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The System Is Broken seeks to provide education, activism and advocacy to help victims of abuse and injustice.

Joined January 2014
Nothing like being so sick that you have to decide if separating your diagnoses into columns might save room. #LymeDisease #chronicdisease
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@The_DID_Diary I'm really sorry- I sure know what that's like. Is there anything I can do to help?
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"Please protest in a way that I find convenient and non-confrontational." - Lots of people who don't understand what a protest is.
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Working to get thesystemisbrokenblog.org back up and running ASAP- does anyone w/ technical knowledge want to help? #geekstuff #website
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"Police kill black people & make up excuses all the time." (yawn) "Some stores got looted during the protest." OMG OMG TERRORISM #Ferguson
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I love the smug white conservatives who demonize black activists but pretend they would have supported MLK 50 years ago. #Ferguson
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Sending #love to all the #abuse survivors who had to choose between being alone or among their abusers today. #Family=love, not genes. #CSA
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Note to all humans: most folks with #disabilities can hear/otherwise tell when you're talking about them in front of them. #pwd #disability
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My experience is that mental health staff have a huge blind spot about some issues like power imbalances. They just do not get it.
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Why do staff 'whistleblow' and patients 'complain'? Aren't they both people pointing out something is wrong?
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@The_DID_Diary Therapists should encourage people to define their experiences on their terms. I'm sorry your therapist doesn't get it.
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@TSystemIsBroken my sister @FlorVicario suffered additional year of child abuse with pederast #PhelimONeill justiceforabusedchildren.com… #CSA
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Emotional suffering is not a disease; nor should we drug it away. It is the human condition & a way of knowing.
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It's every doctor's moral obligation 2 assume that patients who're physically suffering are medically ill: wp.me/P4byIR-vX
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Kids these days are #NotAfraidofTransWomen RT @msaitua: The view from a truly "caring & safe school" in the #TDSB.
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So if 3 cases of Ebola warrant an Ebola Czar I'm sure we'll get that gun czar, domestic violence czar & poverty czar any day.
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REPORT: Share No More: The criminalization of efforts to feed people in need. ow.ly/D2GBN #WarOnThePoor
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There are some days, when I wish I wasn't so aware.
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