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How I Manage the Sexual Side Effects of PTSD
My care team couldn’t help me with the sexual side effects of PTSD — I had to figure this one out on my own.
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How to Take Care of Each Other: Community Care In Times Of Crisis
“When we’ve all broken past the fear of being burdens on others, when we as communities learn how to ask for and give help and support, we’ll be able to take care of each other.”
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Empty Magic: Lunch
In my quest to destroy the body I had known, this new body was not safe from me either.
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Did My Partner Leave Me Because of My Bipolar Disorder?
My bipolar disorder may have caused my breakup, but I can’t and don’t want to separate my disability from who I am.
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The Pause Project: How to Take Time for Self-Care, Slowness, and Joy
We could all do with a little bit more self-care right now; this how-to takes you through one dyke’s journey to find joy and slowness through The Pause Project. Learn about her process and read about some ways you can curate a self-care project like this for yourself.
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This Never Happened
On family, memory, scar tissue, a 1999 Red Sox game, unreliable narrators, and setting the story straight.
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Some of Your Biggest Questions About Managing Mental Health During Covid, Answered by a Therapist
When are the Shoulds are invading your thought process, and try to be curious about that. What is it The Shoulds are trying
to protect you from? What does doing the “bad” or “wrong” thing mean? -
Imagining a Neurodiverse Future
What do Courtney Love and Greta Thunberg have in common? They both speak their minds, distrust power, and they’re both autistic. These two vanguards show us the power and political potential of autism while demonstrating how autistic people can shape a fairer and kinder world.
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How to Quit Smoking
Tell yourself that you’re not like one of those chain smokers, that you can stop whenever you want. Start smoking American Spirits, so it’s like, not even that bad for you because it’s natural, or organic, or something. You forget.
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Shira Erlichman’s “Odes to Lithium” Explores Bipolar Disorder and Taking Care
“Many creatives still have reservations and fears around medication as they believe that it will dampen the creative flow, turn off the magic, or make them less able to connect with the emotion they are trying to convey. This misconception is dismantled in Erlichman’s poetry, she’s sharp and precise while illustrating the often untethered emotion that comes with mania or psychosis.”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #12: Bisexual Marriage Blues, Sexting as a Bottom, and More!
Why does gay male sex turn you on if you’re a lesbian and is it okay? Plus, conflicting ideas about isolating & dating during quarantine, cheering up your partner over long distance, parents and mental health and Covid-19, SO MANY mixed signals from your ex wife who’s in another relationship and…should you fuck your boss?!?!?! Things are a mess out there, but at least we have each other and 26 questions from readers like you!
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Can You See Me Out Here?
Mental health, bisexuality, and the great outdoors.
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Insider/Outsider
“I feel affinity for parts of Asian communities, neuerodivergent communities, queer communities and kink communities. I don’t really feel completely invested in one place. It’s always been like that.”
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“Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice” Joins a Growing List of Video Games That Explore Mental Illness
Nothing is straightforward about Senua’s journey.
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100 of My Favorite Poets For Your Survival Pack
In an unsafe world, we have to make our own survival packs. Carry the words of these 100 fierce poets in yours.
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Beyond Self-Care Bubble Baths: A Vision for Community Care
If I and other people with certain disabilities are going to survive, we need care — and not from ourselves. Because when it gets really bad for me, self-care is literally impossible. In those moments, I need community care.
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10 Tap Games for iPhone, Rated By Their Inevitably Fleeting Relief of My Low-Grade Depression
A brief journey through the clicker games that have, if only briefly, buoyed me through ennui, ranked very subjectively by how effectively they distracted me from the always-looming malaise that dogs my every step!
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You Need Help: Emerging From Your Hermitage
Like, I think about buying a coffee and then am like “no no self, you can’t do that – you would need to speak to a person.”
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How to Stop Biting Your F*cking Nails
There is a world in which your nails do not bleed onto paper and you don’t want to cry from how much it hurts to do anything with your hands (which is a lot of things), and it is a world you could most definitely come to live in in time.
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Winter Is Coming: Diary of a SAD Girl #1
“Time Change Sunday is my personal gateway to hell. It gets dark earlier (and then earlier and earlier). It gets cold in the morning and night (and then stays cold all day and all day). I stay inside to keep warm and then I stay inside because I don’t want to leave and then I stay inside because I can’t get out of bed.”