Research found that autistic adults who use recreational drugs were nearly nine times more likely than non-autistic peers to report using such (like marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines) to manage unwanted symptoms, including autism-related symptoms.
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Many physicians carry the emotional weight of patient deaths alone, and new studies suggest that unresolved grief may fuel burnout, anxiety and depression.
Discover Glo V. 🧡 on LinkMe: A dissident eating disorder educator who walked away from the recovery industry. For over a decade, NPP has centered the effects of settler colonialism on body image and disordered eating. Placing community as real expertise, NPP draws on Indigenous knowledge and harm reduction to reimagine mental health and food relations.
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138 likes, 2 comments - sherlove971 on September 19, 2026: "The traits didn’t change — my relationship to them did. From justice sensitivity to gestalt processing, 10 AuDHD traits I stopped trying to correct and started trying to understand. Now in my book, Cognitive Ecology.
#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #Neurodivergent #CognitiveEcology".
3,171 likes, 162 comments - christabelmintahnwankwo on September 12, 2026: "Your therapist’s favorite word is doing the state’s favorite job.
You’ve felt the version of this at home, where you set the textbook boundary with your mother, word for word from some carousel, and the whole family treats you like you converted to a foreign religion, because in a way you did.
The version I teach works where people actually need each other: boundaries that bring you closer instead of ending contact, and repair for when the line lands wrong, so when your auntie calls you selfish for saying no you have language that holds the no without burning the relationship, and when you’ve overcorrected into isolation you have a way back that isn’t collapse. All of that lives in the Toolkit.
Comment WORKBOOK and I’ll send you the link.
#relationalskillsforliberation".
These 3 women in addiction recovery say help, not handcuffs, could have changed their lives
Being caught in a constant “hamster wheel” without any help is how Tracy Bechard remembers a time when she was addicted to drugs, getting arrested and wondering what supports existed for her. She's is reacting to a policy change at Windsor police where officers have been instructed to arrest and charge anyone they see openly using illegal drugs
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2,059 likes, 55 comments - ageofcollapse on September 6, 2026: "“Stay positive” has become one of the most useful excuses for doing far too little.
Jonathan Watts argues that false hope can function like an anaesthetic: distant targets, miracle technologies and endless promises that everything will somehow work out, while emissions rise, ecosystems unravel and governments delay the action required now.
Research pubkushed in the science journal Nature shows climate related distress is linked with greater collective action. Fear, grief and anger are not automatically paralysing. In a crisis this severe, they can be entirely rational responses that push people to act.
Meanwhile, some Indigenous peoples living closest to ecological breakdown do not even organise their worldview around “hope” in the way industrial societies do. Anthropologist Ana Maria Machado says the Yanomami have no direct word for it, focusing instead on relationships and responsibilities in the present.
That contrast is brutal. Those most exposed to ecological destruction are being forced to deal with reality now, while the societies driving much of it keep selling themselves comforting stories about the future.
The problem is not hope grounded in action. It is placebo hope: reassurance without transformation. We do not need more comforting narratives. We need less denial, less delay and far more action.".
Medscape: Which Drug Therapy Is Best for ADHD Plus Stimulant Use Disorder?
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Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now
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3,715 likes, 390 comments - jmswellbeing on August 18, 2026: "we need to stop calling it autistic burnout.
Autistic burnout is neurological collapse.
There is proven co morbidities and links thats increase if we are autistic. and it minimises the true impacts of it.
#autisticburnout
#actuallyautistic
#latediagnosedautism
#skillregression".