Why does the REBLOG button not work so often? How can it work for months and then decide not to work for a day or even a week?
I’m venting as usual, the REBLOG button matters to me because I have a community Blog and the only way we upload new content is through REBLOGGING.
Thanks for allowing me to vent. Contacting the engineers do no good. Most times they know of the problem but have no solution to offer, OR I get the answer it has to do with Safari. There are millions of Mac OS users so using the Safari answer gets a good laugh. Why in the hell can’t WordPress keep a simple function working?
Camila Cabello is no stranger to speaking out about her mental healthstruggles, and in a bid to raise awareness of the effects of anxiety, the singer shared the self-help technique she turns to when she’s feeling overwhelmed by the chaos of everyday life.
In an age when our perception of the world is so often viewed through a heavily filtered lens, it can be tough to keep a cultivate a positive self-image. But despite the heavily-filtered images and aspirational messages we consume on our social media feeds, more and more celebrities are taking steps to break through the illusion of perfection and present a more nuanced reality.
One star leading the way when it comes to disrupting the narrative is Camila Cabello. The singer is no stranger to speaking out about her struggles with mental health, and in a candid note to her followers last month, she opened up about her experiences with anxiety, and the ways she’s learned to cope with being “incredibly nervous” and “socially anxious.”
This time around the Señorita singer is continuing her mental health conversation by sharing the coping mechanism she turns to when she’s feeling overwhelmed: breathing exercises.
Taking to Instagram, the singer posted a long note to her followers acknowledging that she has the power to influence positive change in people’s lives through her social media platform, even if in “small ways.”
“To anyone on here who is struggling, which we all do sometimes cause we’re human!!! I super recommend taking five minutes out of your day to just breathe,” Cabello began, alongside a photo of herself relaxing in a bar.
The singer went on to explain that although she never used to pay attention to the practice of meditation, and in particular the concept “noticing your breath”, the self-help technique has improved the quality of her life since she started taking time out of the day for herself.
“I’ve been doing this lately and it’s helped me so much, I didn’t understand meditation before, or the concept of just noticing your breath, but I’ve been doing it the past few months and I can feel the quality of my life improving,” she explained.
“I used to live so much in my head, constantly trapped in my overthinking and being in my head as opposed to the present moment – and lately just going back to my breath and focusing on it puts me back in my body and back in the present and helps me so much.
Cabello, who is set to perform Señorita with Shawn Mendes for the first time at the MTV VMAs tomorrow night, then advised taking up a breathing exercise “whenever you feel yourself getting overwhelmed” in your day-to-day life, taking time to concentrate on the sensation.
“Inhale for five seconds through your nose, and exhale for five seconds through your mouth – and super focus on your breath and how it feels coming in and out of your nostrils. Do it three times a day and whenever you feel yourself getting overwhelmed,” she continued.
The singer empathised with her followers and acknowledged that learning how to cope with life could frequently be “intense and hard”, which is why she wanted to share the mental health coping mechanism.
I think some tools are really life changing and help you know how to do that better, so I just thought i’d share something that’s really helped me,” the singer added.
Cabello’s honesty reminds us that everyone faces their own challenges in life, even the celebrities whose seemingly perfect lives we admire on our feeds. But by embracing an open conversation around mental health, we can break down shame and stigma, and find ways to lead a more authentic life.
There is something about being chronically ill that makes us need to know everything there is to know about what is wrong with our bodies. This, of course, gets us in trouble on occasion when the doctors take our knowledge of medical terminology and turn it around as proof that we are faking it.
I guess they didn’t get the memo. Chronic pain does not mean chronic stupidity.
We actually care. We are actively participating in our own care teams. We have gained a frightening amount of medical knowledge over the years just trying to understand our conditions. We know our bodies better than most. We deal with more in a short period of time, say during a flare, than many people deal within their lifetime.
That is in addition to what we deal with when we’re not in a flare. For us, the pain never really goes away.
Our experience adds to the knowledge we have accumulated. It enables us to cope with what is going on. It enables us to forge ahead through the abyss of opioid lies and laws that do little more than minimize our very existence.
Denise Hedley
I think we need to stand up and loudly use that knowledge because it is backed by our experience.
Those who have been responsible for the faux crisis have limited knowledge. They only know the scientific side. If any of them walked in our shoes for even one day, they would be on their knees in the ER pleading for help within hours. It’s a fact.
And I doubt they could handle any of what we face daily.
Because knowledge isn’t enough when justifying toying with the lives of millions. There must be both knowledge and experience…and sometimes, it’s the experience that tells the real tale.
It is experience that gave me the strength to call out the last doctor who told me that “everyone knows that opioids don’t work for chronic pain.” Experience tells me otherwise.
You can’t get shingles twice. Experience tells me otherwise.
The pain is all in your head. Experience tells me otherwise.
If you would get out and exercise, your pain would go away. Eight knee surgeries worth of experience in addition to advice from my doctors tells me otherwise.
And yet where does the knowledge and experience get us? Not very far thanks to opioid guidelines these days.
Personally, I’m sick of it.
It seems like we are cursed by our bodies, our knowledge, and now the CDC.
In the meantime, we can only do what we can do. We can participate in the Don’t Punish Pain rallies in October. You can go to the US Pain Foundation and work as an ambassador to help spread the word. You can call your representatives. Talk to doctors – let them know where you stand as a pain patient.
Just because we have something seriously wrong with us that causes us pain 24/7 doesn’t mean that we must be collateral damage. So far, we just aren’t loud enough. We need to get louder.
A new genome-wide association study (GWAS) involving more than 490,000 individuals, including 75,000 23andMe customers who consented to research, offers an intriguing glimpse into the complexity of sexual behavior. While the study found thousands of genetic variants with very, very small affects on same-sex sexual behavior, it did not find any “gay gene,” nor did the researchers expect to.
The study, “Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior,” reveals some differences in the genetics of same-sex sexual behavior between men and women, for instance. It also shows that human sexuality is more nuanced than many believe. Rather, like personality and other complex human traits, a mix of genetic and environmental factors influences sexual behavior.
The researchers — in the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Australia, — did not find any patterns among genetic variants that could be used to meaningfully predict or identify a person’s sexual orientation or behavior.
“[M]any loci with individually small effects…additively contribute to individual differences in predisposition to same-sex sexual behavior,” they write, describing genetic patterns consistent with many personality, behavioral, and physical traits.
23andMe is just one of the many institutions involved in this international collaboration, which includes scientists of different disciplines and areas of expertise from some of the world’s top academic and research bodies.
Because it’s a controversial topic, funding has historically been limited and recruitment of participants was difficult — many of the studies that had been done in this area were underpowered and under resourced.
23andMe — with its crowdsourced research platform that allowed anonymous, de-identified participation — was uniquely positioned to engage in this type of study. And, as a company, we are committed to representing the full diversity of the human population, and sexual behavior is just one component of that. Tags: Featured, sexual behavior, sexual orientation
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