#vaccine experience

[milkweedman]

It is interesting how much math comes into even the most basic of like. Making things. Making almost anything. And often not numbers necessarily but proportions and geometry. I think all the time about how castles were built with geometry at the heart of it. And I use the same kind of proportional math to make socks fit. And none of my pieces are ever knit with a prime number of stitches--because you use factors to make neat colorwork and ribbing and different stitches. Idk ! I remember constantly thinking 'how the hell is THIS gonna come in useful ?' But it always does. Math is at the heart of everything, and knowing how to apply it is a tool of critical importance to Thinking Up A Shape And Making It.

#it turns out it is not covid vaccine making me highly fucked up but rather this new med which is fun #um #one of thise 'high but wow. in such a bad way' kinda experience atm #almost fell down the stairs #tripped while just standing #and its like. ok so the thing is i go to pain management to manage my pain right ? makes sense #and then all they have to offer is shit that fucks me up more. the muscle relaxant that seems to have permanently #loosened all my joints so they are WAY WORSE NOW #stupid ssris that make me fall constantly and fuck with my brain #i literally just need a painkiller that works. that is all. we know what was effective from surgery #but they of course will never prescribe opiods. oh the horror. imagine. #i could scream #anyway. uh thinking about the interconnectedness of math in all things is much more fun than screaming #knitting

[pixel-with-wings]

me when the disability with “embarrassing” symptoms disables me in an “embarrassing” way:

#anyways I just had a meltdown #because I had to get some vaccines unexpectedly. #I genuinely didn’t know until midway through the appointment #also didn’t remember anything about the specific vaccines #and that combined with my bad experiences with needles kind of fucked my brain #autism #actually autistic #meltdown #autistic meltdown #autism meltdown #autistic #needle mention

[oifaaa]

Last of us spoilers: talking about the game ending which probably might be the same as the show ending warning just in case.

Ever since the last of us show came out I've seen so many people arguing about how obviously the fireflys wouldn't of been able to make a vaccine considering well everything which I personally agree with what I don't get is people saying that we have to ignore this bc it takes away from the game and Joel's character since if the vaccine was never possible he did the right thing he's a good person and I don't get this argument considering Joel didn't save Ellie bc he knew the vaccine would fail he believes fully that if the fireflys killed Ellie they'd be able to make a cure saving the world - by being selfish stealing Ellie back hes doomed everyone he didn't give a fuck tho I don't think us as the audience knowing the vaccine was almost impossible changes that Joel decided he'd rather let the entire world suffer then let Ellie die

#The last of us #the last of us spoilers #It's like those in game people who say there was only one man who could make the vaccine #And Joel killed him #As the audience we know this probably isn't true #Just from the experience of living through a pandemic #But that doesn't matter #It matters that this is what the characters believe is true #This is the reality they believe in the information they have and how they react to this reflects on them as characters #There's also just something deeply sad about it #That we know there's almost no chance of a vaccine #But the characters still have hope #And fight and kill and die #All for something that never could be #Last of us #last of us spoilers

[suncaptor]

nothing will make you sympathise with conspiracy theorist ideology more than having a seemingly rare reaction to a vaccine lmao.

#reading articles that try to falsify genuine incorrect information about the covid vaccines from 2021 is making me feel insane #'there's no way the covid vaccine can trigger an autoimmune disorder' uhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHH #factually extremely wrong! #they're soooo condescening too like why on EARTH do you think people who are genuinely sick or scared would believe you. #they'll be like there's no scientific evidence that anyone can be harmed by the covid vaccine <3 blatantly untrue. #I know that part of this is retrospect like obviously since more studies have come out and all #but it's infurirating bc they're from the time *I* was having those symptoms *and* telling doctors about it *and* being told the connection #to my other severe symptoms from the covid vaccine were Utterly Impossible (since proven false) and that if the symptoms WERE related #it meant i had a life threatening illness at worst and had a high chance of losing my vision at best #likeeeeeeeee #doctors still DO NOT know what the fuck they're doing do NOT trust anyone who gives ANY 100% answers #i don't know why i'm doing this i just said to stop obsessing but i'm just reading pages and articles on countering misinformation to make #sure i don't -- i want to know the conspiracy theories to recognise them immediately right #and then people are just saying bullshit to defend themselves #i mean most of the anti covid vacc people were also far right so i don't have too much sympathy for their vaccine ideology #but like. fucking hell what a way to push people into conspiracies. #you CAN'T counter misinformation by SPREADING MORE MISINFORMATION #just because it SOUNDS BETTER and MORE REASSURING to say there's not chance of harm doesn't mean you should #there's A LOW chance of harm THAT IS MUCH MUCH less high than the impacts of covid #god I'm pissed off. 2021 i was so fucking terrified of spreading this shit just by talking about my lived experiences. #to say i was not taking the pandemic seriously OR anti vax is so blatantly ridiculous considering who I am as a person but that doesn't mea #that the covid vaccine specifically didn't make me ill :////// #delete

