#ptsd

I promise I'm alive, I've just been feeling very introverted and wanted a break from essentially all technology as I focused on a new job.

Working in the center of downtown #losangeles especially when you've been traumatized there several times takes a lot of getting used to.

However I can now say I have finally grown up, and since my last post I'll never have to share a room with someone again unless I want to.

I have my own place, and I'll never be homeless again.

#writing #life #ptsd

I keep seeing Americans who want to do something about the state of our #politics, but feel like no action they can take will do enough to fix things, so it’s not worth trying.

It’s easy to feel nihilistic. So I’d like to propose an alternative - a 10% improvement approach to political change, of sorts.

It comes from my #PTSD treatment: the idea that no one approach, skill, or intervention can make the #trauma just go away instantaneously. So instead, us humans are left with 10% solutions - things that help a little bit, for some amount of time.

The key to healing is to develop an ongoing set of multiple different solutions that you rotate through based on what feels feasible on any given day / moment. Each one helps a bit. 10%, 5%, 1%. But eventually, you get to making big changes that felt impossible at the start.

The same works for political change and activism. Sure, going to any one protest, or calling your representative, or boycotting a brand, or changing one person’s mind, or donating to one fundraiser won’t fix the entire broken political regime. But it will help A LITTLE.

And if a lot of us continue to find ways to do things that help a little, it will end up doing a lot more.

A movement starts with a thousand little steps that don’t look like much on their own.

Take that little step. Then another.

#USPol #activism #socialChange

My #life is genuinely stable and good now.

It's strange, my mind almost doesn't know what to do with the stability and I always have a low grade #anxiety nagging at me, wondering when it's all gonna fall apart.

Then it never does, and I start planning for my future with #education plans and a part time job that pays me more than I need, and then I wonder if I actually deserve it.

I remind myself that I always did. It was others who made me think otherwise.

#writing #mentalhealth #ptsd #rant

New introduction post to pin.

I am #Covid and #LongCOVID aware, continuing to #WearAMask and avoid most public places. All the info on Covid has continued to show that ignoring it is dangerous, to myself and to others. Most of my posts are about Covid, and I boost a lot of Covid information.

I am #ActuallyAutistic through self-diagnosis, many years of struggling, and dealing with #PTSD and #cPTSD for various reasons. I am grateful to have this brain structure, even though in our ableist society it is a #disability . #Disabled people of all kinds should be recognized and properly supported.

I am a #Cancer survivor of an aggressive thyroid cancer, and still beating the odds.

The #ClimateCrisis is happening and also should not be ignored. I also frequently boost climate and weather information.

I believe #Trans people are real, and honestly it's ridiculous that so many people have gaslighted themselves and others into believing otherwise. C'mon now.

As a white person, I am constantly working to overcome the #racism that I know is within me and that I was raised with.

Despite the attempts by some to pronounce "antifa" in a way to make it sound foreign to certain USA people, it stands for Anti-Fascist. It stands for the people having the power through proper representation.

I am #GenX and happily married, owned by 2 cats. I work in healthcare tech as a manager, and I despise AI.