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thepeacefulgarden · 5 months

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#rest #give yourself permission to rest #self care #self care is not selfish #self compassion #self respect #self love #work culture #grind culture #stop the glorification of busy #spoons #chronic illness #burnout #compassion fatigue #activism fatigue #no guilt #no shame

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oversensitiveandoffputting · 2 months

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I will never get over all these people crying over others needing a break because of activism fatigue and compassion fatigue and ally fatigue.

Tell me you’ve never met a nurse without telling me you’ve never met a nurse.

Go walk up to a nurse and shout at them that they have no right to be burned out because they chose this profession and they’re supposed to have empathy for everyone they meet. See how many teeth you’re left with.

This is why you need to pick one or two issues and stick with them to the end. Everyone will be burned out if every few weeks we have to drop old issues for learning about and advocating for new issues. Yes, there’ll be less of us. But the people left will be doing the dirty work.

#burn out #activism fatigue #ally fatigue #compassion fatigue

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itsyagergzero · 4 months

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#activism #tiktok #activism fatigue #take care of yourself #activist

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chronicallydragons · 2 months

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anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizonal, but I need more horizonal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me

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elumish · 2 months

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In the wake of what's going on in the world, I see a lot of rhetoric that basically boils down to the idea that everyone has a responsibility to watch every bad thing that's going on in the world all the time. That awareness itself is a responsibility that everyone has always.

I'm not going to say that people do or don't have a responsibility to be aware of things, but I want to talk about how to take care of yourself and others while doing so.

For some context, I spent close to a year and a half reading about every terrorist attack in the world as part of my work on the Global Terrorism Database. It was 2015/2016, so this was the height of ISIS/Daesh, it was a major time for Boko Haram, and it was when there was a lot of political violence that we weren't sure how to classify in places like Yemen, Crimea, and Libya (stuff the GTD didn't know how to classify had all of is information recorded, and then it went into purgatory until someone above my paygrade decided what to do with it). What this means is that I was spending 10-20 hours a week reading about hundreds or thousands of attacks a month and, in my case, recording infomation about the type of attack and the type of weapon. Much of my life was reading terrible things.

Limit what you do in isolation. One of the worst changes for me during that time, mental health-wise (even though it was great for my commute) was when I went from working in-person to working remotely. With other people, there are ways to diffuse the pain. A burden shared is a burden halved and all that. That may mean talking about it, or joking about it, or finding some other way to engage with it that isn't just reading about the most horrible things in the world and then stewing in your own thoughts about them.

Find something to do that's totally unrelated. I highly recommend finding something to do with your hands, if you can (knitting, Lego, cooking, whatever), but regardless of what it is, you should have some time when you entirely switch away to something different. During a fair amount of my time with the GTD, I was also doing my undergrad thesis about terrorism on TV, so a huge amount of my life was about terrorism in some way. The only other thing I watched was Great British Bake Off, and I would just rewatch the episodes, over and over.

Be compassionate about how you share information and with whom. Use trigger warnings, and consider using consistent tagging on places like Tumblr so people can blacklist it if they need to. Also consider whether it's appropriate or necessary to share photos of bodies or other results of horrible violence. What is it accomplishing, to show that? Can that goal be accomplished other ways that don't require the equivalent of jumpscares of unexpected photos of dead or brutalized people? Are you just showing it because you think that everyone should have to see it? If you are showing it, are there ways to mitigate against harm it may do?

Do what you can to avoid an echo chamber. Sometimes, when everyone around you is upset or angry about the same thing, it just amplifies itself, and you all get angrier and more upset in perpetuity without accomplishing anything.

Work towards action. Watching terrible things happen for the sake of saying that you haven't looked away isn't as meaningful as taking action in some way. Write to your Congressperson. Donate. Do whatever is appropriate for the thing you want to stop. But penance via watching terrible things happen doesn't accomplish anything.

Recognize compassion fatigue and do what you can to mitigate it. If you spend long enough doing this, you start to lose context, and you start to become less able to have compassion about things. If you're reading about attacks with dozens or hundreds of deaths regularly, five can start to not seem like that many. If you're reading only about the worst suffering in the world, "lesser" suffering of those around you can start to seem unimportant and petty. Do what you can to mitigate that.

