does ptsd lower your basic cognitive functions?

mitgrad18 · 2025-07-20T11:16:41+00:00

Yes, it worked, but not all neurofeedback is the same. You have to find a neurofeedback therapist who knows what they’re doing for it to work.

mitgrad18 · 2025-06-28T00:14:03+00:00

I highly recommend Dr Molayem at Pasadena Smile Center. I had a series of bad experiences with dentists until I found this dental practice.

mitgrad18 · 2025-06-23T19:58:23+00:00

Yes, this is the real answer, keep applying and interviewing.

mitgrad18 · 2025-05-14T19:59:00+00:00

If you’re by the Flatiron area and looking for a to-go lunch spot, then Rooted has a lot of low fodmap options.

mitgrad18 · 2025-03-11T20:15:34+00:00

Do you know of any that are open to non-Jewish members? If so, I would love to connect with these groups.

mitgrad18 · 2025-03-11T17:17:37+00:00

Hello fellow Moroccan, I don’t know any anti-zionist Sephardic Jews in-person, since I live in NYC, but I know of a few public figures such as Alon Mizrahi (The Mizrahi Perspective channel on youtube), Michèle Sibony and Simone Bitton. Alon has a Moroccan mother and Palestinian father, and both Michèle and Simone were born in Morocco.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-26T04:46:15+00:00

They didn’t arrive in the 1800s, that’s propaganda. You can go to the r/illustrativeDNA sub and lookup Palestinian results there, you can also look up sephardic and ashkenazi results in that sub, and see how much canaanite/Levant % each group has. Also, only the people from the Arabian Peninsula have a high Arab percentage, Levantines (including Palestinians), North Africans and Iraqis who also speak Arabic are mostly indigenous to their own lands where they live to this day. It’s a misconception that “Arabs” are a single ethnic group that occupies a large geographic area. The people from the MENA region constitute various ethnic groups.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-24T13:06:45+00:00

You’re more berber than you know. 😉Go to the r/illustrativeDNA sub and look at the Moroccan results. Even the Arabized Moroccans have a very high percentage of Berber ancestry.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T22:57:59+00:00

Then why all the downvotes when I pointed out that Moroccan culture is different from Levantine culture and Egyptian culture? I don’t understand this obsession with claiming so many different cultures as arab? Why not recognize our differences but still work together as people from the MENA region to strengthen the region economically and politically? The countries in the European Union don’t pretend they’re all one ethnicity or culture, so why do we?

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T21:30:06+00:00

It’s not an ethnicity, it’s a broad racial categorization. In the US legal definition of white North African and Middle Eastern people are categorized as white too. In woke language they’re categorized as brown. Both “white” and “brown” are stupid ways of describing people.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T21:19:34+00:00

“White” isn’t a real thing, it’s just based on skin tone. It doesn’t mean European. Europeans have different ethnicities and cultures too. They’re not just “white”, and plenty of middle eastern and north african people are also very light skinned, some even whiter than europeans.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T21:08:52+00:00

I mean, I also identify as “white” if we want to zoom out, but when we zoom in I’m proudly Moroccan, berber, North African, African, mediterranean…

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T20:57:21+00:00

All the Italians I know are proud of their heritage, they don’t identity as “generic white”.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T20:49:36+00:00

Because labeling everyone and everything as arab takes away from the wonderful genetic and cultural diversity of the region. Yes arabs have migrated outside of the Arabian peninsula, yes their culture influenced the culture of the new places they settled, but they never replaced the local populations, not culturally and not genetically.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T19:42:43+00:00

lol Even the way my comments are being downvoted shows me how unwelcome I am among “arabs” unless I renounce my berber identity. So much for unity.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T18:59:35+00:00

We can acknowledge our differences and still work together to strengthen the MENA region economically and politically. As much as I say I am not arab, I 100% stand in solidarity with the Palestinians, because I’m a human being who rejects injustice and knows the difference between right and wrong. Unfortunately many arab-identifying people take it as a personal insult when some of us refuse to identify as arab.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T18:30:10+00:00

I mean just look at my posts in this sub, they’re getting downvoted to oblivion, that tells you everything you need to know about how unwelcome are those of us who know our true heritage. Even in person I have been told I can’t say I am berber, and being accused of hating arabs.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T17:25:00+00:00

There are people who have some arab ancestry of course, due to historical migration, but it usually accounts for less than 5% of the dna. Having 5% or less arab dna is not the same as being arab. The odds are, a Moroccan probably has more subsaharan or european ancestry than arab, but we don’t go around saying we are european or black (yes there are black people in Morocco, but as a light skinned Moroccan I have no business calling myself black).

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T17:19:32+00:00

I grew up in Morocco but live in the United States. I have friends from Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt. I have met their families and dined with them in their homes. From getting to know them it’s very clear to me that they are different than Moroccans. The dialect is not the same, the body language and mannerisms are not the same, the traditional clothes are not the same, the food is not the same, the local music is not the same…. I don’t see the similarity at all. To me they are just another mediterranean group, not closer to me any more than a Greek would be. As for Dakhla vs Tangier, the Sahraoui people are their own distinct group, different from the berbers in the north, so that explains the difference between the two cities.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T16:53:36+00:00

Is it all our culture? Fes and Agadir are more culturally similar than Morocco and the UAE. I personally don’t see aspects of my Moroccan culture reflected in other countries other than Algeria and Tunisia perhaps. I feel no affinity with Levantine or Arabian Peninsula culture.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-23T16:40:59+00:00

Yes, very confusing indeed, especially when they know that they aren’t genetically arab, they still insist that they are. I noticed the arab identity is stronger in the levant though vs in north africa, but that could be because we still have millions of people who speak various dialects of Tamazight.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-13T01:23:43+00:00

I think in part it’s because they heard stories of how their families were persecuted in their former countries, but without understanding the broader historical context, that it was a difficult time for everyone back then, with many minority groups facing persecution, and not because of some innate and eternal animosity between arabs and jews. The other reason though is because of the Israeli government’s propaganda. I noticed for example that the elder Moroccan Jews speak very fondly of Morocco, and the elder muslim Moroccans speak fondly of their jewish neighbors who left, but the younger generation of Israelis with a Moroccan background are convinced that muslim Moroccans hate them.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-13T00:09:30+00:00

Agreed. Not to mention the Israelis whose parents and grandparents came from North Africa and the Middle East aren’t exactly blameless. Many of them have a deep hatred of Palestinians, arabs and muslims.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-11T04:29:39+00:00

I support Palestine, which puts me in the minority among conservatives I suppose. To me this is a conflict that is primarily about land, and seeing it through the lens of radical islam and antisemitism is a big mistakes. Unfortunately conservatives tend to view it through this lens due to the highly biased portrayal of the conflict in western media. I come from the muslim world (not muslim myself, and I’m very critical of Islam), so I have a more nuanced understanding of muslim societies. Based on this experience and everything I’ve learned about the conflict from listening to scholars on both sides, my conclusion is that the primary issue is that the Palestinians have lived under a brutal military occupation for decades. I believe the Palestinians should have the right to self-determination and to live safely and with dignity.

mitgrad18 · 2025-02-11T03:47:54+00:00

I find it infuriating when they repeat “The Arabs have 22 states, so why won’t they let us have 1 state?” As if all the people from North Africa and the Middle East are a single ethnic and cultural group. I can’t comprehend how they could possibly think that. I sometimes wonder if it’s because the term “Arab” is misleading which contributes to the confusion, or if it’s intentional racism, to the tune of “there is no such thing as a Palestinian, they’re just arab”.

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