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Does this sound like depression?
• Low mood.
• No energy, sleeping a lot, lying around or staying in bed all day.
•Everything’s an effort, no motivation.
• Brain fog.
• Feel irritable, snappy or anxious, low frustration tolerance.
• Avoid bright light, noise, and going out unless absolutely necessary.
• Isolating, no interest in activities, hobbies, or socialising.
• No interest in talking or texting, ignoring calls, not returning calls, it all feels like too much.
• Personal hygiene and household chores take a back seat.
Now take these exact same symptoms and behaviours but add:
Respiratory symptoms - it’s called the flu.
Vomiting and diarrhoea - it’s called food poisoning.
Fever - it’s called an infection.
Serious injury/surgery - it’s called post injury/surgery recovery.
Lost a loved one - it’s called grief.
Significant event - it’s called trauma or PTSD
Same baseline symptoms and behaviours, different causes. The behaviours are collectively known as ‘Sickness Behaviour’ and they occur in humans and animals when the Cell Danger response (CDR) is activated. It’s the common denominator in over 100 chronic illnesses.
CDR is an inbuilt metabolic process that’s activated by mitochondria when cells are under threat. The immune system and sympathetic nervous system are heavily involved. It happens at the cellular level. It is beyond your control.
Thyroid, appetite, and many non essential functions are down-regulated, activity & thinking is greatly reduced, and the body is forced to isolate and batten down the hatches while the threat is dealt with. It’s meant to be a temporary response.
CDR prioritises energy and resources to focus on the threat and sustaining life first, then on healing.
If the threat phase continues, healing can’t begin. If it’s interrupted at any stage (eg new threats), it battens down the hatches again and starts from scratch.
The more severe the threat the stronger the CDR response, eg mild/localised threats versus severe or systemic threats. It can become stuck if there are too many threats without time for resolution, or with severe exposures/damage, leading to chronic ME/CFS type symptoms.
Depending on the type of threat, other processes are activated to destroy or purge it, like sneezing, coughing, mucous, vomiting, diarrhoea, pain, crying, or fever.
Once the threat is eliminated, focus moves to rebuilding and repairing. When healing is complete, CDR is deactivated and normal function returns.
A stuck CDR is the common denominator in many chronic illnesses.
When there are no overt physical causes, it’s wrongly labelled as depression and classed as a mental illness. Potent neuroleptics are then prescribed, which alter (and can derange) the nervous system, adding more threats.
What is a threat?
Literally anything that’s not meant to be in the body, anything biological, physical, psychological, or environmental that can impact, change, or harm normal metabolic functioning, or threaten life.
Anything that upsets metabolic homeostasis:
• Trauma, abuse, ACEs, profound injustices.
• Infections: parasites, mould, bacteria.
• Feeling unsafe.
• Chemicals, heavy metals, venoms, noxious gases/inhalants, other toxins.
• Chronic stress.
• Poverty.
• Nutrient deficiencies, malnutrition.
• Social isolation.
• Significant loss, grief.
• Consuming harmful substances.
• Physical injuries.
Chronic depression is not a mental illness, it’s a system stuck in CDR following an assault(s) on the body or mind.
References
2014 Article
Dr Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD, Professor of Genetics, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pathology, UC San Diego School of Medicine: Metabolic features of the cell danger response
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Heyman, A. (2026). A Clinical Operationalization of the Cell Danger Response: Outcomes of a Five-Phase Treatment Protocol in 100 Patients with Chronic Post-Exposure Illness. Medical Research Archives, 14(6).esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/vi…
There’s an estimated 4K to over 10K distinct religions, spiritual traditions, indigenous, tribal and other ‘higher power’ belief systems in the world.
Which one’s the right one?
Not everybody can be right, the majority must be wrong?
The thousands of different Gods, deities, bibles, scriptures, and commandments can’t all be right. Or can they?
Why is your religion the right one and the others are all wrong?
