A circus, complete with all fools.

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seldaeruzun: Turkey’s “Standing Man”: A single man stood...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:59:10 -0400

Turkey’s “Standing Man”: A single man stood silently in Istanbul’s Taksim Square for hours in front of a portrait of the country’s modern founder, inspiring many others to join him in a silent protest against police.

predestroyed: アブラゼミ羽化-12 by Masonori SANO i love cicadas...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:16:03 -0400

predestroyed:

アブラゼミ羽化-12 by Masonori SANO

i love cicadas sooooo much good god how can anyone want to hurt them

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malformalady: Coining, also known as ‘cao gio’ is a popular...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:14:07 -0400

malformalady:

Coining, also known as ‘cao gio’ is a popular form of alternative medicine in many Southeast Asian countries. A dermabrasive therapy, coining is used to help relieve symptoms of nausea, vomiting, chills, fever aches and pain. When illness is experience, the skin is first lubricated with a balm or oil and a coin is used to rub firmly and repeat in a linear pattern until blood appears under the skin

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pill: Alvin Lustig, binding illustration for Monsieur Teste by...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:04:42 -0400

pill:

Alvin Lustig, binding illustration for Monsieur Teste by Paul Valery (Knopf, 1947)

malformalady: Jaundice is a condition caused by the...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:03:35 -0400

malformalady:

Jaundice is a condition caused by the accumulation of bilirubin in the body, leaving a yellowish appearance to the patient’s skin, mucus membranes and/or eyes.

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thecreativeconsciousness: Egyptian Papyrus, King Akhenaten and...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:35:18 -0400

thecreativeconsciousness:

Egyptian Papyrus, King Akhenaten and his queen Nefertiti were behind a revolutionary period of Egyptian rule known as the Amarna Interlude, signified by a flourishing of a new form of art and by religious upheaval. Together, they fostered thh worship of the sun god Re in the form of the cult of the sun disc Aten. They established themselves as living gods - thus only by worshipping the royal pair could people access the Aten. In this scene Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and one of their daughters (some will say that it actually one of Ramses lesser wives Kiya) offer sacrifices to the sun-disk Aten, whose rays, stretching down, end in hands bearing the ankh—the Egyptian symbol of eternal life.

homo-sapiennn: homo-sapiennn: Mean Girls meets The L Word.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:35:00 -0400

homo-sapiennn:

homo-sapiennn :

Mean Girls meets The L Word.

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earthandanimals: Whiter Lion Cub taking a drink. Photo by...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:46:32 -0400

earthandanimals:

Whiter Lion Cub taking a drink.

Photo by George Evgrafov

senerii: (by frieda ryckaert) via flickr

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:40:29 -0400

senerii:

(by frieda ryckaert) via flickr

heatherbat: vegannvagina: my-infinite-catharsis: pajamaprodigy...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:39:32 -0400

heatherbat:

vegannvagina:

my-infinite-catharsis:

pajamaprodigy:

mh-things:

californiaexpatriate:

drugsandanarchy:

mh-things:

Unfortunately true.

It’s a bit unfair to compare something life threatening to something not immediately life threatening.

Also, psychiatric care is really just a nice way of saying, “mind-altering drugs”.

Not life threatening? You’ve clearly never experienced or known someone with a severe mental illness. Up to 90% of people who commit suicide have a mental illness.

Eating disorders, mood disorders, anxiety and self harm have many life threatening effects on the body, e.g. malnutrition, gastrointestinal complications, increased risk of cardiovascular disease, risk of wounds becoming infected, nerve damage. People struggling to get the mental health care they need find themselves in ER’s, jail cells and psychiatric hospitals for their immediate safety.

The risk of this can be minimised with proper treatment, which can consist of medication but also includes psychotherapy, occupational and social work, emergency care and other treatments as appropriate for each patient.

Kidney patients can be kept alive on dialysis for years while awaiting a transplant.

Also, your “mind-altering drugs”? These are part of why I can go to school, have an internship, maintain friendships, and be a reasonably responsible family member. Meds are a complement to therapy and make it work better. Honestly, if I were not taking prescribed medication, I would probably be taking some “mind-altering drugs” that had worse side effects than dry mouth.

Mental illness is in part both caused and reflected by physical/chemical disturbances in the brain. In physical illness, medication is often used to aleviate symptoms or address causes. Psychotropic drugs do the same thing. They are a medical response to a medical problem.

People need to stop thinking mental illness isn’t serious

They also need to stop thinking psychiatric drugs are all useless.

what the actual fuck is wrong with psychiatric meds being “mind-altering”???

when i am unmedicated, my mind tells me i cannot leave the house or i will die, that i should lay on the floor for days on end and not eat, that i should hurt myself and/or others.

WHY WOULD ANYONE NOT WANT THAT TO BE ALTERED.

PLEASE ALTER MY MIND. IT IS WRONG ON ITS OWN.

poisonwasthecure: The Escutcheon of Death attributed to John...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:38:52 -0400

poisonwasthecure:

The Escutcheon of Death

attributed to John Bewick

1824

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