Saving skin from Topical Steroid Withdrawal. A brutal preventable condition caused by the use of ALL Steroids used to treat eczema & other skin conditions.
@j_cruickshanks Congratulations. It’s the fact that we all learn differently. No one size fits all needs to be across the board. From education to medication. #TSW#PSSD#Dyslexia
@jill_d35@recover2renew@MITUKteam Until medicine accepts suffering is part of human life, not always something to chemically silence, & until prescribers stop trusting pharmaceutical companies & denying harms like #Thalidomide, #Opioids, #TSW, this cycle repeats. Dr Gordon’s case proves they haven’t learnt.
@markhoro Experience is not the same as attribution. If your work included Mark’s contribution, the right move is to acknowledge it directly. Dismissing the issue doesn’t change it. @tylerblack32
@m_aadil If the best defense of psychiatry is ‘everything else is worse,’ that says less about its success and more about how little we’ve invested in humane alternatives.
@BadreNicolas A Hippocratic, lifestyle‑centred model is powerful for long‑term health, but it has been displaced by pharmaceuticals as the industry realised synthetic drugs could replace nature‑based healing and generate greater profit.
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@LaraKD_2020@markhoro I get the anger—steroids seem like an innocuous tube of cream, yet they’ve caused devastating consequences for so many, just like psych meds have too. We need better protocols beyond the defaults—doctors just need to pause before prescribing.
@markhoro@hanna_pssd Exactly—medicine’s cognitive dissonance runs deep across specialties. Each writes its own denial playbook: psych blames “relapse” or “TR,” derm calls TSW “rebound eczema” & “needing stronger tx.” Isn’t it wild doctors can’t connect the dots? Condition getting worse on treatment…
@phoboukaideimou@markhoro The only treatment is total cessation of steroids. Recovery is brutal—3-5 years on average. Many are still going through it 10+ years later. Some think they’re healed, only to rebound again. That’s why we’re pushing for stricter prescribing regulations. https://t.co/Rsuyy4Qrui
@LaraKD_2020@markhoro This isn’t eczema. It doesn’t look or behave like eczema. But doctors won’t even consider that. Just like with psychiatric meds, they’re trained to believe prescribed treatments can’t cause this kind of systemic harm, so the harm gets dismissed immediately.
@JDaviesPhD Fifty years always seems to be the cut-off for disclosure — wasn’t Thalidomide buried for about that long too, while doctors blamed the mothers for doing something wrong?
@drraja_ This story about the mum shows how seriously medicine treats a hormone/HPA‑axis crisis.
Yet for people with #TSW — same collapse — it’s dismissed as “worse eczema.”
Steroid over‑prescribing created this. Examine your prescribing, not their sanity.
#SkinHealth#MentalHealth
TSW is real—burning skin, sleepless nights, lives ruined. Yet doctors dismiss are now saying it as a “social media fad.” Who’d choose this agony? We just want to be heard & helped
March in March is for every TSW warrior, parent, carer. Stand together. 💔✊ #TSW#MarchInMarch