Monthly Archives: June 2015

Why It’s Okay to Refuse Therapy

By | 2018-04-10T02:11:07-04:00 June 30th, 2015|Categories: Abuse, Asexuality & Mental Health, By & For Ace Survivors, Education, For Professionals, Medical & Therapist Abuse, Personal Narratives, Sharing, Therapy|Tags: , , , , , , |

Medical professionals of all kinds are well known for abusing every marginalized group known to humanity, and therapists are no exception. But we are told to get over it or told to "find another doctor." So for all of the people out there who feel that therapy is toxic: I'm making room for your narrative in the survivor discourse. It's okay to refuse therapy. It's okay to be hostile towards medical personnel, especially when they have abused you. It's okay to talk about your horrible experiences with therapy.

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Playing on HELL MODE

By | 2018-04-09T02:36:55-04:00 June 30th, 2015|Categories: Asexuality & Mental Health, Personal Narratives|

When I tell people I have PTSD, I think they have a very particular image in their head of what that’s like--PTSD is a (male) veteran waking up from nightmares of the war, drenched in sweat. The problem is, while that might be what PTSD is like for a very particular subset of the population, that’s not what PTSD is like for me at all.

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Recommended Reading: June 28th, 2015

By | 2015-11-28T20:16:32-05:00 June 28th, 2015|Categories: Linkspam|Tags: |

This will be a recurring feature here at Resources for Ace Survivors, although we have not decided on a specific day or frequency for posting this yet. However, I am going to just go ahead and post the first one today. Please feel free to drop any other links you [...]

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What is Resilience?

By | 2018-04-12T01:43:35-04:00 June 19th, 2015|Categories: Asexuality & Mental Health, By & For Ace Survivors, Recovery, Resilience, Self Care|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Resilience is the ability to recover from really tough, painful situations. But there's so much more depth to it than that. There are several components that are thought to contribute to overall resilience. Each of these is a skill that can be developed, or a practice that's built up based on skills that can be developed. This isn't the kind of thing that you either have or you don't. Everyone has some degree of resilience. And it's something you can always improve.

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New blog up and running!

By | 2015-06-18T15:16:52-04:00 June 18th, 2015|Categories: Announcements|

It's finally here! Welcome to the new Resources For Ace Survivors WordPress blog! You can follow our RSS feed on Feedly or any other RSS reader you like. (Here's a handy guide to RSS readers with startup packages of great ace blogs to follow!) Or, you can follow the Resources for [...]

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