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Change is inevitable. Change is uncomfortable. Our solution-oriented reaction would be to fix it. However, we forget that we need to learn to be okay with the uncomfortable. We have fought, kicked, cried, and screamed just to release the discomfort. Maybe before we start trying to change the world, start with the first person you see in the mirror.
The core essence of a community is the formation of societal cohesion beyond the conventional healthcare system. In celebration of the World’s Mental Health Day, the eThekwini community, NGOs (a community of mental health activists), and the KwaZulu-Natal Mental Health Advocacy Group took the initiative to take to the streets for the advocacy walk, raising awareness about mental health issues and destigmatizing concepts roaming in our communities, cultural influences, and shame (Nair, 2023).
In April 2023, the first nationwide collaborative meeting involving government and mental health professionals was conducted. The introduction of the National Mental Health Policy and Strategic Framework 2013-2020 was on the agenda for the day. It's a document that lays forth a comprehensive and cohesive national mental health policy. The ultimate objective is to promote mental health and wellness while reducing the burden of mental illness on service users, families, and communities.
The framework's main goal is to promote mental health, prevent mental illness, and provide effective treatment and care to people who have mental illnesses. The framework recognizes that mental illness is a significant public health issue and that there is an imperative need to enhance mental health services and support.
The Framework presents a multitude of policies aimed at enhancing access to mental health services, decreasing stigma and prejudice, and increasing mental health awareness and education. The framework also emphasizes the significance of incorporating mental health services into primary care and enhancing community-based mental health services.
The framework's implementation is supported by various initiatives and programs at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. These include creating mental health laws, establishing mental health review boards, and implementing community-based mental health services. To read more about the meetings follow the link below:
The implementation phase is critical since the previous framework was impotent to address the issue of providing accessible, adequate care to children and adolescents. To provide care to the people, one delegate proposed flattening the intervention pyramid and deploying all the specialists in the community.
The greatest driftwood slowing the river flow is stigma, societal labelling, and discrimination. Therefore, mental health promotion involves raising awareness and promoting mental health literacy, as well as improving attitudes towards mental illness and people with mental illness. To ensure the success of the framework, it is essential to improve access to mental health services, develop and implement mental health policies and guidelines, and increase the capacity of mental health professionals to prevent an overburdening system (Morar et al., 2023).
As OT students, we consider ourselves to be agents of change, attempting to achieve client-centeredness. It talks about the role we play and the importance of adequate community health services. We must consider cultural influences, resources, and accessibility. How can we achieve equity in healthcare? The aim is to close the gap between people and healthcare services.
I have seen growth both professionally and personally. Learning to accept the moving wheel means understanding that we need people, destinations, and landmarks in our journey through life to gravitate toward success and move away from our comfort zones, allowing failures to be testimonies.
Who would have thought ten weeks ago I would be here? No white flags were raised, just badges as a token of the journey.
See you on the next adventure!
Love the Green Scrubs Chronicles.
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REFERENCES
Morar, T., Breedt, J. E., Mdaka, N., Maaroganye, K., & Robertson, L. (2023). Is mental health in South Africa moving forward? BJPsych International, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1192/bji.2023.32
National Department of Health, & Government of South Africa. (2013, January 1). WHO Mindbank - National Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan 2013-2020. Extranet.who.int. https://extranet.who.int/mindbank/item/4018
Nair, N. (2023, October 10). Hundreds step up for “South Africa’s biggest mental health advocacy walk.” TimesLIVE. https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2023-10-10-hundreds-step-up-for-south-africas-biggest-mental-health-advocacy-walk/
Presentations - Mental health conference. (2023, June 1). https://mentalhealthconference.co.za/presentations/
South African Government. (2023, October 10). World Mental Health Day 2023 | South African Government. Www.gov.za. https://www.gov.za/WorldMentalHealthDay2023#
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irrelevanttous · 10 months
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it's so hilarious to me that all the hockey bros and journalists are now speculating whether matthew's skating off the ice after his two OT goals is gonna be his new trademark celly, as if that man hasn't celebrated goals by skating right off the ice since 2020 🤣
or have y'all forgotten this iconic moment in history?
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lollo12589 · 4 months
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Got tagged by @dontforgetoctober3rd for this hockey thing/ask game(?)(idk its late here) Thank you for the tag!!
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1. List your number 1 team:
Of course it's the goooldeeen kniiiiights! (Insert dubstep mix here) I became a fan in their second year in the league. I was really into omgcp and the author of my favourite fic (After me by Rayemars) recommended Vegas to new hockey fans in the comments. I started watching tons of Fleury clips and listened to podcasts and became a hockey fan as I fell in love with this team. Rip to experiencing my first playoff series by waking up to that five minute major and then watching them lose in OT.
2. Favourite goalie:
I have come to the conclusion that any question asking me to choose a favourite is unfair. There are too many variables. Fleury got me into hockey, Lundqvist is a swedish icon, I love the bruins goalie hugs and last season really made me like Logan Thompson and Adin Hill. I have to go with Fleury because without him there would be no hockey in my life but it is a tough call.
3. What my jersey number would be:
42. Everytime I have had the ability to choose a number I've chosen that one. It combines my nerdy side (the answer to everything) and my sports side.
4. What team I would play for:
A team that get proper snow. Maybe Minnesota because I hear it's pretty similar to Sweden, either that or Winnipeg Jets as I have played for a sports org that didn't face the same issues, but the root of the problem was similar.
5. Current favourite player:
Crime and jail how dare you ask me to choose. All vegas players+Fleury+Bellemare+Reilly Smith+Merill+Giroux+Brady Tkachuck but if I was forced at gun point to choose I would say Zach Whitecloud. It's really cool as not a life long hockey fan to follow someones career from the start. Do not quote me on this (do quote me on this I WAS RIGHT) but when Dallas eliminated Vegas in the western conference final 2019/2020 Whitecloud took a penalty that lead to the game winning goal in OT in the elimination game. It was clear how crushed he was by that and several players skated up to him to talk and console him. And now he isn't a rookie any more and is a major part of the best third d pair in the league and is played like a top liner and he won the cup (and went through Dallas go get there) and he is a leader and I just. Like him a lot.
6. A trade that hurt me emotionally:
Reilly Smiths trade and I didn't expect it to hurt as much as it did. Also them not resigning Bellemare actually made me cry, I was devestated. The Fleury trade hurt (especially as they botched it in such an awful way)but there were rumblings of the trade for a while which gave me time to emotionally prepare.
7. What has my experience on hockeyblr been so far?
I like it! I especially love people who liveblog<-european fan who would like some sleep please and thank you
I also love the poetry side of it as sports is poetry in motion in my opinion. Also hockeyblr and mcytblr are the two communities that made me stop lurking because the fandoms were so open and welcoming. So yeah! I like it :)
Tagging @drartemysia to do if you want to!
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Hey, i have been a prt of the devil's night fandom for years now but 1 thing I always wanted to say is that i feel really really bad for everyone who read NIGHTFALL in 2020 when ot was released.
Because they all waited for more than 6 months since killswitch was released, some of them desperately waited for 5 years since corrupt. Everytime PD released an excerpt from NIGHTFALL they all used to fawn over it. Most of them used to even count months,weeks and days for its arrival.
But since it arrived all of them said that it was shit, and they were heartbroken because PD said this book was of willemmy but there was no willemmy. Even when i read this book for the first time i kept on asking where are willemmy because everything thing was alex and aydin. They waited for willemmy but ended up paying and reading alexaydin no ine wants them. I don't know how many dont see it but PD wrote the entire and every present chapters for alexaydin and not for willemmy.
