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lah-disputes: “I decided to create a masterpost that would help you with what you are struggling with. Hopefully any of the links below will help you! Reminder; You’re going to be okay. What you are going through will pass, just remember to...

lah-disputes:

I decided to create a masterpost that would help you with what you are struggling with. Hopefully any of the links below will help you!

Reminder; You’re going to be okay. What you are going through will pass, just remember to breathe. 

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Distractions;

Here are some distractions to help keep your mind occupied so you aren’t too focused on your thoughts. 

Sleep issues; 

 

Uncomfortable with silence; 

Anxiety; 


Sad, angry and depressed/depression; 


Isolation and loneliness; 

 

Self-harm;


Addiction; 

 

Eating disorders; 

 

Dealing with self-hatred;  

 

Suicidal; 

 

Schizophrenia;


OCD;


Borderline personality disorder; 

Abuse; 

 

Bullying;

 

Loss and grief; 

(Other loss and grief)

 

Getting help; 


Things you need to remember; 

  • - Don’t stress about being fixed because you’re not broken.
  • -Remember to remind yourself of your accomplishments. Tell yourself that you’re proud of yourself, even if you’re not. 
  • - This is temporary. You won’t always feel like this. 
  • -You are not alone. 
  • -You are enough. 
  • -You are important. 
  • -You are worth it. 
  • -You are strong. 
  • -You are not a failure, 
  • -Good people exist. 
  • -Reaching out shows strength. 
  • -Breathe. 
  • -Don’t listen to the thoughts that are not helping you. 
  • -Give yourself credit. 
  • -Don’t be ashamed of your emotions, for the good or bad ones. 
  • -Treat yourself the same way as you would treat a good friend. 
  • -Focus on the things you can change. 
  • -Let go of toxic people. 
  • -You don’t need to hide, you’re allowed to feel the way you do. 
  • -Try not to beat yourself up. 
  • -Something is always happening, you don’t want to miss out on what’s going to happen next. 
  • -You are not a bother.
  • -Your existence is more than your appearance. 
  • -You are smart. 
  • -You are loved. 
  • -You are wanted. 
  • -You are needed. 
  • -Better days are coming. 
  • -Just because your past is dark, doesn’t mean your future isn’t bright. 
  • -You have more potential than you think. 
  • - Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.


Please remember to look after yourself and know that you are more than worth it and you deserve to be happy. Keep smiling butterflies x

 

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July 04, 2015
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impuretale:

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gamingtimeladyfromgallifrey:

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bluegrassprincess:

charamei:

dracofidus:

courtneygeek:

dracofidus:

cryingmajoralenko:

to give you an idea on not only how hot it is in the uk, but also just how heat-intolerant we are as a country, i went upstairs to close my blind and stop the sun coming into my room and i started to get dizzy after a few minutes. i didnt sleep last night because of the weather.

is not just that its hot, its that we as a country are built for rain and sleet and hail and howling gales. we dont need AC because its pointless and a waste of space and money if the average temperature is barely above 20 degrees. we live in boxes of insulation. our foods are heavy and hearty and warm for getting us through the cold. we live in almost constant cloud cover so we’re not used to the sun.

my mother and i are constantly panicking over my 9 week old baby sister because she could very easily overheat and die.

heatwaves in the uk are not a fucking joke.

This morning I got out of bed, stood up, and it was so hot I got dizzy, my vision went black and I fell over.

All of our windows are open, there is nothing for us to do. I am lying naked on the bathroom floor because that is the coolest place.

As someone who has lived with the unbearable combo of humidity + no AC (Louisiana after a hurricane is fucking awful) cold wash cloths are your best friend. Put some in the fridge and switch them out putting them on the back of your neck, wear as few clothes as possible, NEVER take a hot shower, avoid stimulants like caffeine, nicotine, and any medication that is not necessary because they can not only raise your temp but most of them make you pee more and will dehydrate you faster. Any type of electric fan, literally anything that gets the air moving is your friend, make sure babies get a cool wipe down often and left in only diapers as often as possible, also pedialite or a knock off of it (it’s like Gatorade for babies without all the sugars and helps keep them hydrated when they’re sick). Fuck capsaicin just don’t touch it I know curry is delicious but DO NOT FUCK WITH SPICY FOODS your systems probably aren’t adapted to handle that plus the weather. Keep your pets well watered and calm.
Seriously guys any questions feel free to ask because Louisiana has humidity equivalent to a rainforest in our driest months and I will gladly help keep y'all safe.

