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@brooks__e
really, truly did a fantastic job telling my story through a nuanced, human-centered lens
Enormous gratitude to Ethan and the production team at
@TheAtlantic
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@chunkbardey
We have daily marital strife over this
I say say “turn it down” when I mean “decrease the intensity of the cooling and energy usage”
She says “turn it up” when she means “increase the temperature at which it will shut off”
Both are correct but I am more correct
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@bilbosfootcomb
100% it’s because this happy nuclear family “appears Jewish” (they are catholic iirc) and therefore is part of the globalist agenda
If you want to know why they assume Jewishness, you will be shocked to learn it’s: no blondes, dad looks like he consumes more miso soup than steak,
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@StoopMensch
I remember staying with German relatives and downloading torrents for a week in early 00’s
After proudly handing him the entire Pixar/disney catalogue in .avi on cds he asked me how it was possible
It was then that I found out they pay per megabyte over there
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@gayest_tone
He was taking zyban to quit smoking. Zyban is the same drug as Wellbutrin. Suicideality is a well established effect of most popular antidepressants.
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@tracewoodgrains
@SecretaryPete
Just a note to all reading this phenomenally comprehensive and judicious summary of primary research done in a shockingly short span of time:
Trace has a tip jar on his profile and we should reward behaviors we want to see more of
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@0xgaut
Using water that’s been packaged in plastic tells me this guy is completely unserious about his coffee
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@polyeaster
@bilbosfootcomb
I mean I don’t know how one would actually “appear Jewish” short of yarmulkes and whatnot?
The antisemetic have created a mythos whereby “Jewishness” has some kind of “I know it when I see it” ethereal quality
It’s what allows them to imagine that a single religion subjugates
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@Saikmedi
@ClementLeeMD
We did this. It can wait. We weren’t settled on a name and didn’t want to be jumping into paperwork so soon after and exhilarating and transcendent experience.
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@dieworkwear
@GEIMZz
Hilarious to see sticker shock at $90
Extremely difficult to make a profit selling MIUSA denim at this price
Volumes must be enormous or they are making margin on other products
Same ppl who complain about cost are often the ones complaining that this country sold out mfg to
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@_pem_pem
Speed is like any other tool. If you can use it safely & it helps a lot, why wouldn’t you? No need for justification or storytelling.
Prescribers should focus on safety & tracking trade offs, not spinning tales about inborn dopamine droughts and “ADHD Brains react differently”
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In the early/mid 00’s, a number of highly regarded psychiatrists were in agreement: my wife was so severely mentally ill, she should not hope to have a career, to marry, to have children.
Rather, they told her, she should come to terms with reality, and lower her expectations
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@pearlythingz
Idk who is “fixing the car” every day but I know that housework is relentless
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@pigletish
Go on Groupon, find a professional organizer to do it for you, tip them well, splurge on it, and then focus on maintaining. Better return on investment than anything else you could throw money at.
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@_pem_pem
A lot of Misogyny is born in response to “male loneliness” imho
Loneliness is a natural consequence of neoliberal tendency towards atomization
Men get it worse because they have, on average, lower social intelligence: harder for them to fight the tide pulling us apart
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Adderall prescriptions have gone up 40% in 36 months. What does this say about ADHD? Are brains becoming newly disordered or did covid “reveal” preexisting disorder? Or is it just that ppl want these drugs and other ppl want to sell them? 1/
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@itsthemnotus
@bilbosfootcomb
I’m not proclaiming anything. If I was, yes, that would be racist. Im explaining the (invalid and preposterous) basis upon which many right wingers would presume them to be, based on what I have heard and seen elsewhere
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I used to work on the psych unit at Yale New Haven Hospital as a peer counselor. 1/2 the patients were Yale students shuffling around on multiple antipsychotics that were prescribed in response to an Adderall-induced psychosis. Dystopic.
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Iatrogenic Nightmare: Canada expanding availability of state funded euthanasia to the “mentally ill”
IMHO many cases of “serious mental illness” are the result of years of reckless polypharmacy; many diagnosable mental issues are naturally transient, and they become chronic as
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@PaulSkallas
Buddhism is acceptable because it does not conflict with the “science” of pop psychology and psychopharmacology
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The last time I took a psychiatric drug of any kind was July 15, 2013.
Since then, I’ve dedicated much of my life to connecting and supporting others who similarly seek independence from a chemically regulated experience of life.