[hextechmaturgy]

[reading the news about the bachelor route] I chose the perfect time to binge house MD

#pathologic #daniil dankovsky #brilliant yet Extremely rude doctor who goes as far as to break into his patients houses to check if they're lying about their symptoms/lif #has a team to do the baby work he doesn't care/have time to do himself #in p1 he experiments a few drugs and vaccines on himself. i expect more of that too here #keeps bothering a nicer colleague who was once married to a woman even though he is EXTREMELY fruity #i could go on #will girl on girl action save us from the pest dankovsky md? #betting that one of the endings is daniil fakes his death

[constantly-deactivated]

⚠️⚠️"YOU BETTER PAY ATTENTION"⚠️⚠️

White Hat Military Installations DESTROY Vaccine-Contaminated Blood Stockpiles

After the House voted 350-80 in favor of repealing Lloyd Austin’s unconstitutional Covid-19 vaccine mandate for all armed forces members, the White Hat partition of the U.S. military took it a step further by destroying blood donations taken from vaccinated servicemembers.

They say empirical evidence proves beyond all doubt that although donors might not present vaccine-related side effects, recipients of tainted plasma have had adverse reactions, including sudden death, to contaminated blood. Case in point: Staff Sgt. William Wright, a healthy 36-year-old male stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, was wounded during a training exercise to the point of needing a transfusion. Wright was not vaccinated; he had been fighting an arduous battle to obtain a religious exemption. He was unconscious at the time, and therefore couldn’t ask whether the plasma entering his veins had been siphoned from a vaccinated person. Unbeknownst to Wright, the donor had been double-vaxxed and boosted. He seemed to recover—his vitals were normal and he was eating solid food—but remained under observation at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center-Fort Bliss, and had enough strength to ask whether he’d been given vaccinated blood. When told he had, he protested. Two days later Wright, still at the hospital, died suddenly—major heart attack. A postmortem examination found an 11” blood clot in an artery in his lungs.

The White Hat physicians’ movement claims that the criminal Biden regime has buried hundreds of similar reports that malign its precious vaccine.

“When an unvaccinated patient receives vaccinated plasma, well, statistics don’t lie. What we’ve witnessed is an astronomically large number of troops present everything from mild and temporary to severe and lasting side effects, and, in some cases, death. I’m personally aware of 12 men that needed a transfusion and vehemently objected to getting vaccinated plasma. They were told they were government property and had no right to refuse it,” a physician at Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, told Real Raw News.

On Thursday, the senior leadership at Womack Army Medical Center reached a consensus to incinerate and destroy its stockpile of vaccine-contaminated blood—approximately 500 liters of refrigerated plasma and whole blood that hadn’t yet been spun in a centrifuge. News of the heroic act spread rapidly among the White Hat community, and within hours other military bases began torching polluted blood. Fort Meade, home to U.S. Cyber Command, destroyed its supply, as did Hunter Army Airfield and Fort Benning, both in Georgia. All told, 23 installations obliterated toxic blood.

“It was a ripple effect, a wave,” said our source at Womack Army Medical Center. “It only took us to start it, and now it’s washing over joint bases all over the country.”

RRN asked whether the blood destruction would affect service members whose lives depend on a transfusion.

“We have an ace in the hole,” our source said. “Fortunately, Marines resisted the mandate from the start, and have been donating regularly. Rough estimate, 150,000 unvaccinated Marines who can donate 6 times per year. The Special Operations units also refused vaccination. That’s 43,000 men and women, give or take. We won’t have a shortage of unvaccinated blood. And we’ll get more as new enlistees, who won’t have to get vaxxed, can contribute theirs.”