If people talk to a God they’ve never seen, are they crazy?
#Religion #God #Bible
I’m angry & devastated. Just learned my sister in laws been in hospital for 3 weeks.Happy, kind, fully functioning woman, energetic, working, travelling around in their camper bus. Kind soul.
Rapid weight loss (44kg/97Lbs), developed head tremor/jerks (getting worse), gradual mood changes, anger outbursts, escalated to throwing things around, smashing up the house, confused, paranoid, shouting. Ambo & police called.
Turns out, shed been on an antidepressant for 20 yrs; at her request GP stopped it, he said just stop them. COLD TURKEY! Thats not even close to their own poxy guidelines.
Admitted her to the fucking psych ward. Not a medical ward. No medical workup. No neuro involvement.
Only basic bloods.
They’re saying it’s late onset bipolar, loading her up with psych drugs, she’s been sectioned. Clueless fuckheads.
BIL was so distraught and embarrassed she was in a psych ward he didn’t tell anyone, thought she’d be out soon. Now a MHTs scheduled and I know what that means. Shes not getting out any time soon.
On a locked ward, only “allowed” 2hrs of visits, one person at a time only, p/day.
Was put in a shared room with males and females.
A male pt reportedly told her he was going to ’rape her front and back when you’re asleep”. She was so scared she slept on a couch outside nurses station for 3 nights.
She’s seen violent ‘takedowns’ and is terrified.
No one can get in to support her or advocate for her. She’s got no clean underwear or clothes.
Most staff are male foreigners, some she can’t understand.
Have been able to speak with her, alternating between thought disordered and paranoid, and back to normal. Zero history of this, only since cold turkeying off the antidepressant.
She’s distressed, scared, and hasn’t spoken to a doctor for a week, BIL getting zero info.
I feel like this is the beginning of the end for her.
I have zero trust or respect left for the health system. Psychiatry is the biggest shit stain of all of them.
It’s not health care, it’s a prison with barely English speaking wardens.
The concerns may not seem legit to a Dr but they are to pts, who, in case Drs have forgotten, are the owners of the bodies. Publicly belittling a pts concerns on SM because they’re scared and not obeying orders is not how you earn trust.
Too many clinicians look at people purely through the medical model lens of body parts and symptoms to be poked, prodded, cut up, and drugged, completely disconnected from any human aspect.
I had a patient with imaging suggestive of advanced colorectal cancer-he was declining.
I asked why he would not get a colonoscopy.
“I don’t want them to biopsy it and have it spread”
He has multiple liver tumors.
We have to do a better job earning trust so we can explain risks and benefits. Some concerns are legit, others are not reasonable.
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That’s accurate. My personal experience. There’s no education re iatrogenic harm or inefficiency.
You’ve got to look outside the system & dig deep to find the info. Self educate & ignore the teaching materials they recommend.
Every nurse must complete annual minimum of 20hrs CPD. Every year nurses scramble to meet that. Last minute they find a few online links & claim to have read them, & redo some dept training modules to tick the 20hrs box.
Formal education & office chat is heavily focused on ‘underlying illness’, ‘treatment resistance’, and ‘non compliance’.
Mandatory ongoing nurse drug skills training focuses on which drug for which diagnosis, dosages, storage, drug calculations, some AEs thrown in but mostly for insulin & other non psych drugs.
Psych drug AEs are pushed as the benefits outweigh the risks & use more drugs to manage the AEs.
Trying to educate colleagues is like talking to a brick wall, or like you’re trying to convince them grass is orange not green. Trying to educate them about withdrawal risks is worse.
Massive ignorance and resistance.
It’s an entrenched culture.
I’m convinced that the story that the mental health field tells the professionals themselves about iatrogenic harm is profoundly misleading and wrong.
Of course, this is totally unfair to the mental health professionals, not to mention the actual patients they get to interface with the system. But it exists to maintain the power of the institution and their revenue model. Not to sincerely tackle the topic of iatrogenic harm.