10 years on, I’m still recovering bits of
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@_pem_pem
I don’t take it anymore because my tolerance grew too high after 7 years, and my life was constructed around (and dependent on) the person I was on speed. Unsustainable. Had to walk away and reinvent my place in the world so “unmedicated me” could thrive.
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@_pem_pem
Credentials do little to impede the flow of the pop-psychology-clickbait-articles-to-therapy pipeline
As a 16 year old I was assured by a doctor of psychology that my main issues stem from the fact that Indigo Children were supposed to be born in the 60’s, not the 80’s.
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“Adult Onset ADHD” a hot topic right now in northern Europe. I was first dx’d at age 8, im now 39, been off drugs 10 years. Odd to see adults my age thinking about going on for the first time. Hearing ppl refer to Adderall as “life-saving medicine”, hard to keep a straight face.
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Very pleased to see my gorgeous babe of a wife’s book is at last available for preorder
Many ppl have heard some version of her story, but this is HER version, told in her own words
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@0xgaut
I drink filtered tap
If I take it to go, it’s in metal
Or glass
Plastic leeches, while being shipped it can get hot and literally infuse the water with microplastics
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@Touchdown_al
@chunkbardey
Ok this has managed to weaken my conviction
I may have to apologize to my wife
“Honey, I know you’ve been consistently saying the exact same thing for years but a stranger on Twitter rephrased it slightly and I just want to say I’m sorry”
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@CarlatPsych
@US_FDA
@chrisaikenmd
Seeing stuff like this breaks my heart and blackens my mood like nothing else.
How can child possibly maintain the discernment needed to know the difference between me/my thoughts/my feelings/my environment/this drug ?
Who is helping them figure it out? How?
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@the_wilderless
For me, practically: stimulant drugs work but they work partly by shutting down my “insight engine”, which eventually leads to blind productivity without meaning, plus tolerance issues mean it’s not a sustainable long term approach
Resistance training (weights>bands) and
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Imagine you have been deprived of orgasm throughout your 20s as the result being put on ADs by a psych. Imagine you go to him and say it feels like you’ve been chemically castrated.
Now imagine that he sez “hmmm, that’s really really really rare. Are you sure it isn’t your
PSSD is real…but also really really really really rare, to the point that essentially every doc I’ve talked to has never seen it clinically. It’s always risks benefits, an area we do need to improve on in discussing with patients.
But these headlines? This ain’t it…
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@HowtoADHD
I don’t identify with the Dx anymore but I definitely identify with the criteria
David Allen GTD (getting things done) changed my life immensely, it’s a way of thinking about tasks that is now innate 4 me
I use a legal pad that stays at my desk, and I only work at the desk
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@Melanie84410075
@sanilrege
@ScottMuirMD
What jumps out to me from this whole tedious stupid thing: regardless of what you think of his work, mark has chosen to sacrifice any possibility of acceptance within the wider profession, and has invited endless scorn, harassment and ridicule from his colleagues. He chooses to
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@jmrphy
My wife and I enjoy an intellectual marriage
Marriage is 2 minds, 2 sets of assets merging into a single entity for mutual benefit
impossible without transparency, shared values and trust, if you can’t understand each other, it’s not a marriage
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@FunkGodArtist
My experience working for a state funded mental health activism non profit forced me to reconsider what I had previously believed about taxpayer funded social programs
I have since come to beleive that, on balance, each individual is their own best advocate and resource for
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@LadiJ16
Ask things that your son is too young to know to ask but that will provide him
With useful context for how she behaves in relationship to him (possibly helping him avoid confusion and hurt down the line)
As a teen, her judgements and assessments are less reliable than her
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“Psychiatry has come a long way since the lobotomy.”
This isn't an "anti-psychiatry" account but my ex gf just texted me out of the blue saying that after 70 (!) ECT sessions she's been diagnosed with white matter disease. A form of progressive dementia. She's 34 years old. Not the news I wanted to start the weekend with.
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@RyanMarino
Gabapentin is just a slightly more subtle benzo with a slightly greater anesthetic quality and so it gets prescribed for any ailment about which the doctor has no clue
They also think it’s pretty harmless but anyone who has tried to get off it after awhile knows it’s a brutal WD
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Is there any concept more patronizing, dystopic and anti-human than “behavioral health”?
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Psychiatric Iatrogenesis is also often labeled “treatment resistance”… when the drugs are making things worse, patients are often told it is because their disorder is unusually resistant to intervention.
