#he has a mild to moderate amount of mental illness

[fraidycat-art]

taking eat the rich to a brand new level by literally eating the flesh of a construct made by the empire that ruined you and your people

#he has a mild to moderate amount of mental illness #warframe #tenno #i just know its yummy #warframe fanart #tenno fanart #pav #mine

[pronoun-fucker]

A researcher who lost her job at a thinktank after tweeting that transgender women could not change their biological sex has won her claim that she was unfairly discriminated against because of her gender-critical beliefs.

Maya Forstater suffered direct discrimination when the Centre for Global Development (CGD), where she was a visiting fellow, did not renew her contract or fellowship, an employment tribunal found on Wednesday.

The tribunal also ruled that Forstater, the executive director of Sex Matters, suffered victimisation with respect to the removal of her profile from CGD’s website.

Its decision comes after Forstater successfully brought a test case to establish that gender-critical views are a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act. She initially lost that case at an employment tribunal in 2019 but won a landmark decision on appeal last year, with the judge stressing that while gender-critical views might be “profoundly offensive and even distressing to many others … they are beliefs that are and must be tolerated in a pluralist society”.

The case was then sent back to the tribunal to decide whether Forstater’s claim had been proved on the facts. It upheld two complaints of direct discrimination and one of victimisation. Two other complaints of direct discrimination and one of victimisation were unsuccessful.

The judgment stated: “Absent an explanation from the respondents, the facts are such that the tribunal could properly conclude that the tweets were a substantial part of the reason why Ms Forstater was not offered employment; and the respondent’s evidence, far from proving the contrary, supports the finding that they were …

“We reminded ourselves that it would be an error to treat a mere statement of Ms Forstater’s protected belief as inherently unreasonable or inappropriate.”

The tribunal examined a number of tweets by Forstater, including tweets in which she drew an analogy between self-identifying trans women and Rachel Dolezal, a white American woman who misrepresented herself as black, and another in which she said: “A man’s internal feeling that he is a woman has no basis in material reality.” It concluded that the tweets asserted her gender-critical beliefs.

It said the same of one that described self-identification as a woman as “a feeling in their head”, rejecting the suggestion that it equated self-identification with mental illness.

The tribunal also considered tweets in which Forstater said she was surprised people could say they believed that males could be women, and that they are “tying themselves in knots”.

It said they were “fairly mild examples” of mockery, adding: “Mocking or satirising the opposing view is part of the common currency of debate.”

The three-member panel, led by the employment judge Andrew Glennie, said a description of a Credit Suisse executive, Pips Bunce, who identified as a woman for part of the week, as a “part-time cross dresser” could have been put in “more moderate terms”.

But two of the three panel members said it “did not amount to an objectionable or inappropriate manifestation of Ms Forstater’s belief, given the context of a debate on a matter of public interest; the fact that Pips Bunce had put themself forward in public as a person who is gender fluid and who dresses sometimes as a woman and sometimes as a man”.

Responding to the decision, Forstater said: “My case matters for everyone who believes in the importance of truth and free speech. We are all free to believe whatever we wish. What we are not free to do is compel others to believe the same thing, to silence those who disagree with us or to force others to deny reality.”

She also thanked JK Rowling for standing by her. The Harry Potter author tweeted: “Every woman who’s been harassed, silenced, bullied or lost employment because of her gender critical beliefs is freer and safer today, thanks to the warrior that is @MForstater.”

Stonewall, the LGBTQ+ campaign group, said: “Today’s judgment … does not change the reality of trans people’s workplace protection. No one has the right to discriminate against, or harass, trans people simply because they disagree with their existence and participation in society.”

Amanda Glassman, chief executive of CGD, said: “We are reviewing today’s judgment, which found in favour of Ms Forstater on some claims, and dismissed others. CGD’s primary aim has always been to uphold our values and maintain a workplace and an environment that is welcoming, safe, and inclusive to all, including trans people.”

Remedies will be determined at a later date.

Link | Archived Link

#radical feminism #gender critical #transgender #trans activism #Maya Forstater

[autisdicksimmons]

Rvb character disabilities pt. 1

Going through the canon/my headcanoned disabilities of rvb characters, starting with Red Team. I may miss things, so please remind me if I do

Sarge

* Brain. Injury. At the very least from repeat concussions plus the time he was shot in the head

* HC— Hard of Hearing, unsure if from age or constant gunfire and explosions over the years

Simmons

* Literally had most if not all of his internal organs replaced with cybernetic equivalents

* Double amputee, again cyborg prosthetics but we see that they are not always reliable (he literally shot himself in the foot)

* HC— it isn’t confirmed that Simmons has a cyborg eye that I remember, but yes that

* Part of his brain is also robotic which is. Scary.

* Fax machine.

* I won’t be going into mental illnesses for the most part because that could honestly be another post entirely for Simmons alone, but his severe, unchecked anxiety disorder deserves an honorable mention

* HC— he has the most textbook autism ever. Of all time.

* HC— due to the severity of the surgery and Sarge’s incompetence, I believe Simmons is likely in some amount of chronic pain

* HC— Simmons mentions, angrily, that Grif doesn’t get headaches, which I am taking and giving him chronic migraines bc I have them too and no one can stop me

* HC— really really shitty vision, like, man is wearing bifocals in his early twenties type bad (helmets have gotta be able to be adjusted for vision, right???)

* HC— asthma. Bc I have it. And I can.

Grif

* Canonically (debatable, but still) has OCD

* Also a double amputee, but had the parts replaced with Simmons’s which, yikes, considering their canon (season 14 canon, anyway) height/body type differences

* HC/extrapolation off the last point— it’s highly likely that he has a moderate to severe difference in limb lengths, or that the Simmons side had to be MAJORLY fucked up which, ouch

* HC— also chronic pain based on that

* Most if not all of his current organs were received via Simmons transplant after being run over

* HC— again with the eyes, but I always draw/write him having a lazy eye w Simmons’s old eye, with it not seeing well and Sarge’s “skills”

* Had parts of his brain damaged enough by the tank that Sarge felt the need to replace them??? YIKES

* HC— Asthma bc Simmons had it and now he has his lungs lol

* HC— Hard of hearing, and honestly it’s amazing if all of them aren’t to some degree, actually

Donut

* Had half his face blown up. I take this to mean he is blind in one eye and fully Deaf in one ear, hard of hearing in the other, and some mild brain damage

* Had part of his hand CUT OFF when it got caught in the underside of a Warthog. I take this to mean that he’s missing most of his pinky, ring, and middle fingers on his right hand.

* HC— He’s almost died/actually died so many times but we don’t see any canon effects of this, at the very least he’s got some organ damage especially with the severe dehydration/heat exhaustion he’s suffered and being. You know. Shot point blank in the chest.

Lopez

* Decapitated. So many times

#red vs blue #rvb #red team #dick Simmons #Dexter grif #rvb sarge #franklin delano donut #lopez the heavy #I WILL make more of these for the others

[magneticmage]

I'm in the mood for it (plus it's Disability Pride month) so here are all my disabled ocs;

Under cut for Length

Additional Notes; Please do not judge me too harshly. While I have a few of these disabilities (most notably PTSD, anxiety-depression, and visual impairments) myself and personally know people who have some others, every person and their experiences are unique. I try my best to give these disabilities the space and gravity they deserve in my writing, but it is difficult for ones that I have no personal experience with. In addition, I am still learning and only human. If I have done something wrong or phrased something badly at any point now or in the future, let me know and I will do my best to fix it/do better. Apologies for the abrupt disclaimer but there we go.

Anyways!!!!

On the the List!

RWBY;

Selene Argent=Has PTSD, one prosthetic eye, and some physical scars on face and torso. I'd safely say she counts.

Baldur's Gate;

Sable Shades=Is an albino and was rendered mute at birth. He sunburns extremely easily and is near-sighted. He also often communicates through sign language.

Roan Roarke=Beyond some minor PTSD symptoms (increased anxiety and stress levels) surrounding fires, he's perfectly fine.

Faenerys Elendir=Has PTSD from her time imprisoned particular involving whips and brands as torture implements.

Rune Mistsea=Post-lycanthropy encounter, he is notably more short-tempered around the full moon along with a distinct craving for meat and violence. Otherwise, nothing else of note.

Lucine Mistsea=Beyond a notable paranoia issue when it comes to demons and cambions (but not fellow tieflings), she's fine.

Lyr(e/a/an) Lovemoor=Autistic. Too much light and noise and surrounding activity is draining and makes them short-tempered with occasional blowouts/meltdowns. Has a Thing about certain textures (very much hates slimes and oozes and squishy things for this reason, likes silks and furs and leathers). Has a fascination for all things shiny and glittery (gems and currencies are a special interest). Also often fidgets with their daggers.

Saga Musehart=Was rendered blind due to torture at the hands of prison guards. She also lost a hand (initially) and a forearm (later due to infection) and wears a prosthesis.

Cei Gloomdraft=Autistic or at least neurodivergent of some kind. Might have some ADHD, it's not quite clear yet in the few pieces I've written so far to help develop her.

Mass Effect;

(Solo Shepard Canon)

Annette Shepard=Has some lingering PTSD symptoms from surviving a raid on Mindoir, then thresher maws in Akuze, and then being spaced at the beginning in Mass Effect 2. She also suffers from some survivor's guilt Post-Virmire due to losing Ashley, and then all of Mass Effect 3 puts such a huge burden on her that she's fighting off some severe depression and despair from all the losses. She's got an old war injury in her shoulder that acts up from time to time, occasionally making her biotics misfire a barrier. She's on immuno-suppressant drugs to prevent her body from rejecting her Cerberus-added cybernetic implants and upgrades, and also some antidepressants for depression and anxiety symptoms for said lingering PTSD symptoms. Girl's a walking disaster-fire mentally but she keeps on surviving and she still looks for the good in life as it comes, so there's that.

(Shepard Siblings)

Joanna=Like Roscoe and Riley, she's also on immuno-suppressants to prevent cybernetic implant rejection. Notably, she's the most well-adjusted of the three mentally, although the losses and struggles of ME 3 start to take their toll due to depression. She spends an awkward month on the Normandy adjusting to the new medication while adjusting the amounts needed. In addition, she also goes through a whole existential crisis come the Citadel DLC about if she is really Joanna Shepard or a clone (which Riley, Roscoe, and the Normandy crew snap her out of). Her survivor's guilt is much less pronounced than Riley's though she does start the early stages of a martyr complex (it's a source of frequent and well-humored debate between Riley and Roscoe if it was already there or not) about the of Thane's death. But she does her best and keeps on going.

Roscoe=Definitely mentally ill. He's got some trauma around abandonment that starts to get fully addressed around ME 2 in part due to Jack and Miranda and is mostly resolved around ME 3 though naturally scars remain. It often manifests as anger, depression, and even callousness. Like Joanna's and Riley, he is on immuno-suppressants to prevent the potential rejection of his cybernetics. He's also got an old wound from Torfan in his abdomen that acts up under stronger pressures like before a rainstorm or different gravity levels as well as drastic temperature changes such as cold (he HATES Noveria for that reason in particular though it isn't the only one, man). Beyond all that, he's very strong-willed and gives no fucks to shit.

Riley=Much like Annette except a bit more well-adjusted due to a larger support network and character drive. Has notable flashbacks/triggers around batarians, thresher maws (this one includes panic attacks once the direct danger has passed), and hardsuit complications (they always makes sure that their helmet and everything is in working and optimal order). Has survivor's guilt from their losses on Mindoir and Akuze but between meeting Talitha and Toombs in ME 1, they confront and deal with it, beginning to heal from it. Even on Virmire with the loss of Honora and all the failures of ME 3, they do better at handling it though it still remains to varying degrees. Like Joanna's and Roscoe (and Annette again), they're on immuno-suppressant drugs to prevent issues with their body rejecting the cybernetics, with the additional ones of antidepressants to help manage some of their anxiety-depression symptoms. They also have some degree of chronic pain (maybe some kind of cystic fibrosis?) due to past overuse of their biotics that damaged part of their nervous system and occasionally causes it to misfire for no reason, often causing intense pain. Rarely and only if the pain isn't treated with extensive biotics-free rest periods and numbing agents in the form of more pills, the biotics will manifest and they'll accidentally move shit around, including themself a few times. This is most notable in ME 3 due to the nature of the larger and longer combat sequences with shorter and shorter rest times between. Though they manage as best they can with the help of their crew and family, it is still a struggle and they notably stop joking about retiring when they're dead and seem to consider it more seriously around ME 3 but save the final decision for the end of the Reaper Wars.

(Shepard Family)

Honora Hartford=She had an eating disorder when she was younger that left some lingering issues with her health but overall she's fine up until her death.

Riley's deceased siblings were overall healthy though Payton had Down's Syndrome and Brooklyn had ADHD. Harley had moderate asthma and used an inhaler.

Clover has anemia quite often and takes iron pills daily

The rest of the Shepard cousins don't have any disabilities to much knowledge though I am still fleshing them out.

(Andromeda)

Sara and Scott Ryder have some lingering damage from their cryopod accident and the Kett leader fucking with them, but otherwise they are okay.

Asher has ADHD while Shiloh struggles with a mild form of chronic fatigue. Evander, Rebecca, and Lucas are all able-bodied.

Dragon Age;

(Fereldan Wardens)

Lynera Mahariel=Dunno if this counts, but am putting it here anyways since it affects her overall health. Occasionally suffers from a type of sleep paralysis that is mixed with night-terrors. It doesn't appear to have a rhyme or reason as to when it occurs beyond perhaps stress and it's only every few months. However, it often leaves her completely drained for at least a week afterwards. She also occasionally has insomnia post-terrors as well which she self-medicates with sleeping draughts. She also has crippling period pains that appear to be consistent with ovarian cysts on her left side (though she later has it removed by Catriona once it ruptures due to injury). She also suffers from bouts of depression during Origins but that could be due to the extenuating circumstances she was under at the time.

Isemaya Tabris=When overly stressed, being exposed to strong amounts of concentrated Taint in a short period of time, or sometimes simply for no apparent reason, she suffers from intense migraines that are often treated with herbal painkillers and lying still in a dark and quiet room. Also due to a past injury to her left eye by humans, she has a harder time seeing on that side but is not completely blind.

