I figured the best thing I could do was provide some resources. Mental health is stigmatized, especially men’s. Men have an astronomical suicide rate, and that despairs me greatly. In addition, men are at a disadvantage in family court and horrifyingly, often overlooked or even mocked in domestic and sexual violence situations. Hopefully, I can help even just a little. I love you all and wish you long, safe and healthy, happy lives. 💕
Twin Cities Men’s Center
Friends Of Prevention Coalition - Mental Health Resources For Men
Black Men Heal
Hope For Men
Canadian Center For Men And Families [Also includes information for Canada’s first men and children’s shelters]
MaleSurvivor
Better Blokes (trauma and sexual abuse support)
BARCC - Male Survivors
MENHEALING
Sexual Violence Center - Get Support
Men’s Advice Line [Support line for all male abuse survivors]
Man Down UK
ADAA - Men’s Mental Health
Male Support Services Waikato
Male Survivors Canterbury
Man Alive - Tāne Ora
Men’s Aid Ireland [Support for men and their families experiencing domestic violence]
Healthy Male - Useful Websites And Support
Mensch Work
Heads Up Guys
Project Fatherhood
Dads Evoking Change
Clubbe House
East Valley Men’s Center
InterConnect [Intersex Support Community]
oii USA [Intersex organization]
TIGERRS - Intersex Resources
4Intersex [An InterACT Project - Advocacy Group]
InterACT - Intersex Resource Topics
Transmasc Stories - Resources
Transmasc Alliance Chicago [Peer-lead community group for NB, FTM, Masc, And Questioning]
FTM Guide
Trans Lifeline - Resources For Transmasc/Trans men
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Thank you @helluvagirlboss for tagging me! I’m gonna submit a little bit of my WIP inspired by @blitzwhore’s “You’re Perfect (And Everything Inbetween).
I still have some stuff to chew on regarding Stolas’ and Chaz’s relationship before Stolas leaves, but trust. He will leave.
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Chaz grabbed the nearest vase and chucked it at Stolas’ head. Stolas quickly dodged, staring in horror while the glass hit the wall and shattered, spraying glass and water everywhere. His beautiful red roses fell unceremoniously onto the linoleum floor.
He gawked at the broken glass and the wet spot on the ground, Chaz’s screaming fading away while his ears started ringing. They rang and rang and rang, the fear rising with every passing moment until his survival instincts finally kicked him in the ass.
He didn’t make the decision to run. He wasn’t even aware he was running until he was out his front door. He did not have the good sense to bring his jacket or his keys. He just ran. Sprinted, actually. Past the bus stop and the convenience store and concerned onlookers, all the way to the subway station, where he finally skidded to a stop and rested his palms on his knees, panting wildly while he trembled. He whimpered and rubbed his eyes before he took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.
Did that just happen? Did Chaz really just throw a vase at him? There were no justifications in his mind for Chaz’s poor behavior, this time. No amount of telling himself that better communication and setting boundaries and micromanaging his own emotions would change what just happened. Chaz threw a vase at him.
Past the subway station was a small bar painted in white with an unassuming name in all lower case letters. It looked quiet enough that he could slip in, drink himself into a stupor, and try to forget narrowly avoiding becoming a pin cushion for pieces of a broken vase. He shivered and hugged himself tightly before slowly making his way inside.
I'm not going to act like emotional abuse isn't life-ruining or that I wasn't miserable for those first three years, trust me I was plenty miserable. and it's also important to keep in mind that the physical abuse couldn't ever have existed without the emotional abuse, without any social or financial power over me the only way to keep me around as a punching bag was to convince me that somehow everything was my own fault & that I deserved whatever I got. but it's quite stark how much worse things got after the ipv began. at that point, my life really did become like a psychological horror movie, and for a full year! every room I was in, the walls would bleed. I heard voices. I developed a split consciousness to cope, because I never had any alone time; we were always together, I had to find a way to be happy. I wasn't happy though. I would cry myself to sleep. I would lie about where I got my bruises. I started failing my classes, I couldn't make friends because being abused by her was a 24/7 job. she didn't even remember what she did to me half the time, I mean goddamn. most people with DID are non-violent, but of course I got stuck with the exception because I could get a PhD in ignoring red flags. I was delusional, it's the reason I didn't leave. that and the sunk cost fallacy. we had been together for almost a decade; I thought I could change her. the ipv + the isolation is really why I reached new heights of misery in 2023, things had been plenty bad in previous years but I failed to consider that they could always get worse. I'm better now, but still haunted by that time; I don't know when that feeling will leave. maybe never.
while talking about reproductive rights in the US i feel its worth noting that in this country the leading cause of death of people who are pregnant or post-partum isnt a medical complication but homicide, usually caused by an intimate partner. and black people especially have higher risks of homicide during their pregnancy and higher risks of death during labor than their nonblack counterparts. reproductive justice is so vital and the lack of protections for pregnant people (both who wish to terminate their pregnancy or bring it to term) is state violence in action
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I’ve been avoiding anything related to the Depp/Heard case but I already knew about the background info and seeing how it turned out is very 🙃
Also a few of my extended family members has been on fb being like “Johnny I’ll be a good girlfriend for you 🥰 I’ll treat you right 🥰🥰” 🥴 like I know you’ve had a crush on him for 30 years but is it that hard to believe that a rich and famous actor turned out to be a creep and abuser
Anyway it just feels weird especially as someone who has been a mentally ill bisexual woman in abusive relationships. Especially since the last one I was in my mental illness was used to gaslight me because I was told I was too mentally ill to understand what was and wasn’t abusive
some ppl rlly out here thinking that abuse/ipv are secretly abusers bc we have he gall to fight back sometimes
im sorry your partner abusing you for months/years and you finally snapping n yelling/pushing/hitting them back isnt the fucking same!!!! not compareable
so many times ive been down on myself bc i thought i was doing wrong when i just did what i could to sane/alive, yelling at him after he broke my things isnt the same as him having no reguard for my shit or boundries, pushing him away/off of me bc im scared of what he will do isnt the same as him backing me into a corner and insinuating he might SA me. throwing shit to intimidate/keep him away from me isnt the same as him throwing things bc hes mad and upset n wants to break more of my stuff
someones reactions to their abuse/assault/ipv are not the same as abusers lashing out at you
the reason why victoria lost her life in a crusade to avenge james is probably the exact same reason why some abuse victims go back to their abusers/continue to defend them even when they’re out of the picture and also those abused in their formative years (which she was) are more likely to accept abusive tendencies in future relationships (i.e. her relationship with james) so uhhhhhhh any narrative that depicts victoria as anything other than a victim is misogynistic and victim-blaming