Yes #MoodMonday can be a thing! #PsychTwitter, do you want to help make this a thing with me? Three emotions: Hopeful, grateful and confused. What three emotions on your mind? Nope, I am going thread 🧵 life here because sometimes you need more than 3 emotions when mental 1/
health and disability have been kept divided. I live with Fibromyalgia and PTSD. The things that trigger my PTSD almost immediately lead to my Fibromyalgia causing me intense pain. The uncontrollable pain of the Fibromyalgia triggers memories of the uncontrollable nature 2/
(CW: Abuse) of being in an abusive marriage, being raped and watching daily deaths rise. This is like a living nightmare and somehow, I need to come up with an eloquent personal statement and write one of my letters of recommendation for a letter writer. I need to do so much 3/
Yet, I am running on so few spoons day after day. I just woke up and my body feels like it has lived through a full day and is in agony. Disability advocacy this week is on overdrive and I advocate to have that cathartic moment of honesty with people invested in making a 4/
difference. I will continue to fight, but I need to fight for me. I love @ramyeonjpg and her daily gratitude thread. I am going to pull a different version of it and create a daily accountability thread as I work on grad school applications thread. One small goal a day to aim 5/
towards achieving my larger goal to hit submit 3 times for applications to @JohnsHopkinsSPH, @UCLAFSPH and @UNCpublichealth. I need to get out of my own way and make these applications happen. 6/6
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Thank you again @riley_ilyse for inviting me to guest lecture in your course. Speaking on intersectionality and inclusion on disability in higher ed was amazing. Watching a Zoom webinar afterwords of an Angela Davis event, the joy turned to despair as disability was left out. 1/
There is a Black healing space afterwords, but there is no healing in those spaces for me. I mention Black and Disabled. I have said words that don’t belong together, that don’t make sense, that evokes a reality that they don’t want to realize. We don’t fit in that truth 2/
Black people are raised up strong and resilient because of everything we face in racism. Brought over as slaves we work twice as hard to get the same rights and opportunities as white people. I work twice as hard because I am a woman, yet 3/