New study shows antipsychotic drugs can suppress the immune system. ~~ This article came up as a memory on Facebook. I never posted the following thoughts on the topic and am doing so now for the sake of those who wish to do more research. this is what I wrote (with some edits) and it remains true: yes, "antipsychotics" (neuroleptic pharmaceuticals) suppress the immune system. That is exactly what they do, and frankly, how they "work".
PubMed: Microbes and Mental Illness. Microbes and Mental Illness. I've been writing a lot about my experience with Lyme disease and Tardive Dyskinesia. It's become clear that the TD is an infection gone wild. The psych drug injury allows the Lyme disease infection into the brain and damaging the blood brain barrier) ... in any case... TD is infection.
NEW POST -- I coined the term “somatic imperative” a while back as my journey seems locked in by what my body needs. In surrender I watch and learn as my body does what it knows. The animal wisdom, seemingly divine in nature takes over and knows the nature of things. These injuries this body has had to heal are mindblowingly complex. They are interwoven into the body and clearly show that the body and mind are one. I had no choice by to listen to and respond to my body in meditation so that I might heal. Try as I might, no one in medicine or anywhere else had answers. I had become my own doctor and scientist. I researched continually and started to put both my experience and that which I learned in reading together.
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. )
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.
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
~~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. ...
Through the years, as a means to survive, I've sculpted my social-media so that I don't have to listen to a lot of otherwise very offensive stuff about the experience of those of us with extreme sensitivities, and iatrogenic and chronic illness. Still, because I care about some of the folks who continue to say insensitive, ignorant things about us, I do encounter it from time to time. In fact we cannot hide from the ignorance in the world about our experience and still live in the world and so I'm entering a phase of healing and learning that is helping me re-enter the world. That means facing such insults daily. ...
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.
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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