Opera Duck

student of opera, life and philosophy

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@standmonitor @BusinessInsider A one-man bigotry band! Willing to shovel out agitprop for clicks!

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@evamahoney101 Grim Reaper?

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@MillsapCyn58369 @DrMcFillin They also use the diagnosis of “oppositional defiance disorder “ so if you don’t consent to their barbaric methods it’s a result of your “disorder.”

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis on why you NEED to read old books. This has never been more vital than it is today

[Opera Duck @opera_duck]

@standmonitor @LeahRemini A person in denial of reality

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@standmonitor @LeahRemini The amount of hate ejected from the mouth of this individual is quite remarkable.

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Hug a tree today.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

When we look at an oak, a sequoia, or a balsa tree in the Amazon rainforest, we're looking at solidified carbon and oxygen.

Trees do not obtain structural mass from the soil; it comes out of thin air. Plants are built almost entirely from atmospheric gases—living, complex architectures of carbon, oxygen and sunlight. No wonder that as children, we hug them, play and climb in them, or wander through their woods, hearing them sighing in the wind.

Around 90% to 95% of a tree's dry weight is carbon and oxygen, pulled directly from atmospheric carbon dioxide. Most people assume trees draw their body from the earth, yet the soil volume beneath a canopy remains unchanged as a sapling matures into a giant.

Roots do not consume dirt to build branches; large trees leave no gaping holes in the ground. Instead, the root network is a mechanical anchor to hold the heavy tree structure upright, while absorbing water and a tiny fraction of soil minerals—nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. These are their biological multivitamins, accounting for less than 5% of final dry mass.

Through photosynthesis, sunlight breaks apart carbon dioxide and water molecules. The plant releases oxygen back into the atmosphere and chains the remaining carbon and oxygen into glucose molecules, forming complex structural polymers like cellulose and lignin.

Across the globe, an estimated 3 trillion trees hold roughly 500 billion cubic meters of wood. Every forest on Earth is in reality solidified atmosphere—hundreds of billions of tons of air trapped, structured and given physical form by living plants.

Mankind owes its survival to these friendly giants of the natural world.

[Opera Duck @opera_duck]

@standmonitor @MichaelDCarr0ll @ladbible It is sad that individuals like this are given platforms to spew slurs and epithets based on their intolerance of a peaceful religion that brings succor to many.

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[Citizens Commission on Human Rights Australia @CCHRAustralia]

Coercive psychiatric practices in Australia include involuntary detainment and treatment, forced electroshock, seclusion, physical, chemical and mechanical restraint. The WHO has warned that coercion “can inflict severe pain and suffering…with long lasting physical and mental health consequences” leading to “substantial trauma and even death” and that these practices “violate the right to be protected from torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.”  Both the WHO and UN have called for the abolition of coercive of these practices. Australia must ban all of these practices.

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@standmonitor @MichaelDCarr0ll Hack writer employs the usual bigoted tropes to besmirch the members of a religion that helps many people. Yawn.

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Good news.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

Finally Provo Canyon School’s Springville Campus, a UHS treatment facility for juvenile girls, loses license for repeated failures to protect girls from harm, violence, discrimination & video evidence of a staff member striking a restrained resident https://t.co/hJiLtapFzH

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[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

Where Is the Culpability for the Psychiatric Practitioners in the Lindsay Clancy Case?
The public trial and the testimony of the psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses who treated Lindsay Clancy have brought global attention to the negligent standard of care that is rampant in the psychiatric industry.

A primary psychiatrist who never once examined her patient in person and couldn’t be bothered to find out what other drugs were being added to the cocktail of more than a dozen psychiatric drugs she had already prescribed. Multiple psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses who piled on mind-altering drugs in a matter of months with zero coordination, and who ignored the reports of side effects from Lindsay and her husband while remaining apparently ignorant of the FDA-documented side effects of the drugs they were prescribing—including aggression, hostility, rage, numbness, intrusive thoughts, and suicidal ideation—choosing instead to escalate the chemical assault.

This is not an isolated failure—It is the routine product of a system in which psychiatrists almost never check for underlying medical conditions and routinely skip even the most basic and standard work-ups—such as a simple thyroid panel that guidelines explicitly recommend for postpartum patients presenting with these exact symptoms—preferring instead to just say “yes” to drugs. Then, after those drugs produce severe side effects, every complaint from the patient is treated as nothing but a justification to pile on more drugs.

When gross negligence of this kind occurs, psychiatric practitioners should permanently lose their licenses. That is the bare minimum. They should also face malpractice charges for the catastrophic damage their chemical assaults produce. This case does not merely expose one instance of complete psychiatric failure—it pulls back the curtain on what is common practice in the psychiatry industry, and why it must finally be held to account.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

Welcome to the world of psychiatry— diagnosis by opinion and drugs by "trial and error"

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Please sign this petition to support human rights in South Africa.
https://t.co/poaP7G1Txc

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Wow. If only the warnings had been heeded how much loss of life could have been prevented?

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

The hearing on Prozac held in 1991 was not just on SSRIs causing suicide, but also violence towards others. Look at the conflicts of interest of the FDA panel voting on whether to warn the public at the end of the video.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

The Lindsay Clancy case is not an outlier. It is a window into how psychiatry actually operates.
Psychiatrists are downplaying the polypharmacy of the 13 different psychiatric drugs prescribed to Lindsay Clancy in just four months, claiming most were “low-dose” and rarely taken all at once. This is an attempt to blunt the public’s reaction to the sheer number of drugs she was given once that information became public. The defense is typical of mainstream psychiatry: ignore the FDA-documented psychological and physical effects of these drugs and the profession’s own minimal standards—standards it routinely fails to meet.