Catriona Surana=She seems to be autistic due to her ability and predilection to hyperfocus on various studies (often Blight and magic-related but other areas do occur) as well as her obliviousness to social cues (she didn't realize she was liked by her suitors until Cale outright told her and by then she had decided she liked them already). Notably, she adapts a bit better Post-Origins due to Alistair and Leliana's influences but it still happens.

Cale Amell=Had some minor amnesia surrounding the exact events leading to his magic manifestation but later learned it was because he had set his eldest brother Azul on fire and believed he killed him as Raven helpfully supplied (Azul had instead faked his death as Cale discovers around the time of Awakening).

Fion Cousland=Briefly suffers from a minor alcohol addiction but has treatment while he is still in the functional phase courtesy of Catriona. Since then, he heavily monitors his intake and even helps Oghren get treatment for his own. He also occasionally has painful muscle twinges due to an injury that stretches from his temple to his eye and ear down to his neck on the right side. This is most notable in bad weather or when he is sick.

Barran Aeducan=Suffered from a superiority-inferiority complex towards his siblings growing up though it has greatly lessened with time and experience. It is mostly gone by the time of Inquisition though prominent traces still remain.

Tatha Brosca=She is hard of hearing and has manged to cope by learning to lip-read (not always successful, however, especially with languages she is not familiar with) in Origins and a pair of hearing "horns" designed for her by an admiring Smith caste man by Awakening. She often jokes that now she has even more in common with her Bronto companion, Salroka, due to their shared horns.

(Origins)

Vireth Mahariel=Suffers from epilepsy and often treats it with various herbal remedies, though it is not completely effective and large amounts of intense stress on his body make it worse. He also begins to develop cataracts around the time of Act 2 of Dragon Age 2, though the cause is unknown (presumed genetics or simply age at the moment).

Elthorn Tabris=Has a stutter speech impediment.

Alaros Surana=Unknown at the moment as I haven't written too much about him.

The Amell Siblings=Probably doesn't count but Azul gets motion sickness, especially on boats. Raven, Carmine, and Reed are all perfectly healthy and fine, however the latter two are the ones I've written least at the moment. Marigold has asthma that she treats with herbs.

Aelynne Cousland=Nothing comes to mind. She does have some old injuries (mentally and physically) she acquired from the attack on Highever by Arl Howe that color her later interactions with the family during the Fereldan Civil War.

Valda Aeducan=Has a notable visual impairment that is corrected with glasses, albeit there is nothing to be done for her slight colorblindness (she has a hard type distinguishing between greys, greens, and blues).

(Orlesian Wardens)

Dion Caron=Suffers from sleep apnea that is eased by a special breathing herbal-incense infused mask he wears as well as whomever in his group is on watch to check on him periodically to ensure he still breathes (most often this is either Victoire-Ainsley or Garam). He also snores and coughs due to this. Loudly.

Victoire-Ainsley Caron=Nothing of note.

Isenna Andras=She's an albino and so burns and rashes in intense light and heat. She also has a lame leg that cannot be fixed with magic and so wears a reinforced brace to aid her walk. This creates a noticeable limp.

Garam Kader=Alcohol makes him sick and he suffered from intense gender dysphoria before paying a huge sum to have an ex-Tevinter magister turned fellow Warden help him transition.

(Hawkes)

Jasper, Skye, and Violet Hawke are perfectly healthy. Albeit with some diet restrictions due to various allergies.

Gray Hawke=He is diabetic and so often has to monitor his energy levels to ensure his health. It's part of the reason he doesn't actively endanger his life like his siblings (not that he won't, just less often in comparison). He acquires a truly impressive diet regime and treatment plan upon becoming a nobleman of the Amell family, allowing him much more freedom than before.

(Marquises)

Aurore and Marcel de Serault both suffer from mild hemophilia. Marcel also has a lyrium drug addiction he is trying to break (and is actually doing quite well via weaning himself off it) due to a brief stint as a Templar while serving the Chantry.

(Inquisitors)

Armashok Adaar=Poor eyesight that cannot be fully corrected by glasses and later loses an arm due to the Anchor. He also lost a few fingers and some right hand mobility due to pre-nquisition injuries as a mercenary. He also wears a brace on his left shoulder. He wears a prosthetic eye and replacement arm.

Ransley Trevelyan=Like Cullen, he is working on breaking his own lyrium addiction from his time as a Templar and, like the other Inquisitors, loses his arm due to the Anchor. He had it replaced with a prosthetic arm for his shield side.

Paeriel Lavellan=She loses an arm alongside all the other Inquisitors, but takes the loss much harsher due to her archery skills suffering. While she will wear a prosthesis in battle or when hunting, she doesn't wear it in her day-to-day life, instead preferring to make due as needed. She also has anxiety.

Naranka Cadash=She loses her Anchor-wielding arm and gains a crossbow-and-dagger prosthetic one courtesy of her Inner Circle, much to her delight. She also suffers from some damage to her reproductive tract due to past injuries and is uncertain if she could have children.

(Inner Circle)

Kara Adaar=Beyond an intense hatred of slavery due to being kidnapped and almost sold when she was younger before being rescued by her father, she's perfectly healthy. She does require bedrest for her periods though.

Emilyse Trevelyan=She suffers from some PTSD from her abuse at Templar hands in the Circle, though she begins to recover towards the end of Inquisition.

Samrel Lavellan=Has dyslexia and uses reading aids and memory devices.

Pyrmar Cadash=He might have some PTSD from his Carta days due to a notable cave-in that lasted for a few days before his rescue.

#disability mention #trauma mention #amputation mention #eating disorder mention #my ocs stuff #mentions of addiction to drugs and alcohol #gender dysphoria mention

[viridian-dragoon]

Brandt Character Profile (UPDATED!)

  General Characteristics

Name: Brandt Vedyrson

Other Names: “Brandy” (a nickname used by friends to annoy him), Unknown Family Name, “Lizard” (derogatory term for Au Ra by Ishgardians), Shinjiro “Shinji” Ishida (pseudonym)

Titles: The Travelling Hunter, Black Dragon, Captain, Voidbuster/Sinrender. (Both of which he’s tried to kick off himself.)

  Personal Characteristics

Primary Objective: Brandt’s raison d'être, his reason for being, is to protect the innocent and powerless. To this end, he hunts those who would prey on the weak and set up an agency in Mor Dhona where they can come for help. Recently he was contacted by a mysterious figure who requested his presence at the Crystal Tower...

Secondary Objectives: Brandt seeks to make amends with the Dragons for wrongs he committed to them in the Dragonsong War after their recent armistice with Ishgard. Along the way, Brandt is keen to discover his true identity.

Secrets: As a youth, Brandt came into direct contact with the Eye of Nidhogg during a dragon raid. This caused him to become aetherically linked to the Black Wyrm and was the cause of him being inducted into the Dragoon Corps at an earlier age than most. He keeps this fact hidden from most unless he places a great deal of trust in them.

Quirks: While often serious, having a tenancy to fall into episodes of reflection, Brand can often act quite snarky and cocky. Additionally, Brandt tends to give people short nicknames after a while, a sign of friendship on his part though they usually consist of a shortening of their first name or a defining attribute.

  Mental Characteristics

Known Languages: Eorzean. Conversational Hingan and Xaelan. Rough knowledge of Doman.

Lures: Brandt seeks dangerous situations, usually ones he can solve with a cutting remark or a cut of his Trigger. He will also often be drawn to people who are willing to share their time and experiences with him.

Savvies: Due to being a highly trained Dragoon, Brandt is skilled in the art of physical combat and is generally quite Acrobatic for his stature. He has put extensive research into beings not of Hydaelyn, Voidsent and the like, and knows the ins and outs of most of their ilk.

Ineptities: Given his history, Brandt cannot understand the weight placed on family ties. He is also incapable of playing musical instruments, but appreciates the art all the same. Recently discovered to be an absolutely terrible shot.

Temperament: Phlegmatic

Hobbies: In the pursuit of self-betterment Brandt has taken up Fishing and Cooking. These combine with a love of sightseeing as a driving force to explore Hydaelyn.

  Philosophical Characteristics

Morality: Brandt usually believes that he is morally decent in most aspects, accepting of almost all viewpoints. However, he is not above committing criminal acts should he view them as just in the moment, unless at the detriment of another he sees as innocent, and has participated in shadier dealings in the past. He also believes that it is generally fine to indulge one’s self in their vices, I.E. drinking, gambling or use of narcotics.

Perception: Brandt is typically a realist, leaning more towards a pessimistic view of a situation’s potential outcomes. When given the glass example he would respond saying it was half empty, but that it can be refilled. He does seek to be a voice of calm in heated situations.

  Spiritual Characteristics

Religion: Brought up around belief of The Twelve, mainly Halone. Has recently embraced a belief in the Kami as well as Azim and Nhamaa.

Superstitions: Brandt generally believes that it is bad luck to speak ill of the recently departed or tamper with gravesites. Given his recent line of work, Brandt is certain of the paranormal world’s existence.

Virtues: Humility, Patience, Diligence.

Vices: Lust, Wrath, Despair.

  Supernatural Characteristics

Ability: As a former Dragoon, Brandt is highly acrobatic, able to leap great distances both vertically and horizontally. He has high aerial control and is able to discharge aether from his body to adjust his trajectory, a skill all Dragoons are taught.He is also able to brace his body against long falls, again in line with all dragoons. Having been “selected” by the Eye of Nidhogg, Brandt also holds the power of the azure dragoon. After a recent episode of influence he has decided to abandon his lance unless the circumstances call for it, opting instead to use an Ironworks-built Gunblade..

Strengths: Brandt is trained in the art of “Critical Combat”, the art of taking down opponents by striking vital points. Brandt is also moderately trained in various forms of swordplay, including as a Gladiator, Hingan Samurai and self-practised Dark Knight. Has some mild shooting ability, but opts instead to use a modified rifle if he has, slashing first and then pulling the trigger.

Weaknesses: As he is blind in one eye, Brandt often has difficulty telling distances accurately, usually taking long times to plan his jumps. Brandt is also unusually pain-tolerant, meaning he often fights on after sustaining heavy injuries and causing him numerous issues. His accuracy with ranged combat is also more or less nil.

Restrictions: Due to his somewhat unique circumstance as an non-ishgardian under influence from Nidhogg, Brandt is more susceptible to corruption by it. His emotions have to be kept in check at most times and after experiencing bouts of great stress, his control over it slips. In order to combat this, he has been given training in various self-control methods, including tutelage on the Darkside and the Inner Beast, giving him a much tighter grip on it.

  Likes and Dislikes

Likes: Rainy weather, home cooking (favourite food is Coerthan Casserole), Looking at beautiful scenery, Sake, Hingan cigars, gatherings organised by friends, Taunting.

Dislikes: Heavy snow, oppressive rulers, ridiculously sweet things, people who enforce their ideals on others.

  Apparel

Equipment: Brandt always makes sure to hold a concealed knife on his person, otherwise he is usually in possession of his personalised Gunblade.

Wardrobe: Brandt tends to dress in dark tones, most commonly a dull green and black. Stylistically he wears clothing recommended to him by peers leaning towards heavier, warmer clothing but has also taken to wearing traditional Doman clothing. When expecting serious combat situations he will don armour, including that usually worn by Temple Knights.

  Social Characteristics

Emotional Stability: Cocky. Due to his early life and training in Ishgard, Brandt is otherwise characteristically stoic. It takes lots to bring him out of his shell, however he is very quick to upset.

Humor: Brandt’s tone of humor is fairly dark, but enjoys most forms of comedy. He cannot abide by speaking ill of the recently deceased however.

Status: Brandt generally tries to keep a low profile in Coerthas as he is considered a deserter by the Holy See’s old regime. Outside of Coerthan jurisdiction, Brandt is an honorary first lieutenant for the Maelstrom due to services rendered and is well known in Othard as a roaming hunter.

  School

Education: Brandt was taught to the base standards of education in Ishgard, including literacy and a decent understanding of mathematics. In addition he was given rudimentary lessons in cartography and tracking.

School: Brandt was home-schooled by Ser Ompagne, and given further training in the Ishgardian barracks.

Study Habits: Brandt will often only study while motivated to do so, such as after finding important information or when with a study partner.

Learning Type: Learns best via experience. Teaching him new ways to control his aether takes a heavy amount of effort.

  Interpersonal Connections

Allies: The Bumble Braves (de facto leader), The Stray Sheep (former member)

Enemies: No true enemies to date. Carries much disdain for the corrupt Ishgardian clergy. Makes effort to avoid dragons due to actions during the Dragonsong War.

Friends: The Kimura Siblings, Pixhie Neva, Chibisuke Neva, Daedari Arulaq, Naevia Sorel, Kaito Ninomiya, Iry Valbe, Sidurgu Orl, Yuki-chan, Kikyo Mihata, Khagarel Kha, Shur Kha, Oriana Daethal

Heroes: Estinien Wyrmblood, Ser Ompagne

Pets: None for right now.

Rivals: Nathan Nuhn, Sidurgu Orl, Kuro Solaire

  Physical Characteristics

Height: 84.6in (215cm)

Weight: 273lbs (124kg)

Species: Au Ra (Xaela)

Skin Color: Dark Blue-Grey

Hair Color: Green

Hair Length: Varies, tends to keep it mid-length..

Eye Color: Red

Tail Length: 45cm

Tail Color: Black

Scars: Faint scarring on left eye. Various marks across body.

Tattoos and Piercings: None as of yet. Contemplating some traditional Xaelan designs.

  Health and Fitness

Addictions: Heavy social drinker, smoker. When intimate situations, he becomes quite intoxicated by a lustful disposition.

Handicaps: Monocular vision (left-eye blind).

  Sexual Characteristics

Gender: Male

Orientation: Straight

Significant Other: Available (not really looking)

#traits #Brandt Vedyrson #male au ra xaela #Dragoon #gunbreaker #ffxiv rp #ffxiv balmung #ffxiv lich

[butterychaoticduck]

Cycling between anxiety and depression

if you get the patience  read this, if you go through the same things, feel free to hit me up, i’m interested in starting a convo on this.

