Me: feels sad about life
Me: goes on social media and looks at other people with better lives
Me: feels worse about life
Why do I do this???
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I don’t know what to do I feel so lost I don’t know where my illness is going to take me. It’s taken over my life. I feel so so depressed about my life situation. This isn’t fair. I hate this illness. Why? I don’t understand why God did this. Why do some people get happy lives and others suffer? Please God bless me with a happy life ONE day, I don’t want this to be forever.
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Ok I am going through an existential crisis right now. What do I do now? I don’t know what to do with myself now. Rest? Relax? Chill? Focus on myself? I don’t know the meaning of that. All I know is stress and chaos. This is so hard. I don’t know who I am anymore 😞
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Kendra retweeted
Don't ignore me. I'm Angel and have been near bed bound after years of battling chronic illnesses including Long Covid.
I need $80 for September expenses and $220 to refill asthma medicine. Fund links are in my profile. Praying for a guardian angel. Pls help.
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ALT Black women confronting each other.
So far so good at my new spot. I miss my girlfriend and long distance is hard but she will visit and it’s only making us stronger. I actually have peace of mind for the first time in so long. I’m not sure what to do with it….i suppose I will start my hobbies again, and focus on my health. Thank you for all being here for me through this transition
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The left: Breakfast at my new facility. They also let us take it to our rooms so we can eat comfortably. So when places like Bryn Mawr Care feed us like the photo on the right, it’s a conscious choice. Because the photo on the left is what is possible, and what the standard should be every single day, because we residents are humans and we are hungry too.
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Wow Bryn Mawr Care was a five month nightmare fever dream that I feel like I just escaped from. Didn’t know how bad it was until now that I am at a good facility. The staff are nice and professional, the food is good, they don’t boss us around, my room is nicer. Bryn Mawr care did me a favor by kicking me out of that hell that I was choosing to stay in. I was becoming institutionalized very quickly. Now I see what it’s like to live at a facility but still be treated like a human being. It’s great.
I’m free. I’m free.
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The fact that the residents yelling and screaming here bothers me less than the abuse I see by the hands of staff at my last facility is crazy.
The staff here are being so nice to me, so gentle. I think they can see it in my eyes that I’ve been traumatized.
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My girlfriend and I had a long talk and we both agreed that Bryn Mawr is not a safe place for me to live. So I’m not going back. I like my current facility, a lot. We want what’s best for my health, and it is not that place.
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I was waiting in line for meds. They give them to us on our halls. There was an elderly man standing in front of me leaning over and having trouble standing so I just went to my room and brought my chair out and I let him sit down and then when he was done getting his I used it too because I was fatigued from standing.
And the staff just like…let me do it? They didn’t even question it. They just let me accommodate myself and him without any protest or scolding. At Bryn Mawr I would have gotten in trouble for that.
Yeah…I think I’m gunna like it here.
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The staff member said “we are like one big family here.” I can feel it too, and I appreciate that. I love it.
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