so much here. So here’s to hoping I’ll learn more.

As a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford, Elizabeth Holmes decided to transform diagnostic medicine so she dropped out of college and used her tuition money to start her own company, Theranos. Ten years later, Holmes, pictured here holding a micro-vial, is on the cutting edge of medical technology — her new blood testing method allows hundreds of tests to be run using only a few drops of blood. And, Holmes’ methods are cheaper, faster, more accurate, and less invasive than conventional methods which often require a separate vial of blood for every test. As Holmes told Wired.com earlier this year, “I started this company because I wanted to spend my life changing our health care system. When someone you love gets really sick, most of the time when you find out, it’s too late to be able to do something about it. It’s heartbreaking… We wanted to make actionable health information accessible to people everywhere at the time it matters most. That means two things: being able to detect conditions in time to do something about them and providing access to information that can empower people to improve their lives.”

She is featured as Forbes’ youngest self-made woman billionaire.

Her tests will revolutionize the public health world as we know it; Making diagnostic testing accessible and affordable for more people (and potentially saving Medicare and Medicaid ~$100 billion each over the next decade). (x)

She is a coauthor on 82 US and 189 foreign patent applications. (x)

A Psychology grad student, discussing patients on an inpatient mental health floor

Submitted by we-are-the-weirdos-mister

(via shitrichcollegekidssay)

and this is why I immediately distrust psychology majors/grad students

(via bonequeer)

Psychology is often a broken field. Don’t even get me started on how very wrong some mental health professionals can be in their thinking. This is why mental health needs to stop being stigmatized. If you can’t find a mental health professional you can trust, you can’t get the help you need. So then we have this common thing where people self-medicate, become worse, do irrational things that affect themselves or others negatively which they can’t take back. And mental health “professionals” who treat patients like they’re less than human. Just… this needs to stop. To begin with, people need to treat mental health like any other illness and stop pretending it makes someone evil or untouchable. 

Tumblr Accent Challenge:

Your name and username.

Where you’re from.

Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pajamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminium, GIF, Tumblr, Crackerjack, Doorknob, Envelope, GPOY.

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house? 

What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?

What do you call gym shoes?

What do you call your grandparents?

What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?

What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

Choose a book and read a passage from it.

Do you think you have an accent?

Be a wizard or a vampire?

Do you know anyone on Tumblr in real life?