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#Vaccines #science #Victorian #1800s #19thCentury #medicine #germtheory #loss #Grief #death

aylwyyn228

My PhD research was focused on grief in the 19th
century. I can tell you exactly how much they
would have wanted modern medicine. I've read so
many accounts of people writing about how they
would have done anything to save their children,
their spouses, their siblings.

Mothers and fathers who sat up all night praying
that their baby would see the morning. People
giving huge sums of money to quack doctors in
the hope that they could save their wives.
Mothers writing about how they would do
anything to not leave their children alone. One
father after the loss of his fifth child in a month
retelling how he had wanted to go outside and
scream, but that he was too tired, so he lay down
on the dining room floor instead.

After I read all that it feels like an insult that
anyone in the modern world would turn down
vaccines, when for thousands of years countless
people would have given everything they had for
the opportunity to save their loved ones.

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CW: loss

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1. I felt the weight today of realizing that when I lost my dad, I didn’t just lose a parent — I lost the one person in this family who always stood quietly but firmly in my corner.
2. Grief has a way of stripping things down to the truth. It shows you who reaches out, who disappears, and who your heart can no longer lean on. That clarity hurts… but it’s also strangely grounding.
3. In the middle of all this heartbreak, I’m discovering that the people who show up — the ones who check in, who simply see me — are the ones keeping me upright. Chosen support is turning out to be a lifeline.
#threegoodthings #3goodthings #SmallMoments #grief #loss #healing #bereavement

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Grief doesn’t always arrive as thoughts. Sometimes it shows up in the body first — a sudden pressure in the chest, a wave that rises out of nowhere.

I’ve learned to meet it with something simple:  a long, quiet exhale.
 Just letting that breath out helps release the surge before it overwhelms me.

And in those moments, I run a filmstrip in my head — small, beautiful scenes and memories that give me something steady to hold onto while the wave moves through.

Most of the time, the wave passes. What’s left is a softer, quieter sadness — the kind you can carry.

Grief isn’t just something we think.
 It’s something we feel, physically… and sometimes, we just have to let it move through us.

#grief #healing #mentalhealth #emotions #loss #selfcare #landscapephotography

A quiet, winding two-lane road curves gently to the left, marked by double yellow lines. Dense green trees and foliage line the left side, while tall grasses and a row of utility poles stretch along the right. A soft layer of morning fog hangs low over the landscape, partially veiling distant hills. Above, a pale blue sky is streaked with thin, wispy clouds, creating a calm, muted atmosphere.

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🌐🌏💛💁🏿‍♀️*{IN TIMES OF GREAT LOSS*& STRUGGLING!*& FEELING LOST!*READ!*& PRAY FOR A PURPOSE TO LIVE!*& CARRY ON NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH THE FOLLOWING VERSES!}👉
(Philipians 3: 13-14)*AMEN!🤗👉

#IN #GREAT #TIMES #OF #LOSS #I #AM
#Straining #Toward #the #Goal
#Amazing #grace #Miracle #Epiphany #Thursday #Devotional #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #World #People #Remember #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Caring #Hospitality #Love

A modern bright colorful painting of a family with two children

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TW: MAJORLY Depressive update on my life and situation. Death, loss, depression, drugs, and alcohol

Hi everyone.

I know I don't really post much here anymore, but this is gonna be a pretty long, pretty depressing update on my life.

For the past year and a half, I've been on Threads, mostly discussing pro wrestling because it's been a lifelong passion of mine and there's not much discussion about it here.

Well, back in April 2025, my dad got sick really bad with A-Fib and was bedridden. He's a big guy so it took me, my mom, and my sister to take care of him. Throughout 2025, I continued being the main one to be taking care of him while my mom and sister work, because as a lot of you know, I'm disabled.

At the beginning of 2026, I thought things were looking up because he had just had surgery to try to alleviate the A-Fib and more personally, I had started "flirting" with this woman that had been a mutual for several months on Threads.

I really took a liking to this woman because I had been attracted to her from her pics she'd post on Threads even before we started flirting. In my opinion, we had a TON in common in a way that I hadn't had in 10+ years and it got to the point where we'd seen each other's entire bodies and such.

Well...at the end of February, my dad passed away suddenly from a heart attack and my entire facade of any sort of mental health went out the window.