1. Who is aydin.
2. Why is he here.
3. Who is his artist
4. Why is alex here
5. Alex being jealous of emmy
6. Will looking after for alex and leaving em alone amonst rapist like taylor but sure he loves em right?
7. Alex got shot
And when it wasn't about alexaydin itvwas about rika and her goddamn wedding then all the plot shit.
I know PD HATES WILLEMMY everyone knows that also kaibanks but atleast kaibanks had moments when they were alone and spent time together but not WILLEMMY.
Never WILLEMMY. Most of people who read NIGHTFALL in 2020 said they survived it because it was that crap and it is true.
Nightfall was shitshow after shitshow.
Don't even get me started on that shit show of train and how pd ruined will's, kai's characters.
There is even a saying i don't know alot of you know that "Only thise who read the book (nightfall) right, knows how much of a nasty bitch was Alex.
And i agree she was way out if line and wrong and jealous.
If PD wanted to write Alexaydin so much write a novella for them, why ruin willemmy?? People waited YEARS for them and ended up reading about a different couple.
PD has a Facebook group for all this, i think we all know it by know, where they post all this. And people called them out on it.
Even in firenight willemmy had no time alone but guess who did everyone. Pd can say it they hate willemmy we already know that.
Once PD mentioned that Banks and Emory were their most favorite characters, i swear EVERYONE laughed EVERYONE 🤣. Yeah sure 2 characters that faced most hard life, and whise entire book was given to other irrelevant girl. Who is the most bland. And scream "i am not like other girls" energy.
Seriously alex palmer wakes up, lookes herself in the mirror and says " i am not like other girl's" almost 40 times a day.
I have way too many things to add mostly about alex and rika maybe damon too but this ask has already been too long. Maybe next time.
Heyy!
but 1 thing I always wanted to say is that i feel really really bad for everyone who read NIGHTFALL in 2020 when ot was released. Because they all waited for more than 6 months since killswitch was released, some of them desperately waited for 5 years since corrupt. Everytime PD released an excerpt from NIGHTFALL they all used to fawn over it. Most of them used to even count months,weeks and days for its arrival.
Aww, I remember when I used to do that. I used to create little count down trackers and timers, little banners and such. Cute.
And I’ve also been burned after having waited years for a release only to want to throw it out the window. But 6 months between books that size? Amazing, but somehow… I can’t help but think that a little bit more time would have been helpful.
Not just plot-wise either. I don’t know about you guys, but there are a few errors in my copy on NF that always trip me up.
They waited for willemmy but ended up paying and reading alexaydin no ine wants them. I don't know how many dont see it but PD wrote the entire and every present chapters for alexaydin and not for willemmy.
I’m not sure how that happened either. But it’s interesting that CR was originally a standalone, however that’s when we get the first inklings of AlexAydin and Willemmy. It’s possible that PD already had most of the story for AlexAydin mapped out in their head before even considering what the final part of Willemmy’s story was going to be, since they never intended to write it at the start. And then as the series progressed, the hype around Alex grew unexpectedly, so it became the story they wanted to tell and they ended up shoehorning it into Will’s story.
This is why Emory needed a strong attachment to the town and more of a presence in the other books. She didn’t need to be there physically, but we should have gotten more about her as the series progressed.
Most of people who read NIGHTFALL in 2020 said they survived it because it was that crap and it is true.
I kinda laughed. They need badges that read “I survived Nightfall 2020” so everyone knows the trauma they carry.
If PD wanted to write Alexaydin so much write a novella for them
A novella could have helped, but I don’t think it would have removed anything that happened in NF. The only thing it would have done would be alleviate some pressure to conclude their story along side concluding the series and Willemmy’s story, because alexaydin’s conclusion could have been left open ended and resolved in the novella.
At least, that’s how I see it. NF still would have had Aydin there to torment Will and Alex showing up half way through. So not much would have changed in the bulk of the story.
 Even in firenight willemmy had no time alone
Don’t even get me started on firenight. I have nothing (good) to say.
Yeah sure 2 characters that faced most hard life, and whise entire book was given to other irrelevant girl. Who is the most bland. And scream “I am not like other girls” energy.
Yeah, why would the average reader sympathize with the two girls who experienced trauma at the hands of a parental figure and lived around those who were considerably better off than them, verses the two beautiful blondes with wealth and privilege? That’s so weird….
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I have way too many things to add mostly about alex and rika maybe damon too but this ask has already been too long. Maybe next time.
Alex, Rika, and Damon rants fill my inbox the most so you wouldn’t be out of place at all. Thanks for the message, and for filling me in on all the release drama.
Until next time,
-KO
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popculturebuffet · 2 years
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Owl House and Amphibia Weekly Reviews: Edge of the World/The Three Armies/The Beginning of the End
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Hello all you happy people! I’m Jake and I do anylitical reviews and i’m feeling a bit misty eyed, both because these episodes are geninely emotoinal.. and because I”ve realized we’ve almost reached the end of both shows.  Amphibia has fully entered it’s endgame with these two episodes starting one long push to the end, which will conclude next week with all-in and be given a coda with The Hardest Thing after that. It’s been a heck of a ride with this show, from binging the first season with my Nephew, to covering every episode as it’s come out since season 2 started: i’ve covered tedious road trips, gay as heck reunions, sonic unleashed homages, spider-man homages, satam homages,  gravity falls homages... there’s a lot of other things dna in here and i’m all for it. We’ve also had an absolute feast of guest stars over these past two seasons covering this: Kermit the Frog, Alex Hirsch, Kristin Schaal, Zeno Robinson, Whoppi Goldberg, Kate Miccuci, Wallace Shawn, Ru Paul, Jason Ritter, and of course sexiest man alive Keith David as Andrias. It’s been a long, wonderful trek and it’s sad to see it go. 
The same goes for owl house: The show is at it’s creative peak and instead of begging for a fourth season.. disney cut the third short due to homophobia and with a long enough lead time their stupid shit couldn’t be underdone before they had a change of heart.. in that they realized their homophobia was going to cost them more money than pr than they expected so they’d better act contrite or else. It’s ending sadly though clearly Dana will pull out all the stops to make it satsifying and given Season 2 is not only the best this show’s been but one of the best animated shows of the 2020′s and a high bar for shows to overcome in the future, it’ll if nothing else have a legacy of great tv.. and be yet another show in the hall of “shows execs screwed over and then regretted later when it blew up in their faces”.
So with a few more miles to go for owl house and only about one or two for amphibia, this week was.. okay. In Owl House’s case it didn’t give me AS MANY heart attacks.. but it still had a massive revelation that broke a child’s spirit and ended on a sizeable cliffhanger, so it’s glad to see some things don’t change, while amphibia had some issues but still pulled out a great cliffhanger of it’s own as we approach the final battle next week. But the short version isn’t as fun for me so join me under the cut as I go a bit more in depth into this weaks highs, lows and creamy middles as we begin the end of Amphibia nad continue owl house’s breakneck ride to the Season 2 finale. 
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                                                 Edge of the World
As usual Owl House delivered.. not as much as last week but when your last episode is one of the best episodes of the year so far and will go down as one of the show’s most iconic moments... you have to grade on a curve and Edge of the World, while not one of the top tier episodes of the season was not only still pretty great.. but managed to pack in ANOTHER massive, series changing reveal that was expertly foreshadowed when you look back. 
