Continuing on with my viewing theme I stumbled on a how-to tutorial for “chemical free soap” (it’s soap, silly, the whole thing is a chemical process. Call it what it is, synthetic free.), and the woman who claims to be an “expert” just smeared pure essential oil neat onto her skin because she “just loves this stuff” and I don’t think I’ll ever stop screaming.
Ya dont ever put essential oil neat onto the skin. That’s how ya get chemical burns, ya fucking edjit.
Oh god tell me it wasn’t cinnamon or clove oil.
How did you guess (:
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“Headdesk”
Systlin, what are your opinions on those young living essential oil things? My sister-in-law just started hawking that shit and I’m getting the don’t-touch-it-with-a-ten-foot-pole feeling from the whole thing.
It’s overpriced garbage.
Okay. I’m sure the oils themselves are fine, but you can get a better quality product for ¼ the price at any reputable seller of essential oils. Go buy Now foods brand on Amazon. Don’t touch the young living oils, they’re an overpriced pyramid scheme.
I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT. THANK YOU.
For what it’s worth, I also get migraines from the Young Living oils, which is indicative that they’re not actually pure essential oil and something synthetic is going on, despite what they claim so I wouldn’t even put them in a carrier oil to put them on my skin. Just in case anyone else has the same sensitivities I have and was thinking of trying them.
I FUCKIN KNEW THEY CUT THAT SHIT WITH SYNTHETICS I FUCKIN KNEW IT okay I didn’t know for sure but I suspected heavily
Young living is trash go buy some good stuff for a fraction of the price.
@thebibliosphere Believe it or not, my former colleague sells young living and Gary Young came here so I went to an event, thinking it would be learning about what different oils did for different things. It was my BFF date night, so she and I went together.
After we left (before the end because she had to get home to trade kid shifts with her husband, thank GOD) I turned to her in the car and apologized for taking her to a cult meeting.
Because honestly? It was horrifyingly cultish. And his claims about using his oils in his medical clinic to cure cancerous tumours, among other things, were so dangerous.
I did some digging, after, and if you look up “Gary Young” and “fraud”, buried beneath all the Young Living pages so it does not show up if you just look at his name, it is appalling. His degree in naturopathic medicine is from an unaccredited university that just mails you whatever degree you want to pay for. He ran a medical clinic in Mexico claiming graduation he’s never achieved (and later said it was a typo). He has practiced medicine without a license (or degree). He was arrested for assaulting his family with an axe in 1994. It goes on and on.
I did suggest to my colleague she might want to research, but she was all, “I know, misunderstanding and what not, blah blah”.
Because it is totally like a cult. With Gary Young as the charismatic, maybe even delusional leader.
(To this day, everyone once and a while I go to my best friend, “remember that time I accidentally took you to a cult meeting?”)
I think I remember you telling me about that, I didn’t realize it was Youngs though. Ooft, boy. Yep, sounds like a pyramid cult scheme to me.
En tant que Française souffrant de troubles psychologiques, j’ai beaucoup cherché sur Internet des ressources sur le sujet. J’avais besoin à la fois d’explications de professionnels pour comprendre ce que je vivais, et de témoignages d’individus lambda pour me rassurer et pour découvrir comment les autres vivaient leur(s) trouble(s) et leur guérison. Tant que je faisais mes recherches en anglais, j’avais accès à un contenu varié, fourni et sérieux. Mais dès que je suis passée au français, le nombre de vidéos a drastiquement diminué, en même temps que leur qualité et leur diversité. Une grande partie, sinon la majorité, des vidéos parlant de santé mentale était produite par des professionnels ou des compagnies d’assurance, et étaient souvent trop longues ou trop peu pédagogiques pour un public non averti (bien qu’il existe quelques chaînes de grande qualité comme Le PsyLab ou Va te faire suivre).
J’ai été frappée de ce que ça impliquait pour une personne ne parlant pas anglais : quelqu’un cherchant à se renseigner sur ses problèmes psychologiques, à aider un proche ou simplement à satisfaire sa curiosité, cela lui sera très difficile, et il ne sera pas exposé à des représentations diverses des formes que peuvent prendre les troubles psychologiques et leurs conséquences. C’est aussi un obstacle à la réduction de la stigmatisation de la maladie psychologique.
