I'm starting to share responses to general trends I'm reading in social media. I don't partake much in social media anymore. Not like I used to, but I am still ghosting around and seeing what is happening on the front lines of thought in critical psych and social justice. Below are some of the responses I've had to common themes that I felt like sharing.
2025 smelling like 1984: It's been a while since I've done one of these posts with snippets of thoughts as they arise. Many get posted on social media first. Given the current political reality I've mostly been adjusting and hoping the contemplation comes to some fruition as I allow the acclimation process. So, really, I've... Continue Reading →
This site, started in 2007, now covers 18 years of a transformative journey. I am not the same person that started this work. from the beginning: a collection of my personal posts and essays presented in reverse chronology. use this link to continue: https://beyondmeds.com/personal-journey/
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".
By Leaflin Lore Winecoff ~~ Civil disobedience and Dandelions... … are often on my mind. What does civil disobedience mean to you? Have you ever been confronted with a choice to do what is ethical, true …versus what is lawful, or profitable? Do you have the courage to choose what is ethical, when it goes against the grain? When it’s not the easy path? When it might cost you money or status? If it hasn’t happened yet, it might happen soon - be ready!
Chronic Lyme disease is not a homogeneous entity. The diagnosis is a distraction really and it doesn’t help a lot of people. Lyme is only given when one particular bacteria is present. The fact is, in long term chronic Lyme there are always multiple infections and generally parasites too in massive biofilm structures that take over the body. Of note: The Dyskinesia in Tardive Dyskinesia a diagnosis given to those with a common psych drug injury) is indistinguishable from some Dyskinesias that are part of some cases of "Lyme " disease. I've come to believe they are the same thing. The psych drug damage associated with TD creates opportunity for the systemic infections to ravage the lymph and nervous systems.
Somatic mysticism, diet and returning to my ancestry…. The hungry ghosts know. Listen. I like using “somatic mysticism” to explain my experience because I feel everything deeply in my body. I can feel my cells doing their work quite often and I feel all manner of metabolic movement and I feel far more than I can even begin to really know from a biological standpoint. Still when I listen and pay attention I collect data, information to act on.
This is my experience after what, at this point, amounts to thousands of hours of mindful presence with the chaos in my body. ~~ Chronic illness, pharmaceutical injury ~~ One learns when one focuses attention. One learns a whole lot. That is meditation. Focused attention. So, my experience of chronic illness: Chronic illness is the body saying no to the toxic societal structures that we have internalized…healing from chronic illness is healing the whole human shebang. ~~ To be clear healing does not mean curing. There is no cure to this being human. ~~ ....
Discrimination against those with DSM labels in the health professions. Health care providers discriminate. Yes, this is generally true among mental health professionals as well as health professionals and healers in general. It’s true among psychiatrists and therapists, and social workers too. It’s true among those who are part of the medical model and it’s true of those who are critical of psychiatric drugs as well. Discrimination in mental health professionals runs the entire spectrum of care.
Walking and yoga: video short ~~ This video was made a few years ago. it shows how I incorporate yoga into every moment of my life. sometimes it's subtle and sometimes not. Yoga and movement can morph from distinctly hatha yoga flows. They might become more like Qigong. Later, they can even move into ecstatic dance. I use walls and furniture and door frames and trees and anything around me as props for modifications as necessary. I have not been fit nor do I look like a conventional yogi. My body is my only teacher now. Yoga seems to be in my DNA. It is, in my mind, a science of the body. Movement keeps my body going as I continue to find what healing looks like in this body.
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