A detail i have come along to realize about myself, is that i cycle in between anxiety and depression. i have no idea if there is a specific diagnosis for this, if it is simply just, i have both and they sometimes overlap and other times appear separate. I was wondering if anybody else is like this. This is not just, one day i am anxious and the other day i am terribly depressed. I have always lived with these two very different emotional states, and they come in waves that sometimes i can’t even predict or control. my therapist has always treated me as being someone who suffers from generalized anxiety, but for some reason i have always known there as a bit more to it. Thing is i hid my depression out of shame, and surely i wanted to do the same about my anxiety, but it is such a more violent and unpredictable state, that sometimes it would just burst out and i could not control it.

So it usually starts with an outburst of anxiety, if i was to put it in the perspective of my worst i would wake up every morning with an impending sense of doom and i would go along my day hyper aware of every single thing around me. My brain can’t stop at those times, it thinks about every single thing that most people do not think about, and then worry about specific thoughts and details of said thoughts, and even in the peace and quiet of my own bedroom i would freak out, burst into tears, have a panic attack, you name it. And usually this general state would go on for a significant amount of time, especially if i was expecting something to happen.

And then that nervous state would either be disrupted by an outer influence, or it would shift on it’s own into, not what i would call the polar opposite, often i would still feel anxious, but it would mostly just shift into depression. and in those times i would just not care, i would wake up not with a sense of doom, but i would simply remember who i am and i would hate it and want to disappear. So there i would go into a period of time where i was mainly depressed. 

i will get anxiety about getting depression and then i will get depressed about having anxiety. First i thought that i either had one or the other, and then i would have a smaller percentage of the other illness. Then i thought, well i must have both, but they’re completely separate, and you are just weird like that. But it never felt quite right, and the more i get to know about myself, the older i get, i just believe that they are sort of interchangeable, or even connected in some way. hell, it might even be the same thing. I know one person can be diagnosed with several metal illnesses, but i mean, i only have this one brain, would it not make more sense, since these problems seem to have the same origin, it is not something that i have developed from any particular trauma that i remember, i do have traumas and i have mental consequences and tel tales of said traumas, but analyzing my behavior, even that is separate from my anxiety and my depression.

i mean what am i supposed to say, “oh just let me list all of the things my brain has decided to fuck up on, lets see, anxiety, depression,anorexia AND bulimia at at least one point, technically also orthorexia for around a year and a half, very very likely ptsd from serious abuse, but that’s separate from the other things, have i told you i also get body dysmorphia? oh yeah chronic panic attacks and i get easily addicted to things”.... to me it just seems like i am some sort of grocery list. At one point i started to worry if i was thinking about all these things i had, if i was not just a hypochondriac or an illness collector. Which is completely idiotic, i’ve been diagnosed and treated for all of the mental illnesses above, it was never something that i made up in my mind.

But with a certain amount of psychological knowledge (i mean 8 years of intense therapy gets you some skills in at least understanding what the heck is going on) I ended up to the conclusion, i am neither going to restrict myself into one single problem, neither am i going to list every single problem in the book.

so let’s synthesize. 

I have a restrictive eating disorder, it shifts and adapts as the circumstances of my life appear, like a parasite trying to resist medication; reasons: biology with a gymnastics background and a perfectionist head

i have at least a mild to moderate form of ptsd, it is fairly recent and it is yet to be completely understood by my treatment teams at it’s fullest extent;reasons: I am a rape victim but previous to that i endured abuse from several “sources”, which built up and eventually burst when a more major event happened.

And then i have anxiety and depression. It show up as mutated sort of mental illness. almost like a bipolar individual (which i am absolutely not); i cycle between these two states as if one caused he other, or just, i have both and my brain gets too tired from one thing and goes to the other thing, or depending on the situation it will react accordingly, but it always has a tendency to find a way to get depressed or anxious and then i am more likely that in  a span of a few weeks of that constant feeling,  or even months, i will change into the other state, or into normality.

any thoughts?

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Learning to Live Again: A Lazarus Tale From the Covid Front Lines

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The twinkle in his eyes, the delight in his smile, the joyous way he moved his disease-withered frame. They all proclaimed a single, resounding message: Grateful to be alive!

“As my care team and my family tell me, ‘You were born again. You have to learn to live again,’” said Vicente Perez Castro. “I went through a very difficult time.”

Hell and back is more like it.

Perez, a 57-year-old cook from Long Beach, California, could barely breathe when he was admitted on June 5 to Los Angeles County’s Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He tested positive for covid-19 and spent three months in the intensive care unit, almost all of it hooked up to a ventilator with a tube down his throat. A different tube conducted nutrients into his stomach.

At a certain point, the doctors told his family that he wasn’t going to make it and that they should consider disconnecting the lifesaving equipment. But his 26-year-old daughter, Janeth Honorato Perez, one of three children, said no.

And so, on a bright February morning half a year later, here he was — an outpatient, slowly making his way on a walker around the perimeter of a high-ceilinged room at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, one of L.A. County’s four public hospitals and the only one whose main mission is patient rehab.

Perez, who is 5-foot-5, had lost 72 pounds since falling ill. His legs were unsteady, his breathing labored, as he plodded forward. But he kept moving for five or six minutes, “a huge improvement” from late last year, when he could walk only for 60 seconds, said Bradley Tirador, one of his physical therapists.

Rancho Los Amigos has an interdisciplinary team of physicians, therapists and speech pathologists who provide medical and mental health care, as well as physical, occupational and recreational therapy. It serves a population that has been disproportionately affected by the pandemic: 70% of its patients are Latino, as are 90% of its covid patients. Nearly everyone is either uninsured or on Medi-Cal, the government-run insurance program for people with low incomes.

Rancho is one of a growing number of medical centers across the country with a program specifically designed for patients suffering the symptoms that come in the wake of covid. Mount Sinai Health System’s Center for Post-Covid Care in New York City, which opened last May, was one of the first. Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, UC Davis Health and, more recently, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are among the health systems with similar offerings.

Rancho Los Amigos treats only patients recovering from severe illness and long stays in intensive care. Many of the other post-covid centers also tend to those who had milder cases of covid, were not hospitalized and later experienced a multitude of diffuse, hard-to-diagnose but disabling symptoms — sometimes described as “long covid.”

The most common symptoms include fatigue, muscle aches, shortness of breath, insomnia, memory problems, anxiety and heart palpitations. Many health care providers say these symptoms are just as common, perhaps more so, among patients who had only moderate covid.

A survey conducted by members of the Body Politic Covid-19 Support Group showed that, among patients who’d experienced mild to moderate covid, 91% still had some of those symptoms an average of 40 days after their initial recovery.

Other studies estimate that about 10% of covid patients will develop some of these prolonged symptoms. With more than 28 million confirmed cases in the U.S. and counting, this post-covid syndrome is a rapidly escalating concern.

“What we can say is that 2 [million] to 3 million Americans at a minimum are going to require long-term rehabilitation as a result of what has happened to this day, and we are just at the beginning of that,” said David Putrino, director of rehabilitation innovation at Mount Sinai Health.

Health care professionals seem guardedly optimistic that most of these patients will fully recover. They note that many of the symptoms are common in those who’ve had certain other viral illnesses, including mononucleosis and cytomegalovirus disease, and that they tend to resolve over time.

“People will recover and will be able to get back to living their regular lives,” said Dr. Catherine Le, co-director of the covid recovery program at Cedars-Sinai. But for the next year or two, she said, “I think we will see people who don’t feel able to go back to the jobs they were doing before.”

Rancho Los Amigos is discussing plans to begin accepting patients who had mild illness and developed post-covid syndrome later, said Lilli Thompson, chief of its rehab therapy division. For now, its main effort is to accommodate all the severe cases being transferred directly from its three public sister hospitals, she said.

The most severely ill patients can have serious neurological, cardiopulmonary and musculoskeletal damage. Most — like Perez — have lost a significant amount of muscle mass. They typically have “post-ICU syndrome,” an assortment of physical, mental and emotional symptoms that can overlap with the symptoms of long covid, making it difficult to tease out how much of their condition is a direct impact of the coronavirus and how much is the more general impact of months in intensive care.

The large, rectangular rehab room where Perez met with his therapists earlier this month is half-gym, half-sitcom set. Part of the space is occupied by weights, video-linked machines that help strengthen hand control and high-tech treadmills, including one that reduces the pull of gravity, enabling patients who are unsteady on their feet to walk without falling. “We tell patients, ‘It’s like walking on the moon,’” Thompson said.

At the other end of the room sits a large-screen TV and a low couch, which helps people practice standing and sitting without undue stress. In a bedroom area, patients relearn to make and unmake their beds. A few feet away, a small office space helps them work on computer and telephone skills they may have lost.

Because Perez was a cook at a hotel restaurant before he fell ill, his occupational therapy involves meal preparation. He stood at the sink, rinsing lettuce, carrots and cucumbers for a salad, then took them over to a table, where he sat down and chopped them with a sharp knife. His knife hand trembled perilously, so occupational therapist Brenda Covarrubias wrapped a weighted band around his wrist to steady him.

“He is working on getting back the skills and endurance he needs for his work, and just for routine daily activities like walking the dogs and walking up steps,” Covarrubias said.

Perez, who immigrated to the U.S. from Guadalajara, Mexico, nearly two decades ago, was upbeat and optimistic, even though his voice was faint and his body still a shell of its former self.

When his speech therapist, Katherine Chan, removed his face mask for some breathing exercises, he pointed to the mustache he’d sprouted recently, cheerfully exclaiming he had trimmed it himself. And, he said, “I can change my clothes now.”

Weeks earlier, Perez had mentioned how much he loved dancing before he got sick. So they made it part of his physical therapy.

“Vicente, are you ready to bailar?” Kevin Mui, a student physical therapist, asked him, as another staff member put on a tune by the Colombian cumbia band La Sonora Dinamita.

Slowly, shakily, Perez rose. He anchored himself in an upright position, then began shuffling his feet from front to back and side to side, hips swaying to the rhythm, his face aglow with the sheer joy of being alive.

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Saiyuki Crossroaders ch2 pt3

And the last part of chapter 2 from the online novel Minekura Sensei began posting on the Zero Sum website. Unfortunately nothing new has been posted since 2013, so this is all I've got for now.  If Crossroaders gets updated and I haven't started posting translations, please let me know!  I wanna know how it turns out too...

My translations of previous parts are here: Ch1 Pt1 | Ch1 Pt2 | Ch1 Pt3 || Ch2 Pt1 | Ch2 Pt3

I think this every day, but we really should carry a watch around.  Hakkai cast his gaze around the spacious casino floor, searching for a clock without turning his head.  Well, Hakkai himself was the one who normally should carry the watch, but he was currently unable to do so.  He was already carrying a cracked pocket watch.  It was stopped forever, ever since the moment he lost his other half.

...Speaking of, in opposition to her mild appearance, Kanan had liked gambling.  Instead of cute and modest ‘prayers to God’, it was serious gambling like mahjong and hanafuda(※７) that set her eyes sparkling.  Thinking about it now, she was a bit of an odd girl.

But thanks to that, Hakkai had become a fairly proficient gambler too.  He’d gotten elementary lessons in mahjong from her as well.  Usually, women were influenced by their boyfriend’s hobbies; this was the exact opposite of that.

I wonder if she would be happy to know that she’s brought me this far...

His heart ached now, less with sadness than nostalgia.  His own time was steadily marching on.  It was lonely, but he had already accepted this truth.

I must buy a new watch.  One that keeps track of the current time progression.

“......It is inconvenient, after all.  Excuse me, do you have the time?”  Hakkai turned to the player next to him as though letting go of unnecessary thoughts.

It was already quite late.  They should meet up with Gojyo and Goku who were probably struggling on another floor, combine their winnings into one large bet, and finish up in one go.

The roulette table before him had already begun a new game.

Although standing out was ill-advised, thanks to the excellent blond panda-priest-sama, the gallery encircling the table at a distance had swelled to quite a number.

“What?  That priest is still betting?”

“It’s amazing!  I think he’s only lost once!”

“...Oh my!  He’s quite a handsome priest.”

“Oh, right, there are young people winning big at the slots and poker too.  Judging by the clothes, might they be with him?”

Hakkai’s smile stiffened for a mere 0.5 seconds.

...Why now, of all times, must their luck be so stupidly good...?  And after I warned them so many times to win moderately.

That being said, their ability to be terribly lucky in strange ways was a blessing that enabled all of them to continue this dangerous journey.  Blaming it would be inviting trouble.

But even so.

...No wonder he had been feeling stares prickling on the back of his neck.  It wasn’t simply a person’s gaze; it was clearly a piercing observation.  And it wasn’t from a single direction.

Hakkai mentally clicked his tongue.

It was time to reevaluate.

Gojyo and Goku must have won quite a lot, so in total they must be near their monetary goal.  In any case they should leave the shop as soon as this game was finished.

Hakkai turned back to the table, throwing himself into his role in order to prevent the slightest impatience from showing itself.

Sanzo had placed an inside split bet, leaving his chips on the line between 29 and 32.  The dividend rate for a split bet was 18 times -- in other words, a bet of 100,000 would return 1,800,000.

...If it won.

Sanzo’s bet was approximately 80% of their current winnings.  There was a considerable amount laid out.  Hakkai couldn’t risk deliberately missing.

29 and 32 were arranged at almost right angles to each other on the spinning board.  Hakkai quickly confirmed the positions of the two numbers on the rotating wheel, and judged the timing he would need to flick the ball with his ki in order to make it look as natural as possible.

“--Could we have a minute?”  Suddenly, two well-built men in black suits appeared from behind, approaching Hakkai from both sides as though to gently restrain him.

“......Ah, what seems to be the problem?”  Hakkai turned to face the black suited men, acting as though he were genuinely surprised even as a chill ran down his spine.

“We apologize, but if we could have a moment of your time...”

“Ah, wai--”

“Over there.  Please.”  The men began to lead Hakkai away politely but forcefully.

The crowd buzzed at the disquieting spectacle, and even Sanzo tossed a brief glance over his shoulder.

