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This *movement isn't what any of the people I fought alongside sacrificed our lives for. Stay tuned, we're building. https://www.facebook.com/ashleyeyates/posts/10105264162473160 …
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It's hard to know how to seek help when your struggles are never recognized, when others never see you as capable of being harmed.
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but it's real. Trust your own experience. Affirm it w/community if possible.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-ptsd-black-women-met-20170322-story.html …
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and trusting your own experience is a huge component to mental health. that's why they erase Blk stories, our pain, mock our struggles.
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I'm making this point because so many people fail to believe their experience because it's not validated by power or mass society.
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Yet I've had racist military men threaten to kill me for talking about my PTSD, claiming ownership over something they'd never experience.
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They used weapons outlawed in intl warfare on us daily for months in Ferguson. We weren't trained for warfare but that didn't matter.
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There's occasional acknowledgment of survivors of natural disasters or horrible crimes of inhumanity, but even that is rare and superficial.
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I was so frustrated when I first started trying to understand my PTSD. So much of the info is written solely to address military soldiers.
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Also, trust your experience. If I listened to the government, I'd never believe I had PTSD, even though they hand delivered it to me.
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....I'm harping a bit bc Black folks can be especially disconnected from nature. That's not accidental. Nature is healing. Access it.
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for us skeptical/logical folk, this isn't hippy talk: we are creatures that breathe oxygen made by plants - we can't be above nature.
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we're part of this Earth as much as capitalists would like us to forget. put your hands in dirt, kick off your shoes on grass, face the sun.
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if it's not possible to interact with people, you can commune with nature - science backs it: time in nature is proven to reduce depression.
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(*sidenote with a head scratch* I still don't understand how folks fail that community can't happen online as tho ppl aren't typing...
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companion animals are a thing. if you have internet access you can absolutely build community, don't listen to naysayers that belittle.
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I'm not trying to deny anyone experience: some folks are genuinely out here on their own and that's real. But community is what you make it
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Depression is a monster you don't have to fight alone. PTSD is a manmade demon it takes community to survive.
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Sharing small victories just in case someone needs to know they aren't alone. One minute at a time.
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Depression + PTSD looks like: struggling most days to put sustenance in my body before 6. It's 2:30 and I've got a full plate in front of mepic.twitter.com/2lgu8ysoOW
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