^hero.

Also don’t forget that you can put plastic water bottles in the freezer overnight! Fill them about 4/5 to the top (ice takes up more space than water, so if you overfill the bottle will burst) and when you take them out the next morning you will have a bottle-sized ice cube which will melt easily in the heat. The water inside will stay cold because 1. hello, bottle-sized ice cube and 2. it’s literally only just melted. This method works way better than regular sized ice cubes because the water starts out cold.

That said, guys, don’t drink only water. It’s true that caffeine etc will dehydrate you faster, but when you sweat you lose salts and minerals that your body needs and if you only drink water then you won’t replace them. Drink mostly water but be sure to have at least 500ml of something else - orange juice and Sprite work well. And enjoy some guilt-free crisps. Right now, you need that extra salt.

Regarding sleeping, I know a lot of people can’t sleep with wet hair but if you are one of the lucky few, and especially if your hair is long or thick enough that it takes a while to dry even in this weather, try it. It’ll keep your body temperature down, and it beats sleeping in wet pyjamas.

Get a metal bucket or bowl, fill it with ice & set it in front of a fan = cheap A/C.

Regarding babies, playtime in a cool bathtub works great & they love splashing around. :) Make sure wherever they sleep is kept DARK DARK DARK & have a fan blowing NEAR but not ON them. You can totally use the bucket trick in their room, too.

Get as low as you can, too. Sleep on the floor of the lowest level of your house. That’s where it will be coolest. Heat rises, so don’t even try to go upstairs. :P

If you have a basement, move everyone there until the heat wave breaks.

We have window unit A/Cs in America (Idk about overseas) & a small one can be as cheap as $50. Even if it only cools one room, you can keep that room closed off & use it as a cooling station/makeshift bedroom.

Homemade Air Conditioner!

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I’m going to keep saying this on every post because it’s not being mentioned:

IF YOU HAVE PETS MAKE SURE THEY HAVE PLENTY OF SHADE AND WATER. Make sure their water is out of the sun. IF you can bring them inside. If not shade and water.

You can also directly add salt to your water (like a pinch) and do that to like every third cup of water you drink and that will help keep your salt up.

If you have a spray water bottle that will help too.

Also not only washcloths but bandannas can be wet and kept cold (or frozen). Put them where your skin is the thinnest (back of neck, wrists, ankles, etc) and it will help keep you cool.

If you have to wear a hat for some reason, soak the hat in water first (especially if you’re outside with it). If you can not only soak in water but put in fridge to keep it cool before you have to wear it.

If you start feeling dizzy, SIT DOWN and drink water.

I don’t know about UK aquariums but I know here in So Cal (where we are a hot and dry desert) our aquariums though slightly pricey are moderately cool because the water creatures need to not be boiling. So that’s an idea.

Also, so much yes to the bucket of ice in front of a fan. I do that occasionally in my bedroom (because it’s aluminium and isn’t able to be hooked up to my house’s a/c).

If you don’t like being naked (which is honestly the best thing for you when it gets really hot to keep cool) wear the minimum amount of clothes possible and the lightest clothes possible.

And I know some of you with pets want to cuddle them. Your pet’s body temperature runs hotter than yours. I’d very much advise NOT cuddling them to keep cool.

Blackout curtains (if you can find them) work wonders at keeping places a little cooler. Or aluminium foil on your windows to help reflect the sunlight away from your windows.

The frozen water bottle thing? You can do that for your pets too as something they can lick to help cool off. Or you can put ice cubes/chips into a bowl for them to either eat or lick and wait to melt so they can drink the leftover water.

Good luck to UK people and please stay cool.

I don’t know how blasphemous this is, but you might start googling some sweet/iced tea recipes to cool off. The reason why it’s such a big thing in the American south is because it gets so ludicrously hot and humid here.

When our AC was busted, one fast cooldown tactic we’d use before bed, when it was often too hot to get comfortable, was to run our wrists under a cold tap for 30 seconds each. This cools the area and blood flows from there to the rest of the body. 

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June 28, 2015
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demeaniac:

STOP SCROLLING

straighten your back, mate

NOW GO ON

woah thanks i really needed that today

tumblr user demeaniac doing little favors for tumblr one post at a time

FUCK THIS POST HAS SHOWED UP LIKE 10 TIMES TODAY AND I HAVE BEEN HUNCHED OVER EVERY FUCKING TIME

PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING it is the best reminder for me ever and I always need it omg

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June 28, 2015
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onlyblackgirl:

thathotguy-alex:

cunicular:

Your first time is NOT supposed to hurt

You are NOT supposed to bleed

If you bleed, that is NOT your hymen being ‘popped’, it is a tear due to lack of sexual arousal and natural lubrication.