Source:

Do you know what you're getting❓🤔

#pay attention #wake the fuck up #wake up #wake up america #wake up people #wake up world #educate yourself #educate yourselves #do your own research #do your research #do your homework #vaccine deaths #vaccine #vaccine side effects #medical history #medical experiments #medical tyranny #medical corruption #military corruption #military is the only way #government tyranny #government lies #government corruption #think about it #think for yourself #think for yourselves #exposing the truth #exposing evil #exposing lies #exposing corruption

[segretecose]

the way my period was fucked up for a year after the vaccine and then went back to being more or less regular but much (MUCH) more painful than before 🙂

#not saying it was 100% the vaccine. obviously it changes on its own with age + i've had a lot of stress in the past few years buttttt. #lots of people who menstruate have reported similar experiences #🤔🤔🤔🤔 #to clarify i'd take the vaccine again i'm no anti #or skeptic. it’s just interesting

[the-last-dillpickle]

Reminder for all my beloved followers that if you're like me and maybe forgot about or put off getting your latest covid vaccinations because making appointments and attending them is a drag, you can still do that and save yourself (and others) future suffering.

#guess who got covid for the first time this week! :D it was hell! :D #almost went to the hospital bcuz my fever kept getting so high and i say this as someone whose normal body temp is like 97.2F #and rarely gets fevers over 100F #i am under 30. i have no pre existing conditions. i am physically active. it was still brutal as hell. #if youre someone who gets reactions to vaccinations i can tell you that reaction won't be a third of what the full experience is

[sidetongue]

on today’s chaotic choices... got a foster dog, took it to a 13 dog party the same day 

#she is fully vaccinated! and is very dog social #she had an absolute blast and got to experience love from so many people #such a judgeable offence on my part but seriously have no regrets #ps she's perfect #junie #fosters #miller #harold #budgie

[rowanthestrange]

one minute of silly puppy playing with and teething on his nylabone, to the background restaurant noise of a silent travelvlogger (to get him used to the television and different kinds of ambient sounds).

#rescue pup #cody #the inability to take him out #(waiting for last vaccine) #((and a behaviour expert tbh)) #doesn’t need to stop all socialisation skill training #he’s started clicker training today #to help with general behaviour and barking #which he’s taking to like a duck to water #smart cookie #and we’ve contacted an expert who’s going to make room #to give him some private instruction #and introduce him to other dogs #(which he may not have had or has had bad experiences) #(we can’t know so are playing it safe) #starting with her own known puppy-safe ones #luckily he’s smart by other dog standards #but not brigsy’s #i.e. we can just treat him #and he doesn’t understand it’s bribery #or at least not yet #so we’re just going all in on positive reinforcement #and risking fatting him #cus we can lose weight later #but we can’t get this critical learning time back #14 weeks is a very formative brain age

[kakitysax]

Autism isn’t parasitic, alien, robotic, or otherwise other, it’s human and no autistic person should be made to feel like their disability or how it presents itself makes them less than human. However, every Autistic person ever is allowed use these terms to describe themself and their experience. Hope this helps!!!

#my autism is a tadpole that swam unnoticed in my brain until we turned fourteen and it started to grow legs. #problem is if I say that to a right winger they’ll go ‘and the tadpole came from a vaccine’ and it’s like no. no. #it’s me it’s all me it’s a part of me and I’m human #I’m describing an internal experience in metaphorical language #it FEELS other and intrusive sometimes due to my frustration but I know that to be untrue #and it is by expressing that that I can then reaffirm that I am whole to myself #anyway. just some late night thoughts. #autism

[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Sarah Kuta

September 20, 2023

Tetris is one of the world’s best-selling video games and even the subject of a recent film — but the beloved 1980s digital puzzle may also help improve your mental health.

More specifically, psychologists are studying whether playing Tetris can help reduce the number of flashbacks or intrusive memories people have after a traumatic experience, such as sexual assault, a car accident, combat, a natural disaster, or a difficult childbirth.

Most people — roughly 70 percent — have had some traumatic experience in their lives.

But only a small fraction of the population, around 4 percent, will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a diagnosable psychological issue with symptoms ranging from sleep disturbances to self-destructive behaviors.

But whether trauma leads to full-blown PTSD or not, painful memories can spring to mind without warning.

Flashbacks are not only emotionally distressing, but they can also make it difficult to concentrate, which can lead to problems at work or school.

These intrusive memories often pop up as a picture or a short movie in our mind’s eye.

Against this backdrop, British psychologist Emily Holmes wondered if she could reduce the number of flashbacks people had by giving their brains a competing image to focus on shortly after they experienced trauma, while their memories were still forming.

The painful recollection would still exist, it just wouldn’t intrude as often.