That’s what my next video essay will be about: understanding iatrogenic harm for mental health professionals.
One man’s incredible strength.
Con 28 años fallecieron mi mujer y mi hija. Hasta los 30 estuve en la más absoluta mierda.
Después del entierro intenté matarme con el coche, después pastillas, venas, todo lo que se me ocurrió.
Terminé metiendome en peleas heavy, pero heavys de verdad, con el único objetivo de que mataran. No hubo un día que no estuviera borracho. Me levantaba con pesadillas por la noche y me cogía tal cogorza que me caía y me abría la cabeza. Cuando me despertaba me grapaba yo la cabeza para no tener que salir y poder seguir bebiendo.
Perdí amigos, trabajo, mi vida, todo... 30 kilos.
Yo tenía la vida soñada (para mí), buen trabajo, buen sueldo, buena casa,una mujer que me llenaba de una manera que no se explicar, una hija que era el centro absoluto de mi mundo.
Tras esos dos años oscuros, la única persona que siempre estuvo ahí, sin importar la hora, sitio o incluso país, fue mi suegro. Él me sacó de esa mierda y gracias a él soy lo que soy hoy.
Ese hijo de puta y yo ni si quiera nos llevábamos bien antes. Él siempre me dijo que lo hacía por lealtad a su hija. No he aprendido nada más valioso en mi vida. Y cuanto más tiempo paso con él y más le conozco, más entiendo por qué mi mujer era una persona tan increíble.
Han pasado ya siete años y estoy aprendiendo a vivir otra vez, nunca va haber otra, ni la quiero. Pero soy capaz de seguir y estar agradecido por ciertas cosas.
Hoy tengo un trabajo increíble, gano mas dinero del que jamás podré gastar, vivo donde quiero, estoy sano y bien, y mi compañero de vida es mi suegro, todo es para el y sus otras hijas. Y estoy muy agradecido por tenerles. Nada me las va a devolver, y ese hueco no se va a llenar. Pero hay que seguir.
Sé que cuando las vuelva a ver ella estará cogiéndola en brazos y mirándola con esos ojos increíbles. Ése era mi universo. Y a él volveré.
Si estás en la absoluta mierda, levántate, pegate, mójate, llora, grita, lo que sea, pero empieza de cero. De todo se puede salir. Coge rutinas, sal a la calle, come bien, dúchate. Cada pequeño paso que des, por pequeño que sea, es un logro. Odiate, sufre, vívelo y enfrentalo. Y cuando mires atrás sabrás de dónde vienes.
Si esto lo lee alguien que está en la basura, mis dm están abiertos. No estás solo.
En fin menuda chapa
If clinicians could distinguish Weariness of life (WoL) from suicidal ideation, a lot less people would be locked up in mental health facilities and force drugged.
WoL is defined as the mildest form of suicidality, a deep sense of exhaustion with living, distinct from active suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. It’s the feeling that life is not worth living or a passive desire for existence to cease without active planning.
Mental health services are a risk averse policing culture who’s priority is avoiding liability instead of providing health care.
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Ex mental health nurse 🦘🐨 retweeted
The single most significant external factor in determining the decline in one's mental health is exposure to the modern medical mental health system.
I'll die on that hill.
Imagine waking up in complete darkness in a zipped up body bag you can’t open, in a cold morgue fridge. Terrifying.
An 18-month-old was pronounced dead, even after a nurse announced she'd found a pulse. He spent nearly 5 hours in a hospital morgue.
Then a transporter saw, under a thick sheet, all four of his limbs moving.
"That kid's alive," he told the security guard.
He was told, "Doctor says that's normal."
Vincent wasn't the first. Here's what they keep quiet about how death gets declared: 🧵
Yes, and here’s another example of how they can do that.
An enzyme called CYP2D6 breaks down drugs, pesticides, pollutants, and other foreign substances, plus metabolises other compounds e.g. converting tyramine to dopamine in the brain.
