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Wild Sown

‘I didn’t eat or sleep’: a Meta moderator on his breakdown after seeing beheadings and child abuse

Solomon says the scale and depravity of what he was exposed to was far darker than he had ever imagined

Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators

#meta #workersrights #workerExpoitation #extremism #laborrights #africa #contentmoderation #ptsd #mentalhealth

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · ‘I didn’t eat or sleep’: a Meta moderator on his breakdown after seeing beheadings and child abuseBy Rachel Hall
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Firestorm Books

At the end of last year, while reading Rebecca Solnit's "A Paradise Built in Hell," many of us encountered the idea of "post-traumatic growth"—a sort of inverse PTSD, where individuals experience increased resilience, strengthened relationships, and personal empowerment as a result of a traumatic event. Excited by this phenomenon (and our own brush with it), a member of our reading group has worked with a friend in clinical psychology to facilitate a presentation and deeper conversation about the power of community in uncertain times.

Please join us on Tuesday at 6:30pm for an in-person discussion and workshop that draws on academic research and our own experiences as disaster survivors to explore the idea of post-traumatic growth!

More information can be found at firestorm.coop/events/3381-tog

#PostTraumaticGrowth #PTSD #HurricaneHelene #MutualAid #MutualAidDisasterRelief #WeKeepUsSafe #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

A promotional graphic for Together We Rise, an in-person event at Firestorm Books on April 29th at 6:30pm. The image features the headshots of two presenters, Morgan Penberthy and Gillian Kerner, over a photo of dandelions emerging from broken cement.
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Arcadiagt5

In the middle of all the fluff, #ILeftMyARankParty just did a bit on #PTSD, what can trigger it, and the value of TALKING about it to your friends and comrades. It’s not much, but it very much was NOT judgmental and all about support, so I’m giving this episode a point for that - that’s something you only very rarely see touched on in anime AT ALL, let alone this well

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anubis2814
#autism #dating #actuallyautisic #trauma #PTSD #CPTSD
One of the things that I have learned over time, is that often you will go into a long term #relationship with sort of an agreement or contract of assumptions about the relationship. Or maybe that's just me because I'm on the spectrum.
However at some point, often quite a few years in, especially if your partner has #trauma issues, something will make it impossible to keep the contract/agreement intact. These are often CORE parts of your agreement and incredibly important to you. This can do one of two things. Destroy the relationship because they broke the contract, or you can work together and with yourself to adjust. What no one ever tells you when they say "relationships require work".
Communication is essential, something I've worked hard at and rarely had issues with over relationships, but with trauma it really does involve work and accepting a reality you never actually signed up for. In sickness and in health.
On the spectrum its very easy to be offended and hurt by this breach of trust. However Love is more than an emotion, it is a promise and at a certain point, if its a choice between the contract or love, especially if they are putting effort into it but just can't. Discovering if they are often requiring communication and probing questions to discover their level of effort if depression and dissociation are involved. It may appear to you that they aren't putting any effort in when they are working so hard just to live with depression, anxiety or trauma. Effort, not outcome is what should define a relationship. Equal effort from all.
Love is also a contract and a promise to work hard to make the relationship work. How much of each contract outweighs the other depends on you. Do you sacrifice something very important for the sake of love, or feel betrayed and burn the love promise in the process.
All I know at this point is that no matter the relationship if I was to burn down the love contract, then try with someone else, this same thing would happen in a unique and likely just as painful way. So if you can salvage it and work together on in. You never signed up for this but that was a blank check written in the love promise. You work at it and don't give up. Verify especially from a therapist that they aren't abusing you in some way psychologically, (and physical abuse is right out) but don't assume your next relationship wont hurt just as much later when this "contract breech" happens again.
You are the only thing you can change, not them, its up to you to decide if your bond or their contract agreement is more important to you.
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Calishat

#covid #VideoGames #Tetris #PTSD #MentalHealth

"A recent study found that an imagery-competing task intervention reduced the frequency of intrusive memories in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention involved recalling an intrusive memory and then playing Tetris for 20 minutes. The study was published in BMC Medicine."

psypost.org/a-20-minute-game-o

PsyPost · A 20-minute game of Tetris reduced traumatic memories in pandemic frontline workersBy Vladimir Hedrih
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detektor.fm :dfm:

In der ZDF-Doku „Im Kopf geht der Krieg weiter“ geht es um Soldatinnen und Soldaten mit posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung, in der ARD-Doku „Vollbild: Verliebt in einen Bot — Künstliche Liebe mit Risiko?“ geht es um Menschen, die sich in eine KI verlieben, und in „Smile 2“ auf Paramount+ wird eine Frau von einem mysteriösen Lächeln heimgesucht.