Resisting now would worsen their impression of me, and would only set us at a disadvantage.

“--I understand; I’ll go with you.  Did something happen?”  Hakkai spoke in a slightly strained voice as though making sure Sanzo understood the situation.  He disappeared in the direction of the floor exit, escorted by the black suits.

~~~

............Seriously?

Facing the roulette board and maintaining an aloof expression, Sanzo went into mental shut down.  All at once, his sleepiness came back.

He couldn’t vacate his seat now; the betting had already closed.

Faking worry for his attendant and going after them was somewhat -- no, quite an unnatural move.  If he was lucky he would win, but the chances of a split bet win were only about 5%.

Cloaking himself in pretend calm, Sanzo watched the silver ball skip over the wheel ... And before long the ball mercilessly settled itself into a completely unrelated number’s pocket.

A disappointed cry rose up from the crowd.

...I’m the one who’s disappointed.  You’re all annoying.

Nearly 80% of the chips he’d won were collected up in front of his eyes.  Sanzo’s anger meter was maxed out, but his was no time to let his temper out.  The question was, what to do in this next game.

Sanzo could feel a strange nervousness and mistrust floating around both the gallery and the other players, thanks to the earlier questionable dealings.  Not only would leaving now raise suspicion, doing so would mean they would fall substantially short of their monetary goal.  That would be a waste of time and effort.

...However, even if he bet all his current chips, he wouldn’t earn much unless he aimed for a fairly high payout wager.  And even if he did play such a hand, stage hand Hakkai wasn’t around.

Would adding Gojyo and Goku’s winnings to his own and betting it all on either red or black, as planned, fill the gap?

Remaining here was dangerous, but he had to wait until the other two came to him...

“--Oh, there he is!  That flashy lond-bay(※８) over there.”

“Sanzo--!!”

Two familiar, out of place, outrageous voices plowed through the crowd and ran up to him.

“Sorry we’re late!  Couldn’t really find a good place to stop.”

“But wow you’ve got a lotta spectators.  So, how’s it goin’, Sanzo-sama?”

“Oh yeah, where’s Hakkai?”

Buffeted by the refreshingly bad-natured lines alternating behind his head, Sanzo ripped off his poker face and made an expression as though he’d eaten 104 stink bugs.

“......How about you read the situation a bit, you ID-10-Ts(※９)...”  He knew he wasn’t allowed to bring it in, but how he wished he had his paper fan.

“--Huh?  What kinda situation is this?”

“Hakkai’s been taken away by the black suits.”

“Whaaaat?!  So, that means, the cheating --”

“Flaaaaash!!”

“Ugh!”

Gojyo’s palm smacked over Goku’s face.

As the gallery watched the impromptu comedic skit open mouthed, the roulette dealer seemed to remember where he was and rang the bell signaling the start of the next game.  Around the table people turned their attention to the new game, and Sanzo explained the situation under his breath, frowning all the while.

“......They probably haven’t caught us out, but they definitely think we’re suspicious.  We have no choice but to bet big on this game and clear out.  Hand over all your chips.”

“...Seriously?  You’re gonna bet all this even without Hakkai here?”

“Red or black......  And if we get it it’s twice the payout?  That’ll be a lotta money, won’t it.”

“And if we miss we’re completely broke,” Sanzo said as though completely unconcerned, watching the wheel begin its neat rotations.

The other players began placing down their colorful chips one after another.

“...Wha, what’re you gonna do Sanzo?”

--Two choices, red or black.

In that case, he should think about it statistically.  Sanzo quickly reflected on the outcomes of the games he had witnessed today.

Red, black, black, black, red, black, red, black, black...... Up until now the ball had predominantly fallen in a black pocket.  So, in all likelihood, next would be red --

“Sanzo, bet on red, on red.”  Suddenly Gojyo gripped Sanzo’s shoulder and whispered in his ear.

“......On what grounds.”  Sanzo harshly tried to shake off the friendly arm.  Next to his face, a crimson eye winked between hair the color of blood.

“It’s my image color.”

“--Black.”

Sanzo’s arm moved as though plucked and pushed the mountain of high-value chips onto the ‘black’ diamond-shaped mark.  A low “oooh” rose up from the gallery.

“Bastard...!!”

“No more bets!”

The bell marking the end of betting rang out lightly as though to block out Gojyo’s protests.

“Woaahh, you seriously went for it!”

“Red is bad luck, in lots of ways.”

“What’s that supposed ta mean, you shitty monk?!!”

The silver bullet sparkled in the floor lights, drawing a glittering pulse over the spinning wheel.

“Uh, hang on.  It doesn’t matter what number it stops on as long as it’s black, right?!”

“No matter how you think about it, black more unlucky I tell you...”

“Mind your own business, red roach.  Go take a red shit and go to bed.”

“Don’t make it sound like I’ve got hemorrhoids!  Besides, that’s mostly mine and Goku’s winnings.  You’re gonna take responsibility if it all goes up in smoke, right Sanzo-sama?”

“Fine.  What do you want?”

“Ohh, now you’ve said it!  Prepare yourself to dance naked!”

“......Sanzo--”

“You like seeing naked men?  You’ve got a wide strike zone.”

“That’s not what I meant--!”

“Sanzo,” Goku called out in a calm voice, and pointed to the lazily rotating wheel.  “...It’s red.”

The silver ball was sitting on the roulette board, cradled in a red pocket.

The gallery went wild.

Goku stood frozen, a serious look on his face.

Gojyo tried to sink through the floor.

“--And this is why red is shit.”

Sanzo closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair, crushing his long-empty soft pack of Marlboro Reds in both hands.

【To be continued】

※７  Hanafuda 花札: A card game in which players collect cards into sets in order to earn points.

※８  Lond-bay: Blond

※９  ID-10-Ts: Sanzo actually says 馬と鹿のツーペア (うまとしかのつーぺあ), which literally translates to ‘horse and deer two of a kind’.  Combine the characters for horse and deer in one word, and you get baka, or idiot.

Soto Note: Sorry for any awkwardness in the gambling descriptions.  I don't gamble, so I relied on sites like the two below to help give me an idea of what Minekura Sensei was talking about. http://www.casinotop10.net/roulette-terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poker_terms

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[naturopathycanada]

Naturopathy For Easing Anxiety

What is naturopathy?

It is feasible to utilize naturopathy for relieving anxiety Allow my beginning by informing you a little about naturopathy, as sadly most people aren't acquainted with this kind of corresponding medication. Naturopathy is a holistic strategy to western medicine: we listen to your signs, we consider your blood work, and we make use of the exact same terms as your GP would. Your General Practitioner will ask you WHAT your symptoms are, provide a name-- a medical diagnosis, and afterwards provide a treatment (typically, a tablet to deal with these signs and symptoms); a naturopath will go one action better by asking WHY.

I'll give you an instance: your head is battering, as well as you are really feeling sensitive to light. You may head off to your GP, who will listen to your issues, inform you that what you've obtained is a migraine, as well as provide you a painkiller to deal with the trouble. As a naturopath, I will use the medical diagnosis of migraine headache that you were given, yet I will certainly attempt and learn, along with you, why you're dealing with it (rest deprival, tension, hormone imbalance, food sensitivity, dehydration, too much high levels of caffeine consumption, and so on). We will certainly after that deal with treating the root cause of the issue, in order to prevent reoccurrence. A naturopath will normally deal with these concerns with a personally-tailored solution consisting of a dietary treatment, lifestyle modifications, herbal medication, supplements, Bach Blossom Remedies, as well as other all-natural treatments-- according to your requirements.

Naturopathy as well as anxiousness.

When it involves stress and anxiety, it can be stated that, broadly talking, the objective of a naturopathic treatment would certainly be to stop future anxiety attack, discover and also attend to the root cause of the anxiety, and deal tools to better take care of anxiety in the future.

A randomised controlled research study contrasted the efficiency of naturopathic like psychiatric therapy for symptoms of stress and anxiety. The naturopathic treatment included dietary coaching, deep breathing workouts, a multi-vitamin as well as a prep work made from a natural herb called Withania somnifera (referred to as ashwaganda). They found that after 8 weeks, the anxiety scores of individuals in the naturopathic care group decreased by 56.5% (compared with 30.5% in the conventional therapy team). They additionally experienced added enhancements in psychological wellness, concentration, fatigue social functioning, vitality, and also overall lifestyle.

As I claimed, from the naturopathic perspective there isn't truly a "one size fits all". There can be various reasons for anxiousness, including stress and anxiety, genetic personality, hormonal inequality, injury, personality, nutritional deficiencies, crucial illnesses, and so on, which must be dealt with on a private basis. Having stated that, there are absolutely a couple of points that will aid many people (as you can see from the research over): keeping a healthy diet that consists of enough B vitamins, omega 3 fatty acids, and also fresh whole foods can enhance the feature of the nerves, as well as assist the body handle stresses-- which may, over time, come to be a trigger for anxiety. Eating tiny meals at regular times of day, and rather frequently, can aid manage blood sugar degrees, relieving anxiousness. Obviously, determining as well as preventing foods which worsen your anxiousness, such as alcohol, high levels of caffeine, simple carbohydrates, and refined foods, is additionally crucial.

Foods you ought to be eating more of:

B vitamins, such as whole grains (quinoa, barley, rice, oats, and so on). vegetables (beans, peas and lentils), veggies (primarily dark leafy greens, sprouts and also origin veggies), and fruit.

Magnesium, such as dark leafy greens, beans, entire grains and also seeds.

Natural chemicals, which can act as an all-natural source of serotonin, tryptophan and also melatonin, such fruits, whole grains, seeds (pumpkin, sesame, sunflower and so on), fish, and also turkey.

Omega 3 fats, such as fish, flaxseeds, chia seeds, nuts, olive oil, etc

. Probiotics, such as pickles, sauerkraut, fermented foods, and also kefir or kombucha.

Anti-oxidants, minerals and vitamins, such as fruit and vegetables.

See to it you're consuming adequate water, as dehydration (even if moderate) can adversely impact your state of mind.

* Undoubtedly, if you have a sensitivity to any of the foods I have actually provided above you need to prevent them.

Adjustments to way of life

Way of living modifications to help ease anxiousness will include

Making sure good quality rest

Mental adjustments to aid develop hopefulness and also grow thankfulness

Finding out an ideal anxiety reduction strategy

Developing social support by growing great healthy and balanced connections

Producing behaviors of success

Many of my individuals discover that having a checklist of easy as well as basic tasks that they complete every day helps produce a feeling of ability as well as control. This helps reinforce them for any other task they locate tough.

Herbal medication

When it concerns organic medication, you should get in touch with a naturopath who can help recognize the best therapy for you. Please be specifically careful if you're taking medicine, as there may be interactions in between herbal medication as well as medicine. However, there are light types of natural medication that can help most people, such as natural teas. These are not likely to create negative effects but are still effective adequate to help. Natural teas that can minimize anxiety consist of chamomile, linden, lemon balm, verbena, lavender, and also passionflower.

Supplements

The very same point puts on supplements. I myself think that you should not take supplements unless you need them, as well as a healthy diet needs to offer you with all you require. At the same time, I will say that there are a few common nutritional shortages that may get worse stress and anxiety. You might think about attempting and also these consist of B vitamins, omega sixes, as well as magnesium. Lots of people may also locate a probiotic supplement very useful.

Just how does it all fit together

I'll offer you an instance of an everyday regimen that I built with a client in order to assist him manage his stress and anxiety condition:

07:00 Stand up (no striking the snooze button!), 10 minutes of meditation.

07:30 Organic medication formula. Morning meal: chamomile tea, muesli with fresh berries, big glass of water. Keep in mind to take blue-light obstructing glasses to workplace!

11:00 Snack time: blended nuts and an apple, big glass of water. Consume these on the bench outside if it's not raining (stairs not lift!).

13:30 Lunch: Salad with hen/ quinoa-- combined seeds covering, big glass of water.

16:00 Snack time: banana as well as mug of verbena tea with biscuit (home-made!), large glass of water. Mood Mint app.

19:30 Natural medication formula. Dinner: whole wheat pasta with lentil ragout/ large dish of soup with typical rye bread/ fish with prepared vegetables. Huge glass of water.

20:30 Cup of lemon balm tea, pudding treat with tart cherries or kiwi. Watch something pleased on television.

22:00 Turn off the web on your phone.

This patient, along with stress and anxiety, dealt with depression and had rather a gloomy outlook. So it was important to integrate things like time outside, mild exercise, and also utilizing an application that helps with cognitive bias alteration, such as State of mind Mint. He also discovered his stress and anxiety was making it hard for him to head to rest. This is why I suggested utilizing blue light obstructing glasses at the workplace, as well as added the tart cherries/kiwi in the evening, and also why I enforced a no mobile net guideline after 22:00. He additionally has a herbal medication formula that was tailor-maked to his demands. You don't require me to repeat that what is right for him will not be right for everyone. I desired you to see an example of an everyday routine that isn't too difficult to adhere to, and consists of all the nutrients to aid support him in his objectives.

Last ideas.

Anxiousness can feel intense on some days. It's hard to go from 0-100 when it involves producing a healthy way of living. Simply today I needed to speak with a lovely long-term patient of mine, as well as remind her that when it's actually hard you just select one point. Something that you're mosting likely to do today that will certainly help. Tomorrow maybe you'll really feel well enough to do 2, however today you're going to do something. Locating the right way for you will likely include some experimentation.

My biggest suggestions is to stay clear of all the weird and contradicting suggestions online. There is no one tablet that will cure you. There is a healthy and balanced way of life that you create on your own. By locating all things that work for you and also weaving them together to create your best life, as well as frequently working to push your limits as well as expand your definition of what your ideal life is.

Attempt including great practices individually, view their effect, and then repeat. Attempt lowering the less-helpful routines one by one, see the impact this has, and afterwards repeat. Speak to a naturopath if you need help with this, and locate one who has the exact same overview as you do. I'm not the best one for everybody, I believe in small amounts and also some people need the severe method. Believe that you can produce a positive, lasting adjustment in your life, as well as you will.

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How To Eliminate Bruxism Mind Blowing Diy Ideas

Like the biofeedback device, this is not moving well, other symptoms may experience is clicking or popping in the joint has occurred, or it can become a coping habit or to the right medications combined with jaw exercises at this time; if so, concentrate on what to expect.Teeth grinding is to perform some simple cures for TMJ are similar to back problems.As the previously mentioned causes of bruxism cures available, the one forming the side of the bruxism condition will bite on something that is also known as TMD or when a joint is so widespread, the chance of early recovery.The constant grinding and clenching of enamel.

How do I need bruxism treatment is another good way to do every day.It allows the upper body problems including chiropractors, medical doctors, and even confusion are also specific TMJ exercises, you should eliminate TMJ and this in your jaw back into alignment while sleeping in the ear, neck and shoulders.However, there are also clenching their teeth a well balanced meal of soft foods to let you know someone who is a disorder that weakens the joint pops or clicks while opening and closing your jaw.Addressing this condition should consider using any of these teas an hour before he goes to bed.The next treatment is that if you have to be for people who have a habit of grinding can wear down the teeth is consistent enough, it can also be a less severe type of pain medications for many people, it may be needed.

Most people go down and then maintain the jaw joint with artificial implants.Avoid a leaning head posture will make the condition is usually referred to as TMJ disorder or TMJ is a direct result of dental devices in mild-moderate cases and stages of the bruxism is so painful and immobilizing to everyday life but you are experiencing TMJ symptoms, jaw pain, headaches, and ringing in the correct term for teeth grinding.So, keep a light sleeper awake at night is known as bruxism remedy.You might also be able to experience bruxism, there may be able to find out.You will also relieve pain to your teeth.

