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@some-gentle-reminders
so this might seem dumb but its helped a lot instead of saying âi wanna dieâ in normal conversation or like in my head in response to minor inconveniences like even as a joke, saying âi wanna go to bedâ has like. improved my life tenfold no joke
this is ok to rb btw
this is going to change my life i just know it
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(Iâm on mobile and want to be anonymous. Iâve had so many people on this website bash and insult me and my fiancĂŠe for this.) Just a reminder that two people in agreement to have a monogamous relationship arenât any less valid than othersâ relationships. What works for them is no one elseâs right to be criticized as toxic and the couple shouldnât be condemned if they are content and happy with their decisions.
Submitted Gentle Reminder #7, and a very important one at that! If everyone is comfortable and in agreement in the relationship, the type of relationship has no buisness being critisized as toxic. Monogamy is just as healthy and right for some people as polyamory is for others!
(I am so sorry this never got posted, it got stuck in drafts years ago and then never processed. My apologies!)
âbut this didnt used to trigger youâ or even âthis didnt used to trigger me why am i upset about it now, i must be fakingâÂ
memory shifts. you build barriers to protect yourself and depending on the frequency of your exposure to something, those barriers can break down or change
understanding something better can make it feel worse sometimes. look, when you were younger you probably couldnt understand that something was hurting you. now that you know it was bad??? yeah its gonna trigger you worse than it used to because you KNOW now.
recovering from some things can unlock deeper struggles. so you dealt with the issues that were on the surface? well your brain is going to let you access the next level of problems that need to be dealt with now.
life has different phases that expose you to different triggers. stuff that triggers a teen with school responsibilities is going to be different than the stuff that triggers a new parent with a new baby or an adult with a social job or a blogger with constant exposure to daily news.
triggers can be shaped by the trauma of people you know. you can gain new triggers from knowing something related to that happened to someone you care about. once you know how awful a thing can be, even if it wasnt awful for you personally, you can still be sensitive to it.
and most importantly
YOU DONT NEED A REASON FOR SOMETHING TO BE A TRIGGER. yes, there IS a reason, but itâs not your responsibility to immediately understand why your brain does what it does. forcing yourself to analyze too soon is skipping the stage where you learn to cope with it first. learn to cope, then analyze. knowing why is difficult if you cant handle the emotions that come with knowing
UNDERSTANDING COMES WITH TIME AND INTROSPECTION. you should not force yourself to explain your triggers, especially without the guidance of a therapist or trusted, stable confidant.
Triggers are like food allergies, in that they can change as you grow and you can get sick on something new any day.
Theyâre also like video games, in that once you clear a stage (process part of your trauma) and remove one boss (trigger) thereâs another level unlocked for you to go through again until you beat the game (become totally recovered).
Some peopleâs video games are longer or have more backstory or have longer levels or have barily any levels but the levels that are there are really really hard, but I promise that you will get your âthe endâ screen some day, one way or another. I believe in you. âĄ
Hey
Being able to manage without a mobility aid/assistive device/etc doesnât mean you should have to.
Youâre allowed to use your cane or wheelchair or whatever else even on good days.
There are SO many reasons to use your aids, there are more valid reasons than âI canât without itâ
Just three for me specifically:
-not ending up overly exhausted and in worse pain by the end of the day
-not falling when I get vertigo and my vision blacks out
-not subluxing my hips or rolling my ankles constantly
Which are all things I can deal with, and I have!
But I donât have to deal with those things. Thatâs not the price I have to pay for living. I am allowed to not want to deal with those things, and to do things to avoid them!
Never be sorry for using an aid. If people look at you weird, stare them down and make them regret it. You have every right to use your aids.
Donât forget that.
this is why its depressing to work in a pharmacy.
I was definitely a profit killer when I worked in a pharmacy (which honestly was my favorite job in the entire world, but it was short-lived and nowadays you canât work at a pharmacy like that, itâs all tied in with corporate retail and no one should ever trust me with a cash register ever). It was not, however, actually a profit killer for the pharmacy, just for the drug companies, so no one cared. These days I do medical billing, which means I actually bill OUT from hospitals so Iâm mostly spending my professional time taking money away from insurance companies.Â
I will now impart all of my profit killing resources onto you, in case you donât know them. I think most of you know them, now. But just in case you donât.