This is all a MYTH perpetrated by men so they don’t have to make sure you are comfortable and sufficiently aroused enough before you have sex with them. It is an excuse to disregard and hurt you.

I just really want women to know this.

Also a lot of dick people don’t actually know this either so spread the word to the penis-owning people who follow me that no the first time is not supposed to hurt for the vagina people.

Sex is supposed to be pleasurable not painful. If something hurts, stop and figure out the issue 9/10 there’ just not enough lubrication due to lack of arousal and foreplay. 

Also, if someone says it hurts, STOP. That aint some cute code for you to keep going. Listen to your partner. 

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June 28, 2015
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fightingforanimals: “Summer Warning - from Facebook! ““ Just wanted to do my part for society and share this…..these are my legs, a few years back after having spent approximately an hour in the sun. They’re gauzed and bandaged up because I suffered...

fightingforanimals:

Summer Warning - from Facebook!

“ Just wanted to do my part for society and share this…..these are my legs, a few years back after having spent approximately an hour in the sun. They’re gauzed and bandaged up because I suffered 2nd degree burns and was under hospital treatment for two weeks. I had plastered my legs (the only real exposed large area of skin) in factor 20 sunscreen so couldn’t understand why i had burnt so horrifically when the rest of me was fine! Now here’s the scary bit…… Little known fact that i feel should be widely shared. OUT OF DATE SUNSCREEN TURNS INTO COOKING OIL!! Hence instead of protecting you, cooks u nicely! Every product has an expiry date, you will find a number, either a 12, 24 or 30 etc. Its in a little square or container symbol on the back. This is how many months from purchase it is safe for. I had bought my cream the previous summer, so was only gone by a few months. It looked and smelt fine to me but clearly wasn’t! I was lucky, another 10-15mins in the sun and my 2nd degrees would have been 1st, and I’d of suffered permanent scarring. PLEASE PLEASE don’t put last year’s sunscreen on as this warmer weather approaches, especially not on your children. The pain I experienced was beyond words!!! Hope this helps people!”

PLEASE WARN PEOPLE TO CHECK THE DATES ON THEIR SUNSCREEN AND NOT APPLY OUT-OF-DATE CREAMS

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June 28, 2015
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ask-gallows-callibrator: “demon-sweets: “No. Just no. Ok? So I used to make this joke all the time. Now I have chronic tinnitus. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s nerve damage in your ears which often comes as a result of being...

ask-gallows-callibrator:

demon-sweets:

No. Just no. Ok?

So I used to make this joke all the time. Now I have chronic tinnitus. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s nerve damage in your ears which often comes as a result of being constantly exposed to very loud noise for a long period of time. The nerve damage results in a constant ringing/buzzing in your ears. So far there’s no cure. The severity of it varies, and I’m lucky to have a mild case, which I can barely hear during the day and is easy to block out at night. That said, loads of people with tinnitus aren’t so lucky. Severe tinnitus can’t be blocked out. Those who suffer from it also suffer from severe loss of sleep, depression, anxiety…. the list goes on. Tinnitus also comes with a degree of hearing loss in most cases, making it even harder to ignore. In fact, some people with severe tinnitus kill themselves just to make the ringing stop. Tinnitus can be so severe that it drives a person to suicide. Chronic tinnitus used to mostly be prevalent in older people who worked for years with loud machinery etc, but all of a sudden it’s becoming more common in our generation. Why? Because of people, like me, who listened to their music too goddamn loudly through their headphones.

Deaf by the time you’re 20? Please. That’s the least of your worries.

Please reblog. This post reminded me to move my music further away and turn it down. Someone else may need to be more cautious of their shit too.

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June 28, 2015
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stackedcrooked: “iatrogenic: “jovialdictator: “quietdharma: “Shared on the “spoon shortage” Facebook page ” 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...

stackedcrooked:

iatrogenic:

jovialdictator:

quietdharma:

Shared on the “spoon shortage” Facebook page

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 can’t work at a pharmacy like that, it’s 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 I’m mostly spending my professional time taking money away from insurance companies. 

I will now impart all of my profit killing resources onto you, in case you don’t know them. I think most of you know them, now. But just in case you don’t.

THIS IS US-CENTRIC. I’M SORRY. 