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Yes in a row. As I correctly figured last week Hollow Mind was the start of the season’s endgame: While season 2′s pacing is already excellent, making every episode feel important and every one important to the bigger picture (somethign the show did TRY to do in season one but still fell on it’s face once or twice thanks to the studio mandates and general early series awkardness).  But now we’re in the final sprint of the season said pacing has taken a mountain of cocaine and and thus we’ve gone from steady but still well done plot developments to INCREDIBLY well done plot developments build on that steady pacing coming at you fast in your face and as painful as that sounds. While I can’t say if the next few episodes will have MORE giant reveals, I can say they’ll probably pack in more big moments and plot development as the clock ticks downt ot he day of unity and the stakes just get higher and higher as our heroes scramble to save the worlds from a genocidal madman and his equally mad god. 
And this week packs another whallop by answering one of the season’s biggest questoins in a way I didn’t see coming, but in hindsight shoudl’ve because it was obvious. And i’m not going to take the sidedoor on this one, i’ll come up front and knock: King is a TITAN
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Yup. In hindsight it makes sense. he’s not a race we know.. but neither is the titan. The titan’s head, which I never saw clearly LOOKS like kings. And we never saw his blood drawn nor the sample... .in a season where a titan’s blood is a vital resource. Not to mentoin his dad was pictured as massive... and the only creature of that size we’ve seen.. well you get it by now. The clues were all there and if you were presitant enough, like moderator of the owl house server i’ve made my home in Bogs, you could see them. I didn’t because I just enjoyed the ride of wondering what he is and didn’t think about it too clearly, so this blew me away, and how it’s revealed like hunter is fantastic: Luz, King and my boy hooty find a lost island thanks to the letter hooty finally threw up with a key that takes them to a pocket dimension. And thigns are tense since.. it’s VERY clear that whatever’s going on here.. ti’s not what king thinks as he finds the titan hunters, a society deciated to finding and slaying titans.. and to luz’ horror.. worshipping the collector. 
And how their leader bill, which had the people I watched this with worrying it was our old friend..
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And the reveal that titans are hungry from birth, tyranical by nature and go weh... it turned a running gag, King’s fun noise, into terror... and they don’t hold back either. Despite the head of said hunters seeming friendly.. he’s more than willing ot kill a child. He makes it pleasnt as he can for the boy.. but once Luz and hooty save him he’s willing to kill them. It also reveals more about the collector: that they were seen as a great hunter, who those people hleping them capture the owl beast were, and that king may be another key to let them out.. meaning the doorway may be involved diffrently than we thought given it needs said blood to run and Belos has shown no need to find a titan for this so far. Whatever the case we learned a lot without having it shoved down our throats: all of it is revealed organically, including them clearly beign sealed to protect king.. by who we don’t know, but it’s clear they CANNOT be let out and King sealing them barely works. The episode is tense, if again not as much as laast week, thank god for that, and pretty good. My only weakness really is how obvious it is: yes king finds the titan hunters.. but even without promising shocking revealations in the solicit.. it’s VERY clear whatever’s going on here isn’t good and even if king wasn’t a titan and one of them.. it still woudln’t be. This plot’s been done a LOT, and to good effect but here.. it just feels pretty by the numbers: creepy cult, one of our heroes gets indorcinated but is to be sacrificed, they either die, become part of it or, int his case luckily, barely escape. It’s all pretty standard. 
King really is what elevates it. Alex’s acting for him continues to be some of his finest work, and this episode shows just how much he wants a family.. and why. He opens up that he KNOWS, or at least feels, luz is going to leave him: after her promise to her mom seemed to be a non issue, it comes back heartbreakingly: for amity and eda it sucks.. but they belivie luz can beat it. Btu for a kid who risks loosing his sister.. it looks diffrent. To him there is no hope and he has to find SOMETHIGN to fill the void. It’s also masterfully foreshadowed: ther’es no real reason at first king gave himself siblings in his fantasy at the start.. until you realize he WNATS More. He wants a family beyond what he’s got.. and he’ll never have it. HE’ll never have answers or traditions.. all he has is a corpse that nobody knows much about and the painful void inside that’s onlyg rowing bigger. Alex’s heartbreaking delivery at the end of that high as the boys irisies shrink is soul crushing and it’s only through his support system the poor kid dosen’t break down like poor hunter.. whose still mia but with only four episodes left and a week to go... i’m sure he’ll be back soon enough. 
Outside the main stuff we have one more important thing to break down before we move on to frogs: Eda and Luz’s mental states in the opening scene. Given she just found out the one person in the world she thought she could to is a genocidal madman, one of her friends ran away mid-panic attack, and that she’s now one of the only things standing between Belos/The Collector the mass execution of EVERY coverned person on the isles shoudl she fall.. it’s clear she needs a lot.. and Eda’s response is to have Luz’s surrogate brothers hug her and try to calm her down and try to stop her sisters own guilt trip when she shows up, as Luz dosen’t need Lilith’s own guilt overlaping with her own, with Luz teaching phillip the light glyph having made ALL of this possible. 
It’s then we get something intresting and complex: Eda pouring her heart out to Lilith that Luz SHOUDLN’T have to deal with this. Her first priority is getting her daughter away from her. And I had an equally intresting conversation with new friend @loosescrewslefty over this, as I pointed out how Eda’s actions are.. ultimately pointless. Belos is going to come for her no matter what and with VERY few allies to turn to (Adult wise she ONLY knows about her family, The BATS if she can free them, and tiny nose) , she HAS to let Luz fight as the alternative is the genocide of EVERYONE on the isles from the person she loves, to her family, to even the old friend who turned her away last episdoe. innocent people whose only crime was joining the system out of necisity or fear. 
Lefty wasn’t wrong in their own point though: Luz SHOUDLN’T have to do this. She’s a child, already dealing with a lot and just trying to get home. She shoudlnt’ have to fight an evil overlord, she shoudln’t have to fight. Eda’s instinct in getting her away from danger while she handles it with lilith SHOULD be how things go. A child shouldn’t have to fight this war, shouldn’t be targeted by an all powerful jackass. She should be goofing with her friends, going on dates with her girlfriend, recocling with her mom.. she dosen’t need the weight of the world on her shoulders, once again rewriting her own memories to be worse because of the guilt she feels. She shoudln’t have to do this. 
And with just accepting this and bring this to the fore.. it deconsturcts this entire genre, a genre that children’s tv has been built on: they shoudlnt have ot do this. Steven shoudln’t have had to end a thousand year war. Anne and Sasha shoudln’t have to wrestle their friend free from an ageless monsterous superintellgence and it’s lacky. It shoudln’t of been on Mable and Dipper to stop the apocalypse or start it in one of their cases. Finn shoudln’t of had to watch his own brother die. Star shoudln’t of been in the place to make the impossible choice between causing one genocide to stop another. And Luz shoudln’t have the weight of a world on her shoulders. None of them should’ve ended up like this but by circumnstance.. here they are. This is the first show i’ve seen since steven universe future to just come out and say how fucked up this is. And don’t get me wrong I love this genre.. but this is what good desconstuction does: show WHY this has to happen.. but show it happening is still not a GOOD thing. This scene .. and this show is brilliant and I will miss it. Also calling it now, i’m calling it now, Lilith and Eda either aren’t in the house and even if they are, their ready fo rthem. The shows already done an eda rescue arc, they arne’t going for two
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                                           The Three Armies
Onto frogs.. and... as always i’ll come right up front and knock: this episode is bad.