@jestyfriedman
Yes, "treatment resistant depression" I believe is so common because we're treating people for things they don't have. And missing out of the root cause.
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@HowtoADHD
I phrased that poorly
When I am at my desk, I am working. I work other places too, but the desk is ONLY for working.
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If you point out dangers of psych drugs, people will say you “spread antipsychiatry nonsense”. Other people will go a step further and say you are “harming marginalized groups by stigmatizing treatment”
They don’t realize that they have been TAUGHT to respond this way
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@consciousphilos
Finding rock bottom after losing myself due to overeliance on prescribed psychiatric drugs taught me that, left to our own human judgement and the amplifying properties of technology, we are helpless to transcend crude suffering.
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@wil_da_beast630
Hunting is something you either have the cultural basis for understanding or you don’t. I myself understand that many of these big game hunters have done more for conservation than entire NGOs dedicated to the cause, and that culling is a needed response to ecosystem imbalances
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@dieworkwear
@leanbean65
My outfits are indistinguishable from costumes
I choose my daily look like a costume director
“What would a lightly frazzled suburban father wear on a warm day with chance of rain?”
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@sin_h8er
@dieworkwear
Thrifted suits can be amazing bargains. Find one that is big enough to fit you and get it tailored, by far the cheapest way to get a very high quality suit
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@anna_biela3
@MattRamsey80
@StoopMensch
His daughter lived with us in the US for a year prior to this happening so I think he was able to accept it reciprocally
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All psychoactive drugs cause brain injury
The injury might be temporary, might be desirable, might be the only thing that gets you through the day
But it’s still an injury
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If you want to educate yourself with free, reliable, non-biased information about what psychiatric drugs ACTUALLY are, what they do & don’t do… DON’T ask pharmaceutical companies.
Instead, visit our website. You might be surprised at what you find out.
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When ghouls prattle on about “increasing access to mental health care”, they mean pouring MORE money into a system that, despite her DEATH by overdose, found NO ISSUE with the choice to prescribe depakote and clonidine to a 4 year old for BIPOLAR DISORDER
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@PaulSkallas
Any sufficiently skilled hunter/tracker seems basically psychic in their ability to read “signs”
Animals behave in obviously telepathically informed ways and we just say “scientists don’t yet fully understand how….”
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@PaulMinotMD
I maintain that it’s a confluence of perverse incentives and well-meaning individual action that got us here, and it’s kind of a house of cards. A “Me Too” moment for psychiatric harm, brought on by a well-publicized mainstream narrative story, will see it collapse and reorder.
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@wanyeburkett
Nay. Sugar causes inflammation which can manifest many different ways
Those studies go against the observed reality of millions of parents, and there are obvious financial incentives involved
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What is the most concise and effective response/retort to the “its just like like insulin for diabetes” analogy used in a psychiatric rx context? (Presuming the goal is to educate, not insult)
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@ProfRobHoward
Genuine question: is there any legitimate critique of contemporary psychiatric practice that should NOT be dismissed as “antipsychiatry”?
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People think this means something about the people who take these drugs but it’s really a story about where these cultures draw the line between “normal” and “pathology”
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Framing psychological distress and dysfunction as diseases “no different from cancer or diabetes” is a relatively new conception
But pointing out the flaws with this paradigm is often experienced as an invalidation of the seriousness & severity of the issues involved
Why?
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A close friend of mine developed severe halitosis, but delayed going to a dentist until getting state health ins. for low income ppl.
When he finally did go, the dentist said ALL his teeth needed to come out ASAP due to severe, life threatening infection.
He was single, not
Took my 7yr old to his annual pediatric dentist appt last month (near Seattle) and the dentist found 4 cavities in his baby teeth, all needing filling and one needed a cap.
The dentist said this had to be done with general anesthesia. Cost $2,750.
We found it bizarre to have to
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This reads as trolling to me
If you’ve truly lost any patience/respect/appreciation for a given cohort, why tweet in such a manner as to entice engagement from that particular group?
Neither side of this “anti/pro” psych “debate” covers themselves in glory, but this stands out.
I tried to engage with antipsychiatry.
I tried to understand PSSD.
I shared my own personal journey with mental illness and received huge hate from both sides.
My stance has changed.
I genuinely question the validity of PSSD / harms. I think many of the issues were already
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This is something to watch for
If you reject processed and industrial goods, there are psychiatric labels that other people are being taught apply to you.