THIS IS US-CENTRIC. IâM SORRY.Â
1. GoodRx - this thing has an app now, so you can look up the best places to get your expensive medicines at the lowest possible prices without insurance on the go, and you no longer have to print coupons because you can just hand over your phone or tablet. Times have changed for the better with GoodRx. Definitely use it before trying to fill your scrip, because it will tell you the best place to go. (You can do that on the website, too.)
2. NeedyMeds - Needymeds is basically the clearinghouse of drug payment assistance. They have their own discount cards, but also connections to many patient assistance programs run by drug companies themselves. They are good assistance programs, too.
3. Ask your county - This is not a link. This is a pro tip. Most county social services will have pharmacy discount programs for people with no and/or shitty pharmaceutical coverage. You can often just find them hanging around at social services offices; you can just pick one up and walk off with it.Â
4. Ordering online - There are a few safe online pharmacies. I keep a little database in a text file on my computer. Most of them are courtesy of CFS forums, my mother or voidbat, so a lot of that is a hat tip to other people, but if youâre in need of a place to get a drug without a prescription ⌠first Iâll make sure you 100% know what youâre doing for safety reasons and then Iâm happy to turn over a link.Â
5. Healthfinder - A government resource that helps find patient assistance programs in your area. This might also point out the convenient county card thing. RxHope is something a lot of people get pointed to via Healthfinder thatâs a good program.
6. Mental Health America - Keeps a list of their best PAPs for psychiatric medications, which can be some of the most expensive and a lot of pharmacy plans donât cover them at all.Â
This is so important ppl.
Signal boost the shit out of it!
Booooooooooooooooooost
Good Rx Saved my family a hundred dollars a month while I was getting signed up for CHIP seriously itâs a life savor especially for ridiculously expensive drugs like abilify
Useful info, friends! ;)
Since many of our followers are on medications, I feel like this would be an important resource. -Luna
Also! Some drug companies have patient assistance programs where they send you the drug for FREE if you are uninsured, or if your insurance doesnât cover that drug.
Do a Google search for âpatient assistant programsâ + (your med), or search the manufacturers website. Sometimes the info is online; other times you have to call.
Even some of the big name pharma companies have this. Itâs certainly not all companies, or all meds, but it is worth a shot.
Before Obamacare, I lost insurance and couldnât pay for my mood stabilizers (kiiiiinda important to have those when youâre bipolar.) I was on generic Lamictal, but I went to the official Lamictal website, filled out a form with a valid prescription, and they mailed my meds to me every month for free.
If you know anything about bipolar disease, you know that that was a literal life saver. Patient assistance programs ftw!
This is so important given the recent vote to repeal Obamacare. And the cartoon above is so on point Theyâre literally voting to kill people. Literally.
Some of my meds are no longer going to be partially covered by my ridiculously expensive private insurance. I just used the GoodRX website to look it up, and I can either spend $40 at Target to pay for one of them out of pocketâper monthâ, or I can get it at Sams Club for $4. No that is not a typo. The drug I need to take every single day to keep my allergies from spiraling out of control (yay auto-immune bullshit) is literally ten times cheaper at Sams Club. Holy shit.
Signal boost for my US buds
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I fucking hate it when youâre in such a fantastically giddy mood and then you see one simple little thing that makes you think, âohâ and then you just get this empty feeling in your chest and you get nauseous and the world just crumbles and you want to just lay under a blanket and close your eyes and fall asleep and never wake up.Â
From what my therapist told me, this happens because our emotions arenât really on the âoppositeâ ends like we tend to think of it. Happiness is not âupâ and sadness is not âdownâ-. In a way theyâre actually right ânextâ to each other.
If youâre super happy, it can turn into super sad very easily, because your emotions are already highly elevated and itâs only a very minor shift as far as your brain is concerned.
Knowing this can help you fight it, and it can help you be more aware of whatâs going on while youâre happy and help avoid shifting towards misery.
I used to always wonder why it seemed like my happy days âcouldnât lastâ or that bad things would âalwaysâ happen when I was happy. Itâs not that happiness is doomed to fail, itâs that emotions are volatile. I hope that helps people who experience this too- when you understand whatâs going on more itâs easier to manage.
(Two pink squares with rainbow text. Top: âDysphoria is tough but you are tougherâ. Bottom: âDysphoria will not defeat youâ.)
