Category: pharmaceuticals

Rethinking Antidepressants for the 1000th time

picture from the guardian. Rethinking Antidepressants for the 1000th time

Rethinking Antidepressants for the 1000th time: chemical imbalance is BS. New cycle of horror and shock. Depression isn't caused by low serotonin! ~~ (photo is a news headline from the Guardian...it was covered in news all over the world) Yes, it's happened again. Mainstream outlets everywhere are decrying this travesty. This "news" about the chemical imbalance theory cycles through the media every few years. (for at least the last 20 yrs)...Always presented as though it's new and shocking

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Gluten, dairy etc: Adding food back after elimination diets

bread, chese and grapes on a plate Adding food back

Adding food back after elimination diets ~~ I was on elimination diets for a long time and needed to be in order to quiet down the chaos in my body. I now know more than when I started and hope that the general method of learning to listen is helpful to others since I know the details will be different for everyone.  Recently I went through a stint of eating gluten and cheese. As I add many different foods I avoided for many years back into my diet, I jokingly call it "retoxification."

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Tardive dyskinesia – iatrogenic injury, systemic infection

sky: photo taken by Monica Cassani Tardive dyskinesia - iatrogenic injury, neuroleptics.

2025 update: Tardive dyskinesia - iatrogenic injury, neuroleptics. ~~ This was the first post I wrote about this drug injury. I lived with it for several years before I had the words and understanding to even begin to talk about what had happened to me. I have tardive dyskinesia. I've not written about it. I can't find a single reference online about it that doesn't pathologize it..and DRUG it further.

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Our bodies are mirrors of our minds and psyches, our culture and our communities

~~We all have genius within us. Many never access it. Genius, because of our social conditioning, is almost always frustrated and ahead of its time.~~

Western medicine with it’s penchant for suppression is a real political force. In suppressing the body’s cries we are also denying the psyche. ...

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Eugenics history of psychiatry : our bodies feel it

night sky in the mountains Eugenics history of psychiatrty

Eugenics history of psychiary. ~~ Part of what those of us injured by psychiatry are dealing with is the cellular knowledge that this history is in our very nervous systems via psychiatric institution, it's proponents and the drugs used to suppress our beautiful sensitive human natures. We are not insane -- we are however subject to the harm that has been perpetrated against us.

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almost a year since almost dying. what is up?

I’m approaching the one year anniversary date of the second brain injury that almost killed me. I entered the ICU on December 25th of last year. I was unconscious for several days and then when I woke up I had lost virtually all my memory. Conveniently and fortunately I remembered Paul, my partner, but so confused, I also thought he was one of the MDs in the hospital. So, yeah, it’s been a long haul to where I am now. ...

Protracted Withdrawal: email to a sister warrior

blue ridge mountains for Navigating Protracted Withdrawal: email to a sister warrior

Dear *****, I think of you often. I hope that you have found some easing in the agony of your symptoms since we last spoke. I had an idea of something that might help you. I always hesitate with anything resembling advice because I know what we need varies so greatly. Two things first: if its not helpful now maybe sometime in the future and of course if it simply makes no sense let it go. Trust the wisdom of your response as you read the words.

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Traumatic brain injury/psych drug brain injury — very similar

brain and skull with pharmaceuticals around it Traumatic brain injury/psych drug brain injury -- very similar

I came across an extensive article that is quite helpful in terms of tips  and validation about the vast myriad of possible manifestations after brain injury. It's written about  the more conventional  TBI, you know, car accidents and violent blows to the head. You will see that  pharmaceutical injuries  are very similar in terms of symptoms.

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I continue trying to figure out how to be in this world as the freak that I am…

Dear Pastor, Thank you. Frankly my own personal drama is hardly what motivates me anymore. I'm in a highly privileged position with education -- I was a social worker working with folks who are harmed in the ways that I now advocate for. I watched people lose everything and not infrequently die due to what is being called medical care. This is not hyperbolic. It's fact. ...

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Justice for those harmed by psychiatry…

water droplets in a spiders web Justice for those harmed by psychiatry...

Update 2025: a lot of people are at risk now. it’s time for intersectionality and looking outside the tribe. we gotta get bigger than the oppressive forces … we do that by recognizing all forms of oppression and how they affect everyone differently. (and so we seek justice for those harmed by psychiatry and everyone else who is being marginalized)…

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