This is also true for any rejection of modern, industrialized society. If you respond negatively to the conditions of your
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@PaulSkallas
You don’t see a lot of older ppl in sales but I am way more likely to trust someone who reminds me of my grandad than someone who reminds me of me
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@analyticalposts
@HazelAppleyard_
Best marketing campaign in modern history
Fruit of the loom is a forgotten brand, associated with your dads baggy stained underwear
Oh what’s this Mandela thing? Interesting, let’s give our attorneys something to do and see if we can rewrite history and gaslight the internet
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How odd that they’d cut this out, given that it’s “old news”
Perhaps the assumption was that viewers would be bored to be reminded once again that “chemical imbalance” is a marketing term long disowned by psychiatry and public health at large.
Disturbingly, Australia’s national broadcaster, ABC cut key scenes from the BBC Panorama Documentary. Namely
@joannamoncrieff
debunking of the chemical imbalance myth
@markhoro
@JDaviesPhD
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For the “opioid scandal” to have happened, EVERYONE, from pharma execs to the hospital admins, all the way down to the kindly country doctor, either lied or was deceived
When you point out that the same people might be failing in the same ways but with different drugs, you are
‘<1% of people get addicted to oxycontin’ is the sentence that fueled the opioid epidemic. It was based on a chart review by a doctor. The same sort of studies contributed to the Henssler antidepressant meta-analysis (e.g. the largest reported 5% experienced withdrawal)…. 1/2
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@RichardSeanO
@jonathanstea
If you were going to fake the moon landing, why would you choose THIS lander? As you point out, it looks implausibly delicate. If the primary design consideration is “convincing people that it’s real”, wouldn’t you choose something more badass?
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@IndigoDaya
Psych wards seal you off from:
Touch
Friends
Family
Your stuff
Choices
Healthy food
Fresh air
The sun
Healing is not what happens there. “Stabilization” is the best you can hope for, and without all of the above, drugs are doing most of the heavy lifting in that endeavor.
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@Log_out_loud
@_pem_pem
I felt similarly until I got involved in 12 step men’s groups and I met real Men for the first time
Men who were traumatized, who caused trauma, who had been broken down into nothing and built themselves back up and sought to make living amends…literally transformed themselves
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@JonathanShedler
As a former patient who regular speaks with other former patients about their experiences, the difference in outcomes with a skilled, careful, thoughtful practitioner vs someone just trying to get through the day are VAST, and the ratio is like 1/30; FAR WORSE in public sector.
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In
@awaisaftab
latest stacksub post, he offers a template for clinicians encountering patient claims of PSSD:
“Although I do not know what the cause is or what the nature of the relationship between your sexual dysfunction and SSRI use is, I believe your sexual dysfunction is
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How about everyone gets to share their opinions however they want, no matter how unqualified or myopic, and everyone else decides if they agree,or disagree, or need more info, or don’t care at all?
Feeling very bored by the endless adjudication of who is allowed to speak on what
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Every time someone is prescribed a new drug class, doctors should recommend they visit an online community dedicated to recovery from harms handed by that drug.
Kudos to this redditor for seeking info from all sources
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“Whoa there kiddo now before you go seeking out the wisdom of poets and philosophers to undergird your experience of life’s ups and downs, let me just medicalize your feelings and emotions a little bit first! That way, people will NEVER discriminate against you because once you
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Translation: We have successfully and cynically manipulated the Amazon algorithm! Our goal when writing this book was to sell a lot of them, but also to expand market share for pharmaceuticals with zero evidence base for safe/effective long term use by targeting children, parents
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@simonsarris
Living in NYC long term changes you
You become something else
The ambient energy and activity of the city all around you is what nourishes and animates you
Over time you shrink and harden and talk really fast
If you can’t transform in this way you’re NGMI
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@DrMcFillin
Alcoholism is very much about getting caught in constant compulsive assessment of internal states. “Self centered to the extreme”. AA offers identification w/ larger constructs (the group, higher power, etc) as remedy, emphasis on being “of service” as alternative to serving self
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4/ for those that don’t know, “medication cascade” is when your prescribed drug leads to additional prescriptions, which are used to treat emergent issues cause by the original drug, and these new drugs, in turn, lead to more dx, more rx
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14/ I’ve been called a “pill shamer” before for sharing my story, which is wrong; i dont have anything against people who choose to take them. I was one myself. But I do think ppl need to be aware of how quick you can get swept up by the current, and how hard it is to swim back.
