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I see it every day in my practice: 7 steps that turn normal people into lifelong psychiatric patients.
1. You see your doctor for a real reason. A breakup. A job you can't stand. Drinking too much. Feeling isolated. Instead of exploring your life, the doctor hands you a prescription. It helps you sleep or numbs the pain, so it seems like a good idea.
2. Nobody talks about getting off. Check-ins are about side effects and dose. Not your life. Since they keep prescribing it, you assume it's safe.
3. You decide to stop. Maybe the problem resolved. Maybe the drug quietly stopped working. You get a quick taper over a few months. Then withdrawal hits like a freight train, and you're told it's your illness coming back.
4. You're convinced you have a chronic mental illness. You go back on the drug, it works, and everyone is relieved. Nobody calls it withdrawal. Now you believe you have a chemical imbalance, like a diabetic who needs insulin.
5. The doses climb. You build tolerance, you max out, and more meds get added. You're told some illnesses just get worse.
6. The meds start to harm you. After years on antidepressants: low energy, poor motivation, emotional numbness, anxiety for no reason. On benzos: memory problems, more anxiety, wanting to stay home. Your doctor doesn't see it because they were never trained to.
7. You're labeled "treatment resistant." Antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, ketamine, ECT or TMS. Some help briefly, then wear off. Eventually nobody remembers how it all started.
Getting out is hard. It means realizing you misplaced your trust, often with family telling you to "trust the experts" who got you here.
It can take years to untangle the medications and let your brain heal. But it can be done.
Don't stop suddenly. Come off slowly, with a prescriber who'll go at your pace.
Comment TAPER and I'll send you my free safe tapering guide.
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NADIE TE QUIERE CUANDO ESTÁS DEPRIMIDO. Podemos hablar todo el día sobre la salud mental y su importancia, pero en el momento en que caes en una depresión, todos empiezan a alejarse. Te ven como alguien negativo, una carga, una persona demasiado pesada para lidiar con ella.
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A chart showing how positively or negatively people interpret different words and phrases.
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UK “dangerously” reliant on China for raw materials needed for defence, energy infrastructure and AI.
Govts promote finance industry, neglect manufacturing which has multiplier effect of more than 1.8.
1970: Manufacturing was 30% of GDP, now 8%-9%.
theguardian.com/world/2026/n…
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– We found no such “car accident” in your blood, so clearly you must be imagining it.
ALT A black-and-white cartoon in a loose sketch style by @waysidescribbles. A doctor in a white coat and glasses stands holding a clipboard, looking forward and saying: ‘WE FOUND NO SUCH "CAR ACCIDENT" IN YOUR BLOOD, SO CLEARLY YOU MUST BE IMAGINING IT.’
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It's important not to get so focused on what's happening in someone's brain that we forget to ask what's happening in their life.
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When someone dies by suicide:
"Why didn't they talk to someone?" "What were they thinking?
But when someone tries to open up:
"You're overreacting." "You'll be fine." "You're too sensitive." "That's life get on with it."
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NHS CALLED HIM A NUISANCE. A TRIBUNAL CALLED IT A WITCH HUNT.
Andrew Smith spent 28 years as an NHS nurse. Served in the Gulf War. Not a single blemish on his record.
Then he raised concerns at Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust @MSEHospitals about staff being wrongly denied recruitment and retention payments. He pushed. He represented his colleagues. He did exactly what a union rep is supposed to do.
The Trust decided he was a nuisance. They hit him with a disciplinary process. Then they sacked him for gross misconduct.
He took them to tribunal. Won. The judgment described what happened to him as a witch hunt. Senior nursing officers were personally criticised for their conduct.
The Trust appealed. Lost again.
Then came the remedy hearing, where reinstatement should have been the obvious outcome. Instead, a trust manager told the Employment Tribunal that they were worried Andrew might continue raising concerns if he came back.
A manager told a tribunal, out loud, that they did not want their own vindicated employee reinstated because he might keep flagging problems.
He was not reinstated.
Meanwhile, one of the senior nurses found by the tribunal to have mistreated him walked straight into a director role at NHS Improvement. No consequences. A new title. A better salary.
Andrew Smith's children had to use their own savings to keep him and his wife housed. He had been effectively blacklisted from @NHS work, unable to secure positions he was more than qualified for.
He wrote to the National Guardian's Office (@NatGuardianFTSU) asking for help with reinstatement, as they had promised in 2017 to support unfairly dismissed whistleblowers.
They declined to review his case while tribunal proceedings were still ongoing.
Source: minhalexander_com / Dr Minh Alexander and others
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The medical complaints system did NOT protect me......How about you?
#DeniedInformedConsent
#BetrayalOfPatientTrust
#AbuseOfPower
#WilfulNeglect
#NeedlesslyHarmed
#ZeroAccountability
#CoverUpCulture
Early morning, 8 Feb 2012. My surgeon marked my left leg with an 'L' and arrow to ensure he operated on the correct hip.
Little did I know at this point that shortly upon entering the operating theatre, my 'simple' key-hole hip arthroscopy would become something much more brutal.
Little did I know that my clitoris would be crushed against my pubic bone with such horrific force that my sexual future would be stolen from me.
Little did I know that I would never again feel an orgasm alone or share that beautiful, physical, irreplaceable connection with another human being.
Little did I know that the excruciating, breathtaking ecstasy of touch would be a thing of my past.
Little did I know that being intimate with someone again would be physically and emotionally torturous and leave me in tears out of pure frustration.
To desperately want and need to feel that physically close, yet be unable, makes me feel like I can't breathe, like part of my soul has been ripped away from my body. It's gut-wrenching.
My hip surgery was a non-urgent elective procedure to help with back pain; I didn't sign up for this. I didn't sign up to be mutilated and violated.
It's heartbreaking. It's devastating.
To the surgeons and GPs who knowingly risk our sexual function WITHOUT our consent. You are irresponsible, you are cruel, and you should be ashamed.
YOUR actions are unforgivable, inexcusable and you should be struck off for causing such distressing and avoidable harm.
#SurgicalHarm #MedicalDeviceHarm #DenialOfInformedConsent
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What wonderful news to wake up to!
Trump had urged voters to pretend he was on the ballot - I think they just did
Democrats projected to win Senate and take control of US Congress after historic victories in Republican strongholds
Follow live bbc.in/3X51xLe
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Cyberattack on France’s national blood service (EFS) via its refrigeration contractor Coolworld. Hackers reset freezers keeping blood donor samples at -30°C to a target of 110°C. The thing that stopped it from destructive impact was an on-call technician who noticed the temperatures going up. Frozen plasma intended for transfusion was stored there too. Fortunately nothing was destroyed. This was a cyberattack on a sensitive layer of healthcare. From frozen peas to boiling plasma in three weeks...?
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Synchronizovat čas nemusíte jen přes NTP servery :)
laskakit.cz/dcf77-prijimac-r…
Od roku 1973 hlásí čas vysílač DCF77 u Frankfurtu, napojený přímo na německé atomové hodiny. Signál dosáhne až 2 000 km, takže ho chytíte v celé ČR. Hodiny díky němu jdou velmi přesně.
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"......where workers do the basic requirements of a job but refuse to do anything more might be hitting the economy"
Good
Why should ordinary workers do extra work for nothing at a time when bankers are raking in millions for doing next to F-all
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw23…