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. 

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 you’re in need of a place to get a drug without a prescription … first I’ll make sure you 100% know what you’re doing for safety reasons and then I’m happy to turn over a link. 

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 that’s 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 don’t cover them at all. 

GoodRX is a life saver, literally. Make sure you know the quantity and dosage before you get there, have it pulled up on your phone, and present each coupon for each med individually when they ask for insurance and voila! The meds I take would be $300+ a month, I get everything for around $20 with GoodRX.

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June 27, 2015
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outforhealth:

thecheeseless:

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thecheeseless:

it genuinely stresses me out that hat video of Ruby Rose binding with ACE bandages is getting so much traction. ACE bandages hurt so bad don’t fucking bind with them you can damage your body!!! It’s not cool and subversive to hurt your ribs!!!!!

What do we bind with then? .-. This is news to many people

real binders that were made for chest binding. ACE bandages are made so that they constrict, and this can fracture your ribs, or at least bruise and bend them. any trouble breathing experienced with ACE bandages also should not be part of binding, I breathe (and exercise) fine in my binder.

every option i am aware of is online, but you do have options.

underworks (http://www.underworks.com/ultimate-chest-binder-tank) is by far the most popular store. even though their binders were made for cis men who have gynecomastia, that basically means cis men with enlarged boobs, so it’s the same idea, and meant to be safe.

gc2b (http://www.gc2b.co/#!store/c205c) is a store that’s definitely gaining traction. you can find reviews on their website i believe but also on their tumblr, gc2b-apparel. everyone i’ve ever seen who had one felt much less pain with these binder because they’re designed by and for trans people, so they fit right.

these more colorful/patterned binders: http://shapeshiftersinc.storenvy.com were going around tumblr for awhile, but i’ve never used them, never have known anyone who used them, so i can’t vouch from a personal standpoint, but they do have a testimonials tag on their tumblr: http://shapeshiftersinc.tumblr.com/tagged/testimonials.

there’s other options - whether you ID as a dude or not, if you google search “ftm chest binders” you will find results, but these are the ones i’d vouch for most, the first being so widely used and the second two being by and for trans people.

hope this helps, if you want to know anything else about binding feel free to let me know!

Here’s your friendly reminder to not ever bind with ace bandages ever

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June 27, 2015
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important PSA about when your car is smoking

did-you-kno:

mama-green:

like literally smoking from the engine

white and you smell pancakes?
it’s the coolant. panic and pull over, but you’ll live.

a slight blue tinge?
it’s the oil. panic and pull over, but you’ll live.

grey, looks like fire smoke?
gasoline; the most combustable and dangerous. pull over and leave the vehicle, pray.

sharing because i didn’t know this when my car started smoking white yesterday and i was so afraid for my life.

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More detailed explanation here. Please don’t die.

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June 27, 2015
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crypticcripple:

cripples-r-us-swag:

crypticcripple:

Medical debt is sort of funny

Like what they gonna do? Repossess my health?

I never had it to begin with, you silly debtors

A few fun facts! All of this I learned after being near death and spending a week in critical care in a hospital that didn’t offer any sort of charity assistance and I was uninsured.

(Some do, so if you think you’re f’d, check to see if they offer anything first.)

First of all: while dealing with a terrible kidney infection, a 104 fever that had been going for a week, and who knows what else, a nice lady from their finance department came to me with some paperwork to sign. Luckily I was so out of it (I had even spelled my name wrong when I first checked in because I was so out of it) that I said I couldn’t (which was true).

I later learned what she was asking me to sign was some sort of a “lien” which would have given them all the rights to come after me and re-posses any property I had later to make up for the debt.

So, whatever you do when you’re sick, if you don’t understand something do NOT sign it.

Since then I got calls for a few years from a debt collector, I never talked to them, said I wasn’t available, whatever. Eventually they stopped calling.

I owe a hospital about $700,000 for having the audacity to have a kidney infection and an autoimmune disease which were trying to kill me simultaneously.

That was probably 5 years ago. From what everyone has told me, it can’t effect my credit. Medical debt can not effect your credit. Also, now that I’m no longer being harassed by those debt collectors, I never hear from anyone.

To me in the end, I learned to simply walk away from it, and I won, as far as I can tell.

I know the OP was making a joke, but I thought I’d put out some info in case anyone out there has the unfortunate luck to get critically sick in the US without insurance, because seriously it’s really fucking expensive.

Important info because my snarky butt is uneducated

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