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I wanted to direct you to this article if you have a minute - it’s excellently written, searingly insightful, and very personal.

Music, mental health and the struggle to connect - joe.ie/music/music-ch…
It’s a changing time to be a musician- albums don’t make much money, record labels are not as free with advances, & supporting yourself & paying rent is more expensive than ever.

But music is important- it can empathise with you, encourage you, & help you face the day.
No-one deserves a living just because they put on a guitar, of course not, but for people who do, members of the music community are 3 times more likely to experience depression than the general public. This is a shocking figure.
We need to look after our creative people - or else there will be less music, less art, and less colour and light in our homes & heads.
If you are suffering from mental health issues, please reach out #ItsOkNotToBeOk

8 Irish organisations that can help you if you are suffering from mental health problems joe.ie/life-style/7-i…
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just a few hours left on this account so i'd like to take a few moments to raise awareness of a few issues close to my heart
In 2010, male pornstar Prince Yahshua broke his penis while shooting for West Coast Productions.

I regret to inform you that Prince Yahshua has once again broken his penis while filming a scene last Tuesday.
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has evrybody has there christmas party night yet?

bit of an unsavoury incident at mine last night unfortunately
we were at a venue that i won't name, but it's supposed to be a very nice establishment with quite strict rules on entry
everything was going fine to begin with. great food, great company and great wine!
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having my annual Christmas party
Roast potatoes looking good
missed my timing a bit so we're just sitting down to eat now
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It took me a while to gather my thoughts re: the 26 pages of the 300 pages of the Malloy-Wyman report that concern the issues I care most about professionally and personally: mental health, health care generally, housing, and disability. I finally have. Stay tuned.
The first mention of mental health is in the context of gun safety reform. Too many people have written about the need to talk about mental health for the sake of mental health, and not simply within the context of preventing gun violence so this was disappointing.
It’s rather remarkable to see the words “recovery-oriented approach” and “severe and persistent mental illness” in the same sentence.
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

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CW: #Transphobia, #ConversionTherapy, #Zucker, #Religiously #driven #zealotry

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So, straight off the bat, first page of text, the use of #language is . . . well, yeah, see for yourself:

"It is important to remember that transgender is not simply an issue to be debated;" - p5, #Transformed

*sigh*

When such language gets reinforced by insisting...

3/n
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I'm going to tell a story right now that I've never told out loud.

When I was 20, I arranged to be out of the country when the 1st lawsuit against my molester was filed.

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There was press--in the local paper, in the Philly Inquirer about a family therapist who molested his teenage patient. It hit big by current standards.

That night, I spoke to my mother-- the last conversation we had for 20 years-- in which she told me she didn't believe me.

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At the time, I was all alone as a senior in college studying abroad, save my professor/boyfriend, 17 years older, who was there as the "faculty advisor."

When he learned, shortly after I filed suit, that I was generally absent from my body during sex, he took it personally.

3/
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As we have seen the WEP son't support women, it seems the Fawcett society is no better. Here the Fawcett society, rather than encouraging women to fund our liberation, is promoting donations to a charity which argues sex-role stereotypes are innate, that oppression - natural
Gendered Intelligence have helped the NHS produce guidance for young people growing up in a world of sex-role stereotypes. I think we should have a look at what it says.
The Fawcett Society has asked women to donate to a group which argues that sex-stereotypes are in the brain. The NHS has produced a guide which spreads this idea.
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It is #mentalhealthawarenessweek. A big problem of mine was/is being extremely anxious in decisions. I was often neurotically overthinking to the point of doing and achieving nothing which is very bad for mental health. If this is you, then I would recommend five books:
1/ Meditations (Aurelius) – how to act well in an ideal way, and how thinking makes things as they are. This is good for changing your perspective of events
2/ Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (Manson) – how to act well in a realistic way. Also what things we should focus on + how life is a constant battle
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One of the most interesting stories to come out of the investigation: Russian hackers paid Facebook to run 2 ads. The first was "Save Islamic Knowledge," 2nd was "Stop Islamization of Texas." The ads set the rally for the same place/location.
so for a few hundred bucks, they had a bunch of Americans screaming at each other in the Texas streets and the media covering it.

It wasn't stupid.
I haven't seen any evidence of it over past few days, but safe bet they are feeding fire of gun control debate.

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