💛 💛 💛  Day 7 Of @duketectivecomics‘ Duke Week!

- Depression/ is one of the most common mental illnesses in the world, and it’s also one of the most easily missed. While most people would describe it as a prolonged period of sadness, it’s much more than that, and it’s definitely not one you can “snap out of” as many people erroneously think. It causes severe symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working. To be diagnosed with depression, the symptoms must be present for at least two weeks. Depression can happen at any age, but often begins in adulthood. Depression is now recognized as occurring in children and adolescents, although it sometimes presents with more prominent irritability than low mood. Many chronic mood and anxiety disorders in adults begin as high levels of anxiety in children.

Here are 20 Unexpected Symptoms of Mental Illnesses You Probably Never Knew

- Meditation/ is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.

Meditation offers time for relaxation and heightened awareness in a stressful world where our senses are often dulled. Research suggests that meditation has the potential for more than just temporary stress relief.

Educators, spiritual leaders, and mental health experts have developed dozens of forms of meditation. The variety suggests there is a form of meditation to suit most people, regardless of personality or lifestyle.

Here are a Few Guides to Meditation

Saw this on Twitter and needed to share! Covid hasn't disappeared, so please be extra careful if you go protesting! And if you feel ill, please, please find other ways to support the cause until you're sure you're covid-free. If you have covid, staying home can help save Black lives.

Funny how gay people are allowed to love being gay but trans people aren’t allowed to love being trans or else they’re faking 🤔

If you fall into any of these categories, please unfollow me

- the "all lives matter" crowd

- the “i don’t care about politics” crowd

- "blue lives matter" people

- "violence is never the answer” people

- "i don't see race/colour" people

- the "white people experience racism too" crowd

Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts

Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost

The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction

The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity

We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either

Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender

The gods didn’t actually have animal heads

Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)

The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous

Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”

Hello.

Hope this finds you well. Yesterday we in Russia faced a dehumanizing bill proposed by an ultraconservative deputy that, in fact:

1. adds an "assigned gender at birth" field to our birth records

2. forbids to change birth certificates (legal gender change)

3. presumably forbids to change gender in ID cards (it is bound to changes in birth cert)

4. FORCES to change your replaced birth certificates back to gender assigned at birth (and presumably in ID cards by same reason) if you’ve changed it before

5. forbids any trans person to adopt children

6. forbids any trans person to get married

There is some translated info about that law:

https://twitter.com/VioletOlya/status/1283154150797332481 (a thread)

https://twitter.com/liveshowsdnp/status/1283332792252805121 (a thread)

And analysis made by lawyers: https://vk.com/wall-41739538_5260 (ru) + machine translation: https://telegra.ph/Machine-translation-of-analysis-of-anti-transgender-bill-made-by-the-project-of-legal-assistance-to-transgender-people-07-15

I’d really appreciate it if you could help us to get international support to stop this bill, for example, tweet about this with the #ProtectRussianTransLives hashtag. There is a petition on change.org: https://www.change.org/p/госдума-отклоните-законопроект-о-запрете-трансгендерным-людям-на-брак-и-усыновление-детей that needs support too.

Please, spread this information.

Not sure who needs to see this, but if a Service Dog starts backing into you, pushing you away from their handler, or they sit down at a leash distance from their handler

You Should Move Away.

They are performing a task known as "spacing" or "blocking" that helps reduce or prevent anxiety in their handler.

They are NOT "asking for pets" or being disobedient or asking to be spoken to. All you have to do is stay back from the dog and handler.

This is not a capslock PSA because I'm not sure how many people that don't have a SD actually know this is a trained task.

you know what i think cis people, and especially lgb cis people, rely too much on people validating their romantic revulsion to trans people. like i’ve never met an lgb trans person who wasn’t asked “what do you think of gay people who aren’t willing to date you because of your transition status/agab/etc” and it’s the emotional labor we’re forced to carry to just say “no i don’t think you’re an evil cis gay for not being attracted to me, it’s within your right to have boundaries” an whatnot lest we be The Evil Transes Who Will Rape You.

like is it not enough to just reject us and go? can you just be satisfied in the knowledge that, yes you are rejecting us because we’re trans, but you’re gonna leave us with enough dignity to not say that’s why. we already know our attractiveness is in a permanent state of “up for debate” can you at least do this the simple courtesy of shutting up about it?