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10 votes
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Health in England 2015-2020
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Rising ebola cases in Uganda spark regional concern
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Lawmakers in Finland have approved a legislative reform that will ease the process of getting an abortion in the country
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The underserved market of menopause
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Denmark and Greenland have formally agreed to launch a two-year investigation into historic birth control practices carried out for many years on Inuit Greenlanders
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Firefox for families: The TechTalk - Making awkward tech conversations with kids slightly less awkward
5 votes -
Denmark to allow significantly reduced mink production – limits on the number of people allowed to visit farms
5 votes -
Why you are lonely and how to make friends
5 votes -
Poor teeth - If you have a mouthful of teeth shaped by a childhood in poverty, don’t go knocking on the door of American privilege
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People don't want to hear about it – how the pandemic shaped Sweden's politics and left many feeling hopeless and disenfranchised
5 votes -
Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths gripping Britain is only tip of the iceberg
6 votes -
Failure to cope "under capitalism"
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FDA clears path for hearing aids to be sold over the counter in the USA
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Scotland to become first country in world to provide free period products
16 votes -
‘The Flash’ star Ezra Miller seeking treatment for ‘complex mental health issues’
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Did Sweden's controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down
10 votes -
White House declares mpox a public health emergency
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The armchair psychologist who ticked off YouTube
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Polio found in New York wastewater as state urges vaccinations
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World Health Organization declares mpox spread a global health emergency
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Doctors treating mpox complain of ‘daunting’ paperwork, obstacles
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Allen Carr’s ‘Easy Way’ method helped millions quit smoking, but medicine never took it seriously — until now
8 votes -
Daily Harvest sued over US illness linked to lentils; cause remains a medical mystery
11 votes -
How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public
8 votes -
How people live off a garbage mountain that keeps catching on fire | World Wide Waste
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Is the open-plan office heading to the grave?
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Creators are mitigating burnout with longform YouTube videos
8 votes -
US FDA orders all Juul e-cigarettes off the market
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Germany moves ahead with plan to legalize cannabis sales
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Over twenty-five years ago Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland's inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness
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Arcades, churches and laundromats: A trucker’s haven on the precipice of change
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Adolescents in the US are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times.
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Coming to terms with my coming to terms with post
I've posted about my mental health issues on Tildes before, 1st post 2nd post. I reread my other 2 posts before writing this, and I definitely cringed a bit at them. I was not doing good and did...
I've posted about my mental health issues on Tildes before, 1st post 2nd post.
I reread my other 2 posts before writing this, and I definitely cringed a bit at them. I was not doing good and did not have a real sense of what to include and not. However, I really needed to feel seen and heard, so I also don't regret either of them. I didn't have anyone to open up to in my real life.
I've gotten a much better understanding of what I went through as a kid over the past year. My sister physically and emotional abused me since before I can remember until she left for college, and my parents always ignored it. That's fucked up, and there's nothing wrong with me for being so damaged because of it.
I moved to Portland, and it was definitely the right choose. I can't imagine living in the suburbs again. I went to my first concert, I got my first tattoo. I tried weed for the first time, and it really helps me gain emotional clarity. For first time in my life, I have some real hope for my future.
As the final note, I'd like to thank all the nice people here again; you really did help a scared, lonely kid more then you think.
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2020. That's when I met her. To some of my close friends it sounds silly to them when I tell them we loved each other. It's hard for some people to grasp the intensity that a long distance...
2020. That's when I met her.
To some of my close friends it sounds silly to them when I tell them we loved each other. It's hard for some people to grasp the intensity that a long distance relationship can have. But I don't have anything to prove to anyone - I truly did love her.
Being with an ace, I thought, would make things more complicated as I am not asexual myself. But if anything it made things simpler. It made the long distance easier to deal with. It made it easier to be patient. Easier to deal with her not being in my life all the time, because when push came to shove, she was in my life when I needed her to be. In fact, she was the main reason I labeled myself as polyamorous this year. I realised that I didn't want to pretend we were just friends anymore. I cared for her too much for that.
