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last week i was going to get my meds and the pharmacist told me that i got the last package they still have left before a supply chain fuckup stopped the delivery.

the US is the main producer of these, according to chatGPT...

At 47 years old, I am far to old for this much suffering and struggling every single day, from never having enough #food to eat, to not having a supportive mattress to sleep on, to struggle to afford to maintain my personal hygiene and the cleanliness of my tiny cave, to living in constant pain, to having my #health deteriorate, to having clothing and shoes that are not falling apart to worrying about the roof I am under, so much of my troubles could be lessened if only people would come together and Actually Help this #disabled man living in #poverty, if 5 million people all gave just $1.80 say in the next 24 hours, I would have all the money I need to buy property and build a forever home, as well as have enough money to take care of myself for the rest of my life, and maybe just maybe be a position to really help others as well, I really wish people could and would see the value in helping me, I am tired of being hungry everyday, I am tired of worrying about I am going to take care of myself each day, I am tired of the added burdens that make my #disablity that much worse, and I am tired of people simply not caring about others. $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

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I feel grateful to have experienced a period of ultra-rapid bipolar cycling in my life, as it gave me perspective on my own emotions which has proven valuable in all the many challenging circumstances I have faced since then.

Though the extremes were medication-induced, I am a naturally moody person and without any meds I would still exist on the edge of the #Bipolar spectrum. But these days I understand how to lean into that moodiness. Feeling shitty? Wait a minute. Distract if necessary.

Talmud (Sanhedrin 37a): “Whoever saves a single life is considered by scripture to have saved the whole world entire.

If you find yourself in that dark place please know you are loved and help is available. You deserve to feel better and you are NOT alone in that pain.

Is There Any Hope, Or Compassion Left In This World?

I am a #disabled man living in #poverty, my #disability is 60% physical and 40% mental, and as I get older, both of those are increasingly hard to deal with, each day I try to do what I can where I live, as part of my rent is to help out when and as I can, but that is getting harder and harder to do, I am spent, between losing what little strength and physical ability I have left and not getting decent sleep nor having a decent diet, things just keep getting harder, and that causes my #anxiety to get worse which causes my #bipolar to cycle, which causes more lack of sleep, and I am in constant pain, and on and on it goes, Today is March 22nd my 47th #birthday, and I sure wish by the grace of God, somehow people help me #fundraise $5million dollars so that I can buy my own property and build my forever home, and have everything I need to never have to worry again, and to alleviate the stress of my day to day situation, and so I can really just age at a pace that wont effect anyone or anything, because in my own home, if I cant or dont feel like it I dont have to do anything for days, weeks, or months at a time and no one can get mad at me. People seem to forget that I am disabled and they dont realize I am getting older, nor do they comprehend that I simply cant afford #food to eat 3 meals a day, often not even one meal a day, that I have no #healthcare, people in general expect me to just keep going like the energizer bunny, when the reality is I am an old broke down ford truck, that on occasion I can get fired up and get a few things done, but more often than not, I really dont have the gas to even stand up. $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

Part 2/2 I had one manic episode about 2 years ago, and made sure my diagnosis hadn't changed. 2 different doctors at the hospital had reassured me that one manic episode didn't mean I was bipolar. But I was told yesterday by both the physicians assistant and the psychiatrist that the diagnostic criteria only requires one.

They also seemed to think the episodes I get that last a few days where I get extra hyper and a little more up were sus. I always assumed they were part of my ADHD. #Bipolar

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@TexasObserver

>On this particular day last year, she feared leaving the shower because she thought someone was trying to harm her. She hears voices and sees imaginary people. The officer on duty tried to calm her down. Her mental health counselors tried to persuade her that no one was out there or going to harm her. To no avail.
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>After about an hour of trying to get Timmons out of the shower, Senior Warden Audrey England seemed frustrated. ...
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>“Get this dumba** out of here! Run a team,” I thought I heard the warden say.
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>“Run a team” means suit up for combat. The team, which were mainly male officers, raced into the shower where the woman in crisis was naked. They were carrying Tasers and batons and after deploying those weapons left her on the floor, cooking like a steak on a grill. It was the first time I saw or heard a Taser used in prison.
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>After hours of being left on the shower floor, Timmons was hogtied with shackles and dragged to her cell naked by male officers. Burn marks could be seen where the prongs from the Tasers roasted her skin. The smell of seared flesh filled the air.

The cruelty is the point. If Timmons was going to be left in the showers for hours anyway, why bother deploying tasers or a team on her in the first place? I want to say that a psych ward is a better place for addressing mental illness, but having been involuntarily committed before myself, the similarities between a ward and and a prison are too uncanny to ignore.