A person’s anxiety can be a direct
result of their parents’ behavior.
Though high anxiety is partly genetic,
children are more likely to be anxious
if their parents openly criticize them,
doubt their competence, are controlling,
or are emotionally cold – to the point
that researchers analyzing a child’s
anxiety have been able to predict
their mother’s behavior before
ever observing it. SourceSource 2Source 3
I like how this is phrased like it’s news or something
But if we were conditioned to parent this way by parents who parented this way, how do we break the cycle. I have anxiety and I can feel myself doing this to my children. Help!!!!
I’m so fucking sick of this fixation on obsolete manufacturing jobs that only get attention because they’re seen as blue collar white man jobs. We’ve lost 90,000 retail jobs since Trump was elected, which is more than the entire coal industry employs. But we’ll never hear a peep about those because that’s work for women and POC.
And fuck all this demagoguing about foreigners stealing your job. A robot stole your job and it’s never coming back. 50 years ago a steel mill producing 500,000 tons of steel wire per year would employ 1,000 people, enough to prop up the economy of a small town. A steel mill with that same output just opened up and it employs, wait for it, 14 people. You won’t even see any humans on the production floor, just watching the monitors in the office above. No pussygrabbing orange fascist is gonna turn back the clock on that one. Oh sure, there was a candidate with a plan to retrain everyone in green technology jobs, but solar panels seem vaguely effeminate, not like the muscular labor of dragging shitty rocks out of the ground for pumping poison into the air. How about we really get back to basics and let dentists stick leeches on you again, there’s a lost source of income they could use. Maybe get some blacksmiths back to work. We’ll have a purely nostalgia-based economy and all the old demographics that we’re comfortable with.
I’m perfectly content to pay taxes that go toward public schools, even though I’m childless and intend to stay that way, because all children deserve a quality, free education. If this seems unfair or unreasonable to you, we are never going to see eye to eye.
If I have to pay a little more with each paycheck to ensure my fellow Americans can access health care? SIGN ME UP. Poverty should not be a death sentence in the richest country in the world. If you’re okay with thousands of people dying of treatable diseases just so the wealthiest among us can hoard still more wealth, there is a divide between our worldviews that can never be breached.
I dreamt I had a pet hedgehog and I had somehow brought it with me to jury duty. I tried to get it food at the cafeteria but couldn’t remember what hedgehogs eat, so I was looking it up on my phone and trying to snuggle the hedgie with the other hand. so bizarre.
I’m a multiply disabled non-binary person trying to raise funds to buy a powered wheelchair. There’s no way I can afford it alone, but I’m hoping that if enough people share this it might be possible. No pressure to donate if you can’t spare anything, but I would really appreciate if you could reblog this.
A power chair would massively improve my quality of life. Currently, I can only go outside when someone else is there to push my manual wheelchair for me, as my arms are too weak to self-propel. When I try and push myself I usually end up dislocating my elbows and the joints in my hands, which is very painful. I often go Monday to Friday without going outside at all, as my partner works full time and can usually only take me outside on weekends. A power chair would mean that I could go outside, by myself, whenever I wanted. It would be completely life changing to have the freedom and independance to go outside without having to depend on anyone else.
Please share & donate if you can spare anything at all.
As of right now, 26/06/17, we have £1889 left to raise. To break that down a bit, I’ve worked out that in order to raise that in the 24 days we have left, we’ll need to raise about £75 a day. Yesterday we only raised £18. My JustGiving page currently has almost 5000 views – if each of those people had given the minimum donation (£2 on JG) we would already have raised the price of the wheelchair. Small donations make a really big difference, even just 50p sent to my PayPal, it all adds up.
If you can share this post – here, on fb, on twitter, wherever – it’ll make a big difference. The more people see this, the more people will think about donating. Thank you to everyone who’s already donated and shared this post, you’re helping me get my life back xxx
The American Medical Association, the largest organization of physicians in the country, came out forcefully against the Senate Republican health care plan on Monday, saying the GOP’s plan would violate the industry-wide pledge to “do no harm.”
“Medicine has long operated under the precept of Primum non nocere, or ‘first, do no harm,’” James L. Madara, the CEO of the association, wrote in a letter to senators laying out the group’s official position on the bill. “The draft legislation violates that standard on many levels.” Read more (6/26/17)
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