Physician and Harvard professor Jeremy Nobel believes art can help foster connections in a time of increasing isolation.#Health #MentalHealth #UnitedStates #US&Canada
The US is facing a loneliness ‘epidemic’. Can art help reverse the trend?
Tent cities emerging around Gaza healthcare facilities as doctors contend with shortages, exhaustion and air strikes.#Conflict #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Health #HumanRights #HumanitarianCrises #Israel-Palestineconflict #MentalHealth #Israel #MiddleEast #Palestine
‘We have nothing’: Families seek safety from bombs inside Gaza hospitals
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Biaggio Ali Walsh, Muhammad Ali’s grandson: ‘MMA brought me closer to God’
A psychiatrist and a psychologist talk to Al Jazeera about the trauma children face in the occupied Gaza Strip.#Gaza #Israel-Palestineconflict #MentalHealth #Israel #MiddleEast #Palestine
How the Israel war, blockade affect mental health of Palestinian children
Police say 14-year-old shooting suspect appears to suffer from psychological issues and had not taken daily medication.#Crime #GunViolence #MentalHealth #Weapons #AsiaPacific #China #Myanmar #Thailand
Teen faces murder charge for Thailand shopping mall shooting spree
video by L. Rossmann
Synopsis:
Micay, the lead developer of GrapheneOS accuses the F-Droid project of harrassment:
All I posted before their outburst of bullying and fabricated stories which started in their developer chat room was information on the Android permission model, how F-Droid presents it incorrectly to users and how that harms users by misleading them in 2 different ways about it. I stated we intend to add a disclaimer screen to GrapheneOS on this incorrect information in the F-Droid app if they won't fix it, which has been planned for a long time. F-Droid has multiple serious security and usability issues which they have downplayed and refused to fix. In many cases, F-Droid has downplayed and refused to acknowledge or fix security issues. They've started making posts with the explicit goal of downplaying the issues and misleading people about them. This will only increase the priority of replacing it and moving users away. Engaging in harassment and libel towards people reporting and publishing information about serious issues in their software is one of their main approaches. Several people other than myself have posted blog posts and videos explaining issues, which F-Droid has attacked with lies. [...]
I have irrefutable proof that multiple core F-Droid and Calyx developers (substantial overlap) have engaged in bullying, harassment and libel targeting me to advance their own interests. 1 2
In the aftermath, Rossman, right to repair activist and interpreneur, has to confront the state of distress of the talented developer, who feels isolated and mistreated. The stress reduces the capacity to communicate correctly, leading to even more isolation. On the spectrum of autism and victim of cyberbullying since 2018, in the end Micay's mental wellness is at risk. In addition to contacting the authorities and asking for help, he takes the wise decision to use the social networks in a safer way:
I've stepped down as lead developer of GrapheneOS and will be replaced as a GrapheneOS Foundation director. I'll be ending my use of public social media. I'm unable to handle the escalating level of harassment including recent swatting attacks. There will be a smooth migration.
Cyberbullying can happen at any age and dealing with it can be hard. Wish you a serene recovery.
Lesson learned:
if we want to enjoy free software, we should also keep in consideration the wellness of who develops it. The aggressivity of some open source projects goes beyond healthy competition and we should all see it as the exterior manifestation of a toxic environment. Open source developers should stick as much as possible to a code of conduct, ensuring emotional detatchment and professional behaviour at all times.
Tags: #opensource #foss #os #grapheneos #fdroid #mobile #android #ungoogled #smartphone #customrom #privacy #mentalhealth
https://web.archive.org/web/20230601062933/https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1651377352469880833
https://archive.ph/j7qql
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When no one wants to listen: How being heard saved me from suicide
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Paul Pogba: Faith, fame and police violence
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From Ghana to Guyana, hope mounts in fight against suicide criminalisation
The benefits of soodling along the coast of Wales
https://newsfromwales.co.uk/mens-mental-health-group-reaps-benefits-of-walking-the-wales-coast-path-with-77-recommending-a-walk-on-the-path-to-boost-mental-health-and-wellbeing/
#soodling #mentalhealth #walking #Wales
now I like him even more.
People in the #music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with #mentalhealth and #depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bullshit. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place.