Bien sûr, ce constat doit encourager les vidéastes de tous pays à s’exprimer sur ce sujet, et à partager leurs expériences. En attendant, une solution pratique existe : les sous-titres. Avec l’aide de personnes parlant plusieurs langues, une vidéo peut être accessible partout dans le monde. Cela aide aussi les personnes sourdes ou malentendantes, qui ne sont pas assez prises en compte dans ce type de contenu. C’est donc pourquoi je lance ce projet : rassembler des gens volontaires pour sous-titrer et traduire des vidéos sur les troubles psychologiques. Si ce projet vous intéresse, contactez-moi (laissez un ask, envoyez-moi un message, commentez ce post…) et je vous donnerai plus d’informations. Juste quelques petites infos basiques pour commencer : nous travaillerions sur des vidéos YouTube autorisant les sous-titres (comme celles de Kati Morton, de CrashCourse, du PsyLab…). J’ai créé une équipe Trello pour faciliter notre coopération, ainsi qu’un groupe Facebook. Même si vous ne voulez pas participer, s’il vous plaît, rebloguez ce post. Je me permets d’identifier quelques personnes qui pourraient vouloir le rebloguer et le booster (mais je ne vous mets pas du tout la pression 😉 ). @onestenrepublique (puisqu’il me semble que tu avais dit qu’on pouvait te demander de booster des projets militants) @payetamaladiementale@maladementhaleau
(there’s also an English post right after this one on my blog if you don’t speak French)
As a French mentally ill person, I have often looked for online content about psychological disorders and mental health in general. I needed both professional expertise to understand what I was going through, and personal testimonies to relate to. When I looked for videos in English, I was purveyed with plenty of quality content, from truly diverse sources. But as soon as I switched to my native language, the number of videos was drastically reduced, and so did the quality and accessibility of the content. Most of the videos tackling mental health were produced by professionals or insurance companies and were either too long or too complicated for an average person to understand or be interested in.
I was then stricken by what that meant for non-English speakers (assuming that the situation in other countries can be similar to the one here): someone who wanted information about their struggles, to help a loved one, or simply to satisfy their curiosity, wouldn’t be able to do so, or with difficulty and wouldn’t be subjected to diverse representations of what mental illness or its impacts look like. This also makes it harder to reduce the stigma revolving around mental illness. Obviously, this means that we should encourage content creators of every country and language to share their knowledge and experience in their native language. Meanwhile, one practical solution exists: subtitles. With the help of people speaking two or more languages, one video can be accessible throughout the world. It also helps deaf and hard of hearing people, who are not taken enough into account in the production of such content.
Do y’all remember being a kid and trying to read in the car while it was dark outside and your parents wouldn’t let you turn on the light so you would try to grab snatches of sentences when you passed by street lights
Its like the 80’s all over again, a remorseless madwoman runs the UK, a maniacal bastard runs the US, the world’s on the brink of nuclear war and all I want to do is listen to synthpop
star wars, ghostbusters, and mad max all pass the bechdel test now tho
that helps with the deja vu but tragically not the crushing fear of nuclear apocalypse
A few months back I posted a review of a YA book I really enjoyed. II promptly received a PM from someone I do not know asking for a PDF of the book.
As it happens I don’t know how to turn Kindle books into PDFs, though it’s probably possible. But even if I did, I would never do this. Yes, even though the person said they’re poor.
Why? Because it’s actually possible to read books for free. Right now I have about 16 books checked out digitally through my local library, with another 15 on hold. I’ve made many recommendations to them and they almost always eventually purchase the books I recommend. Then I get to read them, fun!
You do have to wait in a queue for popular books, and you won’t be able to read new books as soon as they come out. But it’s really a much better system than begging strangers for PDFs on social media. And authors benefit.
I get that it sucks to not afford things, but I have no patience for people who don’t even try to investigate ethical, legal options for consuming media before jumping to piracy.
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