Be kind to yourself. You do nobody any good if you burn out. Look away, if you need to. Take a break. Do things so you can enjoy life, because otherwise you are just another person suffering in the world. Other people's pain isn't a hair shirt for you to wear.

#elumish blogs #compassion fatigue #activism

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panicismydefaultstate · 7 months

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Just in case anyone else needed to hear this today-

Your health is not your fault. You didn’t do anything to “deserve” this. And you are right, it isn’t fair. You are allowed to feel upset, hurt, angry and jealous that your health, body or mind disables you.

It’s not fair, and that sucks. You are allowed to scream about that as much as you need to.

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whereserpentswalk · 4 months

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Activist burnout isn't a moral failing of a community, it's not people being selfish. It's a natural result of how human minds work, and you can't expect communities to out-moral human psychology.

When people are exposed to the same upsetting thing over and over again, either it fucks with their mental health and makes them more depressed and anxious, or alternatively it makes them apathetic and desensitized. Neither of those things are good for a movement, and those are the ways humans are going to react to constant upsetting messages. You cannot avoid this by telling people to just be better people, you cannot use higher reasoning to make an entire community's emotions work in a fundamentally different way to how human emotions normal work.

Every successful movement account for the fact that people can't be at 100% all the time. Movements that ask for a level of extreme and undying anger, burn bright and die fast, it's a useful way of organizing a very immediate response, but cannot be done for something larger scale. If you give people, the ultimatum of either being at 100% or 0% all the time, they will choose 0% because the alternative isn't possible for most people.

If you're constantly showing the same disturbing images over and over again, they will lose their effectiveness quickly. If I see a post detailing the horrors of the current genocide, I'm probably just going to scroll past it, because it's all things I already know, and I've seen it so many times there's no emotional reaction, and this is how a lot of people are with posts like this, because you can't ask people to have the same emotional reaction to the same information hundreds of times over.

You can't stop activist burnout by being a better person because burnout isn't a choice, it's a psychological response. If your activism doesn't account for the material reality of the community (in this case being humans with human minds), then that's on you for organizing badly.

Also, if you need to hear this: you are not a bad person for experiencing compassion fatigue, it's literally part of being a person. Don't hurt yourself.

#196 #my thougts #free palestine #palastine #activism #activist #protests #activist burnout #burnout #mental health #compassion fatigue #praxis #leftism #leftist

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alex2xander · 1 month

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Shout out to all the tumblr users dealing with daily fatigue and severe depression.

Respect to those who have medium and high support needs who need assistance with bodily functions.

Love to those who cannot safely leave their bedrooms or home due to the pandemic and lack of societal support.

Care to those who spend the majority of their life online because this is the only way they can socialize with the outside world

There are so many of us trying to make it day to day. I love you and you're not alone in this.

I love you people who have to be carried, lifted, or escorted in mobility aids to do daily living tasks

I love you people who depend entirely on your cariers and personal aids for every function

I love you people who haven't been able to shower in over a week and therefore have tangled or matted hair and body odour

I love you people who have been wearing the same clothes for over a week

I love you people who dont have the energy to get out of bed to use the bathroom and need to use diapers or a bed pan

I love you people who havent been able to cook their own meal in months

I love you people who have piles of dirty clothes and trash scattered around their room

I love you people who uncontrollably drool on yourself and your property

I love you people who have slowly lost mobility and function over time and are adjusting to their new life

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triumph-of-adaptation · 2 months

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Friends of Palestine Western Australia rally in Fremantle yesterday x

#bed bound #spoonie #chronic illness #disabled #activism #Palestine #disability #protest #fibromyalgia #cfs #chronic pain #chronic fatigue

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98lindsey · 1 year

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I was out with my family for my birthday at a restaurant when I started having an allergic reaction. So I pulled out my IV stuff to give myself something to stop it and my dad asks:

“Do you want to go in the bathroom and do that”

I laughed a little “um, not really”

I understand it’s a little strange for me to pull out needles and meds and everything in public, but the restaurant bathroom is the last place I want to be when setting up something to inject into my blood stream 😬

Can we normalize people having to regulate their bodies with medication in public please?

