Coming soon: MyTransHealth, an app connecting trans people to knowledgeable, reliable and affordable healthcare providers.
19% of trans people have been refused healthcare because of their gender identity. 50% of trans people have had to teach their doctors about trans-related medical care. 28% of trans people have been harassed in medical settings. This app is desperately needed. Follow them at mytranshealth.
I AM CRYING HOLY SHIT. This is so important. You know I’m serious because I am actually using these things called capitalization and punctuation. You guys. Please. Please boost the hell out of this. It means so much.
*SLAMS THE SHIT OUT OF THE REBLOG BUTTON*
omg pls make this international / not just US-centric!
“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine, because they have seen death. [Americans have] forgotten what measles deaths look like.”
Melinda Gates (via ayychee)
What’s the real story of abortion? 42 years legal, and incredibly safe — and we’re going to fight to keep it that way.
Source. This is a real thing. It’s happening.
HIV Has Been Cured in a Child for the First Time
HIV Cure: New Drug ‘Vacc-4x’ May Become First Functional Cure Against the Virus
The Man Who Had HIV and Now Does Not
This is HUGE news, and of course no one is talking about it because it is not a part of popular culture. For the first time in the history of the world, there is a possible preventative cure for one of the most deadliest viral diseases to have entered the human gene pool. There is hope for those who have been diagnosed with a disease that may have given them only 20 or so years to live. This breakthrough in the science/pharmaceutical community means that other viral diseases and genetic mutations that were once incurable are now on the table for complete eradication. I’m absolutely seething that no one is talking about this on the news 24/7.
and while this is hella important, herpes is getting complex to the point there is no cure or no way to work with it.
I really need both of these to go viral.!!!! THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT !!!!
Ebola Is Mostly Killing Women and No One Is Talking About It
Roughly 75% of those infected with Ebola are women.
“The reality is that fat people are often supported in hating their bodies, in starving themselves, in engaging in unsafe exercise, and in seeking out weight loss by any means necessary. A thin person who does these things is considered mentally ill. A fat person who does these things is redeemed by them. This is why our culture has no concept of a fat person who also has an eating disorder. If you’re fat, it’s not an eating disorder — it’s a lifestyle change.”
Lesley Kinzel (via veronicaecholls)
2 Ebola patients to be discharged from Atlanta hospital
11 Alive News: Emory University Hospital announced early Thursday that it would discharge two Ebola patients who were being treated at the facility.
The hospital said one of the patients, Dr. Kent Brantly will go to an undisclosed location with his wife and children after being discharged. Details on the second patient were pending.
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Robin Williams didn’t die from suicide. I only just heard the sad, sad news of Robin Williams’s death. My wife sent me a message to tell me he had died, and, when I asked her what he died from, she told me something that nobody in the news seems to be talking about.
When people die from cancer, their cause of death can be various horrible things – seizure, stroke, pneumonia – and when someone dies after battling cancer, and people ask “How did they die?”, you never hear anyone say “pulmonary embolism”, the answer is always “cancer”. A Pulmonary Embolism can be the final cause of death with some cancers, but when a friend of mine died from cancer, he died from cancer. That was it. And when I asked my wife what Robin Williams died from, she, very wisely, replied “Depression”.
The word “suicide” gives many people the impression that “it was his own decision,” or “he chose to die, whereas most people with cancer fight to live.” And, because Depression is still such a misunderstood condition, you can hardly blame people for not really understanding. Just a quick search on Twitter will show how many people have little sympathy for those who commit suicide…
But, just as a Pulmonary Embolism is a fatal symptom of cancer, suicide is a fatal symptom of Depression. Depression is an illness, not a choice of lifestyle. You can’t just “cheer up” with depression, just as you can’t choose not to have cancer. When someone commits suicide as a result of Depression, they die from Depression – an illness that kills millions each year. It is hard to know exactly how many people actually die from Depression each year because the figures and statistics only seem to show how many people die from “suicide” each year (and you don’t necessarily have to suffer Depression to commit suicide, it’s usually just implied). But considering that one person commits suicide every 14 minutes in the US alone, we clearly need to do more to battle this illness, and the stigmas that continue to surround it. Perhaps Depression might lose some its “it was his own fault” stigma, if we start focussing on the illness, rather than the symptom. Robin Williams didn’t die from suicide. He died from Depression*. It wasn’t his choice to suffer that.
”Tom Clempsom (via mollyfamous)
FINALLY PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT DEPRESSION REALLY IS.
(via foxymuldrs)
Hey Guys I deleted my other blog for many reasons but this is my new one and I am still here for every single one of you!
having an anxiety attack?
quietly calm down(quiet place)
Need distractions?
cut paper, not your skin (trigger warning: blood)
Cutting
Self Injury Recovery Masterpost
99 Coping Skills: Things to do Instead of Cutting
Suicidal?
How To Tell Tumblr That A User Is Threatening Suicide
What To Do If Your Friend Is Talking About Suicide
How To Help Someone Who Is Suicidal
What To Tell Someone Who Is Suicidal
Video To Anyone Thinking About Kill Themselves
Depressed?
if you need a hugEating Disorders
helping someone with an eating disorder
Need advice?
anonymous comfortED Recovery: Self Soothing Techniques
telling people how you’re feeling
how do i tell someone when im afraid?
Just need a pick-me-up?
the dreams room27 videos that will make you happy
random acts of kindness caught on film
Videos:for the girls who are starving
for the survivors of rape or abuse
for anyone who thinks they are worthless