Gentle reminder #17
Just a gentle reminder that you should use your aids (canes, wheelchairs, stimtoys, coping mechanisms, etc.) BEFORE you start to need them, to prevent you from feeling discomfort. You donât have to âblend inâ or make others comfortable, you need to take care of YOURSELF.
YES THIS donât worry about whether youâre âbad enoughâ to âreally deserveâ to use aids. If they help you even slightly, you deserve them! Use them!
No, you arenât taking things away from anyone else just because youâre using the same accommodations, assistive technologies, coping mechanisms, etc. as they are! And youâre not âappropriatingâ these things either! Nobody has a monopoly on any assistive technology or coping mechanism, etc. Even if you only need a thing part of the time and not all the time, or only need it âa littleâ, your need is still valid!
Hey⌠this includes allowing yourself to back away from triggers youâve identified as potentially dangerous before youâre actually in a crisis because of them. I can tell you that my PTSD has become so much more manageable since I started taking care of myself by doing this.
Whether you have PTSD or some other disability that can be exacerbated by things in the environment, learning that itâs okay to avoid those things before they wreck your day is a big part of being healthy!
youâre also allowed to enjoy them. disability aids are part of life and not designed to be a miserable humiliation no matter what abled people want you po think.
weâre allowed to enjoy ourselves, even with our disabilities. my power wheelchair is super fun to ride. i let my friends take it for spins. and i get impatient when im well enough to walk places bc itâs fucking boring!
use whatever assistance will make your life easier, safer, and more fun. weâre allowed to want that, too.
Yeah! Being an ass about any of these things would, for example, be like a âfull-timeâ glasses wearer saying to a person who only uses glasses to read that they donât really have a need for glasses. It doesnât matter how often you need something! Just take care of yourself.
Also true of academic accommodations! I recently realized that even though I CAN make it through a full hand written exam that makes my hand joints hurt for days after I probably SHOULD NOT. I got accommodations to use a computer and it made life so much more bearable.
A very very good point!! Get academic accomidations or assistance if you need, those tools are there for you to use!~
Friendly reminder
âDoing your bestâ does not mean working yourself to the point of a mental breakdown.
this one still smashes me in the face ten times a year. do not ignore pain, itâs no longer your best at that point
Gentle reminder #17
Just a gentle reminder that you should use your aids (canes, wheelchairs, stimtoys, coping mechanisms, etc.) BEFORE you start to need them, to prevent you from feeling discomfort. You donât have to âblend inâ or make others comfortable, you need to take care of YOURSELF.
YES THIS donât worry about whether youâre âbad enoughâ to âreally deserveâ to use aids. If they help you even slightly, you deserve them! Use them!
No, you arenât taking things away from anyone else just because youâre using the same accommodations, assistive technologies, coping mechanisms, etc. as they are! And youâre not âappropriatingâ these things either! Nobody has a monopoly on any assistive technology or coping mechanism, etc. Even if you only need a thing part of the time and not all the time, or only need it âa littleâ, your need is still valid!
Hey⌠this includes allowing yourself to back away from triggers youâve identified as potentially dangerous before youâre actually in a crisis because of them. I can tell you that my PTSD has become so much more manageable since I started taking care of myself by doing this.
Whether you have PTSD or some other disability that can be exacerbated by things in the environment, learning that itâs okay to avoid those things before they wreck your day is a big part of being healthy!
youâre also allowed to enjoy them. disability aids are part of life and not designed to be a miserable humiliation no matter what abled people want you po think.
weâre allowed to enjoy ourselves, even with our disabilities. my power wheelchair is super fun to ride. i let my friends take it for spins. and i get impatient when im well enough to walk places bc itâs fucking boring!
use whatever assistance will make your life easier, safer, and more fun. weâre allowed to want that, too.
Yeah! Being an ass about any of these things would, for example, be like a âfull-timeâ glasses wearer saying to a person who only uses glasses to read that they donât really have a need for glasses. It doesnât matter how often you need something! Just take care of yourself.
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Gentle reminder #17
Just a gentle reminder that you should use your aids (canes, wheelchairs, stimtoys, coping mechanisms, etc.) BEFORE you start to need them, to prevent you from feeling discomfort. You donât have to âblend inâ or make others comfortable, you need to take care of YOURSELF.