#Horror #KI #Krieg #PTSD #Smile2 #WasLäuftHeute

detektor.fm/kultur/was-laeuft-

detektor.fm · Im Kopf geht der Krieg weiter, Vollbild: Verliebt in einen Bot – Künstliche Liebe mit Risiko?, Smile 2In der Dokumentation "Im Kopf geht der Krieg weiter" geht es um Soldatinnen und Soldaten, die eine posttraumatische Belastungsstörung haben.
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Jeramee

@davep

EMDR is a newer treatment for #PTSD. It is believed that the eye movements trigger a similar process to what we do in dreams, which we know is one way that the brain processes memories and emotions.

There is a chapter about EMDR in The Body Keeps the Score, an excellent book about the causes and current treatments for PTSD. It has helped me to understand and navigate the condition.

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RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸

I don't need horror movies as I have them play in my head every day after the childhood I went through.

It was nothing but abuse, and neglect. Being #homeless was better than being with my family in the end. My childhood prepared me for it. I was already covered in bugs and living in filth as a kid.

My father always blamed it on my mentally ill mother.

Things didn't get better until he remarried when I was about 12, and got her to clean.

scoopzapp.com/n/10V8syy5?ctype

scoopzapp.com#LifeDrama I don't Need Horror Movies as My Childhood was Worse #storytime #life #truecrimestories#LifeDrama I don't Need Horror Movies as My Childhood was Worse #storytime #life #truecrimestories
#mentalhealth#scoopz#ptsd
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David John Crook

@davep I think this is a relatively new treatment and I have read good reports about it. I would give it a try.
I think as you heal, one of the keys is to understand the triggers of your #ptsd and know how to avoid/walk away. The keys may not be the obvious, but may be more tangential.

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RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸

Even for #tourettes I have a strange case.

Most cases, their tics come in bursts, then stop for a bit, and they're also very intense, and nearly impossible to resist.

My tics NEVER STOP. They are a constant thing I have to resist, and my motor tics are the most complicated case I've ever seen.

But they aren't as intense, and I can resist them for a time, which is why nobody knew until I was 27.

I always suppressed around others because of trauma I went through.

#mentalhealth#ptsd
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Moritz Bartl

The ADHD Body Double: A Unique Tool for Getting Things Done

"What would chi have to do with a body double? The body double might be a chi balancer or protective barrier helping to contain and calm the energy in and around the person with ADHD. The body double might also be a buffer against distracting energy from the outside, ready to bombard the vulnerable ADHD brain."

In modern terms, this is nervous system co-regulation, and, yes, that’s a thing.

Many people with #ADHD also suffer from complex #PTSD (see comorbidity studies), and unless treated, this has effects like social anxiety and emotional dysregulation.

Emotional neglect in early childhood for example can be a ‘silent‘, non-obvious factor at play here (even caring parents can be emotionally unavailable for longer periods of time due to environmental or personal reasons!), which for the later adult means they have not (yet) learned the skill to regulate their nervous system on their own and can make use of a replacement ‘caretaker‘.

add.org/the-body-double/

ADDA - Attention Deficit Disorder Association · The ADHD Body Double: A Unique Tool for Getting Things Done - ADDA - Attention Deficit Disorder AssociationBody doubling is a productivity technique where an individual works on their tasks alongside someone else. Find out how ADHDers can use this strategy to their advantage.
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RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸

#ptsd dreams are always rough, and leave my brain messy for the first part of the day.

I lost someone I loved tragically, and I dreamed they weren't gone.

I was so happy to hold them close again, just to wake up and be crushed like in a movie scene.

Except it was real, and I had to face the grief again in full force for a moment simply because of a dream I couldn't help at all.

Guess my mom was right when she said nobody gets to 30 without damage.

#writing#mentalhealth#love
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