Things I never knew about depression until I finally had a doctor explain the disease to me

Depression can manifest as irrational anger.

My complete and total inability to keep anything clean or tidy for any amount of time is a symptom of my depression. I may never be able to do this. It’s important that I remember that and forgive myself when I clean something out (like my car) and it ends up trashed within a week.

Depression IS A DISABILITY. Requiring accommodations is okay.

Medications don’t make you better, they don’t cure your depression. They serve as an aid. Their purpose is to help you get to everyone else’s minimal level of functioning.

Depression can cycle through periods of inactivity. This doesn’t mean it’s gone away.

The reason I don’t feel like other people understand me is because … well … other people DON’T understand me. They can’t. They don’t have my disability.

Paranoia is par for the course.

Depression can and will interfere with your physical mobility. Forgive yourself when you can’t physically do something.

It’s entirely possible that I may never be able to live by myself. I can’t take care of myself. I need help to do it. And that’s okay.

As someone who suffers from depression and who experiences all these things as well I think this is important and needs to be reblogged. Depression is a very difficult thing, not only for people who suffer from it, but for everyone who knows a depressed person. My family doesn’t know how to deal with it, my friends try their very best to support me and I have tried to pretend I was fine until I was in ninth grade.

Everything makes so much more sense

Depression is a disease of the brain. The brain is an organ. When organs are not functioning properly, you are advised to see a doctor and get help. So why is it so hard to understand that the brain can suffer as well, and that we need help for it?

The brain controls the body. A sick brain means a sick body.

…. Shit.

Don’t disregard it as just sadness.  Depression is life threatening.

Today’s aesthetic: keeping the same tab open in your browser for three solid weeks because you’re definitely going to get around to reading and/or acting on whatever’s in it any minute now.

DONT CALL ME OUT LIKE THIS

Hey

Psstt

The guy who invented the theory that vaccines cause autism had his medical license revoked for it

thats ridiculous

they took it away because he came up with a seemingly plausible theory?

They took it away because other scientists have been unable to reproduce his results, his results were made up, he didn’t even get approved by an ethics committee, and now he’s risking the health and lives of a whole bunch of people

It’s not just that he came to incorrect conclusions, he falsified data on purpose, apparently because he had patented a related medical test and stood to make a lot of money off people using his test instead of vaccinating.

It’s crazy how this one person, in a study of only twelve children, gained so much traction in the world. He put this lie out there—and it was a lie, not just interpreting data incorrectly—and now it doesn’t even matter that he’s been proven totally false. Years of effort to reestablish the truth can’t undo the lie once it’s out there in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people believe that lie, and actual children are getting sick and dying because of it.

This is a really troubling aspect of how human minds work, and it’s something conservative politicians take advantage of on a regular basis. If you just say that “well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does“ is provide abortions, it doesn’t matter how often people recite the objective truth that abortions are a tiny fraction of Planned Parenthood services. You can say the truth 1000 times for every one time the lie is repeated, and thousands of people will still trust the lie.

I’d never heard this before, and it’s actually really helpful information to have, so thanks. Here is a scientific article by the American Academy of Pediatrics explaining the flaws in Wakefield’s research and briefly summarizing four studies that refuted the fraudulent claims. Here is an article by the editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal calling him a fraud in no uncertain terms. Here is the first part of a nine-part investigative journalistic series, published in the BMJ, uncovering his fraud.  And the General Medical Council conclusions that stripped Wakefield of his clinical credentials can be found here.

I’m honestly so mad right now reading about this guy. People are dying of measles right now because vaccinations fell off so sharply, and those deaths can be laid at the door of this man.

This man is a mass murderer

VACCINATE YOUR KIDS. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT VACCINATING HEALTHY CHILDREN.

NONE.

Your regular reminder that the entire anti-vaxx movement is founded and predicated on hatred and devaluation for autistic people and autistic lives. Never forget this, and remember to talk about it when you’re talking about anti-vaxxers.

funny that parents would rather their kid die than “possibly get autism” from vaccines 🤔

Autism is challenging but something you can live with and enjoy your life, DEATH LESS SO.

this is why the world is beautiful, maybe its just me but i find this cool as fuck

“Your kid says hi.” -The sun

Sunrise on Three Worlds

js

Morning on Mars

6 Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter.  Once again, not artist’s renditions.

NOT ARTIST’S RENDITIONS

FIrst batch out of… Uuuuhhh… Many!

I wanted to draw more, but a nasty headache doesn’t help ._.

But at least I got these three done!

For @shadowking58, @the-deerest-mod and @xirobu!

I hope you like those ^^

I will continue the stream tomorrow!

“I’m judging youuuuuuu“

Thank you for the grumpy horse ALOS :D

SOMEBODY SHARED THIS WITH ME & OUCH IM LAUGHING SO HARD BUT AT THE SAME TIME IM HURT

Inside - Vadim Sadovski

Sweden is pretty confused rn

First we had the terrible thing that didn’t happen

And now everyone is confused as to who this is? Because Nils Bildt is not a Swedish defense and national security advisor, in fact, neither the Swedish Defense Ministry nor Foreign Office have ever heard of this “expert”

What a time to be alive

Fake Sweden expert on Fox News – has criminal convictions in US, no connection to Swedish security

What the heck even…

I KNOW RIGHT LIKE IT’S TIME TO STOP

HE DOESN’T EVEN LIVE HERE

I don’t reblog these things usually but now I feel i have to spread this so people know; So apparently he’s a “Independent analysis” and NOT in any shape or form connected to our national security administration. Also his real name is Nils G Tolling, not Bildt (Carl Bildt was a prime minister).

This is an actually paid ‘actor’ doing a fake news interview just to align with Fox’s last Fake-news fiasco about Sweden.

… what is going on in the US?

Bad things.

Lizard in Baltic Amber (Eocene)