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I'm supposed to stop internalizing trauma when I come to the social world online and the trending topic is all about how Jews do or don't drink water and how fucking offensive that is? It's not me internalizing. It's me responding to hate like a human with feelings FFS.
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Strange medical fact: Floaters in the eye don't go away. We just become more accustomed to them and stop noticing them so I'm told. I have the weirdest brown floater of debris in my right eye that's been repeating patterns for a month and is linked to my bleeding disorder.
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I'm frustrated and angry and both are useless feelings as they solve nothing. I have to stop internalizing everything as stress and unresolved relentless trauma - a task whic none of us with empathy are good at. How does anyone manage life at all much less have hopes or dreams?
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I'm fine, being told all that's needed is to "change my brain" and start accepting all the bad shit that comes with having life extension therapies work. I'm not terminal. I am in a slow degeneration so I shut up and take the fallout. Talk about being Schroedinger's Cat until...?
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and today's the day I lost my husband and I just want to go home. It's been happening for a long time but I'm very small scale this just grew from stress and sorrow and my body just broke. I love you oh so much I hope I can come back
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I suffered a series of three small Strokes to my right frontal lobe and I am a mess and they don't know what to do with me because they can't put me in a care home with covid-19. I can't walk up and down my stairs I can't clean my clothes or wash myself
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Hey I've just been quiet because Monday will be the fourth anniversary of Ray's death and I'm having a hard time with that aside from all you wonderful people and my career he was the best thing in my life ever and I miss him so much. I'll be back online soon thank you so much ❤️
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A ripped up shirt works great as a dust and cleaning rag, so even if at the end of its use days as a shirt, there may be another use. People just don't think it through, or care.
I don't know if I understand it having had violent parents. But no one helped them or we kids despite full knowledge of what was going on. I had a friend that was returned to her rapist stepfather. The detective cried! The next week she defended herself with a knife and ran away.
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I wish this shocked me :( I am truly sad this happened. if justice were procedural, I may be less reluctant to involve law enforcement. Every perpetrator in my life has never been arrested, tried or convicted for their violent crimes but I got myself into it so my fault. at 15?
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This woman thought herself environmentalist. I had a fit and took the bags and donated them. My family started and brother Mo continues a restorationist business for Victorian homes, furniture, etc. I am iteratingly minimalistic, each year less is more reducing potential waste.
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It used to be the opposite in the US, notably during Watergate, but certain newspapers like my hometown New York Times tilt left but not rabit at all like the New York Post. I, too, hate waste. A roomate was about to throw out two huge bags of several times used clothes . . .
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Valley of the Dolls is about the benzo issues as well. They are by far the most deadly withdrawal the longer it goes on. I'm down to very low dose but now might be a lifer as they treat TIAs. Mine are tiny and come from stress and hypoxia. Mom had larger ones, different cause.
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Speaking of not telling, my grandmother was so traumatized by the persecution she witnessed that she forced her children to "melt" into the pot: Be American, don't tell anyone what you are or believe - essentially assimilation imposed from inside not outside their community!
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Another point of empathy I have been a 35-year dependent on benzodiazepines and I have had to wean myself off of them and it is the most scary and horrible thing because doctors keep dropping me because the younger ones are not apparently taught about Mother's Little Helper. Sad.
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I have this same experience. I think it may be why I became so unfiltered and "out" in all the things. I got sick of the not telling as it did more harm to me and my siblings and others I knew than imaginable. I empathize deeply with you in this.
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And it isn't just men doing that at least to me regarding academics. Women often suggest taking off my wedding ring as it's coming up four years of widowhood, put on a dress, lipstick, find a man and use him. I find that shocking and new to my experience! How about you?
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Print has always been my primary medium until digital and now I use sites for two major activities: Social interaction and reasearch. I bought one TV in 1996. Radio through the 70s I had, then only in cars. Speaking of cars, I bought my car new in 1999. Just hit 30,000 miles!
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Sorry I meant assimilation voice input sucks! And it turns around and generation my grandmother was so frightened of her identities she made her children assimilate by force. So despite the fact she was assimilated and persecuted none the less she thought hiding was best