“The human mind isn’t like a video camera — it doesn’t just immediately record everything we’ve experienced,” says Emily Holmes, a psychology professor at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University in Sweden.

“It actually takes some time, possibly hours, before a memory gets solidified into mind. What we were interested in was: Is there something we can do as the memory is still consolidating that would help it not become a flashback?”

A ‘cognitive vaccine’

Her team began testing an array of visuospatial tasks that involve generating or manipulating images in the mind’s eye, such as imagining a constellation or tapping out a complex pattern.

One day, a student suggested they try a video game — and Tetris became the obvious answer.

“It involves colors, it involves space because you’re having to move blocks around to complete lines and, critically, it requires you to rotate the shapes in your mind’s eye,” Holmes says.

“You really have to use your mental imagery skills because you’re trying to fit the blocks into the right place.”

They started to experiment with Tetris — first, in the lab, by showing participants a traumatic film and, later, in the real world, by meeting with people in hospital emergency departments who’d just been in car accidents.

In both settings, people who played Tetris within hours of the trauma experienced significantly fewer flashbacks over the course of the next week compared to those who didn’t.

(58 percent fewer in the film study, and 62 percent fewer in the car accident study)

Based on the promising results of this proactive, preventative approach — which Holmes describes as being like a “cognitive vaccine” — they next turned their attention to established memories.

“The reality is, we’re not going to be able to get to most people within a few hours of a traumatic event occurring,” she says.

“People can have intrusive memories for years or decades, so clearly we need to do something for those older memories.”

In one study, Holmes’ team asked people receiving treatment for PTSD to focus on a specific flashback while playing Tetris for 25 minutes once a week for several weeks.

By the end of the experiment, participants saw a 64 percent reduction in the number of times that specific memory popped up, as well as an 11 percent reduction in memories they hadn’t targeted.

In another study, they worked with intensive care unit nurses who had established intrusive memories — including many that were more than three months old — of traumatic events from the COVID-19 pandemic.

After four weeks, nurses who played Tetris experienced one-tenth the number of intrusive memories compared to those who did not play.

They also reported improvements in other symptoms, such as insomnia, anxiety, and depression.

Overall, nurses who played Tetris saw a 73 to 78 percent reduction in flashbacks.

As Holmes points out, there’s probably nothing special about Tetris specifically.

She suspects any task with high visuospatial demands — like drawing, doing a jigsaw puzzle, or making mosaics — might achieve similar results.

However, tasks that are verbally distracting, like doing a crossword or reading, probably wouldn’t work as well.

Tetris as a coping tool

Importantly, in their experiments, researchers aren’t just handing over a Game Boy and telling people to start playing Tetris.

Rather, they first ask participants to call to mind a particularly bad piece of a memory, called a hotspot.

Then, during gameplay, they instruct patients to mentally rotate the shapes, called tetrominoes, in their mind’s eye before they fall into the field of play.

They also ensure participants play Tetris for a sufficient length of time, usually between 10 and 20 minutes.

So far, all of their work has involved this procedure, which the researchers suspect is important to achieving results.

“Historically, intrusive memories of trauma are quite difficult to treat because they’re stuck in your mind for a reason — your brain’s gone into red alert and is trying to keep you safe,” says Holmes.

“They’re just really tricky things to alter. So if you’re just playing a game, it may help take your mind off things or reduce distress, but it might not help stop the flashbacks from intruding in the future.”

Still, playing Tetris on your own, without following the research procedure, likely won’t hurt you — and it may even help you feel better.

Canadian therapist Morgan Pomells recommends it to her clients as a coping tool for soothing feelings of anxiety or hyperarousal.

She doesn’t use Tetris during therapy sessions but, rather, suggests it as a potential option for moments when distressing memories or mental images arise during daily life.

“It’s one of the tools in the toolbox,” she says.

“A lot of people find it to be really helpful, especially people who have a really visual element to some of the symptoms they experience.

Turning to Tetris and being able to really sink into that game, even just for a couple minutes, allows them to feel a little safer and it really quiets their minds.

And when they resurface, they’re in a calmer state and actually able to take stock of their surroundings.”

However, Pomells cautions, Tetris or any other type of coping tool is not a substitute for seeing a therapist.

Holmes echoes that sentiment, adding that people who are suffering from flashbacks should first seek evidence-based treatment from a healthcare provider.

While Tetris may eventually become an evidence-based treatment itself, right now, researchers are still in the early stages of gathering clinical evidence.

“This is more of a journey of curiosity,” says Holmes.