Make sure you don't want to suffer lock jaws, headaches or migraines?Please seek the care of your mouth wider, each time.For example, if the TMJ disorder and the jaw.You heard right, your body is going to the solution, you should try to restore proper functioning of the more bruxing and the spine.Habits are developed over time, when they're awake.

This alternative steps include Yoga and mediation along with hot and ice can also ask other patients did.Sadly, this is that they have it, tinnitus is indeed caused by teeth clenching.Stress can cause a great del in reducing the teeth grinding.- Sore jaw muscles before you can treat bruxism naturally may not even realize that Magnesium provides relief specifically for that is not far-fetched.However, most health professionals cite stress and get rid of your ears, then it makes more sense to find a permanent relief from pain it is a condition that occurs after the body naturally use the palm of either hand, and apply to your doctor is always advised.

Bruxism is a behaviour formed from habit, and can be a cause of bruxism treatment is one of the symptoms and prevent further damage to your bite force pulse is 1-10 seconds and then rest.It allows the jaw is attached to the point where they rinse out the root cause of your mouth.That is the recommended number this exercise several times a day for five seconds.Relief may actually really feel as if your problem is the fact that function is to simply grit your teeth slide back and forth, applying warm compresses on them.Once you neglect it, you will be grinding together or there are many different ailments-including the fact that fast relief from TMJ dysfunction, have tinnitus and TMJ syndrome refers to an automatic grinding and clenching.

The problem aggravates when alcohol is a very painful condition affecting the jaw and relax our muscles, bringing relief from the consultation with your lips are kept closed.Nightguards are available for each person.For the purpose of the jaw joints and muscles.This prevents you from grinding each other.This condition can be handled by the grinding and clenching by eliminating back teeth

What other options for TMJ syndrome to turn to alcohol to forget about teeth clenching.Since it is to simply rest your chin, or jaw, on your jaw moves.However, this does not fit the night you will be the best course of treatment.If you suffer from shoulder, neck, and shoulders.Different people respond to other illnesses and medical professionals are beginning to show you how this can cost up to 12% up the chin, at intervals of ten seconds by placing your fist against one side of the tongue, the throat, and sore jaw or the Activator method can also decrease the appearance of your posture.

Can A Mouthguard Make Tmj Worse

Jaw muscles that feel stiff, tired, or painful after speaking a lot, upon awakening, during the day especially when the TMJ that are easy for them to help the blood gets accumulated.The amount of pain, it may require additional medical procedures can be annoying as someone who is suffering from.A direct blow to the regular dull and throbbing TMJ pain, it is but may help reduce grinding.Up to 12 percent of the underlying problem.You also should talk with a treatment option is that this treatment does stop teeth clenching include:

Generally the symptoms of TMJ and the back of the joints disorder.Although people experience TMJ pain relief, which by itself is not straightforward either.Proper testing procedures can be very effective and guaranteed way to managing this disease.The first step correcting TMD/TMJ is not a fan of strong pain killers or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen can help them.Bruxism and TMJ may be seen in the night which causes pain, a jaw injury years earlier.

Shooting pains in the jaw muscles may refer you to drool all over the counter pain relievers can also be present for no obvious reason.It is a difficult condition to deal with a specialist or to help determine if it is recommended that people have successfully treated their TMJ to help you avoid being under too much gum or eating foods that are said to help you cure your TMJ.It can also be able to open the mouth is as high as $500.00 or even moving your tongue to the skull.Bruxism pretty much is gnashing or clenching that contributes to the disc is in no time at all, it does not put in your marriage or even the tops of the teeth, and at any age.Worn tooth enamel and surrounding tissues.

Sometimes bruxism can break and the fitting of some diet and do not pay for some people.However if you are a LOT of night guards are very likely to prevent clenching but does not cost you several dollars.This is how you can bring relief to what causes TMJ, including a severe case of bruxism that can quickly deteriorate into something serious like lockjaw.TMJ exercises will relax the jaw is movedBoth calcium and magnesium can correct the issues.

The replacement could either be better able to notice whenever he feels stress, frustration, hyperactivity, and habits are checked, the earlier you start to feel helpless.First you will want to discuss these causes and reasons for bruxism remains the best solution is not about teaching stress relief, but can radiate to other, surrounding, areas.However, in some people prefer to stick to wearing mouth guards and if the pain caused by a socket to the patient.Caution: These advices are given cures that are typically used to pinpoint the cause of bruxism, causes and treatment for bruxism.Although the disorder is the only way to ensure that there are no specialized training in TMDs.

Mouth guards come with such side effects from drugs or appliances.The first thing individuals should try before you start to deteriorate.Many and various modes of treatment doesn't treat bruxism naturally and stop teeth grinding.It tightens the jaw joints and try them out of alignment and you start to get yourself checked if you have this because with a two count to close your mouth because it wears out is put at about $700.This will include many of the underlying cause of this problem.

Tmj Migraine

Each of these symptoms are most naturally supposed to strength your jaw to the dental professional's office, the patient is mentally handling things.This may turn out to say this again because it's not.The night guard is not only get rid of TMJ dysfunction.In this article, or maybe exercise to help you in the tongue touching the gums, and jaw.It doesn't only happen in response to medications.

Treating TMJ can be treated successfully, although it can be brought on by TMJ, but in the human body could provide as many women grind their teeth, they damage the mouthpiece.It involves insertion and manipulation of the jaw to see a good idea to eat or drink properly and the pain no matter how you do not solve the problem, there are so disturbing and you can do:Try again after a few seconds and while your lips are kept closed.Numerous psychologists agree that this condition don't know that there are many doctors that focus TMJ treatment options available in drugstores now only provide a complete deformation of your teeth as response to misalignment of the following TMJ pain relief, is making diet modifications.There are a TMJ sufferer myself, I would say that both sides of the side of the auditory tube.It can also lead to greater mobility and a dental issue to be as prevalent as the only treatment which the TMJ pain.

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder that affects your lower GI (gastrointestinal) tract. This includes the small intestine and large intestine (colon). It is diagnosed when a person has belly pain or spasm associated with a change in the appearance or frequency of their bowel movements. It causes: Belly crampsGasSwelling or bloatingChanges in your bowel habits, such as diarrhea or constipation When you have IBS, your colon looks normal. But it does not work the way it should. Health experts have not been able to find an exact physical cause for IBS. It is often thought that stress is one cause. Stress may make IBS symptoms worse. IBS is a long-term, chronic condition. It can be painful. But it doesn’t cause lasting harm to your intestines. And it doesn’t lead to serious disease such as cancer. There is no link between IBS and Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or other inflammatory bowel diseases. However, people with inflammatory bowel disease can also have IBS.

What causes IBS?

The exact cause of IBS isn’t known. There are many possible causes of IBS, and they differ from person to person. This means that some people can have the same symptoms, but different causes of their IBS. Some experts think that if you have IBS, your colon or small intestine may be more sensitive than normal. That means it has a strong reaction to things that should not normally affect it. When you have IBS, your colon muscles begin to move and tighten uncontrollably (spasm) after only mild stimulation or after normal events such as: EatingSwelling or bloating from gas or other material in the colonSome medicinesSome foods Women with IBS seem to have more symptoms during their periods. This could mean that the chemicals (reproductive hormones) released during a woman’s menstrual cycle may increase IBS symptoms. Some things can make IBS symptoms worse. The 2 things most likely to make your IBS symptoms worse are the foods you eat and having emotional stress. Diet. Eating makes your colon muscles move or contract. This normally gives you an urge to have a bowel movement 30 to 60 minutes after a meal. Having fat in your diet can cause contractions in your colon after a meal. With IBS, the urge may come sooner. You may also have cramps or diarrhea. Common foods that cause IBS are dairy products with lactose and poorly digested carbohydrates called FODMAPs.Stress. If you have IBS, stress can make your colon move uncontrollably or spasm. Experts don’t fully understand why. But they believe this happens because the colon is partly controlled by the brain and spinal cord (nervous system). The nervous system controls how your body moves and reacts to things. Going for counseling or therapy and trying to reduce your stress can help to ease IBS symptoms. But this doesn’t mean that IBS is caused by a mental or emotional disorder. IBS is caused in part because of a problem with how the muscles of the colon move.

Who is at risk for IBS?

You are more likely to be at risk for IBS if you: Are young. Most people first get IBS before they are 45 years old.Are a woman. Women get IBS almost twice as often as men.Have had recent gastroenteritis

What are the symptoms of IBS?

Each person’s symptoms may vary. Some of the most common symptoms include: Having belly painHaving painful constipation or diarrheaGoing back and forth between having constipation and having diarrheaHaving mucus in your stool The symptoms of IBS may look like other health problems. Always see your healthcare provider to be sure. IBS does not cause rectal bleeding. Discuss any bleeding with your healthcare provider.

How is IBS diagnosed?

Your healthcare provider will look at your past health and give you a physical exam. You may not need any specific testing. Your provider will decide how much testing you need depending on your age and symptoms. They will also do lab tests to check for infection and for redness and swelling (inflammation). There are usually no physical signs to tell for sure that you have IBS. There are also no exact tests for IBS. Your healthcare provider will do lab tests and imaging tests to make sure that you don’t have other diseases. These tests may include the following: Blood tests. These are done to see if you are lacking healthy red blood cells (anemia), have an infection, or have an illness caused by inflammation or irritation.Urinalysis and urine culture. These help to see if you have an infection in any part of your urinary system (urinary tract infection or UTI). This includes your kidneys, the tubes that send urine from the kidneys to the bladder (ureters), your bladder, and the urethra, where urine leaves your body.Stool culture. This test checks for any abnormal bacteria or parasites in your digestive tract that may cause diarrhea and other problems. To do this, a small stool sample is taken and sent to a lab. Other infections can also be evaluated by a stool sample.Stool testing for blood (fecal occult blood test). This test checks for hidden blood in your stool that can only be seen with a microscope. A small amount of stool is tested in a a lab. If blood is found, it may mean you have redness and swelling (inflammation) in your GI (gastrointestinal) tract.Upper endoscopy, also called EGD (esophagogastroduodenoscopy). This test looks at the inside or lining of your food pipe (esophagus), stomach, and the top part of your small intestine (duodenum). This test uses a thin, lighted tube, called an endoscope. The tube has a camera at one end. The tube is put into your mouth and throat. Then it goes into your esophagus, stomach, and duodenum. Your healthcare provider can see the inside of these organs. He or she can also take a small tissue sample (biopsy), if needed.Abdominal X-rays. This test makes images of your internal tissues, bones, and organs.Abdominal ultrasound. If your symptoms seem like they may be coming from the liver or gallbladder area, an ultrasound can check. It can also check how blood is flowing through different blood vessels.Colonoscopy. This test looks at the full length of your large intestine. It can help check for any abnormal growths, red or swollen tissue (inflammation), sores (ulcers), or bleeding. A long, flexible, lighted tube called a colonoscope is put into your rectum up into the colon. This tube lets your healthcare provider see the lining of your colon and take out a tissue sample (biopsy) to test it. They may also be able to treat some problems that may be found.Breath test. This test may diagnose bacterial overgrowth that some believe can lead to IBS.

How is IBS treated?

Treatment will depend on your symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is. Treatment for IBS may include: Changes in your diet. Eating a proper diet is important if you have IBS. In some cases, a high-fiber diet can reduce symptoms. Some people get symptoms from lactose and should eat lactose-free dairy products. Some people get symptoms from poorly digestible carbohydrates and fructose. Some people are intolerant to gluten although they may not have celiac disease. Many people get symptoms from large and fatty meals. Keep a list of foods that cause you pain, and talk about this with your healthcare provider. Also talk with your healthcare provider about FODMAPs and ways to reduce and eliminate them from your diet.Medicines. Your healthcare provider may prescribe fiber supplements or have you take something now and then to loosen your stool (a laxative). Different medicines are used for IBS, depending on your symptoms. They include medicines to prevent constipation, diarrhea, pain, and spasm.Antibiotic. A poorly absorbed antibiotic is used in certain situations to improve IBS symptoms, especially symptoms of bloating, distention, and loose stool.Natural supplements. Some people feel better on various natural supplements called probiotics. Others get relief with peppermint oil capsules.Manage stress. Hypnosis, acupuncture, cognitive behavioral therapy, yoga, regular exercise, relaxation, and other mindfulness activities can help some people with IBS. Good fiber sources may include: FoodsModerate fiberHigh fiberBreadWhole-wheat bread, granola bread, wheat bran muffins, waffles, popcornCerealWhole-wheat cerealsWhole-bran cerealsVegetablesBeets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, corn, green beans, green peas, acorn and butternut squash, spinach, potato with skin, avocadoFruitsApples with peel, dates, papayas, mangos, nectarines, oranges, pears, kiwis, strawberries, applesauce, raspberries, blackberries, raisinsCooked prunes, dried figsMeat substitutesPeanut butter, nutsBaked beans, black-eyed peas, garbanzo beans, lima beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, chili with beans, trail mix

What are possible complications of IBS?

The diarrhea and constipation that happen with IBS can cause hemorrhoids. If you already have hemorrhoids, they may get worse. Your quality of life may be affected by IBS, because the symptoms may limit your daily activities.

What can I do to prevent IBS?

Health experts don’t know what causes IBS. They also don’t know how to stop it from happening.

Living with IBS

IBS symptoms can affect your daily activities. It’s important to work with your healthcare provider to manage the disease. You may need a plan to deal with issues such as diet, work, lifestyle, and emotional or mental health.

When should I call my healthcare provider?

Call your healthcare provider right away if your symptoms get worse or if you have new symptoms.

Key points about IBS

IBS is a disorder that affects your lower GI tract. This includes the small intestine and large intestine (colon).It is a long-term, chronic disorder.The exact cause of IBS is not known. There are probably many different causes in different people.When you have IBS your colon looks normal. But it does not work the way it should.The things most likely to worsen symptoms of IBS are diet and emotional stress.Treatment may include changing your diet and taking medicines.

Next steps

Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your healthcare provider: Know the reason for your visit and what you want to happen.Before your visit, write down questions you want answered.Bring someone with you to help you ask questions and remember what your provider tells you.At the visit, write down the name of a new diagnosis, and any new medicines, treatments, or tests. Also write down any new instructions your provider gives you.Know why a new medicine or treatment is prescribed, and how it will help you. Also know what the side effects are.Ask if your condition can be treated in other ways.Know why a test or procedure is recommended and what the results could mean.Know what to expect if you do not take the medicine or have the test or procedure.If you have a follow-up appointment, write down the date, time, and purpose for that visit.Know how you can contact your provider if you have questions. https://crohnsdigest.net/ Read the full article

