Yes, friends, it’s true. Medium and I have parted ways for now. At this point in my life, it’s time to start making money from the emotional labour I put into the world. It takes a lot out of me emotionally and physically to be able to say the things “I” need to say, regardless of the outcome.
This is the only place in the universe that is mine and all mine. I can say what I need and want to say here, so I can heal. I am working hard, and I am trying to prove that I am worthy of the attention I ask for when I post on this site.
However, in saying that, over the last eight years, I have provided a ton of free content and received very little compensation in return. I’ve been writing for free for eight and a half years, and now I’d like to showcase that I have the right to earn your dollar.
I have a ton of social media apps: Facebook, Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon, Threads, Instagram, Link Tree and TikTok.
That’s a ton of content that I am providing for free. So I decided to consolidate some of my work, and I will be shutting down some of my platforms. I’m not entirely sure which ones are going to go, but I know that I for sure will not be writing on Medium for right now.
I will, however, be creating on Ko-Fi, and so I do hope many of you will join me there and support my work on that page. You can find it here.
I need to start taking this project much more seriously than I have been. In light of recent events online and the massive LBee Health scandal, I have come to realize how important it is for Mental Health Patients to diligently protect each other.
I have a responsibility as the only Mental Health Content Creator in Canada to ensure that the information that I provide is not only honest but also ethical. I am not there yet. I tried to write hard about the scandal, but I am not ready to dig into the emotional trauma of knowing yet one more person I trusted is an abuser.
It’s not easy being a patient with mental health issues, you already don’t know who to trust, and when you finally find someone you THINK you can trust, and you end up being screwed over, it just compounds the idea that you were right and the world is trying to drive you crazy.
Because of that, I really need to set myself up to focus; I need to be able to say “I started here, and I built this, and then I moved and escalated to here,”.
I’ve recently been made aware of a serious scammer in the Mental Health and Autism community, involving a company called LBee Health, run by a woman named Elle_Two on Threads, and Lauren in other places.
Because of that I need to be more intentful about where and how I work on Loud Mouth Brown Girl projects. I need to set an example for other Mental Health Patients who want to come forward and share their experiences, and so that’s what I am going to attempt to do.
I hope you’ll join me on Ko-Fi, but if not, there will still be plenty of free and paid content here as well.
Sending all my love,
Devon J Hall, The Original Loud Mouth Brown Girl
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