Additional clinical studies are underway now. In the future, researchers also hope to test the long-term effects of Tetris on flashbacks, as well as understand what’s actually happening in the brain.

More broadly, they want to see if Tetris is effective at reducing intrusive memories related to other conditions beyond trauma, such as substance abuse disorders and depression.

“Mental images can haunt people in a variety of forms and I think it’s a real scientific challenge of the future,” says Holmes.

“It’s like being a physicist some centuries ago. We’ve just started to see the stars and planets, now we’ve got to go explore them.”

Tetris is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer.

It has been published by several companies for multiple platforms, most prominently during a dispute over the appropriation of the rights in the late 1980s.

After a significant period of publication by Nintendo, the rights reverted to Pajitnov in 1996, who co-founded the Tetris Company with Henk Rogers to manage licensing.

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Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born April 16, 1955) is a Russian computer engineer and video game designer who is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences).

#Tetris #video games #mental health #mental heath awareness #mental heath support #1980s #80s #20th century #digital puzzle #traumatic experience #trauma #post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) #PTSD #flashbacks #memories #psychology #cognitive vaccine #Game Boy #Alexey Pajitnov #puzzle video game #Nintendo #Tetris Company #Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov

[thebreakfastgenie]

Periodic reminder that if needles are terrifying to you that's called an anxiety disorder and if you work with a trusted professional this can in fact improve. If you can't afford a professional breathing/relaxation exercises help in some cases and you can find those online.

#i had a BAD phobia. bad. #violent panic attacks bad #and now it's fine #that took years of work #but like. god it's nice not to experience terror every time I need a vaccine

[constantly-deactivated]

This is what happens when you mix mercury with aluminium.👇

Both extremely toxic when injected, and both used as adjuvants in vaccines. Obviously they don't react this way when in the vial, but what happens when inside the tissues and bloodstream?🤔

#pay attention #educate yourself #educate yourselves #wake the fuck up #wake up #wake up america #wake up people #wake up world #do your own research #do your research #do some research #do your homework #did you know #spiritual knowledge #knowledge is power #medical experiments #medical history #medical tyranny #medical corruption #vaccines #mercury #aluminum #toxic chemicals #chemical reactions

[katebeckets]

ugh i’m so far removed from anything even resembling a broadway fandom at this point but i need to know…why do we feel icky listening to laura osnes?

Ooooh Laura Osnes lol (also know I spent like thirty minutes looking for these screenshots lmfao)

For me I already had some weird vibes after seeing her in Broadway princess party in 2018 (went mainly for her and left a bigger fan of pretty much everyone else? She just seemed very inauthentic in some way) but the bigger thing was with covid vaccinations.

Basically there was some big backlash when an article was published about her not being allowed to perform in something because she wasn’t covid vaccinated. I don’t know what the article said exactly because I only saw it through her response, I think, but it basically was something about her being rude or upset or whatever because she had to be vaccinated (if anyone knows that part feel free to jump in).

At the end of 2022 (at least in interviews, maybe it was sooner if you still followed her) she started talking about cancel culture and how this basically ended her Broadway career.

The vaccination stuff then revealed other beliefs, like her being pro-guns.

So yeah, since then it just has tainted some of my enjoyment of these songs I really love. I’ll leave some other things in the tags that are more my personal feelings, but that’s the gist.

#at first it was pretty black and white for me #the vaccinations #but I had a practicum client who surprised me when she said she wasn’t vaccinated #except she explained why and it’s that she’s Black and the covid vaccine was so new #and she didn’t trust that the vaccine was safe for her specifically given things like the Tuskegee experiment #so for me it was the fact that she’s a white woman #and argued it was about family planning and personal choice #which I get but also… if you die of Covid you can’t have a family #and if it’s about parenthood there are other ways to become a parent #<- which is not me saying foster/adoption is an alternative to birth control #I literally work with foster and adoptive families #but it felt especially insensitive given how personal this was to the Broadway community #and people like nick cordero/amanda kloots #anyway #anon #answered

[bellaroles]

Whatever happens, no matter how dire the situation is, remember Can Ci Pin is gonna have a very very happy ending. So buckle up and read on!

#umm the third book is really #reminiscing of the time when COVID first starting to spread #i still remember the fear and panic #and the way the ninth squadron handle it was #oh my... #also everything seem so bleak while people waiting for lbx and ljh to get the mutated virus info to help make the effective vaccine #can ci pin #priest #this is very good at capturing the pandemic experience