Month: June 2017

Though, just remembering that one psychiatrist who tried to put my suddenly sleeping like 20 hours a day off on sleep apnea from being fat. When that had never been a problem before, and I never showed any signs of apnea.

He didn’t even seem remotely concerned that sleep apnea might be dangerous and I should maybe check into that, just to use as a brushoff.

It couldn’t have been a medication side effect, not at all. (Along with gaining 40 lbs. in a month while hardly awake to eat much…) So then of course he tried to increase the dosage again 😵

That was the appointment where my mother eventually lost it and started yelling at him, so he called security to escort us out. At least the hospital security guy was rolling his eyes. Wouldn’t be surprised at some previous experience dealing with the jerk.

That was also the medication where, less than a week later, we got a call from the GP flipping out and screeching about liver failure. Good thing he had automatically been sent copies of the lab results. Because that was indeed a prescription which called for regular liver panels, and Psych Dude had apparently just been ignoring some really worrying results. The GP had only just seen the last set, and was concerned enough to call personally to tell me to stop taking the stuff right away.

No idea if that might have also had something to do with barely being able to stay awake, but yeah. The “sleep apnea” also stopped after maybe a week off those meds! 🙄

After that, I might resist the very idea of looking into it even if I did start showing apnea symptoms. Which is maybe another way assholes like that can endanger people’s health.

should-be-sleeping:

People shocked by reports out of Carrie Fisher’s autopsy are shocked for the wrong reason. Carrie had always been open about her lifelong (meaning, continuous, not over) struggles with addiction and mental illness and where the two sometimes meet. She was never coy or secretive about this.

Did these drugs play a minor role in her death? Sure. People who do not do drugs tend to live longer than those who do. That’s a given. However Carrie did not O.D. The drugs in her system, could have been days old, she could’ve been sober on that flight. You don’t know but we do know her cause of death was not attributed to drugs.

What should be catching more attention is that Sleep Apnea played the biggest role in her death. A condition many people downplay, resigning it to “lol snoring.” Sleep disorders are serious. Carrie Fisher’s made her stop breathing and she died. Carrie Fisher’s gradually broke down her heart. 

If you frequently have excessive daytime sleepiness despite a full night of sleep, snore, or commonly wake up gasping in the middle of the night or feeling out of breath: see a physician and get a referral for a Sleep Study. It just might save your life – or at least prolong it. Take care of yourselves.

People act the way they think people act

realsocialskills:

Most people act the way they think people act. When people talk about what people are like, assume they’re including themselves.

For instance:

If a boss says that all bosses exploit employees, they’re likely to be terrible to work for.

If a man says that all men are rapists, misogynists, or abusers, he’s likely not a very safe person to be alone with.

If someone says that all marginalized people need to lash out at privileged people, it’s likely that they’ll eventually consider you privileged and lash out at you.

There are any number of instances of this. People tend to act the way they think people act. When people tell you how people act, or how people in a group they’re part of act, err on the side of assuming that they may act that way too.

Hey there! I’ve been following your blog for awhile (it’s a nice blog!) but I was wondering, do you have any encouragement for a beginner learning Korean? I get a hard time for it because I’m a white American and people say that you can’t just learn a language for fun if you’re a white American. I have a serious passion for this language and I want to learn but people saying this is really getting me down. Do you have any tips or encouragement? Thank you so much!

lenyberry:

languagesandshootingstars:

Hi! You are allowed to learn any language you want, regardless of your skin colour or nationality. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorant and wrong. Don’t listen to them. They may tell you learning a language is “cultural appropriation”, but as long as you’re not accessorizing it or claiming it as yours, it’s not. So go ahead and learn the language, and learn about the Korean culture and people and their country. There’s nothing wrong with that. Good luck and have fun!

Learning a language so that you can more easily communicate with more people is not cultural appropriation. 

Learning a language because you like the way it sounds is not cultural appropriation. 

In fact I can’t think of any way in which learning a language could be rendered appropriative. You’d have to be such a huge asshole about it that I can’t even imagine what that would be like.