So personally I have PTSD. Everyone has different coping skills and ways of getting through their flashbacks, and these are some of the things that help me, personally. Feel free to add anything you think night be helpful and feel free to reblog to help those who also struggle with this horrible mental illness.
DO’s:
*separate the person from a large group. Large groups personally make everything worse. Get them to a quiet, secluded area as quickly and as quietly as you can, it will decrease anxiety so fast.
*give the person an ice cube to hold. The cold is painful enough that it brings the oersons senses back to reality and out of their flashback, but it isn’t too damaging.
*talk to the person,if they are willing, about what they are seeing. Remind that person in soft and quiet tones that you are not their abuser, and that they are safe.
*ask for permission before you touch them!!! Personally if someone I don’t know touches me when I’m having a flashback I get so much worse. If I haven’t given you permission to touch me DO NOT DO IT!
*give the person a distraction. Be it a quiet cartoon, soft classical music. Something calming and not too overstimulating.
DON’T’S
*DON’T speak in a loud voice. This makes us think you are angry, or upset that we are having an episode. It will make an even worse and I will find the closest thing to hide under.
*DON’T raise your hands or move too quickly. My biggest fear during an episode is that I’m going to be hit so seeing raised arms or fast movements will scare me really badly.
*DON’T tell the person that it’s all in their head. This is not only redundant but it makes us feel even stupider and more vulnerable.
*DON’T panic yourself. I know that helping us through our episode can be stressful but please do not panic. It will set us off even harder. I feel more vulnerable and susceptible to others emotions and if you panic, I will too.
Just some useful stuff that personally helps me. As I said feel free to add to this or reblog it to maybe help someone else. C:
why doesn’t everyone give mary lambert more love tho like
she’s a fat neurodivergent lesbian who sings explicitly sapphic pop songs and writes poetry to girls and songs about loving and reclaiming your body and macklemore used her chorus from one of the most beautiful lesbian songs ever in his fucking shitty ally song and naturally he’s hailed by the straights as a “gay hero” whereas most people don’t even know that mary lambert sang the only good part of the damn song (much less who she even is) and wasn’t even properly credited on the track title. not to mention that she brings awareness to every part of her neurodivergency (even the ugly stuff that nts don’t wanna hear about) while still being confident about herself and i just love her so much she’s helped me a lot
are my daydream characters the one that copy my sense of humor or am i the one who copy their sense of humor?: a novel by me.
are my daydream characters the ones that copied my hobbies and interests or am I the one who copied their hobbies and interests?: the sequel by me
are my daydream characters the ones that copy my entire life or am i the one who copy their lives?: the trilogy
are my daydream characters the ones feeling depressed and/or angry because i do, or is it me who feels depressed and/or angry because they do?: the spinoff
Do my daydream characters have this personality because I do, or do I have this new personality because my daydream characters have it?: the movie
hi i’m tolkien here are my ocs. i call them Elves (not elfs!!! if you call them elfs i will block you) they look like humans but they’re tall, live forever, and have pointy ears. that’s it bye
cs lewis: are you alright with constructive criticism? i dont want to sound mean
tolkien: no go ahead i want to hear it
cs lewis: they fucking suck
tolkien: thats not constructive criticism
cs lewis: here’s my OC, it’s jesus but he’s a lion tolkien: Furry cs lewis: blocked
cs lewis: i put you in my book you’re a fairly significant character
tolkien: i based my tree OC off of you
tolkien: good fantasy can’t have things like street lamps in them it would’t make sense
some of my favourite absolutely SICK facts about the trappist-1 exoplanets:
– theyre all very close to one another and to their star, so the length of a year on them varies from 1 to 20 DAYS
– since they’re so close, the star appears a lot bigger than our sun from earth, and from one planet you could easily see the rest, some would even appear bigger than the moon from earth. you could literally see the surface of another planet with a naked eye!!!
– they’re tidally locked to their star like our moon is locked to earth, meaning only one side of a planet ever faces the star, and on the other side it’s always night. the sun never sets or rises on any of the planets
– the star is red, so the sunlight is red/orange, meaning if, for example, plants were to grow there, they could be black
and that’s just what we know now, imagine how much cool stuff we have yet to discover about the trappist-1 system
Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.
Thank you.
I will always re-blog this
I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.
Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.
I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y’all gon learn today.
Teach the children.
also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.
IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.
no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.
Im here for the gay POC cowboys
Guys: “vamoose,” “hoosegow,” “calaboose” it’s all Spanish.
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