Author: Альона ꑭ Шевченко
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💡I had no idea that Lifeline Ukraine was founded by @PaulNiland even though it's been on top of the relevant page in @MindfulWebz mental health support resources 😱
🌈❤️ Thank you @SarahAshtonLV for highlighting the incredible work Paul & team are doing
For those who don't know him, this is @PaulNiland.
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An icon, and a hero of Ukraine, he founded Lifeline Ukraine, the nation's first suicide prevention hotline.
My interview with Paul will be coming soon, until then follow him for a look at life in Kyiv and around Ukraine. https://t.co/Dn4rQ4DM6C
Attaching the 🧵 containing a lot of stuff on mental health of Ukrainians and the work @MindfulWebz, myself and @Ukraine_DAO community have been doing to collectively deal with the trauma that russians are inflicting on Ukrainians.
cc: @SarahAshtonLV
1/ @SarahAshtonLV, here you go.
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Also, this is going to be a 🧵 about mental health of Ukrainians/help Ukrainians can get.
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 https://t.co/BeSFFIfVQr
Also here's one of the latest 🧵 I wrote about mental health of Ukrainians after being lectured in public for 500 times 🥲
🧠 Why you should NOT host Twitter Spaces involving Ukrainians if your ability to empathise with them & maintain composure is impaired:
1/ 🧠 Why you should NOT host Twitter Spaces involving Ukrainians if your ability to empathise with them & maintain composure is impaired - 🧵
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cc: @MindfulWebz
https://t.co/xoZ5pq0bj2
🚨MUST READ FOR EVERYONE
❗️Officially the best 🧵 on how to behave with Ukrainians by a non-🇺🇦 person - our v own @NovelSci
❗️I openly advocate for our right to hate russians. I'll always hate them
❗️If you don't hate russians, you don't know them well twitter.com/cryptodrftng/s… twitter.com/NovelSci/statu…
🚨This is the kind of abuse I have to listen to on a daily basis during genocide
🚨 Meanwhile, 🇷🇺 is using the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe as a shield to launch rockets at my family members - twitter.com/cryptodrftng/s…
1/ Expectations for a Ukrainian: Apologise to russians.
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This conversation happened in Twitter Spaces a couple days ago in front of 400 people. Sharing so it's easier to understand what I have to deal with every other day.
#GenocideOfUkrainians
https://t.co/MqyvVvvUc4
❗️Asking a Ukrainian to ignore & tolerate abuse to avoid "drama" - appeasement politics on a mini scale
❗️How are we surprised that russians are committing all the horrific war crimes if we can't stop Ukrainians verbally (!) abused during genocide?
1/ Received a lot of DMs asking for examples of things I've been told by abusive people.
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Here is a good example. Not a single time do I raise my voice or lose composure in any way.
After this incident, my team and I were harassed online by a whole group of people for weeks. https://t.co/IteO1jsLd9
This 🧵 explains why by silencing Ukrainians or shaming us for being angry, we are creating an information space in which:
it's ok to kill Ukrainians for no reason
but it's not ok to hurt someone's ego
❗This is an extremely important point.
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❗The reason why russians are committing genocide now with zero shame is because they got away with it last time.
❗People who silence us or shame Ukrainians for being angry should realise one simple thing - you are helping them kill us. https://t.co/W32HXMisMo
Sorry, forgot about numbering.
Why did I start talking about all this in a mental health 🧵?
The moments when I didn't want to live didn't happen when I saw #Bucha
They were from the incredible arrogance, ignorance & continued appeasement that followed. It's sickening.
1/ Over the last 100+ days, I've had all sorts of breakdowns and I'm extremely mentally stable person.
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I've stared at the wall all day (before the invasion, afterwards I didn't have the time)
I've cried for hours.
I've told close friends I don't want to be in this world anymore. https://t.co/eZxkm5683z
We should really stop with this nonsense:
🚩 "Let's not talk about what's up with you, let's talk about UKRAINE" just to proceed to talk about the battles like it's some fucking video game
That's not actually what "supporting 🇺🇦" means
It's gaslighting and I'm sick of it.
If someone claims to support 🇺🇦, they have to show basic respect to Ukrainians
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❗️I work 24/7, no days off. Barely leave the house. My loved ones are risking their lives every day - to defend 🇺🇦, which is not a real life Call of Duty game to entertain homegrown "OSINT" experts. https://t.co/IvbVqNMO3e
✨@SarahAshtonLV interview with @PaulNiland
cc: @MindfulWebz 🧠
https://t.co/RE08ECYtkc
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Here is the interview I conducted with @PaulNiland
@NovelSci that's from the creators of
🚩 "Let's not talk about what's up with you, let's talk about UKRAINE"
I have one thing to say to those people:
✨go
✨fuck
✨yourself
You know what's awful? When people imply only their research perspective has value by portraying anyone else's as a distraction from "the real problem." How egocentric do you have to be to argue only your perspective is worthwhile? Yikes. I choose to support other scholars.
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