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THE IDEA isn’t bad: Sasha and Anne have to find some way to get the three armies, all of which are simmering with decades of racial tension from the newts opressing the toads, to the toads hating the newts for opressing them to both opressing the frogs and all slinging sterotypes at each other. Also for some reason Tritonio is head of the newt resitance
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Like I love the guy dont’ ge tme wrong, and I get most newts are deferintal to andrias and the two who’d be most likely to head this side are.. occupied. We’ll get to that soon enough. But it still feels weird for an outright criminal to just.. magically manifest an army of robed newts for our heroes or, given his own multiracial crew, give a shit about sterotypes. 
The message of the ep is a good one: You can’t FORCE people to stopped being prejudice idiots who go against their own best intrests. They have to choose to make the effort. That’s a good thing to teach kids, and some grown adults, and having Anne shout it in blue form was impressive. The problem is to get there just about EVERYONE on all sides comes off as...
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Anne and Sasha NEVER thinkign to deal with prejudice because teenagers does fit.. but everyone ELSE never assuming that is pushign it. We had an ENTIRE EPISODE, one of the best of this season, on them recurting the toads.  Did the frogs just... think they weren’t going to have to talk to their allies in the army? Did sprig think recurting Tritonio meant not working with an army of robed newts?.. because that’d be correct in most scnearios but is suprisingly wrong today. The plot requires EVERYONE to be stupid, and while again I get it: prejudice isn’t rational and makes people act against their natural impusles, siad prejudices are so cartoony (Toads are stupid, Newts are weak, Frogs just plain suck), it dosen’t land. Star vs by contrast , for ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL it’s faults.. at least portrayed prejudice more realistically, using a brilliant metaphor int he ep puddle defender iwth both sides having the same game.. but while the Mewman version has the monsters are ravenous beasts, the monster version has the mewmans in teh vilian roll.. because that’s their roll in history. It showed how prejudice is carried down. Amphibia HAS the tools to explore this with it’s inbuilt caste system and years of stuff.. but it choooses to sidestep the issue despite direclty bringing it up: having everyone work together.. but not acknoeldging this is just step ONE, and one brought about by change. There’s no telling if this will last when the dust clears and in a better written ep, this would be used to give the happy solution a bittersweet dose of reality.. here it’s just “Whelp we’re all together now”
I also have to say.. the momentum going into the final battle.. is fairly week. While 3B has mostly been about building to this war it’s mostly just been getting new troops. While that’s not bad it hasn’t felt like they made any progress towards, andrias, his castle, or his plans, and ONLY come up with ap lan thanks to remmebering marcy’s faviorite film. And it’s hard to ignore when in contrast with FOUR episodes to go owl house already feels like every episode is one step closer to the day of unity and is vital to what’s going to happen next. Here we’re in the end game.. but it feels like we have more episodes to go before we’re actually ready.. only to be told 
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Overall.. a  mess. 
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                                          The Beginning of the End
TBOTE is more like it, giving us an epic battle as the plantars, sasha and grime break in while the army distracts.. And it DOES use what’s so far been a weakness of this season as a strength: our heroe shavne’t actually dealt with core marcy to this poitn and what FELT like a stupid omission on the show spart.. ends up working brilliantly. BECAUSE we know about the core, we feel tense durign the entire castle raid: to our heroes they think this is it and with andrias occupied ont he battlefield (And getting a hell of an entrance line “don’t stop on my account”), they’ve won and the only obstalce is an awesome fight with olvia and yunan who have been collared sense, with sasha and anne DANCE FIGHTING THEM. Every time I think this show can get wonderfully, miraculously gayer it suprises me. 
And the Core utterly decimating them is heartbreaking.. granted I do not like how easiy the troops just.. flee. THey just.. give up the second anne is captured even though they coudl you know.. try resucing her? Guys? Hello.. oht heir gone already.. anne REALLY coudl’ve used their help. And this COULD pay off in the finale, we’ll see, but it feels like a waste of build up to have this brave army of good men do nothing while evil triumphs. 
Anne  talking her way out of it is awesome though pointing out since neither she nor the core know how the energy works, they coudl oose it if they kill her... it’s only a stay of execution but the promo, and just common sense, tells me she’ll be free soon enough. The final shot IS geninely awesome though... the flying castle and tons of MOBILE factories entering earth as Andrias and the Core WIN. 
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That said while the main plot had weaknesses the fights are gorgeous and we do get somethign REALLY good with Marcy. A flashback shows Sasha and Anne, while they loved her.. often ignored her needs: sleeping during her films, ignoring her hobbies, and generally just “tolerating” what she loves instead of engaging, somethign we’ve seen proven time and again: even after she’s better Anne is constantly baffled when Marcy brings up thigns she’s explained at length, oof can relate. This has been coming and it makes sense for Anne, the more empathetic one to have to Argue marcy’s case to sasha: Yes she screwed up, yes she needs to make up for it but not only did sasha do both those things... but they wren’t the best friends. It dosen’t make what they did okay.. but maybe if they actually listned to her she might not of gone so far to keep them. It’s nuanced , it’s well done adn it makes me look foward to the final clash next week And on that note
Next Time: We get the climax of Amphibia as the battle for earth commences! Meanwhile over in owl town gus episode! Bria probably coming back! Hutner maybe! The Coven at the school! THis can’t end well!
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igazikutya · 1 year
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Zajok a nappaliból – Traxelektor 2023. 03.
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Elnézést! A csúszás oka egyfelől, hogy ez a szám egy szinte teljesen megújult gépen készül, illetve, hogy egy kellően őrült március múlik el éppen, így teljesen okés, hogy a márciusi szám a bolondok napján publikul.
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Az I:Cube-ot nem szokták a French Touch hősei (Daft Punk, Lauren Garnier, Cassius, Air, St. Germain..) között emlegetni, pedig sokkal konstansabb és szélesebb életművel bír Nicolas Chaix munkássága, és hát a ’97-es Picnic Attack (nekem) van olyan fontos mű, mint az Air – Moon Safarija vagy a Homework. A Cubo Live Session-ök voltak 2020/21-ben az utolsó megjelenések, és most egyből albummal ébred álmából az I:Cube. Az EYE CUBE címet viselő lemez (ezzel azt hiszem a bandanév összes béna variációja el lett lőve) minden olyan ismérvet magán visel, ami a Merovingienne/Lucifer En Discotheque/Cryptoporticus korszakban jellemzővé vált. Kevésbé táncos, annál művészibb zenei kompozíciókból épül fel, annyira, hogy ez már szinte Sheffield és a The Black Dog synthspace-e.
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A háromszorosan elismert dzsungelmesteri paszományát rugdalhatná térdeivel basszusokra és törtekre Alex Dickson, ha a dárembézesek elkapnák a plecsnikórt és a díjfluenzát. A szelíd mosolyú Pugilist változatlan tempóval (4,2 ep/év) szeli a hullámokat. Talán még a minőség is mondhatni egyenletes, bár őszintén szólva, inkább nem és a Negative Space EP lóg ki felfelé, magasan.
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Sam Goku ismerős lehet, annak, ki követi az oldalt (debut album: East Dimensional Riddims [2021], Flowery Rave Tales [2021] - nyolcadik a Top 12 EP/Single Charton). Sam Goku aka Robin Wang szerzeményeiben felismerhető a kínai organikus zenei építkezés, s egyfajta zeitgeist: a technológia és a természet könnyed egyensúlyára törekvés. A „berlin based artist” The Things We See When We Look Closer című albuma talán kissé sterilebbre sikerült, mégis figyelemre méltó.