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My legal name is #Christopher #Anthony #Lunsford. My grandfather was #Oliver #Anthony, and "Oliver Anthony Music" is a dedication not only to him, but 1930's #Appalachia where he was born and raised. Dirt floors, seven kids, hard times. At this point, I'll gladly go by Oliver because everyone knows me as such. But my friends and family still call me Chris. You can decide for yourself, either is fine.
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In 2010, I dropped out of high school at age 17. I have a GED from #SprucePine, #NC. I worked multiple plant jobs in Western NC, my last being at the paper mill in McDowell county. I worked 3rd shift, 6 days a week for $14.50 an hour in a living hell. In 2013, I had a bad fall at work and fractured my skull. It forced me to move back home to #Virginia. Due to complications from the injury, it took me 6 months or so before I could work again.
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From 2014 until just a few days ago, I've worked outside sales in the industrial manufacturing world. My job has taken me all over Virginia and into the Carolinas, getting to know tens of thousands of other blue collar workers on job sites and in factories. Ive spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being #neglected, #divided and #manipulated.
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In 2019, I paid $97,500 for the property and still owe about $60,000 on it. I am living in a 27' camper with a tarp on the roof that I got off of #craigslist for $750.
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There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good #musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last 5 years struggling with mental health and using #alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling #hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away.
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That being said, I HATE the way the #Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a #parasite, that #infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, #loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by #technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land.
.When is enough, enough? When are we going to fight for what is right again? MILLIONS have died protecting the #liberties we have. #Freedom of speech is such a precious gift. Never in world history has the world had the freedom it currently does. Don't let them take it away from you.
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Just like those once wandering in the desert, we have lost our way from #God and have let false idols distract us and divide us. It's a damn shame.
https://zerohedge.com/medical/root-cause-mental-illness-harvard-professor
This is worth a read.
Mental illness linked to the food you eat, which makes sense.
And if you think about it sugar might be at the root of a lot of our ills.
RT @Kris
"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind."
~Robin Williams
#Quotes #depression #anxiety #mentalhealth #kindness #Inspiration
“Put a rat in a cage and give it 2 water bottles. One is just water and one is water laced with heroin or cocaine. The rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself in a couple of weeks. That is our theory of addiction.
Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It has nothing to do. Let’s try this a bit differently.” So he built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything a rat could want is in Rat Park. Lovely food. Lots of sex. Other rats to befriend. Colored balls. Plus both water bottles, one with water and one with drugged water. But here’s what's fascinating: In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use it. None of them overdose. None of them use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. What Bruce did shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. The right-wing theory is that it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is that it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment.
Now, we created a society where significant numbers of us can't bear to be present in our lives without being on something, drink, drugs, sex, shopping... We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for many of us, more like the first cage than the bonded, connected cages we need.
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of it, is geared toward making us connect with things not people. You are not a good consumer citizen if you spend your time bonding with the people around you and not stuff. In fact, we are trained from a young age to focus our hopes, dreams, and ambitions on things to buy and consume. Drug addiction is a subset of that."
Credit: Johann Hari
And now we know why drugs kill people in the #USA
#Addiction #MentalHealth #Recovery #Community #FYP #WorkingTogether #TeamWork #Moncton #Dieppe #Riverview #NewBrunswick #Canada #LifeAfterAddiction
“I study #neuroscience, which is to say I study the brain. My main focus right now is the connection of our body signals and our brain ... it’s a much more direct connection between those signals. This is why things in our environment that can change our bodily signals, either directly or indirectly, can change our emotional state.” #Music #Ambient #Electronic #MentalHealth #DJMag https://djmag.com/features/exploring-relationship-between-ambient-music-and-mental-health
Who would ever trust them again?
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[2023-04- 5 16:49:30] <@Digit> i see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNH0whizEtw has been re-uploaded. ... hopefully without the sound completely de-syncing between both halves of the conversation, like the prior upload's painful comedic fail.
[2023-04- 5 16:49:31] ^ ► YouTube :: Cannabis, Mental Health, Consciousness Research, Neurodivergence with Miyabe Shields PhD | BTS 87 :: Duration: 01:40:15 :: Views: 23 :: Uploader: Curious About Cannabis :: Uploaded: 2023-04-04 :: 5 likes
looking forward to part two too. :)
