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#can i tag this as pride month
dromaeocore · 9 months
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So, Peer Respites are a not-very-well-known alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. They are 100% voluntary and staffed by peers, AKA individuals with lived experience of mental illness/emotional distress/what-have-you. Generally, they are a homelike environment where you can come and go as you please, and there is lots of voluntary programming like groups, art, yoga, etc. You can bring your own food or cook meals together with staff and other residents. Stays are usually anywhere from five days to two weeks, depending on the respite house and also your own wants and needs. There are no restraints, strip searches, or seclusion.
They're also on the rise!! I know this because I've spent all day today compiling data on peer respites in the US so I could create this fun graph for ya'll.
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In the past ten years, at least 38 new peer respites have opened in the US. The data for 2023 is incomplete, but at least one has already opened, and another is scheduled for a soft opening later this year.
Some things about the data:
I did not include peer respites which were permanently closed (2) or could not find an opening date for (1)
I used the National Empowerment Center's Directory of Peer Respites, along with some internet sleuthing to find a few more (and to find the opening dates for each one). Because of this, I may have missed a few.
There were a handful of peer respites for which I could not pin down a for-certain, exact date for. I did include these in the dataset as I was able to find rough estimates.
I have also not done a deep dive for all peer respites that were unsuccessful, which may skew the data a little bit.
I included Soteria Vermont as well, as it technically fits the definition despite being specifically for people with psychosis
If you would like to help get a peer respite off the ground, I would recommend donating to Peer Support Space Inc.'s Orlando FL Peer Respite. Their soft launch is November 2023, and they are scheduled to open to the public in January 2024. This is really important, because Florida's only peer respite has recently permanently closed.
If you're interested in starting your own peer respite, the National Empowerment Center has a list of resources here.
If you are interested in seeking help from a peer respite, there is a directory of most of them here. You can also look at the Google Doc I created to compile my data, which has a few more/is slightly more updated - though it's not nearly as nicely put together as the other one!
If anyone would like to add any information, non-US peer respites, etc, feel free to!
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p-h-a-n-t-a · 9 months
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Nimona was the first piece of media i found after realizing i was nonbinary that spoke to me, i read the webcomic every wedsneday in my history class in 7th grade. Middle school was hard for me because i was one of two kids in my whole grade that was out as some form of queer (pan, i didnt come out as nb until high school) and i lost a lot of friends from it. But also from just being "weird." I tried to come out to my dad at one point and heard nearly the same line balister says to nimona in the new movie "wouldnt it be easier to be a girl?"
I am now 21, working in a library where i see kids gravitate more and more towards graphic novels and we have the nimona graphic novel on our shelves, and i have waited so long to watch the movie, that when i finally watched it, i could not believe it was not just speaking to me, but screaming to me. Im a nonbinary individual that loves men in a queer way, and yet has been a weird little girl outcast for things other people did not understand. I have seen grown adults attack children online for not being straight or cis, and seen them say it is under the guise of protecting their kids. In the time between now and reading the webcomic in my history class, i have felt so many different ways about my identity and my existence, and holy shit does the nimona movie speak to me. In almost every stage of my life.
N D Stevenson, and all the people who made this movie survive and be possible, you were able to reach into the core of my being and make me feel just as seen as i first did when i laughed about shark boobs in a middle school computer lab. Thank you so much!!
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boyquiet · 10 months
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aa4 port during pride month trans people stay winning
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 10 months
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Happy Pride month everyone B*) Allow me to reveal a little behind the scenes detail behind my Banner and Icon. Love was always winning <3
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cloudemojie · 9 months
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i love some christian yuri
original screenshots under the cut!!
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bit late for the americans but it's not pride til next month here. have a pride dinosaur. for everyone who gets to be less involved in pride than they'd like because they can't risk a super spreader event.
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blazingflareon · 10 months
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happy pride month!! theyre gay ur honor
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tropospherecircus · 10 months
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diversity win these personifications of the human psyche thst are constantly at war with each other are pansexual and taking a brief break from fighting to celebrate pride month
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bigmammallama5 · 10 months
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Something fun to be posted to my supercorp coffee book v2 tomorrow for pride <3 wrote it on my lunch break lmao
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tragedykery · 9 months
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this disability pride month I am begging people to please a) add descriptions to stuff you post, b) look through the notes for like. fifteen seconds to find an ID, and c) for the love of god, tag flashing lights/images
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t4tozier · 9 months
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any mobility aid users with fatigue and (mostly) no pain? i’m trying to figure out if there’s anything i can do to help with my fatigue when i still have to like. go out into the world
my friend let me borrow an extra cane of theirs but i only used it for a short trip to the mall so i don’t think i got a full idea of what it would do to help me, they use forearm crutches now and i’m feeling like that might be helpful for being able to rest on them? i don’t have chronic pain but when i can’t sit down i’d like to have something i can rest on a little without hurting my wrist.
most mobility aid users that i’ve seen so far have chronic pain in addition to fatigue or other issues so i don’t know if their advice is the most applicable to my specific situation. so if anyone has any recommendations for specific types of aids or even a particular cane brand, etc that works for them that would be much appreciated
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blumele · 10 months
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now. i don’t mean to imply that /I/ killed him. but this sequence of tweets is the fucking funniest thing i’ve ever had the pleasure of featuring in
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starbuck · 2 years
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Listen: if you’re questioning your sexuality or gender and having a really difficult time figuring stuff out, you might wanna try reframing your thinking from “what am I?” to “what do I want?”
If you want to have sex with men, do it! If you want to go on hormones because the physical affects are desirable to you, do it! If you don’t want to have sex at all, (don’t) do it!
Labels can be a wonderful thing, don’t get me wrong, but they can also cause you to second-guess yourself into paralysis if you give them too much importance. You can always label your identity later on if you want to, but, in the meantime, don’t let stress over which label is “right” stop you from doing what makes you feel fulfilled in the here and now.
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napping-sapphic · 9 months
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Reason of the week for why i need a gf/partner: take bath with me after work to make sure i don’t fall asleep and drown
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kriscommitscrimes · 10 months
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seeing more ppl referring to kris with he/him pronouns instead of they/them ones this pride month and i dont liek it. i will play through the whole game and ger everything screenshot of their CLOSEST FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS using EXCLUSIVELY they/them pronouns for them if necessary
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jasontoddssuper · 11 months
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I JUST REALIZED THAT ME BEING A ZUKO KINNIE MEANS I'M ALSO A HUNTER NOCEDA KINNIE
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