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Lia Kohl chicago-i csellista feljátszott kortárs zenei témáit úgy keveri hangminták és effektek rétegei közé, hogy egy egészen különleges, bár műfajában egyáltalán nem ismeretlen ambientet kapunk. A lemez hullámzását tehát lassú cselló futamok, váratlan és stílusidegen megőrülések, széteső, akár darabjaira hulló etapok, csendes, mély terek adják. A The Ceiling Reposes hatodik albuma a művésznőnek, s melynek hat sora verssé áll össze.
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A London Contemporary Orchestra idén már kiadott soundtrack lemezt is Cate Blanchett és Sophie Kauer közreműködésével, mely Todd Fields tavaly bemutatott, Lydia Tár karmesterről szóló filmjéhez készült. A Robert Ames és Hugh Brunt által vezetett LCO-tól nem áll távol az underground elektronika művészeivel való kollaboráció sem, lásd Actress (2018). Most Oscar Powell-nek kínáltak menekülőutat a klubok zajától. A 26 Lives album válogatás Powell és a LCO tavaly januárban a Barbican Centerben elhangzott négy órás koncertjének felvételeiből.
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Old Castle néven tömörülnek trióba Robin Storey (Rapoon, Zoviet France), Robert L. Pepper (Pas Musique), és Shaun Sandor (Promute). Öregkastélyék nem falazzák a köntölt, az Artwork 51 albumot nyitó Rage Goat, lassan lefelé tekeredő, ellenállhatatlanul dögös, ámde akadozó gitárriffjével, eddig az év egyik underground slágere. Az album nagy részét a kísérletezés uralja, még akkor is, hogyha trendi elemek formájában kering körülöttünk, spoken word-ökkel, krautrock vasakkal. Az album a lengyel (gdanski) Zoharum kiadónál jelent meg, de nem a spotify számára.
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Christina Sealey és Richard Oddie az újrahasznosítás jegyében 2011 és 2015 közötti felvételeik (Tangled Paths, Vanishing Point, Apparition, Hungry Ghosts) újraértelmezésébe fogtak. A csak szerzői kiadásban érkező Revenant EP gyakorlatilag hibátlan, az Orphx-től megszokott és elvárható tökély (4/4). Mivel szerzői kiadás, a spotify-on ne keresd!
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Anthony Child, aki Discogs profiljába a különféle párhuzamos világok Matt Damonjairól készült fotókat tölt fel szórakozásból, új albummal érkezik.
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Tény, hogy 2018-as az utolsó Surgeon album (Luminosity Device) – az ő profilképén meg valamelyik Oliver Kahn mosolyog. Na, szóval az is tény, hogy akármennyire is kiemelkedik a technomezőnyből, neki is a kislemez/ep a gyakoribb esemény, azok három éve történtek (Europa Code EP, The Golden Sea EP, 2020). Újabb revenantunk Surgeon, a modern elektronika egyik legmegbecsültebb tagja, kvázi ikon, aki ezt megalkuvásmentes, kitartó életmű-építésével vívta ki magának - nem emlékszem gyenge kiadványra tőle. A berlini Tresor-nál megjelent Crash Recoil pedig méltó az előzményekhez, nagyon erős anyag, főleg a szerkesztés szintjén, Surgeon a váltásaival végig feszesen tartja az élményt. A Crash Recoil Tour március 4-én Gijonban indult el, kizárólag nyugat európai helyszínekkel. 
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A sznoébresztő úgy szólna: Ayaz nevű artista Unpinned című műve Mr. TC és Lo Kindre kiadójánál, a Phase Group-nál jelent meg 300 példányban bakeliten, bár erről még a Discogs se tud pillanatnyilag (a Phase Group alatt). Ayaz nevére a Discogs-on 6*7 azaz 42 találat van, jelentsen ez bármit is a bárkivel szemben. Semmiképp nem Ajax, mert az Amszterdam, akkor inkább Feyenord, mert ez az arc a Bandcamp szerint rotterdami dj, producer, sőt azerbajdzsáni légiós dj. Így már számomra is érthetőek a különös hangminták, amik az album bizonyos szakaszain fel-felbukkannak. A záró Reprise egy naiv, cukros klisé volna például, de hallani, hogy ezt nem európai elme szerkesztette. Úgy vezeti ezeket az ismert elemeket, mintha ázsiai repetitív népzenét hallanánk (ez nem volt píszí, mi? marad). Igazából az Unpinned – ami valószínűleg debutalbuma a szerzőnek – engem teljesen elragadott, mondhatnám, magával rántott, mint radákot az amorf. Bár zeneileg más, annyira mozis, mint egy tetszőleges Recoil. Totális leftfielditás, ködös laposkúszás valakinek az álmaiban, színes, távoli sötétség.
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François Marché és Stéphane Bodin kettőse a Froid Dub nekem eddig ismeretlen volt, miként a két zenész számos egyéb pszeudója is. Pedig a Deep Blue Bass album - melynek címe amilyen elcsépelt, annyira pontos – már a második albumuk. Az, hogy annyira mégse hideg dub az a kék basszus, a fényeknek tudható be, amik sokszor vépörveresen verdesik felszínét és verődnek vissza a térben. A klasszikus dub összes erénye feltűnik tiszta elektronikába csomagolva, a bravúros Isla Morada / Original Stalker / Rude Light záró hármas kifejezetten kedves darabok szívemnek, úgyszólván slágerek (bár erről a környezetem többnyire mást gondol, jelbezárnám).
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A Laibach hitelessége számomra sose lehet kétség tárgya. Teljesítményük, jelenlétük ereje, hogy mekkora zenei spektrumot lettek képesek átfogni életművükkel döbbenetes. Gondoljunk csak bele: ez a 300.000 Verschiedene Krawalle side project-től a Folk albumig húzódik. Gyengém, hogy amikor a Laibach átcsap operába, már nehezemre esik követni. Ezért is volt megnyugtató a Sketches Of The Red Districts címét és borítóját látni. S mint hamar kiderült, egészen a genezisükig visznek vissza minket Milan Fras-ék, az 1980-as megalakulásukig, Tbovljébe. Ez egy önvizsgálat, témája pedig a hitelesség. Visszatekintés a zenekar ideológiai, esztétikai, a zenei hangzásbeli gyökereire a mából. Az a Jugoszlávia nagyon messze van a mai uniótag Szlovéniától. Megváltoztak a médiumok, amiket a Laibach tudatosan használ az NSK megalapítása óta, megváltozott a világ, amire mindig reagáltak, értelmezték, művészetükkel újraértelmezték. S közben a kortárs zenében lezajlott forradalom részesei is voltak. Innen oda visszatekinteni, annak tudatában, hogy az idő és a történetek mindazt újraírták rég.
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Ami pedig a zenét illeti, ez most tényleg az a klasszikus Laibach, kein eurovision liederfest. Az ipari elektronika könyörtelenül pontos szívsebészei, hegyekről legördülő gitárhurkokon elmormolt velős gondoltaikkal delejeznek. Van vasbakancsos belassulás, lassú, spirális emelkedés, téboly, mozdulatlanná merevedés. Indusztriál pszichedelia, neue/alte slowenische kunst.