In so little time, she changed me into a better person. She taught me subtleties about love, sex, relationships but also about life in general. She helped me through mental struggles. She was my first call when we got my SO’s sister out of Kyiv this year. In fact, the day of the war, we talked for over six hours in a row.
She was always, always positive no matter the challenge. A true constant. Saw the flip side nobody else could see. No matter how ill she would get, she'd always brush it off and get back on her feet. In the two years I knew her, she had never made me cry, and her messages would always put a smile on my face.
Difficulty tends to make people stronger. She's had an incredibly difficult life, and was the toughest person I knew.None of those challenges defined her. She was not defined by her gender, illness, sexuality. She was defined by her constant, absolute positivity. And her unending love for Korea.
She believed, as I do, that we're all one entity - the universe experiencing itself. That her role here had been to spread love and positivity. I hope everyone here will be lucky enough to meet someone like her, at some point in their life.
She was 30. The world is worse without her in it.
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The reinvention of a ‘real man’: In cowboy country, a father and husband troubled by suicide reimagines American masculinity, one conversation at a time
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How we track COVID-19 (and other weird stuff) in sewage
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Too many kids show worrying signs of fragility from a very young age. Here’s what we can do about it | Parenting kids with anxiety
23 votes -
Shanghai, the next Xinjiang?
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About half of US abortion patients report using contraception in the month they became pregnant
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Does anyone here have daydreams so intense that they can't think about anything else?
I have been experiencing this for 3-4 years now. It used to be that I daydream only when I am bored lying in the bed but for the past year my daydreams have been becoming more and more involved in...
I have been experiencing this for 3-4 years now. It used to be that I daydream only when I am bored lying in the bed but for the past year my daydreams have been becoming more and more involved in my life. I can't think of myself as anything but my character in my dreams. It lasts for hours in a day and is sometimes my only source of joy. I sometimes am so out of it that an hour has passed of me dreaming and I don't remember what I was doing originally. I honestly don't really feel comfortable in my real body either. I want to live as the person I see in my daydreams. Is there anyone who experiences this or has recovered from it? I am honestly really scared...
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Canada eliminates mandatory waiting period for gay men to donate blood
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In Australia, slot machines are everywhere. So is gambling addiction.
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I don't think time helps
I've been rewatching Ozark. The third season features a bipolar character, and his storyline has been hitting me hard. There is an emphasis on "getting better". Staying somewhere and getting...
I've been rewatching Ozark. The third season features a bipolar character, and his storyline has been hitting me hard.
There is an emphasis on "getting better". Staying somewhere and getting better. Giving things time.
It's been making me wonder if time really makes things better.Time heals wounds, but it doesn't fix broken things. It helps with grief. It helps forget the things that make it worse.
Twelve years ago, things got bad enough in my life that I attempted suicide. I had no psychological safety nets at the time. No mental security. What saved me at the time was a mix of luck, a couple of smart decisions on my part, and the good will of some people I barely knew.
I have since spent a lot of time creating and nurturing safety nets to make sure this never happens again. A variety of social, technological and mental mechanisms to stop me at every step, should things ever get this bad again.
And now, I'm... alive. Things got bad this last month. Really bad. Worse than twelve years ago. Worse than they've ever been. But I'm alive. My safety nets worked. I wouldn't be writing this without them.
I'm getting the feeling that I'm going to carry this burden for the rest of my life. Time didn't fix shit. I just got better at defending myself since.
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Bullying can make children's lives a misery and cause lifelong health problems – but scientists are discovering powerful ways to fight it
17 votes -
Denmark has unveiled plans to ban the sale of cigarettes and nicotine products to any citizens born after 2010
5 votes -
Avicii's musical legacy is being celebrated at an interactive museum in Stockholm, which also raises awareness of mental health in the music industry
6 votes -
I gave psilocybin a try
Can you answer "yes" to that statement? Tell me about it.
18 votes -
The data are clear: The boys are not all right
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Dutch cities are better for the climate… and my sanity
10 votes