Nobody Somewhere

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

@harris_wins ...because these grotesque lies sure endear your candidates to me 🙄

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

@angpeacock1111 @shaylasquared I think you're doing great and needful work. I only meant that we must not let coaching and deprescribing blur the actual catastrophic dangers of benzos.

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

@Justin_Struble @atomicaceso And what is particularly horrifying about benzos is that they are so utterly destructive that even a careful taper does not save everyone.

[Phren fries 🧠🍟 @asenacide]

@atomicaceso U said it best here: yes, they can b tangled & confused, bt intervention is so radically diff that sure u need precision when it's life or death. Ppl don't get diachronicity (the time component), they only see shortsightedly from the present.

https://t.co/rGFXOuoSF9

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

@angpeacock1111 @shaylasquared That is, I am afraid that carelessness will continue to prevail because, gee, deprescribing and coaching can fix it.

And we know better.

[Alyne Duthie @DuthieAlyne]

I want to say something about surviving withdrawal from Venlafaxine and Diazepam. I got useful advice from online support forums, critical advice, but what saved me was having a family member on my side, who didn't waver for one minute in the face of pressure from psychiatry.

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

Prescribing and deprescribing guidance for benzodiazepine and benzodiazepine receptor agonist use in adults with depression, anxiety, and insomnia: an international scoping review

https://t.co/O2CT9Ag3TE

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

🤮
SBC Megachurch pastor Josh Howerton's advice to women about the wedding night: "Stand where he tells you to stand, wear what he tells you to wear, and do what he tells you to do."

https://t.co/UCQ8gmaqRF

[Sheila Gregoire--She Deserves Better is here! @sheilagregoire]

SBC Megachurch pastor Josh Howerton's advice to women about the wedding night:

"Stand where he tells you to stand, wear what he tells you to wear, and do what he tells you to do."

@_jaystringer and I unpack this on Episode 230 of Bare Marriage!

https://t.co/DC7wFxdD1T

[Workplace Mental Health Resources @Stopworkplacebu]

Empaths are not hard to get along with. They are not easily played. Step up or step out.

[KMBC @kmbc]

Marion County Record, publisher file lawsuit over police raid; seeking $10 million in damages | Click on the image to read the full story https://t.co/izpMgGaX7R

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.

It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland

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[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

@JoshuaMIreland Your insights are invaluable. Thanks for patiently teaching me!

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

1) I keep running into people who are taking years to taper 5mg of V or less...and I can't help but think it's problematic. "Some experts believe that the issue is a toxic encephalopathy caused by the benzodiazepine itself...

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

@JoshuaMIreland Thank you! I appreciate your input.

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

3) "...We can be certain that a taper that is too abrupt is not a good idea, but we must also consider that a taper that lasts too long might also be detrimental for some patients." - Dr. Mark Leeds

[Missy Mitchell-McBeth @missyMmcbeth]

This pic was taken in 2014 before it all started. I came across it this morning and found myself wishing I could go back to that moment and warn us.

But it would be selfish to.

Because of her experience she changed the world. Her work led to a black box warning from the FDA on benzos.

Read that again. She got the FDA to change. She helped educate other physicians. Countless lives will be saved. 40-80% of those who take benzos as prescribed experience withdrawal symptoms. 10-15% experience them for years after. Thousands and thousands harmed, many battles lost and lives altered. But the work of her and her colleagues is helping change that.

The truth is, she was just bigger than us. She fulfilled her role as a physician. Despite having been harmed, she did no harm herself and fought like hell to stop harm to others.

Forever a hero. Even if her story doesn’t fit the utopian mental model of the term.

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

@missyMmcbeth @ThrowSumthin She turned my darkness into light.

[Nobody Somewhere @2012orangebears]

2) "Based on this alternate theory, it is possible that very long tapers, over several years, may not be the best plan, because a longer taper involves longer exposure to the toxic drug...