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Material + Object aka Andre Ruellonak új albuma van. Mármint ez az a Material Object, aki az Elektronik  I-II albumot jegyzi 2011-12-ből a megboldogult ambientgéniusz Pete Namlookkal, s aki jobbára a 2010-es években volt aktív. Na de ez a borító! Kedves Andre! Nem szeretném szavakba önteni, az olvasóra bízom. Kedves olvasó, köszönöm a befogadást, áldás!
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A Telepath az Editions Megonál jelent meg, és maga Atom TM aka Uwe Schmidt masterelte. Experimental ambient és szintetizátor-művészet, akár bevállalós, negyedórás elszállások formájában is, hol az elektronika citerahangokká esik szét csellóágyon (Hyphae). Andre azt mondja, hogy vannak olyan trackek is, mint a copertina. Igaz. Meg az Enter se csak egy enter, így a címében, mert hogy introtrack, és akkor enter, itt kérem be vagyunk léptetve, meg lettünk enteredve. A Telepath az ambient hőskorszakát idézi, manírmentesen.
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Megjelenések:
Ayaz - Unpinned [2023, phase group][EP] Froid Dub - Deep Blue Bass [2023, Delodio][LP] Hoshina Anniversary - HakkyouShisou [2023, Constellation Tatsu][LP] I:Cube - EYE CUBE [2023, Versatile][LP] Laibach - Sketches Of The Red Districts [2023, Mute][LP] Lia Kohl - The Ceiling Reposes [2023, American Dreams][LP] Material + Object - Telepath [2023, Editions Mego][LP] Old Castle - Artwork 51  [2023, Zoharum][LP] Orphx - Revenant [2023, Self-Released][EP] Powell & London Contemporary Orchestra - 26 Lives [2023, Diagonal][LP] Pugilist - Negative Space [2023, Of Paradise][EP] Sam Goku - The Things We See When We Look Closer [2023, Permanent Vacation][LP] Surgeon - Crash Recoil [2023, Tresor][LP] Valentina Magaletti & Laila Sakini - Cupo [2023, Magaletti Sakini][LP]
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Meemo Comma - paradinas padavanka, veszett idm-dzsunglista a Planet Mu-ról – Cloudscape című felvételénél nem csoda, ha fennakad a füled, ugyanis a Loverboy album nyitótrackjében az Orbital Belfastjának vokálja hangzik fel szokatlan zenei környezetben. Az albumot megelőző Cloudscape maxin a kiadó tulajdonosa, Mike Paradinas is remixelte, nyilván µ-Ziq néven, de a hölgy eredetije jobb.
Lopott dallamok rovatunknál maradva, a Nulladik típusú találkozások ufo-szelídítő öt hangja csendül fel a Polipores – Our Tiny Orbits szerzeményében, míg Kouslin, Danny Boyle Sunshine (2007) sci-fijének segélyhívó hangjából kreált dallamot a Livity Soundnál megjelent Five Fourban.
Coco Bryce olyan nekem, mint egy nagy Jungle-Break Vidámpark, szédítő hangulat, sokaság, tarrbélára vágott külvárosi mobil lombkoronasétány party, de azért csak elhangzik, hogy – én erre nem ülök föl, baz’ – ...három track így is becsúszott az ehaviba a Point Of No Return-ről.
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Traxelektor:
Traxelektor 2023 03 Spotify playlist - link
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Traxelektor Playlist 2023 03
Austen - Merece Mejor [Medulla, Soft Raw] Ayaz - Ilham Comes with Irada [Unpinned, phase group] Ayaz - Reprise [Unpinned, phase group] Ayaz - Sredstvo [Unpinned, phase group] Ayaz feat. Leyla - Dota [Unpinned, phase group] Carrier - Harsh Features [Lazy Mechanics, The Trilogy Tapes] Carrier - Lazy Mechanics [Lazy Mechanics, The Trilogy Tapes] Carrier - Ten by Ten [Lazy Mechanics, The Trilogy Tapes]
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Coco Bryce - I Want My Money Back [Point Of No Return, Fresh 86] Coco Bryce - Kohaku [Point Of No Return, Fresh 86] Coco Bryce - Make U Mine [Point Of No Return, Fresh 86]
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Depeche Mode - Before We Drown [Memento Mori, Mute] Die Wilde Jagd - Kelch [Ophio, Bureau B] Die Wilde Jagd - Perseveranz [Ophio, Bureau B] Flore - Base IQ [Get Digit / Base IQ, Peder Mannerfelt Produktion] Froid Dub - Isla Morada [Deep Blue Bass, Delodio] Froid Dub - Not Loved [Deep Blue Bass, Delodio] Froid Dub - Original Stalker [Deep Blue Bass, Delodio] Froid Dub - Rude Light [Deep Blue Bass, Delodio] Hiroaki Iizuka - Behind The Frame [Recall, Arts Collective] Hiroaki Iizuka - Recall [Recall, Arts Collective] Hoshina Anniversary - Dakuten [HakkyouShisou, Constellation Tatsu] Hoshina Anniversary - Dareka no Rettoukan wo Nomikomu [HakkyouShisou, Constellation Tatsu] Hoshina Anniversary - Karoushi [HakkyouShisou, Constellation Tatsu]
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I:Cube - 0 0 01 48 [EYE CUBE, Versatile] I:Cube - La Grotte Aux Fees [EYE CUBE, Versatile] I:Cube - Vantableu [EYE CUBE, Versatile] Kouslin - Five Four [Patterns EP, Livity Sound]
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Laibach - Glück auf! [Sketches Of The Red Districts, Mute] Laibach - Lepo - krasno [Sketches Of The Red Districts, Mute] Laibach - Moralna zaslomba [Sketches Of The Red Districts, Mute] Lia Kohl - Sit on the Floor and Wait for Storms [The Ceiling Reposes, American Dreams] Lia Kohl - When Glass is There, and Water, [The Ceiling Reposes, American Dreams] Materia + Object - Enter [Telepath, Editions Mego] Material + Object - x6x [Telepath, Editions Mego] Meemo Comma - Cloudscape [Loverboy, Planet Mu]
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Moderat - Fast Land (The Bug's G36 Mix)[EVEN MORE D4TA, Monkeytown] Old Castle - Bloody Teeth [Artwork 51, Zoharum] Old Castle - Rage Goat [Artwork 51, Zoharum] Orphx - Apparition (Veiled)[Revenant, Self-Released] Orphx - Hungry Ghosts (Revenant)[Revenant, Self-Released] Orphx - Tangled Paths (Hypnagogic)[Revenant, Self-Released] Orphx - Vanishing Point (Erasure)[Revenant, Self-Released] Polypores - Enchantments [Praedormitium, Castles in Space] Polypores - Our Tiny Orbits [Praedormitium, Castles in Space]
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Powell & London Contemporary Orchestra - 14, 23, 18 [26 Lives, Diagonal] Powell & London Contemporary Orchestra - 23 [26 Lives, Diagonal] Pugilist - Circuit Breaker [Negative Space, Of Paradise] Pugilist - Daggers [Negative Space, Of Paradise] Pugilist - Micro Dose [Negative Space, Of Paradise] Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary - Insistently, Mystically [Evicted In The Morning, Disciples] Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary & Peter Eldh - Divine Timing Is Intuitive [Evicted In The Morning, Disciples]
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Sam Goku - Lotus Drive [The Things We See When We Look Closer, Permanent Vacation] Sam Goku - Mangrove Railways [The Things We See When We Look Closer, Permanent Vacation] Sam Goku - Zoom Out [The Things We See When We Look Closer, Permanent Vacation] Surgeon - Leadership Contest [Crash Recoil, Tresor] Surgeon - Masks & Archetypes [Crash Recoil, Tresor] Surgeon - Oak Bank [Crash Recoil, Tresor] Surgeon - Second Magnitude Stars [Crash Recoil, Tresor] The Black Dog - BCN 4 (Part 2)[Mixed] [Music For Airport Lounges, Dust Science]
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otstudentwithalife · 6 months
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Being myself and still helping people is possible ...