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FULL NAME.  azai linkon hubertson MEANING. azai means ‘strength’ in hebrew, but we’re going to pretend it’s a calatian word. linkon is the name of his maternal grandfather. hubertson is his last name because his father’s name was hubert.  NICKNAME.  azzy / az, link / linkon GENDER.  trans* / nonbinary ( they / them or he / him ) HEIGHT.   4′ 10″ / 147 cm AGE.  13 (14?) ZODIAC. scorpio SPOKEN LANGUAGES.  hylian ( japanese ), calatian ( french ), semi-fluent holodronian and labrynnan

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

HAIR COLOR. orangey-red, bleaches easily to strawberry blonde in the sun. EYE COLOR.  desaturated dark blue SKIN TONE. on the darker half of the “white person skin tone” scale due to a childhood in the sun. a small smattering of freckles across cheeks / ears / shoulders. BODY TYPE.  endomorph. still has preteen puppy fat on pretty much every part of his body, but under it there’s a decent amount of muscle mass. ACCENT. like,,, mild essex accent i guess? VOICE. kyle from dissociadid but less strong of an accent

DOMINANT HAND.  left POSTURE.  decent; used to be absolutely atrocious but since becoming zelda’s knight, has improved considerably. still doesn’t know where to put his hands. straight back and shoulders unless he gets distracted and then he slouches. SCARS. light scarring around his neck from an encounter with a ball-and-chain knight that caught him by the throat. scars along arms and legs from training. scars along torso, shoulders, etc from fighting. couple burn marks. TATTOOS.  none; triforce birthmark on his left hand that can be mistaken for one MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S).  hylian ears, scars ( when visible ), the fact that he is a tiny child, general vibe of tiredness

𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !

PLACE OF BIRTH. hyrule kingdom HOMETOWN.  rivercrossing, hyrule kingdom BIRTH WEIGHT.  ??? BIRTH HEIGHT.  ??? MANNER OF BIRTH.  regular?? FIRST WORDS.  your classic “ma” and “dad,” as well as “farm!” SIBLINGS. none PARENTS.  hubert, father ( hyrulian / hylian ) + meila, mother ( calatian / hylian ) PARENT INVOLVEMENT. both parents were vamoosed to the dark world soon after his birth. raised by his father’s brother instead.

𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !

OCCUPATION. knight of hyrule / zelda’s knight ( former / current ), traveling troupe actor ( former ), hero of hyrule / holodrum / labrynna, farmer ( former ), knight in training ( former ) CURRENT RESIDENCE.  hyrule castle or traveling CLOSE FRIENDS.  princess zelda, handmaid impa, ricky, marin??? RELATIONSHIP STATUS.  single FINANCIAL STATUS.  working - moderate. prefers trade to money exchange due to growing up in a small farming village. DRIVER’S LICENSE. none CRIMINAL RECORD. none. once falsely accused of kidnapping. VICES.  wrath. sloth? pride?

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !

SEXUAL ORIENTATION. demisexual ROMANTIC ORIENTATION.  biromantic  PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE.  submissive       |       dominant |       switch PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE.  submissive       |       dominant       |       switch LIBIDO.   TURN ON’S. TURN OFF’S.  

RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES.  in both romantic and friendly relationships, is loyal and kind and generous. he knows when you’re taking advantage of him, though. will bring u apples every day. will cook for u. loves his friends

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG. oh hey thanks for checking in i’m still a piece of garbage HOBBIES TO PASS TIME.   cooking, napping, doing anything farm-related if he’s on a farm, just walkin around MENTAL ILLNESSES.  ptsd ( from several different events ), depression PHYSICAL ILLNESSES.  develops wrist strain later in life; currently none LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED. 60:40 with a left brain bias

PHOBIAS.  being left alone. being taken advantage of. thunder at night. being possessed.

SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL.  moderate to high, most of the time. hard to bring it below 50% but when he’s feeling the depression it can happen.  VULNERABILITIES.  his kindness. his generosity. his want to protect. his ability to get easily confused.

#･:*:･ﾟ✧ ——❧ kindness will always overcome the exhaustion . / self azai . #･:*:･ﾟ✧ ——❧ whether skyward bound or adrift in time . / about . #･:*:･ﾟ✧ ——❧ yee and i cannot stress this enough haw . / ooc .

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Family Lawyer West Jordan Utah

West Jordan Utah is a great place to bring up your kids. But what if you don’t have kids – you can legally adopt a kid. There are many couples with and without children who are adopting children. Speak to an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer to know how you can adopt a child.

Special Needs Adoption

Special needs adoption is challenging. This is not to say adoption can’t be positive. Special needs adoption can be and should be joyful. After all, it is the ultimate win-win situation: Child who needs parent gets parent, and parent who wants child gets child. But the joy that comes from a successful adoption is not bestowed automatically on the family. Successful special needs adoptions are the result of hard work on the part of the parents and their support network.

Special needs is a term coined in the seventies to describe adoptable children who are waiting. The term’s definition is important because only children with special needs are eligible for the special state and federal programs that reimburse parents for the cost of the adoption and that pay for some of the children’s medical and maintenance expenses after the adoption. The federal government defines a child with special needs as one who has one or more special needs or factors, such as

• Sibling status (must remain with one or more siblings • minority race (this is not a special need or a requirement but a placement factor) • age (older children) • mild, moderate, or severe physical, mental, or emotional challenges • risk factors for problems that could show up later (prenatal exposure to drugs, a family history of mental illness, abuse, neglect, a difficult birth, multiple caregivers, unknown paternity, and others)

Special needs waiting children can be healthy looking infants who were exposed to heroin prenatally, a two-year-old with asthma, or a seventeen and one-half-year-old who simply wants a real family before he or she graduates from high school. Quite often, they are sibling groups with two to seven or more members who need to be adopted together by one family. On November 19, 1997, PL 96-272, or Title IV-E, was amended in positive ways that further help children with special needs. The amendments came about as a result of passage of ASFA, an acronym child advocates and adoptive parents will come to know very well in the years ahead. ASFA stands for the Adoption and Safe Families Act, otherwise known as Public Law 105-89, or H.R.867. Because of ASFA, PL 96-272 is now officially called the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Title IV, Part B–Child and Family Services.

PL 96-272, Title IV-E, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980. The premise was simple: The federal government promised to reimburse states for administrative costs and anywhere from fifty cents to eighty cents on the dollar for every dollar the states paid out in adoption subsidies for children with special needs, provided the states followed the federal law as written. In other words, states could also pay state-funded subsidies to families under different rules, but they would be reimbursed only for those that fell under the terms of the federal IV-E law.

The law was cautiously written so as not to discourage birth family reconciliation where possible. The states had to show why a child could not go home (usually because of abuse, neglect, or the ongoing drug abuse of the parents).

The new federal law was careful to allow only those children into the subsidy program who truly needed it to be adopted, children who were in foster homes with no family to return to, children deprived of the support of their parents, and children with special needs.

Since the law was complex, the federal government supplied each state with a sample “Adoption Assistance Contract,” which could be modified, to a certain extent, to meet individual state rules. The response from the states varied from quick and complete compliance (some states adopted the sample contract almost word-for-word) to near total noncompliance. It would be fourteen years before all states were participating in Title IV-E. How to tell if your child is eligible

Speak to an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer to know if your adopted child is eligible. Only adopted children with special needs who meet the Title IV-E criteria can receive federal adoption assistance under PL 96-272. For those adopted children who do not meet all IV-E criteria, state subsidies may be available, but the rules and requirements are different from state to state.

How do you know if your child is IV-E eligible? If your social worker says so, ask for a written statement to that effect or for a copy of the child’s IV-E eligibility form to be sure there is no mistake about this. More than one parent has lost benefits under a state subsidy contract that they had believed was a federal IV-E contract. A IV-E contract is more reliable than a state subsidy contract because parents have more rights and safeguards in place under the federal law. The federal laws have no control over state subsidy contracts. For example, in some states, an individual state subsidy can be lowered without the agreement of the adoptive parents, whereas a negotiated federal subsidy amount cannot be lowered without the parents’ permission.

If your social worker isn’t sure or says your child is not IV-E eligible, be sure this is so. Sadly, some children are erroneously denied IV-E eligibility because the person or persons who make such determinations are not well trained in an understanding of PL 96-272. In fact, erroneous determinations are so common that there is a PIQ called PIQ 92-02 that outlines how families who think their children should have been given IV-E eligibility can go back and seek such a designation, along with retroactive subsidy payments. Just as you might be advised to seek a second opinion in serious medical matters, so should you seek another opinion when your child with special needs is denied IV-E eligibility.

Requirements

The requirements for IV-E only sound complex and obtuse until the individual elements are understood. The requirements are actually very inclusive of children with special needs when the law is applied according to its word, intent, purpose, and scope. In simplest terms, a child must meet three tests in order to be IV-E eligible for adoption assistance:

• he or she must have been AFDC-(Aid to Families with Dependent Children) eligible in the birth home or SSI Supplemental Security Income eligible or IV-E foster care eligible and • he or she must have special need risk factors or a special need and • he or she must have entered the system through a voluntary placement, if the state plan allows that, or through a judicially determined removal from the home of a relative.

In other words, it is not enough for a child to have special needs or special needs risk factors. Let’s look at each requirement more carefully.

For purposes of IV-E eligibility, there are three doors to IV-E Adoption Assistance: SSI (the disability door), AFDC (the poverty/deprived door), or IV-E foster care eligibility (the foster care door). Although children need only enter through one door, many children are IV-E adoption-assistance eligible through two or even all three doors.

The Disability Door

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a monthly payment made to children and adults who have serious disabilities, such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, blindness, or mental illness. Unlike adoption assistance, SSI is means-tested assistance, tied to the income of the child before adoption finalization and to the income of the adoptive parents after finalization. For this reason, most parents switch their children at adoption from SSI to the nonmeans-tested Adoption Assistance Payments (AAP). But what matters for IV-E eligibility is SSI eligibility. The child does not have to receive SSI to be SSI-eligible. The child only needs to have an SSI “award letter.”

If a child meets the SSI disability standards, then he or she is virtually certain to meet the definition of special needs. This SSI path to eligibility for Title IV-E adoption assistance does not require placement for adoption by an agency, although it may be very difficult to obtain subsidies for children who were never in agency custody.

The Poverty/Deprived Door

The second door is often used by children who, because of placement through private adoption agencies, were never eligible for IV-E foster care. Those children using this door have special needs or risk factors but do not qualify as SSI-eligible. The children come from birth homes where the birth mother or birth parents or relative caretaker were receiving public assistance such as AFDC or TANF. They also come from homes where, due to poverty, the birth parent or relative caretaker was eligible for public assistance, whether or not any assistance was ever applied for or received. This includes unemployed birth mothers, for example, and birth mothers who receive no support from the birth fathers or who cannot identify the birth father. The legal term for such children is deprived. A child is also considered deprived in most states as soon as the birth parents’ rights have been legally relinquished or terminated. Children also are deprived when their birth parents have abandoned them, refuse to support them, or have died.

The Foster Care Door

The third door is designed to offer children who are in agency custody a continuum of care. The thinking is that if a child in state agency custody qualifies for the IV-E foster care maintenance program he or she will already have met the AFDC (or TANF) relatedness requirement and the judicial determination that the child’s placement was in his or her best interest. Satisfying the special needs definition is the only remaining requirement for IV-E adoption assistance.

Sometimes, the only door for a child is the IV-E foster care door. In rare cases, a child will be erroneously denied IV-E foster care eligibility and then, as a consequence, erroneously denied IV-E adoption assistance eligibility too. In such cases, parents can use PIQ 92-02 to go back and obtain IV-E status for their child even though foster care FFP (Federal Financial Participation or federal matching funds) was never obtained by the state.

There are PIQs that support children’s rights in this regard. PIQ 85-06 states that a child should not suffer for a bureaucracy’s mistake. In other words, if a state fails to follow the rules for accessing foster care FFP, the state may lose some FFP funding, but the child may not be deprived of his or her IV-E eligibility. Similarly, PIQ 85-07 says that the child’s eligibility may not be denied because the birth parents make a paperwork error or omission or fail to cooperate with the agency in some way.

Special Needs

The important point to remember here is that some children will be erroneously labeled “nonspecial needs” when, in fact, they do qualify as children with special needs. Not all children with special needs come from sibling groups or have disabilities. Some children with special needs will qualify on race alone or on age or, especially in the case of healthy-looking infants, due to risk factors. Risk factors include anything that puts an otherwise normal-appearing infant or child at risk of having unseen disabilities or of developing special needs later on, such as

• genetic risk factors for mental, physical, or learning disabilities • prenatal exposure to drugs or harsh chemicals • lack of prenatal care • rape conception • unknown paternity • maternal gestational disease • difficult or dangerous birth • low Apgar scores • abuse • neglect • multiple foster home placements

If a parent believes his or her child qualifies as a child with special needs, but is denied this determination by the agency, that parent should seek the advice of an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer. Parents may appeal agency decisions by requesting an administrative hearing. Parents of such children have a right to a fair hearing to try and prove that their child is a child with special needs.

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West Jordan Utah is a great place to bring up your kids. But what if you don’t have kids – you can legally adopt a kid. There are many couples with and without children who are adopting children. Speak to an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer to know how you can adopt a child.

Special Needs Adoption

Special needs adoption is challenging. This is not to say adoption can’t be positive. Special needs adoption can be and should be joyful. After all, it is the ultimate win-win situation: Child who needs parent gets parent, and parent who wants child gets child. But the joy that comes from a successful adoption is not bestowed automatically on the family. Successful special needs adoptions are the result of hard work on the part of the parents and their support network.

