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trumpetnista:


rarely-pure-never-simple:

thecornercoffeeshoppe:

hickshannary:

small-and-misunderstood:

Saw this somewhere else and felt the need to post it cause no one else ever really tells you this stuff

My mom never really noticed. She noticed when she was breast feeding my little brother and blood started coming out instead of milk. 

My mom said she felt and saw a little lump in the shower. She was lucky enough she found it at stage 2

My mom had a mammogram. The radiologist thought the spots were just regular calcium deposits. 
Turns out it was triple negative breast cancer that had spread to her lymph nods. Mastectomy, radiation and chemo saved her life.
This could SAVE a life.

Signal BOOST and pass it on. I had a breast cancer scare before (luckily it was just scar tissue…) and information like this kept me calm and collected at the doc’s.

trumpetnista:

rarely-pure-never-simple:

thecornercoffeeshoppe:

hickshannary:

small-and-misunderstood:

Saw this somewhere else and felt the need to post it cause no one else ever really tells you this stuff

My mom never really noticed. She noticed when she was breast feeding my little brother and blood started coming out instead of milk. 

My mom said she felt and saw a little lump in the shower. She was lucky enough she found it at stage 2

My mom had a mammogram. The radiologist thought the spots were just regular calcium deposits. 

Turns out it was triple negative breast cancer that had spread to her lymph nods. Mastectomy, radiation and chemo saved her life.

This could SAVE a life.

Signal BOOST and pass it on. I had a breast cancer scare before (luckily it was just scar tissue…) and information like this kept me calm and collected at the doc’s.

(via helenaisis)

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asgardian-angels:

sixcatsandtwodogs:

redvinesandlexicography:

thechimeraresistance:

noottersontheflightdeck:

the-sonic-screw:

rachelmakesitawkward:

bluepoliceboxes:

WHAT. WHAT. WHAT. WHAT.

I THINK MY ENTIRE LIFE JUST EXPLODED INTO TINY LITTLE PIECES OF EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD IN THE WORLD.
My childhood. IT ALWAYS LED ME TO THE DOCTOR.

I looked this up a while ago. Apparently the writers were HUGE Doctor Who fans…
…AND THEY BASED TOMMY OFF OF THE DOCTOR. 
Think about it…always getting up to strange wonderful adventures, a charismatic & whimsical leading character…
And what did Tommy always have with him?
HIS TRUSTY SCREWDRIVER.



OH MY GOD

CRYING!

*hyperventilating*

GUYS
GUYS
THEY MADE HIM GINGER

asgardian-angels:

sixcatsandtwodogs:

redvinesandlexicography:

thechimeraresistance:

noottersontheflightdeck:

the-sonic-screw:

rachelmakesitawkward:

bluepoliceboxes:

WHAT. WHAT. WHAT. WHAT.

I THINK MY ENTIRE LIFE JUST EXPLODED INTO TINY LITTLE PIECES OF EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD IN THE WORLD.

My childhood. IT ALWAYS LED ME TO THE DOCTOR.

I looked this up a while ago. Apparently the writers were HUGE Doctor Who fans…

AND THEY BASED TOMMY OFF OF THE DOCTOR. 

Think about it…always getting up to strange wonderful adventures, a charismatic & whimsical leading character…

And what did Tommy always have with him?

HIS TRUSTY SCREWDRIVER.

image

OH MY GOD

CRYING!

*hyperventilating*

GUYS

GUYS

THEY MADE HIM GINGER

(via suiseiusagi)

Filed under doctor who this explains so much

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A banana a day can decrease and even eliminate one’s depression.

jollityfarm:

drjamie:

The answer isn’t anti-depression addictive pills with a ton of unhealthy side effects. The answer is bananas along with a multitude of other healthy raw fruits and veggies a day. The cure to your depression isn’t just cheap and easy, but it’s tasty as hell and good for the entirety of you. Just think about it. The cost of those pills and doctor bills out weigh the cost of a 20 cent banana a day numerously.

i hate everything and kill all people

Ok first of all Bananas tend to run closer to .59 each, where the hell do you live .20 banana person?

Second, yes, for people who are dealing with low spots in their mood bananas and avocados and the like are awesome. Whenever I’m feeling down I have one of those and I perk up and that’s a wonderful thing.

HOWEVER there is a major difference between ‘being down’ and being ‘depressed’. There are two major causes of Depression, outside forces (I lost my job, my spouse/significant other left me, I was in a car accident and lost a leg) these things are dealt with in a combination of therapy and anti-depressants. This kind of depression will eventually go away, and you won’t need the anti-depressants any more.
Then there’s Chronic Depression. THESE ARE NOT THE SAME!!!! Chronic Depression is caused by an imbalance in brain chemistry. Chronic Depression is terrible, uncontrollable, unforeseeable, and it’s never going to go away. 

The chemicals in our brains are out of whack and a banana or an avocado or ‘a multitude of other healthy raw fruits and veggies’ is not going to change that. If it could, Chronic Depression would be this new thing that happened when canned food became commercially available in the late 40’s early 50’s.

But it’s not. People have suffered with Chronic Depression and Depression for millennia, and only recently have we been able to combat these by readjusting the chemical imbalance in our brains. 

“The answer isn’t anti-depression addictive pills”, sometimes, yes … it is. Because there is no other way to have the necessary effect on your brain chemistry. Some people need them all the time, others on a case by case basis, and both of these things are okay.

I think it’s wonderful that your brain is spot on and all you ever need is a banana. Good for your brain.

But some of us aren’t that lucky, and dismissing what’s out of balance in our brain, because everything is okay in yours, doesn’t make anything better, it doesn’t help, in fact, it often makes things worse.

(via jeremy-ruiner)

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