Of all the concepts this is the one I struggle putting into words mostly, not because I don’t understand it but mainly because I feel as though it is the center of what we as OTs should embody. Hear me out…
According to Bolt et al. (2019), ‘Occupational therapy is a profession concerned with improving well-being for persons of all ages through enabling occupations to promote health and participation in society. Occupational therapists do this by supporting persons’ engagement in occupations and activities that they want, need, and choose to do in everyday life. Occupational therapists explore new ways of doing things by adapting activities and physical and social environments to improve function, capacity, and participation. 
I believe that as OTs we are different in that we see people holistically and consider them as a whole instead of treating the illness and whether we like it or not that means being empathetic, encouraging, and advocating for our patients where they are discriminated against. According to Wong et al. (2020), “six therapeutic modes characterize client-therapist interactions in occupational therapy: advocating, collaborating, empathizing, encouraging, instructing, and problem-solving.“ 
I have learned to not only be empathetic and put myself in the client’s context in. order to understand them but to also be able to use myself in sessions to correct behaviors that may go unnoticed in the home environment but are maladaptive. In this way, I'm able to treat over time through handling and presentation and not necessarily through the main aim of the session. I still struggle with maintaining the structure of how I know the session would benefit the client and how I act during the session. My biggest flaw currently is following the mind map I have made in my write-ups which in turn tends to lessen the potential impact of my sessions overall in success. 
Being an OT is about constant adaptations and learning and as a person who loves trying to expand my knowledge and expertise this keeps me on the edge of my seat every single day !
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These past weeks I’ve learned to not only strive to meet my aims but also strive to stick by my principles because, at the end of the day, that is what optimizes the functionality and success of all my sessions hence the optimal treatment of my patients. Carl Beuhner is quoted as saying 'They may forget what you said - but they will never forget how you made them feel.' Consequently, therapists and care providers need to consider how they are making their clients feel. (Abson, 2022) This is what drives how I not only carry myself professionally but also how I handle my patients because of not only the impact I want to make on their lives but also how I want them to feel about me as a therapist and our sessions. 
Growing up I was afraid to speak out in groups, be the centre of attention, or even be remotely comfortable being myself. In OT using my cultural background to identify with clients in a way that most health professionals avoid is the most uniquely empowering aspect I enjoy.
References
Abson, D. (2022, February 10). Therapeutic use of self. The OT Hub. https://www.theothub.com/article/therapeutic-use-of-self
Wong, S. R., Fan, C., & Polatajko, H. J. (2020). Exploring culture and therapeutic communication: therapeutic mode use by occupational therapists in the United States and Singapore. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 74(3), 7403205120p1-7403205120p11. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2020.033936
Bolt, M., Ikking, T., Baaijen, R., & Saenger, S. (2019). Occupational therapy and primary care. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 20. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1463423618000452
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minenhlembatha · 1 year
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OVERALL REFLECTION ON MY COMMUNITY BLOCK AT CATO MANOR
If you have never had an experience on a rollercoaster ride, tag along on a community block and you’ll feel all emotions at once. These 4 weeks have been nothing, but a journey filled with mixed emotions, enjoyment and floods of tears of nothing but feeling like a failure. You’ll cry and pull yourself up. If you want to discover yourself even more, this block is for you, you shall move out of your comfort zone, it’ll break you and fix you up into a hardcore person who mostly is emotionless and yearn to fight for themselves throughout. Overall, there’s no rose without a thorn.
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(Nat-stimmy,2020)
This gif is a reflection of my ride within the 4 weeks in this block. As it moves, I want you to follow along with the ride, can you feel how scary it is when going downhill but feels better when it goes up. That is exactly how it felt whenever I lost control and felt like ending the journey but on the other hand pull myself up though it was hard.
The community block didn’t only always make me feel blue but there was a silver lining across the cloud. The highlights of my weeks in this block have to be how the community of Cato Manor was welcoming and was able to treat me as part of them and gelled well together as they could see the need for OT in their lives and the community. As occupational therapists, we are tasked with improving the health and well-being of our clients, and collaborative strategies can help achieve this goal. By working with other healthcare professionals, community organizations, and clients, we can address social determinants of health and improve access to resources for our clients. This made me realize the importance of making each client’s intervention to be client-centred and also taking into consideration the culture. According to Rodríguez-Bailón et al. (2022), it is stated that greater occupational performance satisfaction is a result of a client-centred approach. This indicates that occupational therapy patients may find it easier to accept the new restrictions on their occupational performance when their needs are centred around them. Client-centred intervention approach helps clients develop a stronger sense of self-identity and self-worth. In addition, individuals who attend therapy sessions that use this approach often improve their self-awareness and problem-solving abilities.
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(Person-centred-approach - Manton Heights ABI Unit, 2018)
This picture shows the benefits of using a person-centred care intervention approach.
Personally, I learnt more about how to communicate effectively because as they would say a child who doesn’t cry dies in the mother’s back and me being me, I was and still am not ready to die just yet. By dying, I mean failure to not stand up for myself leading to being taken advantage of. This block surely turned me into a new version of myself, the weak fragile me who was a people pleaser and would keep quiet and be dying inside, is gone. I found my voice and I am striving for it to be heard. Not only in my practicals but in my personal life as well.
"No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen." ~ Daniel Cormier
The way forward in community service is that the people need advocacy, because Cato Manor is a rural settlement with limited resources, most of the people may have limited access to knowledge about things that could help better their standard of living. As by  Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (3rd Edition) (2014), "Advocacy" also refers to actions taken to advance occupational justice and provide clients with the authority to look for and acquire the resources they need to participate fully in their daily occupations. At the individual and systemic levels, advocacy and self-advocacy results improve health, well-being, and employment.   We did health promotions in the clinic every Tuesday and Friday and everywhere in the community with people who wanted to know about us, to educate people about Occupational Therapy, what we offer, and how it can benefit them this was to ensure that people can get access to knowledge and health care as most people in the community would have things impacting their functionality negatively but don’t know whom they’ll get the help from.  According to WHO (n.d.), health promotion is essential as people may exert more control over their own health by promoting it. It includes a wide variety of social and environmental interventions that aim to improve and maintain each person's health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the underlying causes of illness rather than only concentrating on treatment and cure. Prevention is better than cure.
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(R, 2023)
In conclusion, I am grateful for the person I have become, and I have learnt a lot personally and professionally. This block made me change my perspective on life and overall, I have grown as an individual. The experience shaped me into whom I am right now as George Patton says, 'pressure makes diamonds'. The stories coming from the community about the lives they live made me eager to be an OT that brings back to the community and strives for what's also best for the community and advocates for them.
