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confessionsofbirthmothers

Satire….  But, how often has it actually happened with international adoptions?  Just because it is a child instead of an adult does not make it any more correct.

entangled-fortress

Lmfao okay, so this was pretty funny. I actually really liked this skit xD it rings true. I feel like this shows how much our perception changes when we see age. (If that makes sense) like when we see a woman with a baby and think “oh she’s a mom” and then we see a grown woman with another grown woman and probably think “just two adults”.

Dec 20 2018 • 8 notes

Tumblr Filtering

I think this is the problem the internet needs to give some more attention to. Same with on YouTube, and any other source of uploading site. It’s a difficult thing to filter content. We need real people to filter out the actual attackers. My friend had this job in high school for a forum and he saw a lot of messed up shit. So… having a bot do it is safer, in a way, but also just lazy. The problem with that filtering job is that it’s the same as working in SVU . You see so much shit it traumatises you.

Dec 17 2018 • 5 notes

missmentelle

Health insurance is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who can’t afford to see me. 

Housing is a mental health issue. I can’t use therapy to help a client whose depression and anxiety come directly from sleeping in the streets. 

Food insecurity is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who isn’t taking their medication because their pills say “take with food” and they have nothing to eat.

Healthcare is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client whose “depression” is actually a thyroid condition they can’t afford to get treated. 

Wages are a mental health issue. I can’t help a client whose anxiety comes from the fact that they are one missed shift away from not being able to make rent.

Child care is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who works 80 hours per week to afford daycare, and doesn’t have the time or energy left to come see me. 

Drug policing is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who ended up in prison because they got caught self-medicating with illegal substances. 

Police brutality is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client whose ‘anxiety’ is a very real and justified fear of ending up as a hashtag. 

If you’re going to make a stand for improving mental health, you have to understand that addressing mental health goes way beyond hiring more therapists and talking about mental health on social media. If we’re really serious about tackling this mental health problem as a country, it means rolling up our sleeves and taking down the barriers that prevent people from getting the help they need - even if those people are different than us, lead different lives, and make choices we don’t agree with. 

We aren’t “fixing” mental health unless we’re fixing it for everybody. 

Dec 14 2018 • 48,476 notes