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@dieworkwear
To be fair they don’t REQUIRE special care if u don’t really care abt the fades
Guys like to baby them and take pics of them as they develop, send pix to the group chat JUST LIKE YOU WOULD A BABY
RAW DENIM IS TAMOGACHI FOR MEN
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@Rebecca99LT
It’s anger at the profession, its mechanics, methods & convictions.
To truly understand “antipsychiatry”, you must:
1. See/feel psychiatric harm up close
2. See/feel the abundant healing available elsewhere
Psychiatry is too arbitrary and capricious to be the dominant paradigm
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Very hard to get whole outfit in a selfie at a gas station while also looking very cool and sophisticated but I did it thanks to my long arm privilege
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@tao_lin
There is a codependent desperation that comes naturally to dogs, but is anathema to cats.
Dog ppl get hooked on the limitless adoration of their animals. They are comfortable as targets of obsession.
When cats display love, it’s IN SPITE of their aloof and self-contained
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Campaigners critical of the mainstream psychiatric paradigm would do well to identify themselves positively
Instead of being “anti-psychiatry”, can you be “pro-something”?
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@FromKulak
Its going to fall apart. I help run an org that helps people “get off the ride” once they realize the drugs are not exactly the precision tuned instruments they were led to believe. If stopped too quickly, withdrawal can be devastating and protracted.
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@JonathanShedler
Professionals often have limited opportunity to observe their colleagues in practice; if they did, I suspect there would overall be greater credence granted to patient claims of widespread Iatrogenesis
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@sanilrege
@markhoro
Your ignorance of how media functions indicates to me a lack of curiosity abt things you don’t understand
Why not just say what you mean? “I don’t like Mark, I don’t like marks ideas, and I don’t like it when Marks work gets more attention than my bratty, unprofessional tweets”
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I am seeing so many posts like this lately
That “first time” is even more powerfully experienced if you are being told “ADHD brains” become “normal” on adderall
If you believe this is how everyone else feels all the time, You are blown away by the severity of your
Wtf THIS is what aderrall feels like??
You can conquer anything. I’ve never been so focused. This is insane
I am addicted and I don’t care I’ll do my best ever work on this shit
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This is an increasingly common belief and I actually find it very sweet
In the absence of an acceptable religious doctrine or deeply felt cultural mythos in which to place one’s faith, the human spirit instinctually seeks out other higher powers & assigns them whatever imaginary
@atomicaceso
@ms_queenbitch0
Pharma companies fund research. They find that the drugs work. They publish. The idea that they're manipulating the conclusions in order to sell more pills to needlessly medicate the masses is a conspiracy theory. If it didn't work, they wouldn't invest $ and they wouldn't profit
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@PaulSkallas
They should have merchandised more
Bobble heads and funko pops
Head shop collaborations like Tommy Chong, rolling paper and CBD gummies
Meth Blue Doritos
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This is a psychiatrist who trains future psychiatrists asking other psychiatrists this question on Reddit
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@ColinYovng
When it comes to these hats, brim size is inversely correlated to cringe
Guys with small brims want to wear the hat but they aren’t committed to the hat, they stink of fear
Guys with super wide brims are deep in love with the hat, and love is never cringe
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@jf_moore
@Mad_In_America
Whoever wrote and vetted this slide is surely aware that this is inaccurate.
To me, this betrays some worry on behalf of RCP that the audience might be "corrupted" if they don't make it clear that there are no "legitimate" critics.
Also, they list scientology first for a reason.
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@BadMedicalTakes
I think it’s reasonable to say “there are real risks and potential adverse effects of birth control that many many women and girls are unaware of”
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@TheCoon_33
@bilbosfootcomb
Yes short hair is now “trans”
Dyed hair= trans
How can you live like this
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Behold!
Famous “drug scientist”, widely regarded as top expert in his field, demonstrates his expertise on matters related to the most prescribed class of psychoactive chemicals in human history:
- not seeing any distinction worth making btw addiction/dependence
- not
now the correct analysis shows the hysteria about antidepressant addiction was unwarranted
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@psychadvoc8
I’m a Little unclear on wym
Are you saying you think it’s better for patients to believe they are sick when they are not,
than to believe they are well when they are sick?
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The professionalization of help was always going to lead to the quantification of help
Not far off from “how much help would you like today? Medium, large or jumbo? Would you like to add extra sincerity for a dollar?”
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