Other Lives

A peer support network and advocacy organization for trauma survivors, we seek to create a trauma-informed world.

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

I have Complex PTSD. It works like this. https://t.co/7qHy76fl7F

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

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[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

Check out Dessa's "Sound the Bells." It's an amazing piece of work.

[Dessa @dessadarling]

Thanks, guys.
@billboard.

[Dessa @dessadarling]

Use your powers for good.

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

Sit while standing, sit while walking, sit while running. https://t.co/FGGUhxBR5a

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

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[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

When the body rebels, rebel with it.

Have a winter.

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

Thread.

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

Therapist: and what do we say when we feel this way?

Me: can I post this to facebook?

Therapist: boundaries are important

Me: *already typing*

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

Of all addictions, dopamine addiction is probably the most common, pernicious, and untreated.

[neoltitude @ctrlcreep]

Life is what happens outside your comfort zone—so transgress its limits until you're a shell-shocked, mindless trauma-bundle, numb to your own taboos, in perpetual hypersensitive paralysis

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

This is a wonderful event, and the community is exceptionally warm and welcoming.

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

Millennials are the first generation of people in human history to have access to meaningful trauma research and prospective cohort study tested trauma treatment before they have children of their own.

This just... https://t.co/c7qimnNFpS

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

Happy International Men's Day to everyone except MRAs

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

Shoutout to everyone whose entire sense of humor is making racists, homophobes, transphobes, misogynists, and ableists uncomfortable in a way that doesn't get them pumched in the face.

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

I believe you.

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

This piece lacks acknowledgement of structural issues and just focuses on individual decisions, but I liked it and think it frames the issue pretty well.

https://t.co/LtZGT0MibJ https://t.co/LtZGT0MibJ

[Other Lives @otherlivesorg]

Disability is a social construct.

You and I are only "disabled" because our society in its current form chooses not to accommodate us.

It can be different.

Do not forget that.

[MaleSurvivor @MaleSurvivorORG]

@chander2nyc's APA fact sheet on trauma & ptsd in male survivors of sexual assault is available @ https://t.co/qbASYr7WfH @APADiv56