I've come to believe that all chronic diseases are microbiome issues. Hippocrates said the all disease begins in the gut. The gut, however, is not the only part of the body with a microbiome. We are microbiome. The human being is more micro-organism than not.
Why did I mostly stop writing? Because I was dealing with something I no longer knew how to talk about. Mostly because people really don't like reading about disability. All the able-bodied ableists who want to pretend that somehow disability must be the fault of the person suffering from it. Yeah. Lots of my readers too. The comments became unbearable and remain that way. I mostly keep them turned off. (2026: I've turned my comments back on these days ... the site is quieter now that I don't engage in social media much) I've written a few new pieces on my own idiosyncratic experience of TD. I thought I'd share with you Robert Whitaker's long and well-researched piece. )
This year the poke in our yard is tall and productive. We've harvested enough berries to freeze for the year. I eat 5 to 15 of these on days when I need the lymph support. (comes and goes a lot with the systemic infections I'm clearing). Poke is a plant that many fear. The berries... Continue Reading →
I have gone to practitioners but, Ayurveda, at foundation, is about learning to listen to your body and know how to feed it, move it, rest it and take care of it as needed. That is always our job in the end. I never found a practitioner who could deal with my extreme and multiple issues either. I couldn't even leave my house for 5 years as I was bedridden. I started these practices on my own at home in my bed. I am no longer bedridden. I am no longer nonverbal. I still have tardive dyskinesia and I still love Ayurveda with a profound gratefulness as it helped me be in touch with my body. This is good stuff for anyone in life at anytime. ...
Tardive Dyskinesia is brain injury and damage. It is a medically induced (iatrogenic) INJURY caused by 500 different drugs often used in psychiatry, gastroenterology and Parkinsons. People are rarely told of the risk. It's often referred to as a side effect of the drugs. This is offensive.
2025 update: this is an early piece on TD. It took me many years to know how to talk about this. I wasn't diagnosed for several years and just thought the movements and jerking around were part of the psychiatric drug protracted withdrawal issues. I've experienced TD very much in my own way and written very little to date because I've been learning to work with it without the noise from Western Medicine telling me to take even more neurotoxic drugs.
You must be logged in to post a comment.