If something inhibits it, it can lead to:
-Drug accumulation & toxicity, eg cardiac issues, neuropsychiatric (emotional blunting, sexual dysfunction, persistent depression).
-Prolonged drug half-life.
-Other drugs to be ineffective (pain meds).
-Environmental toxins accumulating/toxicity.
-Metabolic failures (seizures, high anxiety).
What Inhibits it?
There are 268 known drugs that inhibit CYP2D6, common ones:
Strong inhibitors: paroxetine, fluoxetine, bupropion, quinidine, terbinafine.
Moderate: duloxetine, sertraline, mirabegron, cinacalcet, abiraterone.
Others: amiodarone, cimetidine, fluvoxamine, amitriptyline, metoprolol.
Goldenseal, black cumin seed.
Polypharmacy and long term use can cause many complications.
rphlabs.com/cyp2d6-inhibitor…
Antidepressants can have profound toxic chemical effects on the human body.
This new Lancet article reviews some of these.
The authors: "Antidepressants can induce various physiological alterations...These side-effects have wide-reaching consequences." thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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Holy crap, 682% increase in armed forces psychoactive drug prescriptions, 1,083% increase in antipsychotics. Terrifying numbers.
“Suicide rates double the rate for soldiers on antidepressants”.
“Psychiatric induced suicide”.
PsychSearch
Psychiatry’s War Against the United States Military
Colin Taufer
Today tens of thousands of American soldiers are stationed in the Middle East, taking the fight to our enemies so our enemies don’t bring terror to the United States. These brave fighting men and women have put themselves in harm’s way at the front lines of combat. But the greater threat to their survival is not the crazed terrorist or plotting insurgent in front of them but the sinister psychiatrist behind them.
Between 2005 and 2011, according to the Department of Defense, military psychiatrists increased the number of psychoactive drug prescriptions to our armed forces 682 percent. At the same time prescriptions written for antipsychotics to active-duty troops rose a staggering 1,083 percent. This is an onslaught no army could withstand. Our servicemen and women have no defense for this bombardment of dangerous drugs and their deadly side-effects: increased suicidal thoughts, mania, and aggression. And as prescriptions rise, so do their revenues. In 2016 alone, North American pharmaceuticals took in more than half a trillion (that’s trillion with a “t”) dollars in earnings. Blood money.
Psychiatrists know the havoc they are wreaking. Their own studies confirm the link between antidepressants and increased suicide. Here is one 2009 study that took place in a Veterans Administration clinical setting and found suicide rates were twice the base rate for soldiers on antidepressants. Before that, in 2004, the FDA concluded that the newer antidepressants double the rate of suicidal thoughts in behaviors of children, youth and young adults up to the age 24.
This is how psychiatric-induced suicide — not combat — has become the leading killer of U.S. troops deployed to the Middle East, according to the Pentagon.
This is the treason of psychiatry.
psychsearch.net/colin-taufer…
Ex mental health nurse 🦘🐨 retweeted
Notice how the messages from the pro-pharma pro-psychiatry users is basically that people who claim that the medications help them can share their experiences and promote them to other people!
But if someone experiences harm, the most they're allowed to do is decide not to personally take them and must shut up about their experiences.
Optogenetics to target the brain 😱
#Frankenscience
>Take DNA code from an algae protein and modify it.
>Modify a virus.
>Stuff the algae DNA code into the virus, the virus is the delivery truck.
>Inject the virus that’s carrying the DNA code directly into the targeted brain region where it enters neuron's.
>Neurons follow the new DNA instructions to build the modified algae protein. Repeat thousands of times, cover the entire neuron surface with the new molecules.
>Implant a device (red light patch, control circuit, power coil) under the scalp, sits on the skull.
>External antenna (wireless charger) communicates with the device, powers it up, and the implanted LED lights hit the targeted neurons.