#disabled #disability #pots #chronic illness #chronically ill #chronic pain #dysautonomia #mcas #mast cell activation syndrome #spoonie #heds #chronic fatigue #postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome #hypermobility #hypermobile eds #hypermobile ehlers danlos #ableism

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thepeacefulgarden · 3 months

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Self-care is great, but the truth is, it only goes so far.

#kindness #compassion #community care #you matter #family #friendship #found family #we live in a society #activism fatigue #compassion fatigue

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beatcroc · 9 months

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pest control TWO!!!!! heres the first one

adn heres the obligatory bonus bc i can't help myself :')

#i already threatened that little basard twice in these i may as well make good on it #pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #fake peppino #the noise #fp ''oh god wait that is not a real rat and also tastes awful'' moments. he doesnt actually have any interest in eating that thang ok #even if seeing a small scampering little guy like that WILL activate his prey drive without fail #peppino loves it he thinks it's the funniest shit in the world for fp to go after noise. so he is always encouraging this.#but anyway yeah. fp is *really* not the one noise should be worried about.#arting #pizzaposting #i still have lots of tag room thjis time so im gonna do some tangential nonsense rambling. e #fp gotta be like crazy good at hunting i think. not just for strength and predator instincts but also bc like #he doesn't have much in the way of a scent or body heat or anything that would give him away as an alive thing #not to mention he's uh... not particularly organically-shaped a lot of the time #so esp. to smaller prey that don't like... memorize a landscape; if he holds very still he's like completely undetectable #total ambush king. though i'm sure hes also very good at #persistence and pursuit hunting since he has peppino's speed and no way of getting muscle fatigue. ultimate beast #fortunately he doesnt care that much and doesnt really need to eat so hes not devastating the local ecosystem or anything #except for the rats.

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wonder-cripple · 1 year

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When you call disabled people inspiring for doing ordinary things, the real message is this:

“Wow, I’m shocked that you have the guts to exist! You mean you don’t hate yourself enough to never leave your house? HOW?? So brave!”

It isn’t a compliment. It’s insulting. Stop it.

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thatchronicfeeling · 4 months

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Medical Person: What are your symptoms? Disabled/Chronically Ill Person: This is a trap.

#chronic illness #me/cfs #myalgic encephalomyelitis #chronic fatigue syndrome #pots #postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome #ulcerative colitis #ibd #inflammatory bowel disease #polymorphic light eruption #solar urticaria #mast cell activation syndrome #postural tachycardia syndrome #disability

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foldingfittedsheets · 1 month

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I’ve been sick for such a long time my body atrophied so badly. Not just my body but my mind. Because I was used to that limit. Too much exercise would shoot me into brain fog and exhaustion. It was terrifying trying to expand that boundary because I remembered days where I sobbed trying to walk to the bathroom. I know I’m not sick anymore but my body isn’t so sure.

But Wyvern really was the boot camp I needed to get up constantly and consistently. I went to bed aching every night and afraid I was at my limit but I’d wake up and be functional the next day.

Losing him was devastating but I’m so committed not to lose the progress he helped me make. I’ve been going on walks every day, I finally got to being able to add my mini workout back in.

My betrothed and I are going to the redwoods next week and I’m actually gonna be able to walk and play. It’s such an enormous gift he gave me.

#ramblies #chronic illness #it’s still hard to process when I was capable of making this change #between an sutoimmune disease and a chronic viral infection that both fed into fatigue #when was I better? am I really better?#gonna keep slowly upping my activity cause I haven’t gotten a firm No yet from my body #joked to my betrothed that I’m basically Colin from secret garden

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spacedocmom · 2 months

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Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Whenever you feel lonely in your health conditions, reach out to others because I absolutely guarantee you are not alone in that illness. Even rare diseases have enough similar symptoms with others for folks to form supportive communities. You are not alone. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 3:06 PM · Feb 22, 2024

#star trek #doctor crusher #star trek the next generation #star trek memes #star trek tng #kindness #support #care #compassion #chronic illness #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #disability #community #activism #spoons #spoonies

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