YES THIS donât worry about whether youâre âbad enoughâ to âreally deserveâ to use aids. If they help you even slightly, you deserve them! Use them!
No, you arenât taking things away from anyone else just because youâre using the same accommodations, assistive technologies, coping mechanisms, etc. as they are! And youâre not âappropriatingâ these things either! Nobody has a monopoly on any assistive technology or coping mechanism, etc. Even if you only need a thing part of the time and not all the time, or only need it âa littleâ, your need is still valid!
Hey⌠this includes allowing yourself to back away from triggers youâve identified as potentially dangerous before youâre actually in a crisis because of them. I can tell you that my PTSD has become so much more manageable since I started taking care of myself by doing this.
Whether you have PTSD or some other disability that can be exacerbated by things in the environment, learning that itâs okay to avoid those things before they wreck your day is a big part of being healthy!
youâre also allowed to enjoy them. disability aids are part of life and not designed to be a miserable humiliation no matter what abled people want you po think.
weâre allowed to enjoy ourselves, even with our disabilities. my power wheelchair is super fun to ride. i let my friends take it for spins. and i get impatient when im well enough to walk places bc itâs fucking boring!
use whatever assistance will make your life easier, safer, and more fun. weâre allowed to want that, too.
Gentle reminder #17
Just a gentle reminder that you should use your aids (canes, wheelchairs, stimtoys, coping mechanisms, etc.) BEFORE you start to need them, to prevent you from feeling discomfort. You donât have to âblend inâ or make others comfortable, you need to take care of YOURSELF.
YES THIS donât worry about whether youâre âbad enoughâ to âreally deserveâ to use aids. If they help you even slightly, you deserve them! Use them!
No, you arenât taking things away from anyone else just because youâre using the same accommodations, assistive technologies, coping mechanisms, etc. as they are! And youâre not âappropriatingâ these things either! Nobody has a monopoly on any assistive technology or coping mechanism, etc. Even if you only need a thing part of the time and not all the time, or only need it âa littleâ, your need is still valid!
Hey⌠this includes allowing yourself to back away from triggers youâve identified as potentially dangerous before youâre actually in a crisis because of them. I can tell you that my PTSD has become so much more manageable since I started taking care of myself by doing this.
Whether you have PTSD or some other disability that can be exacerbated by things in the environment, learning that itâs okay to avoid those things before they wreck your day is a big part of being healthy!
Gentle reminder #17
Just a gentle reminder that you should use your aids (canes, wheelchairs, stimtoys, coping mechanisms, etc.) BEFORE you start to need them, to prevent you from feeling discomfort. You donât have to âblend inâ or make others comfortable, you need to take care of YOURSELF.
YES THIS donât worry about whether youâre âbad enoughâ to âreally deserveâ to use aids. If they help you even slightly, you deserve them! Use them!
No, you arenât taking things away from anyone else just because youâre using the same accommodations, assistive technologies, coping mechanisms, etc. as they are! And youâre not âappropriatingâ these things either! Nobody has a monopoly on any assistive technology or coping mechanism, etc. Even if you only need a thing part of the time and not all the time, or only need it âa littleâ, your need is still valid!
And please, be sure you understand and/or are instructed properly how to use your aids (the medical/physical ones I mean). This will GREATLY help you function in a safer, more comfortable manner, and often reduce negative side effects from improper use such as nerve damage.
Understand where your center of gravity is, how many points of contact the aid is giving you (bilateral crutches have two whereas a walker has four) and what side you need to use the aid (your stronger side, if unilateral).
Thereâs so much more I could say in tangent to this, but suffice it to say that yes you deserve and are totally okay with having aids to function. But please also become informed in how to use them properly and ensure they are fitted to you as best as they can be. This will also avoid pain and damage in the future, or at the very least, discomfort.
Good Luck!
Just wanted to quickly wish @theverymentalman good luck with trying to show his parents that he needs his cane! It can be difficult to convince people who wish to remain ignorant, but I believe in you! Even if they donât think you need it in the end, try using it around them anyways and ignore their verbal slander. Eventually people will give up and get used to it, usually.
I wish you the best and hope all goes well!! <3
You can be properly medicated and in therapy and still have bad days. Its okay. You arenât a failure. Everyone has bad days and sometimes mental illness is a life-long struggle. One bad day in the midst of so many good days is still progress from all bad days.
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