Which Companies Are Using Aborted Human Fetuses in Their Food? →
Did anyone actually READ the article? No one is using aborted human fetuses. The article is a about a proposed law to prevent stem cells being used in research to develop products.For once, words fail us.
What in the name of…
Bipolar Quirk Relating to Hypomania.
I don’t know if anybody else does this, but when I’m hypomanic i think in a british accent and i type completely different from usual.
When I’m manic or hypomanic I can speak French. I took it for years in school but normally can’t remember much but mania flips some switch that lets it come back. Once I even spoke all in rhymes in French, and it made sense (well sort of.)
If people are standing up and saying something about, “That’s so gay,” then I think something needs to be said about, “Stop being so bipolar.” It’s not even the majority that has full-blown type I manic depression, which is the stereotypical “freak out at every little thing”. A lot of people actually belong to the classification of either type II bipolar disorder or cyclothymia. But whether our manic episodes are out of control or just occasional, the depression we also face is real.
How would you like to be mocked if you were going through a really tough time in your life? What if that was all you ever felt in life? And when people tell you to suck it up it just made you so angry for how ignorant they are to your pain? And every time you tried to defend yourself you’d get stuck in a circular argument about how crazy you are?
Bipolar people are allowed to feel, and calling us crazy or psycho for exhibiting any negative emotion, whether it’s a full-blown mania episode or just being pissed about something like any normal teenager, is extremely dehumanizing. I can’t even describe how I feel when my sister calls me crazy for getting pissed occasionally. Like I’m stripped of all my basic human rights. Worse than shit. Worse than dirt. Worse than nothing. I can’t even come up with the words to allow you to comprehend how it feels because these phrases are used so often. But I can tell you, the torment has brought me to dark places.
So if all the media attention to bullying is “working” so far, how about we take an angle on teens with mental illness that get bullied? We deserve to be respected. Because we didn’t choose this. But we have to deal with it. It’s only right if we get the respect we deserve, too.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
The 9th National Harm Reduction Conference will be held from November 15-18 in Portland, Oregon and we want you to submit an abstract!
The National Harm Reduction Conference brings together a truly diverse group of individuals within the harm reduction movement and provides an incredible platform for sharing, learning and networking on a range of issues in harm reduction. Anyone can submit an abstract and you don’t need any prior experience presenting.
We invite you to:
- Share your knowledge: What works? Share skills-building tools, successful models for advocacy or service provision, valuable lessons learned from the field and more!
- Promote critical dialogue: What is the future of the harm reduction movement? Roundtable discussions & presentations provide a unique opportunity to engage in dialogue about critical questions, ideas & challenges, and hot topics.
- Build the movement: How do we grow and build across social movements? The National Conference is our moment to shine – to connect with old and new friends and colleagues and to grow the movement.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 30, 2012.
I am hopefully going to this. So excited.
InSite: Hometown Heroes →
Why do you hate the word ‘clean’?
Because it implies that when you’re using you’re dirty. I think that’s disgusting. I don’t think there’s anything dirty or gross about someone just because they’re sick, just because they have an addiction.
Yes.
User error
I believe that life begins at contraception.
I also thought contraception stopped life from beginning but I guess I was wrong.
BWAHAHA.
I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.
Interesting. I’ve read people who categorized depression and other mental health issues as first world problems. As if people in Third World countries don’t also suffer from mental illness, or as if mental illness in First World people is trivial. Usually people who say that type of thing don’t actually have a mental illness themselves.
In my experience, those who are anti-sex work tend to fall within the radical feminist school of thought, a movement marked for its transphobia, whorephobia and the promotion of the idea of false-consciousness (and don’t get on me for this - if it weren’t for these factors, I may have turned out to be a radical feminist. I’m not unsympathetic to everything they have to say). But. I do NOT want the rights of sex workers fought for by the sex-positivity, pro-porn but non-sex working camp either. Because sex work and sex workers rights is not a matter of a sexual revolution. IT IS A MATTER OF LABOUR, INDUSTRIAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS. First. Foremost. Most importantly. Without compromise.
from a longer post you should read by The Only Elise Archer Who Counts
happy may day, everyone.
I would like to read a wearethe99 story that talked about making mistakes./ All the stories are from people who did everything “right”. Their stories are sad but I’m getting the message that only those people deserve sympathy-if you fucked up then you deserve bad things. I don’t know if that is the intention-to exclude those of us who didn’t do everything the “right” way, but by excluding them you perpetuate the idea that some people don’t deserve bad things and other people do.
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful, and their ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.
Aaron Antonovsky (via bipolarenlightenment)
I like this.