It was a LOT to deal with. Not only with the mental weight of losing my dad who's the only continuous person in my life that's been supporting me and being there for me and having to cremate him, but I also had the full burden of being the only legal right to all of his assets.

I had to deal with 3 vehicles, a house, and a bank account. I got VERY QUICKLY mentally overwhelmed and started drinking to cope.

Then, after the first week of March, right when I'm dealing with all this, the woman decides she doesn't want to flirt anymore and just wants to be friends. As someone that literally has nobody to talk to almost 90% of the time, and her filling a great portion of that beforehand, it shattered me completely. Especially because of how much I liked her beforehand, I felt like I had won the lottery and then blew the millions before I put it in my bank account. We weren't even in a relationship or anything. I just REALLY REALLY wanted to be and could see myself absolutely super happy with her.

Ever since then, I've dealt with all of the assets and gotten everything in order and in my name for the most part.

Now, I'm dealing with the fact that I have 1 friend that barely talks to me, and no goals or ambitions. I've had exactly one hug in 5 years and it was from my nephew while my dad was being worked on by EMTs.

I am EXTREMELY lonely, manic depressive with PTSD, and extremely ADHD with strong RSD.

I've been mentally in shambles. I've been drinking more than I'd like to admit but it makes the pain numb for awhile and I try not to bother anyone while I'm drunk. I also have been heavily smoking weed, but I've always smoked weed, it's just increased tenfold. I smoked 2 ounces this month and it'd normally take 2-3 months to smoke that much.

I spent a bunch of my inheritance on wrestling show tickets and I'm taking my nephew because I feel like I HAVE to get out of this house. Being in this house alone with nobody to wrap my arms around and hold is literally destroying me mentally.

Our first trip starts on Thursday and my mental is getting so bad that I'm worried I'm gonna lose my mind before then.

Nobody really talks to me and when they do, one of us usually quickly runs out of things to say.

Anyway, I'm sorry if I worry anyone with this post. That's not the point. I just figured i owed some people an update because I have a lot of you here that had supported me for a long time.

I'll be fine I'm sure. Eventually. I'm not right now, but hopefully I will be eventually.

Take care,
Your friend,
BeAware

#Depression #MentalHealth #PTSD #Death #Loss #ADHD #Life #Alcohol #Drugs

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I'm doing really well, and I don't want anyone to be worried or anything but I still have moments where I think:

"Hmm, I need to ask mom what her take is on this, since she studied this subject in—
Oh, dang it."

#Loss is real, y'all. If you're going through something, my DMs are open. 💗

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https://youtu.be/PsT9d0G9--E
😭 #Destiny2 #Destiny #Bungie #Sony #3rdspaces #3rdplaces #grief #anger #community #loss #storytelling #adventure #liveservice #gaming #videogames #MMOFPS #onlinegaming

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gif’s artidote | episode 16 | reflection

this week i am reading from an article called 'reflection' which i wrote in january 2021 about the year just past: 2020. yes that disastrous year for humankind because for the first time in probably at least a hundred years a pandemic broke out and killed millions of us worldwide. in the first lock-down my ex-partner & my oldest…

https://gifsartidote.life/2026/07/11/gifs-artidote-episode-16-reflection/

#press #podcast #loss #miscarriage #grieving #love

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#ContentWarning expressions of grief, trauma & sadness.

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Re: https://social.freebitcoin.gay/users/drew/statuses/01KY7HAXB9R8BZ60CXWB3P2B7Y

I think the most important question is: why does anyone comply with what one incurious, self-centered, and self-important man, Linus Torvalds, says?

Why is that most important? Because Linux does not belong to Linus Torvalds. It belongs to the world. Torvalds only gets to dictate if the people who are best-positioned to take that power from him fail to do so. From where I sit (as an outsider), he should have been removed from the project, or at least have his dictatorial power removed, long ago, and the primary problem is that there is no structure or will to actually do that.

Under these conditions Linux is a hierarchical, and therefore right-wing, project. The project allows a single man to dictate the future evolution of a global good. Let's drop the illusion that it is "free" or "open" till that changes.

#dev #tech #FOSS #FLOSS #LOSS #linux #kernel #AI #LLM

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Rated Wind Traces 7/10

Dolores Fonzi is a fucking treasure.

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