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Okay, so: Peer Support is a thing.

It's not widely known, and it's IMPORTANT.

A Peer Support Specialist reaches across, not down. Non-hierarchical-- that's literally a requirement spelled out in the job description.

We close the liminal space between "patient" and "well person". We bridge the gap between the person receiving care and their therapist/doctor etc. We're the people you want knocking on the door when you're having a major personal crisis-- you know, instead of the people with guns. We've lived through our own crises/trauma/illness/addiction/etc, and we know how it actually feels.

This isn't just some cute hand-holding role. It's a crucial part of a larger movement to integrate and humanize-- frankly, to TRANSFORM-- healthcare. That's the agenda, straight up. And I even get to fucking SAY THAT out loud.

And how do we enact this subversive scheme? By using empathy to relate to people, while helping empower them to determine and work on their OWN damn recovery goals, without judging.

Trying to "fix" people leads to burnout. Coercion and punishment have diminishing returns-- you can't force anybody to get better by kicking them when they're already down. Stigma has done massive damage. So we slow down, give an actual shit, and walk WITH people while they learn to fish, instead of beating fish over their heads, get it?

How's that for revolutionary.

#praxis
#mentalhealth
#mentalillness
#trauma
#traumainformed
#peersupport
#peergroups
#recovery
#resilience
#supportgroups
#peersupportspecialist

Queer and disabled family with a 4yo and baby just lost our only car to a coolant line break, blown head gasket. Repairs cost more than the car. We MUST have a car to work.

We bought a new used car. The next day it broke down with the same issue, but was sold As Is and we have no recourse.

Capitalism is evil and we are drowning in it

Please help if you truly have something to spare

#mutualaid #peersupport #transcrowdfund

PayPal.me/londonshine
Venmo: @londonshine
$app: $glamorshark

#Introduction

Looking for community and hope, way off the ill-fated beaten path.

Used to work in a video store. Never was on the birdsite. Tired of bots, trolls, ads, and games of musical deck chairs.

May be a giant broke-ass loser who fails at most everything, but at least I'm not a jerk.

#Agender
#Asexual
#Aromantic
#Agnostic
#AnarchoCommunist
#Lunarpunk

Interested in world-saving solutions:
#Permaculture
#DirectAction
#MutualAid
#RightToRepair
#OpenSource
#RestorativeJustice
#Antifascist
#PeerSupport

Working through some personal issues:
#MentalHealth
#Depression
#Anxiety
#CPTSD
#AuHD

Studying some useful hobbies:
#Aquaponics
#GreyWater
#CompostingToilet
#BlackSoldierFlyLarvae
#RocketStoveMassHeater
#NativePlants
#GuerillaGardening
#3dAnimation
#DataVisualization

Into some more cool stuff of this sort:
#SciFi
#Fantasy
#Horror
#Anime
#IndustrialMusic
#Psybient
#BellyDance
#MartialArts
#Motorcycle
#Doodling

doing a re- #introduction now that I know hashtags are important!

I'm a grad student #Academic doing research on #PeerSupport futures, #dreams, and anti-carceral / abolitionist alternatives to the psychiatric system - through a lens of #DisabilityStudies , #MadStudies , #DisabilityJustice , and psych consumer/survivor social movement histories. Slowly trying to teach myself #FutureStudies ...

my last research project was on peer support institutionalization / professionalization