KNOWN RISKS FROM CLINICAL TRIALS/AUTOPSIES
🚩 Neuronal changes are irreversible, permanent. Unknown long-term consequences.
🚩Immune response - widespread neuroinflammation, disrupted BBB, lymphocyte infiltration, neuronal death at injection site.
🚩Neurotoxicity - wider spread neuronal death.
🚩Local brain tissue trauma from injection.
🚩Standard brain surgery risks.
🚩Implant-site infection.
🚩Repeated implant micro movement causing tissue damage.
🚩Deaths.
OTHER KNOWN & THEORETICAL RISKS
🚩Mutagenesis - DNA accidentally integrates into the neuron’s chromosome, disrupts a gene, causes cancer.
🚩Neurons keep producing the modified molecules, overproduction = neuron death = permanent brain damage. No long term studies/data available.
🚩Chemical leaching from device degrading over time.
🚩Devices metallic and electronic components degrading and disseminating.
🚩Slow bleed or tumour developing around the device.
🚩Manufacturer closes down - ongoing device monitoring and updates stop, no replacement parts. Unusable implant and stuck with permanently changed brain cells.
#Iatrogenic
Optogenetics could be biological psychiatry’s long-sought breakthrough, or another damaging, dangerous tool. Read here to know more: buff.ly/iZCl2Al
#optogenetics #nobelprize #biology #psychiatry #experiment #Neuroscience #lobotomy
Antidepressants - the big lie and a brilliant marketing campaign 👇
Antidepressants don't fix a chemical imbalance. Here's what they actually do to your brain.
The story starts in the 1950s. A tuberculosis drug called iproniazid made sick patients look happier and more energized. It blocked an enzyme that breaks down chemicals like serotonin.
So some researchers guessed depression might be caused by low serotonin.
But the simpler explanation was always there. It worked like other drugs, like caffeine or alcohol. It had a chemical effect on mood. After all, the TB patients weren't even depressed.
The chemical imbalance idea took off because it made a better commercial story. People are wary of pills that mask symptoms. So the pitch became: depression is like diabetes, and you'd never deny a diabetic insulin.
The problem? In decades of research, nobody has found consistent differences in brain chemistry between depressed and non-depressed people. A 2022 review by Joanna Moncrieff's team looked at spinal fluid, autopsies, everything. No difference.
That's why nobody measures your serotonin.
So what do SSRIs really do? For most people, they numb and calm. They turn down the volume. In a crisis, that can feel life-saving.
But there are 3 big catches for long-term users, and 70% of US users have been on them over 2 years.
1. They don't fix the cause. Loneliness, relationship problems, work stress and poor health keep festering in the background.
2. Tolerance. Your body pushes back, the effect fades, the dose goes up, and drugs get stacked.
3. Long-term toxicity. The most common I see is tardive dysphoria: chronic fatigue, brain fog and emotional flatness. It often gets called treatment-resistant depression.
How I think they should be used: only after non-drug approaches are tried, ideally short term, with a clear plan to come off. And when it's time, taper slowly with your prescriber. Don't stop suddenly.
Comment TAPER and I'll send you my free safe tapering guide.
Australian Mental Health Services
Prisons by another name.
Predators paradise.
Woman referred to MHS after telling family and police she’d experienced DV and cyberstalking - involuntarily admitted to acute MHU. "Experienced extreme trauma while incarcerated in the psychiatric ward".
Male staff asking female pt going for a shower “Would you like me to help you take off your bra”?
1 woman sleeping on a mattress in a communal living room due to lack of beds.
Patients not believed when they raised complaints. “They doubt people and don't view them as credible because of their diagnosis”.
Multiple sexual harassment/ misconduct/assault complaints across QLD MHUs.
Govt response - 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
#Incarceration #Abuse
abc.net.au/news/2026-10-07/f…
DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS - INFORMED CONSENT TIPS
Ask questions about adverse effects (AEs)- if the prescriber gets annoyed because you ask, they’re not interested in your health, they’re merely an income earner. Try to find a new provider.