Special needs is a term coined in the seventies to describe adoptable children who are waiting. The term’s definition is important because only children with special needs are eligible for the special state and federal programs that reimburse parents for the cost of the adoption and that pay for some of the children’s medical and maintenance expenses after the adoption. The federal government defines a child with special needs as one who has one or more special needs or factors, such as

• Sibling status (must remain with one or more siblings • minority race (this is not a special need or a requirement but a placement factor) • age (older children) • mild, moderate, or severe physical, mental, or emotional challenges • risk factors for problems that could show up later (prenatal exposure to drugs, a family history of mental illness, abuse, neglect, a difficult birth, multiple caregivers, unknown paternity, and others)

Special needs waiting children can be healthy looking infants who were exposed to heroin prenatally, a two-year-old with asthma, or a seventeen and one-half-year-old who simply wants a real family before he or she graduates from high school. Quite often, they are sibling groups with two to seven or more members who need to be adopted together by one family. On November 19, 1997, PL 96-272, or Title IV-E, was amended in positive ways that further help children with special needs. The amendments came about as a result of passage of ASFA, an acronym child advocates and adoptive parents will come to know very well in the years ahead. ASFA stands for the Adoption and Safe Families Act, otherwise known as Public Law 105-89, or H.R.867. Because of ASFA, PL 96-272 is now officially called the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Title IV, Part B–Child and Family Services.

PL 96-272, Title IV-E, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980. The premise was simple: The federal government promised to reimburse states for administrative costs and anywhere from fifty cents to eighty cents on the dollar for every dollar the states paid out in adoption subsidies for children with special needs, provided the states followed the federal law as written. In other words, states could also pay state-funded subsidies to families under different rules, but they would be reimbursed only for those that fell under the terms of the federal IV-E law.

The law was cautiously written so as not to discourage birth family reconciliation where possible. The states had to show why a child could not go home (usually because of abuse, neglect, or the ongoing drug abuse of the parents).

The new federal law was careful to allow only those children into the subsidy program who truly needed it to be adopted, children who were in foster homes with no family to return to, children deprived of the support of their parents, and children with special needs.

Since the law was complex, the federal government supplied each state with a sample “Adoption Assistance Contract,” which could be modified, to a certain extent, to meet individual state rules. The response from the states varied from quick and complete compliance (some states adopted the sample contract almost word-for-word) to near total noncompliance. It would be fourteen years before all states were participating in Title IV-E. How to tell if your child is eligible

Speak to an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer to know if your adopted child is eligible. Only adopted children with special needs who meet the Title IV-E criteria can receive federal adoption assistance under PL 96-272. For those adopted children who do not meet all IV-E criteria, state subsidies may be available, but the rules and requirements are different from state to state.

How do you know if your child is IV-E eligible? If your social worker says so, ask for a written statement to that effect or for a copy of the child’s IV-E eligibility form to be sure there is no mistake about this. More than one parent has lost benefits under a state subsidy contract that they had believed was a federal IV-E contract. A IV-E contract is more reliable than a state subsidy contract because parents have more rights and safeguards in place under the federal law. The federal laws have no control over state subsidy contracts. For example, in some states, an individual state subsidy can be lowered without the agreement of the adoptive parents, whereas a negotiated federal subsidy amount cannot be lowered without the parents’ permission.

If your social worker isn’t sure or says your child is not IV-E eligible, be sure this is so. Sadly, some children are erroneously denied IV-E eligibility because the person or persons who make such determinations are not well trained in an understanding of PL 96-272. In fact, erroneous determinations are so common that there is a PIQ called PIQ 92-02 that outlines how families who think their children should have been given IV-E eligibility can go back and seek such a designation, along with retroactive subsidy payments. Just as you might be advised to seek a second opinion in serious medical matters, so should you seek another opinion when your child with special needs is denied IV-E eligibility.

Requirements

The requirements for IV-E only sound complex and obtuse until the individual elements are understood. The requirements are actually very inclusive of children with special needs when the law is applied according to its word, intent, purpose, and scope. In simplest terms, a child must meet three tests in order to be IV-E eligible for adoption assistance:

• he or she must have been AFDC-(Aid to Families with Dependent Children) eligible in the birth home or SSI Supplemental Security Income eligible or IV-E foster care eligible and • he or she must have special need risk factors or a special need and • he or she must have entered the system through a voluntary placement, if the state plan allows that, or through a judicially determined removal from the home of a relative.

In other words, it is not enough for a child to have special needs or special needs risk factors. Let’s look at each requirement more carefully.

For purposes of IV-E eligibility, there are three doors to IV-E Adoption Assistance: SSI (the disability door), AFDC (the poverty/deprived door), or IV-E foster care eligibility (the foster care door). Although children need only enter through one door, many children are IV-E adoption-assistance eligible through two or even all three doors.

The Disability Door

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a monthly payment made to children and adults who have serious disabilities, such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, blindness, or mental illness. Unlike adoption assistance, SSI is means-tested assistance, tied to the income of the child before adoption finalization and to the income of the adoptive parents after finalization. For this reason, most parents switch their children at adoption from SSI to the nonmeans-tested Adoption Assistance Payments (AAP). But what matters for IV-E eligibility is SSI eligibility. The child does not have to receive SSI to be SSI-eligible. The child only needs to have an SSI “award letter.”

If a child meets the SSI disability standards, then he or she is virtually certain to meet the definition of special needs. This SSI path to eligibility for Title IV-E adoption assistance does not require placement for adoption by an agency, although it may be very difficult to obtain subsidies for children who were never in agency custody.

The Poverty/Deprived Door

The second door is often used by children who, because of placement through private adoption agencies, were never eligible for IV-E foster care. Those children using this door have special needs or risk factors but do not qualify as SSI-eligible. The children come from birth homes where the birth mother or birth parents or relative caretaker were receiving public assistance such as AFDC or TANF. They also come from homes where, due to poverty, the birth parent or relative caretaker was eligible for public assistance, whether or not any assistance was ever applied for or received. This includes unemployed birth mothers, for example, and birth mothers who receive no support from the birth fathers or who cannot identify the birth father. The legal term for such children is deprived. A child is also considered deprived in most states as soon as the birth parents’ rights have been legally relinquished or terminated. Children also are deprived when their birth parents have abandoned them, refuse to support them, or have died.

The Foster Care Door

The third door is designed to offer children who are in agency custody a continuum of care. The thinking is that if a child in state agency custody qualifies for the IV-E foster care maintenance program he or she will already have met the AFDC (or TANF) relatedness requirement and the judicial determination that the child’s placement was in his or her best interest. Satisfying the special needs definition is the only remaining requirement for IV-E adoption assistance.

Sometimes, the only door for a child is the IV-E foster care door. In rare cases, a child will be erroneously denied IV-E foster care eligibility and then, as a consequence, erroneously denied IV-E adoption assistance eligibility too. In such cases, parents can use PIQ 92-02 to go back and obtain IV-E status for their child even though foster care FFP (Federal Financial Participation or federal matching funds) was never obtained by the state.

There are PIQs that support children’s rights in this regard. PIQ 85-06 states that a child should not suffer for a bureaucracy’s mistake. In other words, if a state fails to follow the rules for accessing foster care FFP, the state may lose some FFP funding, but the child may not be deprived of his or her IV-E eligibility. Similarly, PIQ 85-07 says that the child’s eligibility may not be denied because the birth parents make a paperwork error or omission or fail to cooperate with the agency in some way.

Special Needs

The important point to remember here is that some children will be erroneously labeled “nonspecial needs” when, in fact, they do qualify as children with special needs. Not all children with special needs come from sibling groups or have disabilities. Some children with special needs will qualify on race alone or on age or, especially in the case of healthy-looking infants, due to risk factors. Risk factors include anything that puts an otherwise normal-appearing infant or child at risk of having unseen disabilities or of developing special needs later on, such as

• genetic risk factors for mental, physical, or learning disabilities • prenatal exposure to drugs or harsh chemicals • lack of prenatal care • rape conception • unknown paternity • maternal gestational disease • difficult or dangerous birth • low Apgar scores • abuse • neglect • multiple foster home placements

If a parent believes his or her child qualifies as a child with special needs, but is denied this determination by the agency, that parent should seek the advice of an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer. Parents may appeal agency decisions by requesting an administrative hearing. Parents of such children have a right to a fair hearing to try and prove that their child is a child with special needs.

Free Consultation with a Family Lawyer in West Jordan Utah

When you need legal help with a family law issue in West Jordan, please call Ascent Law for your free consultation [phone]. We want to help you.

Ascent Law LLC 8833 S. Redwood Road, Suite C West Jordan, Utah 84088 United States Telephone: [phone]

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Family Lawyer West Jordan Utah

West Jordan Utah is a great place to bring up your kids. But what if you don’t have kids – you can legally adopt a kid. There are many couples with and without children who are adopting children. Speak to an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer to know how you can adopt a child.

Special Needs Adoption

Special needs adoption is challenging. This is not to say adoption can’t be positive. Special needs adoption can be and should be joyful. After all, it is the ultimate win-win situation: Child who needs parent gets parent, and parent who wants child gets child. But the joy that comes from a successful adoption is not bestowed automatically on the family. Successful special needs adoptions are the result of hard work on the part of the parents and their support network.

Special needs is a term coined in the seventies to describe adoptable children who are waiting. The term’s definition is important because only children with special needs are eligible for the special state and federal programs that reimburse parents for the cost of the adoption and that pay for some of the children’s medical and maintenance expenses after the adoption. The federal government defines a child with special needs as one who has one or more special needs or factors, such as

• Sibling status (must remain with one or more siblings • minority race (this is not a special need or a requirement but a placement factor) • age (older children) • mild, moderate, or severe physical, mental, or emotional challenges • risk factors for problems that could show up later (prenatal exposure to drugs, a family history of mental illness, abuse, neglect, a difficult birth, multiple caregivers, unknown paternity, and others)

Special needs waiting children can be healthy looking infants who were exposed to heroin prenatally, a two-year-old with asthma, or a seventeen and one-half-year-old who simply wants a real family before he or she graduates from high school. Quite often, they are sibling groups with two to seven or more members who need to be adopted together by one family. On November 19, 1997, PL 96-272, or Title IV-E, was amended in positive ways that further help children with special needs. The amendments came about as a result of passage of ASFA, an acronym child advocates and adoptive parents will come to know very well in the years ahead. ASFA stands for the Adoption and Safe Families Act, otherwise known as Public Law 105-89, or H.R.867. Because of ASFA, PL 96-272 is now officially called the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Title IV, Part B–Child and Family Services.

PL 96-272, Title IV-E, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980. The premise was simple: The federal government promised to reimburse states for administrative costs and anywhere from fifty cents to eighty cents on the dollar for every dollar the states paid out in adoption subsidies for children with special needs, provided the states followed the federal law as written. In other words, states could also pay state-funded subsidies to families under different rules, but they would be reimbursed only for those that fell under the terms of the federal IV-E law.

The law was cautiously written so as not to discourage birth family reconciliation where possible. The states had to show why a child could not go home (usually because of abuse, neglect, or the ongoing drug abuse of the parents).

The new federal law was careful to allow only those children into the subsidy program who truly needed it to be adopted, children who were in foster homes with no family to return to, children deprived of the support of their parents, and children with special needs.

Since the law was complex, the federal government supplied each state with a sample “Adoption Assistance Contract,” which could be modified, to a certain extent, to meet individual state rules. The response from the states varied from quick and complete compliance (some states adopted the sample contract almost word-for-word) to near total noncompliance. It would be fourteen years before all states were participating in Title IV-E. How to tell if your child is eligible

Speak to an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer to know if your adopted child is eligible. Only adopted children with special needs who meet the Title IV-E criteria can receive federal adoption assistance under PL 96-272. For those adopted children who do not meet all IV-E criteria, state subsidies may be available, but the rules and requirements are different from state to state.

How do you know if your child is IV-E eligible? If your social worker says so, ask for a written statement to that effect or for a copy of the child’s IV-E eligibility form to be sure there is no mistake about this. More than one parent has lost benefits under a state subsidy contract that they had believed was a federal IV-E contract. A IV-E contract is more reliable than a state subsidy contract because parents have more rights and safeguards in place under the federal law. The federal laws have no control over state subsidy contracts. For example, in some states, an individual state subsidy can be lowered without the agreement of the adoptive parents, whereas a negotiated federal subsidy amount cannot be lowered without the parents’ permission.

If your social worker isn’t sure or says your child is not IV-E eligible, be sure this is so. Sadly, some children are erroneously denied IV-E eligibility because the person or persons who make such determinations are not well trained in an understanding of PL 96-272. In fact, erroneous determinations are so common that there is a PIQ called PIQ 92-02 that outlines how families who think their children should have been given IV-E eligibility can go back and seek such a designation, along with retroactive subsidy payments. Just as you might be advised to seek a second opinion in serious medical matters, so should you seek another opinion when your child with special needs is denied IV-E eligibility.

Requirements

The requirements for IV-E only sound complex and obtuse until the individual elements are understood. The requirements are actually very inclusive of children with special needs when the law is applied according to its word, intent, purpose, and scope. In simplest terms, a child must meet three tests in order to be IV-E eligible for adoption assistance:

• he or she must have been AFDC-(Aid to Families with Dependent Children) eligible in the birth home or SSI Supplemental Security Income eligible or IV-E foster care eligible and • he or she must have special need risk factors or a special need and • he or she must have entered the system through a voluntary placement, if the state plan allows that, or through a judicially determined removal from the home of a relative.

In other words, it is not enough for a child to have special needs or special needs risk factors. Let’s look at each requirement more carefully.

For purposes of IV-E eligibility, there are three doors to IV-E Adoption Assistance: SSI (the disability door), AFDC (the poverty/deprived door), or IV-E foster care eligibility (the foster care door). Although children need only enter through one door, many children are IV-E adoption-assistance eligible through two or even all three doors.

The Disability Door

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a monthly payment made to children and adults who have serious disabilities, such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, blindness, or mental illness. Unlike adoption assistance, SSI is means-tested assistance, tied to the income of the child before adoption finalization and to the income of the adoptive parents after finalization. For this reason, most parents switch their children at adoption from SSI to the nonmeans-tested Adoption Assistance Payments (AAP). But what matters for IV-E eligibility is SSI eligibility. The child does not have to receive SSI to be SSI-eligible. The child only needs to have an SSI “award letter.”

If a child meets the SSI disability standards, then he or she is virtually certain to meet the definition of special needs. This SSI path to eligibility for Title IV-E adoption assistance does not require placement for adoption by an agency, although it may be very difficult to obtain subsidies for children who were never in agency custody.

The Poverty/Deprived Door

The second door is often used by children who, because of placement through private adoption agencies, were never eligible for IV-E foster care. Those children using this door have special needs or risk factors but do not qualify as SSI-eligible. The children come from birth homes where the birth mother or birth parents or relative caretaker were receiving public assistance such as AFDC or TANF. They also come from homes where, due to poverty, the birth parent or relative caretaker was eligible for public assistance, whether or not any assistance was ever applied for or received. This includes unemployed birth mothers, for example, and birth mothers who receive no support from the birth fathers or who cannot identify the birth father. The legal term for such children is deprived. A child is also considered deprived in most states as soon as the birth parents’ rights have been legally relinquished or terminated. Children also are deprived when their birth parents have abandoned them, refuse to support them, or have died.

The Foster Care Door

The third door is designed to offer children who are in agency custody a continuum of care. The thinking is that if a child in state agency custody qualifies for the IV-E foster care maintenance program he or she will already have met the AFDC (or TANF) relatedness requirement and the judicial determination that the child’s placement was in his or her best interest. Satisfying the special needs definition is the only remaining requirement for IV-E adoption assistance.

Sometimes, the only door for a child is the IV-E foster care door. In rare cases, a child will be erroneously denied IV-E foster care eligibility and then, as a consequence, erroneously denied IV-E adoption assistance eligibility too. In such cases, parents can use PIQ 92-02 to go back and obtain IV-E status for their child even though foster care FFP (Federal Financial Participation or federal matching funds) was never obtained by the state.

There are PIQs that support children’s rights in this regard. PIQ 85-06 states that a child should not suffer for a bureaucracy’s mistake. In other words, if a state fails to follow the rules for accessing foster care FFP, the state may lose some FFP funding, but the child may not be deprived of his or her IV-E eligibility. Similarly, PIQ 85-07 says that the child’s eligibility may not be denied because the birth parents make a paperwork error or omission or fail to cooperate with the agency in some way.

Special Needs

The important point to remember here is that some children will be erroneously labeled “nonspecial needs” when, in fact, they do qualify as children with special needs. Not all children with special needs come from sibling groups or have disabilities. Some children with special needs will qualify on race alone or on age or, especially in the case of healthy-looking infants, due to risk factors. Risk factors include anything that puts an otherwise normal-appearing infant or child at risk of having unseen disabilities or of developing special needs later on, such as

• genetic risk factors for mental, physical, or learning disabilities • prenatal exposure to drugs or harsh chemicals • lack of prenatal care • rape conception • unknown paternity • maternal gestational disease • difficult or dangerous birth • low Apgar scores • abuse • neglect • multiple foster home placements

If a parent believes his or her child qualifies as a child with special needs, but is denied this determination by the agency, that parent should seek the advice of an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer. Parents may appeal agency decisions by requesting an administrative hearing. Parents of such children have a right to a fair hearing to try and prove that their child is a child with special needs.

Free Consultation with a Family Lawyer in West Jordan Utah

When you need legal help with a family law issue in West Jordan, please call Ascent Law for your free consultation [phone]. We want to help you.

Ascent Law LLC 8833 S. Redwood Road, Suite C West Jordan, Utah 84088 United States Telephone: [phone]

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Family Lawyer West Jordan Utah

West Jordan Utah is a great place to bring up your kids. But what if you don’t have kids – you can legally adopt a kid. There are many couples with and without children who are adopting children. Speak to an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer to know how you can adopt a child.

Special Needs Adoption

Special needs adoption is challenging. This is not to say adoption can’t be positive. Special needs adoption can be and should be joyful. After all, it is the ultimate win-win situation: Child who needs parent gets parent, and parent who wants child gets child. But the joy that comes from a successful adoption is not bestowed automatically on the family. Successful special needs adoptions are the result of hard work on the part of the parents and their support network.

Special needs is a term coined in the seventies to describe adoptable children who are waiting. The term’s definition is important because only children with special needs are eligible for the special state and federal programs that reimburse parents for the cost of the adoption and that pay for some of the children’s medical and maintenance expenses after the adoption. The federal government defines a child with special needs as one who has one or more special needs or factors, such as

• Sibling status (must remain with one or more siblings • minority race (this is not a special need or a requirement but a placement factor) • age (older children) • mild, moderate, or severe physical, mental, or emotional challenges • risk factors for problems that could show up later (prenatal exposure to drugs, a family history of mental illness, abuse, neglect, a difficult birth, multiple caregivers, unknown paternity, and others)

Special needs waiting children can be healthy looking infants who were exposed to heroin prenatally, a two-year-old with asthma, or a seventeen and one-half-year-old who simply wants a real family before he or she graduates from high school. Quite often, they are sibling groups with two to seven or more members who need to be adopted together by one family. On November 19, 1997, PL 96-272, or Title IV-E, was amended in positive ways that further help children with special needs. The amendments came about as a result of passage of ASFA, an acronym child advocates and adoptive parents will come to know very well in the years ahead. ASFA stands for the Adoption and Safe Families Act, otherwise known as Public Law 105-89, or H.R.867. Because of ASFA, PL 96-272 is now officially called the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Title IV, Part B–Child and Family Services.

PL 96-272, Title IV-E, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980. The premise was simple: The federal government promised to reimburse states for administrative costs and anywhere from fifty cents to eighty cents on the dollar for every dollar the states paid out in adoption subsidies for children with special needs, provided the states followed the federal law as written. In other words, states could also pay state-funded subsidies to families under different rules, but they would be reimbursed only for those that fell under the terms of the federal IV-E law.

The law was cautiously written so as not to discourage birth family reconciliation where possible. The states had to show why a child could not go home (usually because of abuse, neglect, or the ongoing drug abuse of the parents).

The new federal law was careful to allow only those children into the subsidy program who truly needed it to be adopted, children who were in foster homes with no family to return to, children deprived of the support of their parents, and children with special needs.

Since the law was complex, the federal government supplied each state with a sample “Adoption Assistance Contract,” which could be modified, to a certain extent, to meet individual state rules. The response from the states varied from quick and complete compliance (some states adopted the sample contract almost word-for-word) to near total noncompliance. It would be fourteen years before all states were participating in Title IV-E. How to tell if your child is eligible

Speak to an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer to know if your adopted child is eligible. Only adopted children with special needs who meet the Title IV-E criteria can receive federal adoption assistance under PL 96-272. For those adopted children who do not meet all IV-E criteria, state subsidies may be available, but the rules and requirements are different from state to state.

How do you know if your child is IV-E eligible? If your social worker says so, ask for a written statement to that effect or for a copy of the child’s IV-E eligibility form to be sure there is no mistake about this. More than one parent has lost benefits under a state subsidy contract that they had believed was a federal IV-E contract. A IV-E contract is more reliable than a state subsidy contract because parents have more rights and safeguards in place under the federal law. The federal laws have no control over state subsidy contracts. For example, in some states, an individual state subsidy can be lowered without the agreement of the adoptive parents, whereas a negotiated federal subsidy amount cannot be lowered without the parents’ permission.

If your social worker isn’t sure or says your child is not IV-E eligible, be sure this is so. Sadly, some children are erroneously denied IV-E eligibility because the person or persons who make such determinations are not well trained in an understanding of PL 96-272. In fact, erroneous determinations are so common that there is a PIQ called PIQ 92-02 that outlines how families who think their children should have been given IV-E eligibility can go back and seek such a designation, along with retroactive subsidy payments. Just as you might be advised to seek a second opinion in serious medical matters, so should you seek another opinion when your child with special needs is denied IV-E eligibility.

Requirements

The requirements for IV-E only sound complex and obtuse until the individual elements are understood. The requirements are actually very inclusive of children with special needs when the law is applied according to its word, intent, purpose, and scope. In simplest terms, a child must meet three tests in order to be IV-E eligible for adoption assistance:

• he or she must have been AFDC-(Aid to Families with Dependent Children) eligible in the birth home or SSI Supplemental Security Income eligible or IV-E foster care eligible and • he or she must have special need risk factors or a special need and • he or she must have entered the system through a voluntary placement, if the state plan allows that, or through a judicially determined removal from the home of a relative.

In other words, it is not enough for a child to have special needs or special needs risk factors. Let’s look at each requirement more carefully.

For purposes of IV-E eligibility, there are three doors to IV-E Adoption Assistance: SSI (the disability door), AFDC (the poverty/deprived door), or IV-E foster care eligibility (the foster care door). Although children need only enter through one door, many children are IV-E adoption-assistance eligible through two or even all three doors.

The Disability Door

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a monthly payment made to children and adults who have serious disabilities, such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, blindness, or mental illness. Unlike adoption assistance, SSI is means-tested assistance, tied to the income of the child before adoption finalization and to the income of the adoptive parents after finalization. For this reason, most parents switch their children at adoption from SSI to the nonmeans-tested Adoption Assistance Payments (AAP). But what matters for IV-E eligibility is SSI eligibility. The child does not have to receive SSI to be SSI-eligible. The child only needs to have an SSI “award letter.”

If a child meets the SSI disability standards, then he or she is virtually certain to meet the definition of special needs. This SSI path to eligibility for Title IV-E adoption assistance does not require placement for adoption by an agency, although it may be very difficult to obtain subsidies for children who were never in agency custody.

The Poverty/Deprived Door

The second door is often used by children who, because of placement through private adoption agencies, were never eligible for IV-E foster care. Those children using this door have special needs or risk factors but do not qualify as SSI-eligible. The children come from birth homes where the birth mother or birth parents or relative caretaker were receiving public assistance such as AFDC or TANF. They also come from homes where, due to poverty, the birth parent or relative caretaker was eligible for public assistance, whether or not any assistance was ever applied for or received. This includes unemployed birth mothers, for example, and birth mothers who receive no support from the birth fathers or who cannot identify the birth father. The legal term for such children is deprived. A child is also considered deprived in most states as soon as the birth parents’ rights have been legally relinquished or terminated. Children also are deprived when their birth parents have abandoned them, refuse to support them, or have died.

The Foster Care Door

The third door is designed to offer children who are in agency custody a continuum of care. The thinking is that if a child in state agency custody qualifies for the IV-E foster care maintenance program he or she will already have met the AFDC (or TANF) relatedness requirement and the judicial determination that the child’s placement was in his or her best interest. Satisfying the special needs definition is the only remaining requirement for IV-E adoption assistance.

Sometimes, the only door for a child is the IV-E foster care door. In rare cases, a child will be erroneously denied IV-E foster care eligibility and then, as a consequence, erroneously denied IV-E adoption assistance eligibility too. In such cases, parents can use PIQ 92-02 to go back and obtain IV-E status for their child even though foster care FFP (Federal Financial Participation or federal matching funds) was never obtained by the state.

There are PIQs that support children’s rights in this regard. PIQ 85-06 states that a child should not suffer for a bureaucracy’s mistake. In other words, if a state fails to follow the rules for accessing foster care FFP, the state may lose some FFP funding, but the child may not be deprived of his or her IV-E eligibility. Similarly, PIQ 85-07 says that the child’s eligibility may not be denied because the birth parents make a paperwork error or omission or fail to cooperate with the agency in some way.

Special Needs

The important point to remember here is that some children will be erroneously labeled “nonspecial needs” when, in fact, they do qualify as children with special needs. Not all children with special needs come from sibling groups or have disabilities. Some children with special needs will qualify on race alone or on age or, especially in the case of healthy-looking infants, due to risk factors. Risk factors include anything that puts an otherwise normal-appearing infant or child at risk of having unseen disabilities or of developing special needs later on, such as

• genetic risk factors for mental, physical, or learning disabilities • prenatal exposure to drugs or harsh chemicals • lack of prenatal care • rape conception • unknown paternity • maternal gestational disease • difficult or dangerous birth • low Apgar scores • abuse • neglect • multiple foster home placements

If a parent believes his or her child qualifies as a child with special needs, but is denied this determination by the agency, that parent should seek the advice of an experienced West Jordan Utah family lawyer. Parents may appeal agency decisions by requesting an administrative hearing. Parents of such children have a right to a fair hearing to try and prove that their child is a child with special needs.

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