idk what young person on the internet needs to hear this but you are not obligated to share any personal details about yourself online. in fact im gonna straight-up circle back to 00s era advice and say being anonymous is good actually
As folks discuss John Mulaney going to rehab, I want to take a sec to remind everyone–not everyone struggling with addiction has the money or the resources or the safety to go through rehab. Rehab centers are often not safe or accessible to the people who need them most, and some are even predatory institutions that don’t offer legitimate aid.
I know multiple people with rehab horror stories. I know people who went through rehab and immediately relapsed because rehab didn’t address the core problems that made them turn to drugs and alcohol, such as poverty and homelessness.
Rehab is not something that everyone can do. Please, please, please do not look at a celebrity going to rehab and start shaming the people who don’t seek out rehab. There are a lot of reasons that someone might not go.
You gotta support addicts fully, not just when you think they’re acting how you think they should. Please keep that in mind.
Not just sertraline, any SSRI or SNRI. Serotonin syndrome can kill you. When I was younger and on a lot of medication, a dose of cough medicine landed me in the ER. Always check potential interactions here before taking anything with antidepressants, even if it’s over-the-counter.
hm so psa bc i didn’t know this, it’s not common knowledge, and flu season is around:
apparently you aren’t supposed to take dextromethorphan (a common cough suppressant. it’s in stuff like cough syrup, mucinex dm, tylenol severe cold) with sertraline (aka zoloft, the antidepressant) bc it has the risk of causing Serotonin Syndrome, which is not as fun as the name suggests. i’m not a doctor but like, avoid drug interactions bc they can be serious.
it’s called ‘hidden homelessness’. in my hometown we didn’t have anybody who lived on the streets…. but lots of couch-surfers etc. it’s still a type of homelessness.
“I am not ‘half Japanese’ and ‘half Lithuanian Jewish.“ When I’m singing a Japanese folk song, I don’t sing with half my voice, but with my whole voice. When I’m taping together my grandparents’ Jewish marriage contract, worn by time but still resilient, it’s not half of my heart that is moved, but my whole heart. I am complete, and I embody layers of identities that belong together. I am made of layers, not fractions.”
something that I feel like is missing from fandom nowadays is the idea that you dont have to have a unified, chronologically/tonally consistent interpretation of your favorite work. your fics dont have to fit within the same version of canon, even if theyre all canon-compliant on their own. your headcanons can contradict each other. be a multishipper. write metas that take two totally different interpretations of the same plot point. write a character as a villain and then write them as the hero next time. write a character as a lesbian and then write them as straight next time! engage in hypotheticals and drop them when you get bored! make up the rules as you go!! have fun with it!!!
i found my old fanfiction account the other day and it actually surprised me how many different ships i wrote fanfiction for, often with the same characters. ones that contradicted my primary ships. ones that i barely even shipped, but thought ‘hey this would be cool’. how there was an established fanon version of canon but no one felt obliged to keep that; breaking fanon was cool and fun and refreshing. i wish there was more of that these days.
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