Wrote an update to my doctor at the VA. As always, I preface it with a disclaimer that no action is requested, it is not an emergency, and I am not contemplating #SelfHarm or #suicide

but because anything I attach gets added to my medical record, I like to include memes because it amuses me greatly to have them become Part of the Record

and I chose this one without thinking about it

so I bet I get a phone call

Prisoner dies after officer lied about cell checks in disastrous 'cover up' - watchdog finds

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prisoner-dies-after-officer-lied-36924663

I was thinking that societies tend to react very differently to different forms of self-harm, even when an accepted way is more harmful.

So today, after leaving the vet, I smashed my hand on a lamppost, fairly hard. It hurt, because that was the point. It made me feel a bit better to focus on that momentary physical pain, instead of the mental pain.
Then it occurred to me, that if anyone sees me do something like that, I would be whisked away to get evaluated whether I'm a danger to myself.

But on the other hand, someone goes to smoke a pack of cigarettes and drink a bottle of vodka, no one will bat an eye. When in reality, me slightly hurting my hand is barely harmful to me. There is no lasting damage, and the pain only lasts for a few seconds.
Whereas the alcohol and cigarettes are not only way more harmful to the user, they most likely will hurt others too, if by no other method than poisoning the air around them.

I find this infinitely strange. My way literally harms only me, no one else, and only mildly for a brief time.

#selfharm

“Environmental factors linked with identifying as a sexual minority may increase suicidality risk”

https://www.acamh.org/research-digest/environmental-factors-linked-with-identifying-as-a-sexual-minority-may-increase-suicidality-risk
#MentalHealthResearch #EvidenceBased #SelfHarm #Suicide

If only a democracy had the power to turn off the NaXi pipeline of hate and sedition...

#CdnPoli #SelfHarm

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2295…

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