For example, the 2026 American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) task force—one of the main U.S. organizations psychiatrists are supposed to rely on for the practice of psychopharmacology—states clinicians should begin with monotherapy and that “every time you add a medication, you should stop a medication.” Even Stahl’s Prescriber’s Guide—a practical handbook doctors are supposed to use to switch psychiatric drugs—requires accounting for residual activity and half-lives. That means the doctor must factor in how much of the old drug is still affecting the brain so the patient is not exposed to overlapping or conflicting drug effects, unexpected side effects, or withdrawal while the new drug is being introduced.

These are the low bars psychiatry sets for itself. In the Clancy case, even these lowest of bars were ignored.
Current FDA labeling and clinical guidelines have long recognized that even low-dose psychiatric drugs can require weeks—or longer—to taper and clear, leaving residual effects that continue to act on the brain. In reality, “weeks” is often not long enough. The fact that HHS and SAMHSA are now developing new clinical guidance and training on tapering and deprescribing only confirms what has been known for years: residual effects from these drugs can persist well beyond a few weeks, and current practice has failed to account for it.

With current FDA labeling and clinical guidelines, fluoxetine’s active metabolite can persist for weeks. Short-half-life agents such as paroxetine and venlafaxine are well-known for producing anxiety, irritability, and insomnia during withdrawal. Benzodiazepines can trigger rebound anxiety or paradoxical excitation. SSRIs themselves can cause activation, heightened anxiety, insomnia, emotional blunting, or intrusive thoughts.

When these drugs are piled on in quick succession by multiple uncoordinated prescribers—sertraline, fluoxetine, mirtazapine, trazodone, zolpidem, lorazepam, clonazepam, diazepam, quetiapine, lamotrigine, and others—no clinician can distinguish drug side effects, residual effects, withdrawal, interactions, or the underlying condition. The patient’s condition deteriorated under this uncontrolled pattern of one psychiatric drug being piled on after another.

What this public trial has exposed is how ignorant mainstream psychiatrists are of what has already been publicly proven or disproven. Dr. Sejal Shah, presented as an “expert” as an Associate Chief at a Harvard-affiliated hospital, explained SSRIs as correcting a “lack of serotonin” in the brain—the debunked chemical imbalance myth that mainstream psychiatry claims to have stopped using decades ago. Yet this Harvard psychiatrist apparently didn’t get the memo.

Or psychiatrist Jennifer Tufts, who claimed the FDA’s black-box warning on antidepressants causing suicidal ideation applied only to children. The actual FDA warning covers adults through age 24. And as common sense would dictate, there is no scientific basis for claiming the risk vanishes the day after a patient’s 24th birthday.

Psychiatric nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta responded to Clancy’s extreme reaction to Zoloft—48 hours without sleep—by declaring it “unusual” and evidence of possible bipolar disorder, then prescribing the antipsychotic Seroquel. This was not clinical science. It is the same pharmaceutical marketing script engineered in the early 2000s: reframe SSRI-induced agitation and sleeplessness as “unmasked bipolar” so another profitable drug class can be added. Internal Lilly materials trained sales representatives in exactly this diagnostic switch. The company later paid $1.415 billion to settle charges that included illegal off-label promotion of Zyprexa for such uses.

This trial is showing the public that the emperor—psychiatry—has no clothes.

Behind the titles, Harvard affiliations, and talk of chemical imbalances and “unmasked bipolar” sits a profession that runs on behavioral checklists, not science. It shows little interest in ruling out real physical causes—such as thyroid problems in the postpartum period—before prescribing psychiatric drugs. Side effects are rebranded as new disorders and used to justify the next prescription. Drugs are piled on with no reliable way to know what remains in the patient’s system, no required training in how to take people off them safely, and no accountability when the resulting deterioration is labeled a new “mental illness.” This is not an unusual case.

This is mainstream psychiatry in every day practice: no medical workups for underlying physical conditions—just label, drug, and then blame the damage from the drugs on the patient’s ‘disease.’”

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fascinating!

[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

Does anyone remember this amazing story? On July 2, 1982, a truck driver from California flew 16,000 feet into the sky in a lawn chair. Larry Walters, 33, from San Pedro, had dreamed of flying his whole life. He bought 42 eight-foot helium weather balloons, tied them to a regular Sears lawn chair, strapped on a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop balloons to descend, a CB radio, sandwiches, and a six-pack of beer.
He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard. He cut the rope and shot up like a rocket — to 16,000 feet. He drifted directly into the main approach path for LAX. Two airline pilots radioed the tower: they had just passed a man in a lawn chair holding a gun at 16,000 feet. For 45 minutes, he floated over Los Angeles, freezing cold, too scared to shoot balloons because he might fall. Finally, he started popping balloons one by one and slowly descended.
He landed tangled in power lines in Long Beach, California, causing a blackout. When police arrested him, they asked why he did it. He said, "A man can't just sit around." The FAA fined him $4,000. He became a national folk hero — Lawnchair Larry — and inspired the movie Up.

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@DavidBCollum Psychiatric drugs can cause homicidal ideation in some people. This is a known “side’ effect. https://t.co/gcCHQrwgjS

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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