Ask how long you’re expected to take it and why, long term safety data for long term use? Withdrawal issues or any withdrawal protocols if you want to stop it?
Ask if it’s a new drug. Drug companies or govts often pay doctors incentives to push new drugs. Under 5 years - you’re effectively taking part in the initial Phase IV post-marketing study of a new drug. Ask for an older safer alternative. Personally, I wouldn’t touch anything less than 10 yrs on the market due to gaps and delays in reporting and acknowledgement of harm in new drugs. Bureaucracies operate very slowly, especially when significant chunks of their funding comes from the supplier.
If there are generic brands available the patent has expired and it’s been on the market for ~14 yrs = more safety data.
If a prescriber offers a free sample say thanks but no thanks. It’s either new-to-market, a new brand, a new formulation of an old drug, or a high profit margin drug. Free samples are a marketing and profit strategy; they’re looking for new customers. Where possible, stick with older well known alternatives that have lots of history and safety data you can check.
Take time to read up about potential risks. See home page on link below - find the drug, scroll right down to professional info section as it usually contains more info about AEs, risks, and warnings.
Check contraindications with other drugs you’re already taking - use the Drug Interaction Checker in the link below (you can add multiple drugs). You’d be surprised how many foods and drugs interact badly, including common over-the-counter drugs.
Search social media platforms for drug injury support groups for the drug or class of drug you’re thinking of taking. Online support groups are good indicators that people are being harmed by them and not getting help from the medical establishments.
The most common online drug injury support groups are for antidepressants, statins, GLP-1, benzos, antipsychotics, and opioids.
drugs.com/drug_interactions.…
#InformedConsent #PrescribedHarm #Iatrogenic
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Informed Consent - New Drug Prescriptions
If a stranger wearing a safety vest said “close your eyes and jump off that ledge, trust me, it’s safe” - would you jump?
NO YOU WOULD NOT! Safety vest be damned!
You’d want to know how high the ledge was and what was on the other side that could hurt you, weigh up the odds, then decide.
Swap the safety vest for a white coat and suddenly people blindly trust the stranger who’s making money selling them the drug they claim is perfectly safe.
Everyone wants to know the hidden risks before making financial decisions, starting new relationships, or buying a used car, yet so many blindly take unknown chemical concoctions because a white coat says so.
I understand symptoms can be unbearable and people need relief, but knowing the potential risks first is just common sense. Adverse outcomes and serious drug injuries are not rare.
Informed consent tips in the next post.
#InformedConsent #PrescribedHarm
What they said 👇
There's lots of crystal balling in psychiatry. There are copious amounts of pontificating, guesswork, opinions, suppositions, conjecture, theories, speculation, assumptions, beliefs, presumptions and so on but there's no science.
Definitely no science. Just to confirm that - no science.
#mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #psychiatry #MentalHealthAwareness #nosciencenocures
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Hell no. Here’s a bit of info on the new and upcoming psychedelic nasal spray for depression.
🔺Mimics a substance found in the venom of Sonoran Desert toads.
🔺Rapidly absorbed directly into the bloodstream and brain (bypasses gut/liver, filtering/safety mechanisms).
🔺Targets multiple types of serotonin receptors.
🔺Induces a sympathomimetic surge (large/sudden sympathetic nervous system activation).
🔺Intense alteration of consciousness and other intense (transient/short) bursts of symptoms.
🔺Risks of severe psychological distress, psychosis, and cardiovascular events, esp in certain pre-existing health conditions.
🔺‘Rare’ serious adverse events - only trialled on select healthy subjects, 8-16 weeks monitoring, no long term data till it hits the general population.
🔺Currently Schedule I controlled substance in the U.S (high potential for abuse, no accepted medical use, lack of accepted safety for use even under medical supervision).