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.
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
...the farther out we go the fewer we meet who can understand, but we're out here...always...those who trust your experience is just as you say it is...
our relationship with anger is gravely and dangerously messed up. It's not really safe to share it anywhere these days in a world where positivity is in demand and all else is off the table as spiritually inept. This is of course generally not wise as the whole human spectrum of emotion must be respected. When people feel muzzled despair arises. Silencing is dangerous as it makes the anger arise in more toxic ways.
TD Update: I've come to believe that serious microbiome issues (lyme disease) and tardyve diskinesia are essentially the same thing. Such is the experience in my body. I have lyme disease -- with five documented pathogens involved. To be clear I don't embrace the diagnosis because it's highly problematic. It is helpful in getting some of the care I need.
free download! Ecstatic movement has been a critical part of my healing. Ecstatic dance practiced with intent is movement meditation. Below is compilation from my favorite “wave” ever. You don’t need to read anything about it…just start moving to the music.
by Will Hall, Monica Cassani, and Dina Tyler In the world of innovations in how we treat survivors of psychiatric crisis, Live and Learn Inc and Open Excellence/Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care do valuable work. Live And Learn is a research company owned by Laysha Ostrow that collects and analyzes data on the viability of alternative mental health treatments, and Open Excellence/FEMHC is a philanthropy started by patients' family members that channels funding into promising projects. They're colleagues with us in the broader "critical psychiatry" movement ((Will was one of the original founding board members of Open Excellence/FEMHC) and we've all known each other for many years. At the same time, after collaborating with Live and Learn and Open Excellence/FEMHC on a past project, we are left very concerned by apparent ethical irregularities, including possibly crossing the line into research misconduct and plagiarism.
More of my latest meanderings: Egalitarian "hetero" relationships don't need to look like God/Goddess (or anima/animus) relationships. They're not distinctively nor necessarily male and female. Both partners may embody both male and female. A man may be more archetypically female . A woman might be more male. Heteronormative crap is crap. I see people continuing... Continue Reading →
I AM WHAT I AM ~~ "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman I needed to share Walt as I write from several different physiologies, thus perhaps appear inconsistent. It is my reality, however -- as my physiology switches so does my reality...
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