Michaela

Leaning into Fall 2026🍁🍃🍂Love my family, friends, Maine coon kitties, laughing, and cold water
☮️💟❄️

[Michaela @mictryder]

To everyone I love, yes, that’s you! Get yourself a copy of ‘The Plunge’ out June 9, 2026 by @Chris_Ballard33. It’s going to be such a treat. ☮️💟❄️
#coldwater #coldwaterswimming #purejoy #community #ms #symptommanagement #healing #recovery

[Dr. Josef @DrJosefWD]

Imagine your smoke alarm going off, so you climb up, pull out the battery, and say "problem solved."

That's how antidepressants get used in this country. These drugs dampen the alarm system, the distress of anxiety and depression, but they do nothing about whatever set the alarm off. The fire is still there. You've just silenced the thing that was telling you about it.

Here's the part people don't expect me to say: there is a logical way to use these medications. If you're drowning in anxiety or depression, a drug can keep your head above water. But it should come with a plan: we use this for support while we fix your relationships, rebuild your health, and work on meaning and purpose, and in about six months, once those supports are in place, we start bringing you off it.

That conversation almost never happens. What happens instead is you get put on the drug, the doctor sees you a couple of times a year, and the refills continue indefinitely. Year after year. And the real problems, the ones your symptoms were trying to make you listen to, get sidestepped completely.

Your symptoms are information. The goal was never to silence the alarm. It was to find the fire.

If you're looking to safely taper off a psychiatric medication, comment TAPER and I'll send you my free tapering guide. It's the exact protocol we use with our patients at TaperClinic.

[Michaela @mictryder]

@matthewbaszucki Never saw a psychiatrist just dx’d with MS at 23yrs old and my MS specialist prescribed me an SSRI and a benzo when I said I felt anxious in one of my visits. WTAF. 24yrs later still tapering. Bogus.

[Michaela @mictryder]

These babies are something special. Healers of the world to me🌷Tishy and Ro. #ms

[Michaela @mictryder]

@PositiveWithMS I am right there with you🧡

[Chris Ballard @Chris_Ballard33]

Three years ago, after a hoops injury, I tried a recovery hack favored by Steph & LeBron.

One thing led to another… and I found myself chasing cold water swimmers around the world.

Frozen lakes. The Baltic Sea. Finnish saunas.

I had no idea what I was getting into.

That journey became a book: The Plunge — coming June 9 from @SimonBooks

Pre-order now 👇

[Michaela @mictryder]

@PositiveWithMS That is so scary and happens all the time. 🧡 Glad you are okay!

[Christopher Lane Author @christophlane]

“No evidence” depression caused by low serotonin — an exhaustive new review debunks the “chemical imbalance” theory. Again.

My article on the findings, backstory, and major implications @PsychToday

#Psychiatry #MedTwitter #Depression #SSRIs

https://t.co/aDr5IQEWIT

[Michaela @mictryder]

Cold water swimming in the backyard 🙌🏻 Today, it was just a little bit of a dippity dip!❄️ 32F water🧊
#coldwaterswimming #multiplesclerosis

[Michaela @mictryder]

@benzosarebad Thinking of you so very much ☮️

[Michaela @mictryder]

Swim lesson #3
41F water 48F air
#ms #coldwatertherapy

[Michaela @mictryder]

Look who’s going to swim camp! So exciting to head down to NC for a few days to learn a few things ☮️💟❄️
#ms #grit https://t.co/brKANtpbZH

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Rare footage of a moose shedding both its antlers captured with a drone in a forest in New Brunswick.

Credit: Derek Burgoyne

[Michaela @mictryder]

36F WATER 40F AIR🥰

[Michaela @mictryder]

Simply the best☮️💟❄️
#ms #whm #coldwatertherapy #healing #privilegetoage #February2023 #grit #icebath #sundayvibes #SuperBowl2023

[Michaela @mictryder]

#MultipleSclerosis #icebath #healing #grayhair #play #aging #fun

[Michaela @mictryder]

@benzosarebad I enjoy you on Twitter! Sending you love ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Michaela @mictryder]

@suz_whipp @RoxyMSAdvocate @PrincessMS23 @GavinGiovannoni I was going to share the same! 🧡

[Michaela @mictryder]

@agirlwakingup I hate it. I’m so sorry. I understand. Sending you lots of love ❤️

[Michaela @mictryder]

@CrazyLegsLife I understand. You are not alone! I just looked at what you have been up to! Wow. Great job with showing MS who’s boss🙌

[Michaela @mictryder]

Post plunge. 37F AIR 45F WATER☮️💟❄️
#ms