Monica

Electrical engineering student (Undergrad-Senior). Train 🚊 suicide survivor. I discuss #Akathisia and #PrescribedHarm.

[Monica @InsularEntropy]

You can save yourself from a lifetime of suffering by taking this one step:

Never do any medical intervention/treatment/medication/procedure that has a harm group online, such as on Facebook.

[Dr. Anna MD “In My Opinion” @drannamedical]

@keepontruckin78 @ShareawareCdn Need someone to get him out of there before they permanently damage him. The patient stories are absolutely horrific

[Monica @InsularEntropy]

@wmepistemology I agree with you 100%.

The problem is that I have 3 rare diseases so I am dependent on the healthcare system although I do everything I can to distance myself from it.

The scenario I describe always happens while admitted for life threatening acute medical problems. It’s deadly

[Monica @InsularEntropy]

The healthcare institution where I receive my medical care is extremely guilty in trying to claim that every unusual medical complaint is a psychiatric disorder. In fact, this is what happened to me each time before diagnosed with a rare disease while admitted to hospital.

[danielle gansky @DanielleGansky]

PSSD is not simply the loss of sexual function. It extends far beyond that. It involves emotional dissolution, the loss of cognitive abilities, personality loss, identity loss, and profound disruptions to the experience of being human.

it’s a feeling of confinement within your own consciousness. It feels as though my mind had been placed in a chemical straitjacket. My thoughts, emotions, personality, and sense of self all feel restricted. I no longer feel fully able to access, express, or experience who I was ( or life itself) in the way I once could.

My sense of agency has been diminished within my own mind, almost like a loss of free will. I no longer feel free to think in the expansive way I once could. (something I had always taken for granted and never imagined I could lose at such young age.)

How do you describe the loss of something as subjective, invisible, abstract, and intangible as your own mind and consciousness?

Because the injury is invisible unlike a broken bone in a cast or a visible physical wound, others cannot truly grasp the depth of the devastation and damage of someone's internal world.

In the beginning I felt frustrated as words could not fully convey the reality of what was happening to me. The inability for me to communicate the experience made me feel even more trapped.

The very faculty I needed to describe what was happening had itself been affected.

What gets shattered Is the very instrument through which we experienced existence itself.

@PSSDNetwork #PSSD

[Kenneth M Peters MD @KennethMPeters1]

We need better informed consent and more thoughtful use of these drugs that can lead to enduring sexual, physical, and emotional dysfunction after stopping the drug. #PSSD, #PFS, #PAS. @CorewellHealth @BeaumontUrology
https://t.co/WpbPPXvksg

[Monica @InsularEntropy]

As someone who has drug injuries such as akathisia, I appreciate mind and body tricks like these.

These little tricks go a long ways if you learn how to use them appropriately for your circumstances. They can help you get ahead in life, as they are unconventional.

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

The 7-second cold wrist rinse was tested on 3,000 soldiers after combat simulations.

Cortisol dropped 52% within 90 seconds. Heart rate fell an average of 22 beats per minute. The Navy classified the protocol in 2009 and kept it secret until 2023.

The mechanism is radial artery cooling. Your inner wrists have the thinnest skin and the largest surface-to-volume ratio for blood vessels. 7 seconds of cold water cools the blood passing to your brain, which signals your hypothalamus to downregulate stress instantly

You've splashed cold water on your face. You've taken cold showers. Both work, but they're inconvenient.

The SEAL protocol takes 7 seconds, requires no undressing, and can be done at any sink. Soldiers used it before night missions to fall asleep fast.

The military classified this because a free 7-second stress fix would reduce demand for combat stress medication ($400M annually).

The 2023 declassification came after a FOIA lawsuit filed by a veteran.

The fix: run cold tap water over your inner wrists for 7 seconds. Both wrists. Do it when you feel a stress spike.

Within 90 seconds, your heart rate will drop. No shower, no ice.

Just 7 seconds.

[Monica @InsularEntropy]

Based on online activity, such as in patient support groups, this is something that this particular institution is notorious for doing.

Something has to change because it’s extremely predatory and very dangerous.

Some of us are lucky not to be dead from these practices.

[SpaceWeatherNews @SunWeatherMan]

Hideous. Hopefully this is wrong.

Full analysis coming tonight on YouTube

[BASED PSYCHIATRIST @BasedPsychMD]

Psychiatry built the on-ramp for starting medications but little to no support exists for getting off.

Thats precisely why peer support groups are so important.

Anyone can receive support regardless of location or financial status.

[Angie Peacock, MSW, CPC @angpeacock1111]

Here is the shocking truth about some of the clients I have supported with akathisia. I refer them out to medical services and what do you think they do? Misdiagnose, throw their hands up, suggest more meds, deny it’s drug-related & call it “anxiety.” I am so sick of it.

[Mark Millich @Unstoppable218]

The news articles that say finasteride or SSRIs "may" cause or increase the risk of sexual dysfunction and depression are such a minimization of what these drugs can actually cause: anhedonia, emotional blunting, cognitive dysfunction, bone-related issues, muscle wasting, physical changes, and much more. And to not emphasize that these changes can be permanent is a serious slap in the face to those suffering.

I can't believe we're still at this stage of highlighting the absolute bare minimum of this harm.

[Monica @InsularEntropy]

Fortunately I feel better this morning.

[Monica @InsularEntropy]

I do basically feel like I am dying right now. I hope tomorrow is better for me.

[Alba ࿐ @AlbaDocherty]

Being preblocked. It's an admission of guilt.

@LongCovidAdvoc says it's a nonprofit. It isn't. It's a private company run by Rupert Higham, PhD and his wife, Claire Every (a pre-2020 pwME).

Nothing New here folks, just your typical deceitful, mecfs astroturfs using Long Covid.

[Monica @InsularEntropy]

I do basically feel like I am dying right now. I hope tomorrow is better for me.

[Daniel Brittain Dugger @dbdugger]

Paging Akiko Iwasaki, you are needed in the pediatric wing of the Alzheimer's unit. Akiko Iwasaki, where are you?

[Javeed Sukhera MD PhD @javeedsukhera]

When you disagree with someone’s ideas, you engage the argument. When you attack their character, question their motives, or assign malicious intent, you often reveal more about your own discomfort than about them.

[Dakota Smith @weatherdak]

This is something I have never seen before on satellite.

Clouds perfectly outlining roads.

Just incredibly neat imagery of Houston, Texas this morning.

Massive shoutout to @Emokwx who discovered it.

[Daniel Owens @dsowens17]

A disturbing story of systemic failure to recognise iatrogenic harm in the mental health system.

Shows how attempts to claim it is just a few badly informed prescribers doesn’t cut it.

Patients are dismissed every step of the way.

Notice how one of the clinicians then projects their own failure to deal with situation back onto the patient by labelling them ‘difficult’.

[Monica @InsularEntropy]

If you are a healthcare professional creating podcasts about “narrative based medicine” then you are a clown toeing the liberal narrative. It’s practically a giveaway that you are an NPC and you don’t deserve any support for your endeavors especially working in transplant. 🤡

[Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social @markhoro]

This is heartening to hear that doctors listened to feedback about the harm caused from tapering off psychiatric drugs too quickly. Well worth patients doing to let doctors know what is happening. Disturbing to hear that these neurologists are aware of the damage from psych drugs but decided to stay mum out of professional courtesy....