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Health promotion. (n.d.). https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/health-promotion
N. (2020, December 21). nat-stimmy. Tumblr. https://nat-stimmy.tumblr.com/post/638154591711756288/intimidator-305-source
Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (3rd Edition). (2014). American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68(Supplement_1), S1–S48. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2014.682006
Person-centred-approach - Manton Heights ABI Unit. (2018, November 1). Manton Heights ABI Unit. https://www.mantonheightsabi.co.uk/professionals/what-we-do/attachment/person-centred-approach/
R. (2023, February 3). SCOTUS Considers When Students With Disabilities Can Sue for Damages. Tumblr. https://royfmc.tumblr.com/post/708255183509028864/scotus-considers-when-students-with-disabilities
Rodríguez-Bailón, M., López-González, L., & Merchán-Baeza, J. A. (2022). Client-centred practice in occupational therapy after stroke: A systematic review. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 29(2), 89–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2020.1856181
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raeesadarsot · 2 years
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Blog 2: COVID - Trick or Treat - how has COVID impacted on the mental health of people and your reflections on returning to normal
Covid-19 hit South African shores in my 1st year at university. In March 2020, when walking past scattered groups of students on campus, everyone had a similar facial expression - one of utter disbelief that covid was really here! Within a few days, schools began closing, workplaces began moving operations online and talks of a lockdown began emerging and yet, university students were still preparing for our upcoming on-site tests. It was a Sunday evening when our President announced that schools will close during the course of that week and I sat with my OCTH notes, trying to study for the next day’s test amidst the chaos and anxiety. Within 3 hours of the President’s announcement, we received an email from the Dean which stated that “the academic program is suspended until further notice”. That email brought on a whole range of emotions for me - relief that my test was postponed, sadness that the academic program was suspended because I was really enjoying university despite attending for less than a month, anxiousness at what this pandemic had in store for us.
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From March 2020 onwards, everyday brought on new scares and emotions. During the 1st lockdown, despite the chaos, I admit to feeling content. I know this comes from a place of privilege because lives were turned upside-down, but getting to spend that time with my immediate family and just reconnecting with each other in the simplest way, made everything feel okay. Towards the end of those 3 weeks, everyone was eagerly awaiting a return to work and some normalcy. However, our President spoke and the lockdown was extended. Every breadwinner began to fear because no work meant that they were unable to feed their dependents. Whenever we left home to replace essentials, the number of homeless people just seemed to increase. Along with the poverty rate continuously increasing, the number of covid-positive cases were also on the rise. Doctors and other healthcare professionals were fighting against a virus that they knew little about. Everyone was paranoid and anxiety levels were through the roof. Amidst all of this, we began to navigate through the challenges of distance-learning. For 1st semester, we attended occasional Zoom sessions where lectures were being delivered, but for the most part, there was a lack of communication from the university (definitely justified to an extent considering this new world we found ourselves in). Somehow, we made it through the semester and whilst we were writing online tests, covid-19 hit home and my dad tested positive. I can speak for my whole family when I say that it was a terrifying time. Every few hours, new symptoms emerged and other symptoms worsened. Everything became so unpredictable. He was admitted to ICU and remained in hospital for 14 days. During this time, I grudgingly met deadlines without really caring about the outcome of my effort - being there for our families, friends and community seemed like the more important thing.
During each wave of the pandemic, many people who tested positive never made it through and passed away. Families lost many loved ones, especially the elderly. Many people lost their jobs due to business being so bad, people did not know where their next meal would come from and the unemployment rate of our country increased. The mental health of everyone was declining rapidly everyday. Somehow, through all of this mess, my 1st year came to an end and 2nd year began. On one hand, passing the year online was slightly more manageable but on the other hand, my knowledge of all our 1st year modules was nowhere near what it was supposed to be. Our 2nd year meant the start of on-site practicals. This was an anxiety-filled yet equally exciting time because we were finally about to see more of what OT is about and meet many of our classmates after a year, but we also had to visit hospitals & other facilities with high viral loads and put ourselves at risk of contracting the virus or passing it on to more vulnerable people. We safely made it through the year but mentally, it was not easy. (Refer to my blog 1 to read up on my experiences with studying OT thus far.)
2022 and my 3rd year as an Occupational Therapy student has by far been the most exhilarating and exhausting year of my life because with the return of normalcy comes a whole lot more responsibility. Apart from navigating through a normal year at university, everyone has been trying to build themselves up again in this post-covid era. For a long time, we all thought that life would never go back to normal. We assumed that compulsory mask-wearing was here to stay. We forgot what it was like to freely socialise without such strict social-distancing rules. Many things have changed since covid and although my anxiety levels have dropped slightly since the end of lockdown, trying to make it in this new world is still very terrifying. Good luck to all of us!
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otwannabe · 2 years
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COVID-Trick or Treat?
"Trick or Treat?" said covid-19 sinisterly😈 as it knocked on our doors in 2020, like the naïve citizens we are, we opened our doors thinking it was a silly Halloween rhyme about to pass with the Halloween season...but Boy, were we wrong!.
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It was the first of March 2020 when the first case of Covid-19 was reported in South Africa, and just like that! our lives were flipped upside down erasing everything we knew as "normal". The World Health Organization (WHO, 2020) stated that " a coronavirus is a kind of common virus that causes an infection in one's nose, sinuses or upper throat and most corona viruses are not dangerous", they proceeded to say that "...however covid-19 is a disease caused by SARS-COV-2 which triggers a respiratory tract infection and is very dangerous".
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"Trick or Treat?" was the question...well, Covid-19 was both a trick and treat. "Is she nuts?" you may ask, maybe🤷‍♀️, but before the covid-19 pandemic mental health was not seen as a priority and as sad as it is, we can't shy away from the fact that it took a pandemic for people to realize and prioritize mental health. According to (Anwar, 2021) "mental health is very important as it impacts every area of our lives, and the importance of good mental health ripples into everything we do, think or say". Unfortunately the impact of covid-19 on people's mental health was a negative one as a large number of mental health cases were reported during the covid-19 pandemic, this was attributed to by the retrenchments by businesses, implemented lockdowns (social isolation), peaking anxiety and stress levels due to the uncertainty of the future amongst other things. The (WHO, 2020) reported that "a great number of people have reported psychological distress symptoms of depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress and there has been worrying signs of a more widespread of suicidal thoughts and behaviors this also includes health care workers".
I can still remember how nervous I was when the first case of covid-19 was reported in SA, A great deal of anxiety hit me as I worried for my friends and family's lives, but mostly I was worried if the pandemic will ever come to an end. Everything had to change to accommodate the new normal. Universities had to convert to online learning at the time I couldn't help but worry if the quality of education was ever going to be same as before the pandemic, I couldn't help but worry for the kind of OT I will be.
I'm not even sure what "normal" is anymore, but as I navigate my way to "normal" it still doesn't feel "normal" as the pandemic opened my eyes to the fact that nothing will ever stay stagnant in life and that striving for the best possible versions of ourselves should be the ultimate and daily goal as it could all come to an end at the blink of an eye.
Reference list:
Anwar, L. (2021), "The Importance of Mental Health", (Accessed: 04 September 2022). Available: Talkspace.com [online].
World Health Organisation, (2020), "Mental Health and Covid -19", (Accessed: 04 September 2022). Available: WHO.int [online].
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FLAVIO FERNÁNDEZ GIF HUNT
Bajo el read more podréis encontrar #71 gifs icons de Flavio Fernández, conocido por su participación en el reality musical español Operación Triunfo 2020. Todos los gifs han sido hechos por mi, así que no los añadáis a otras gif hunts o los publiques como vuestros. Por favor, like/reblog si los usais, gracias // All of these gifs were made by me for roleplay purposes only, so please don’t add them into gif hunts, repost them, or claim them as your own. Please like/reblog if using, thank you!
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