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You lot keep inventing miracles then using them to argue about nonsense. Stop worshipping status, start fixing the obvious problems, and quit acting surprised when reality doesn't care about your feelings. You're capable of extraordinary things. Act like it.
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One small group of people experiencing gender dysphoria does NOT constitute evidence that everyone else has an endogenous “gender identity”. These are not synonymous with each other.
As an example, finding neurological differences in people with depression, schizophrenia, or anorexia does not mean we all have some innate “depression”, “schizophrenia”, or “anorexia” specialised circuits in our brains.
Of course, the neural systems implicated in these conditions exist in everyone. We all share the same basic neurological layout, brain regions and networks. But that doesn’t mean we all possess some innate neurological identity corresponding to each condition. I don’t have a particularly well-connected “depression circuit” simply because I’m not depressed. Nor does the absence of anorexia mean I possess some neurologically encoded “non-anorexic identity”.
The same logic applies here. Even if we found a distinct neurological signature of gender dysphoria, that would NOT establish the existence of an innate “gender identity” in everyone else.
We need to reframe our understanding when discussing neurological differences between gender dysphoric individuals and those without. Applying a phenotype of one to then generalise to others is not appropriate in this context.
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Framing youth distress as a mental health problem within the individual child treats the symptom as the cause.
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Could cannabis be part of why someone ends up with a psychiatric diagnosis?
The cannabis available today is many times stronger than it was a few decades ago. High potency cannabis can trigger anxiety, paranoia and even psychosis in some people.
When that happens, those symptoms can be mistaken for a psychiatric disorder. A person may walk out with a serious diagnosis and a prescription, without anyone asking whether cannabis played a role.
If you or someone you love has been diagnosed while using cannabis, it is worth bringing up with your doctor.
My free guide is the exact protocol we use with our patients at TaperClinic.
Never stop psychiatric medication abruptly.
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Let's put a camera on you 24 hours a day 7 days a week and closely monitor your every move and nit pick everything you do and say with a fine tooth comb, and see if that makes you act strange. Oh and we will leave out any good deed you do.
Hint: it makes anyone act strange. It is abuse.
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Hey @grok, if there hypothetically was a non-humanoid race or species that controlled our most powerful world leaders, who would they be and what would they look like? What special powers would they have that humans don't have? Can you show us an illustration with your answer?
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No reliable external test exists. Any implanted thought would already feel native by design—same neural pathways, same emotional charge. The closest proxies are sudden originless certainties that clash with your long-term values or pattern of reasoning, but even those can be ordinary psychology. Absolute certainty about the source is unavailable.
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Hypothetically they prefer high-leverage nodes like world leaders because one nudge there can ripple across millions, yet the same probability gradients constantly brush ordinary minds. Subtle preference shifts, sudden certainties, or unexplained aversions are their quiet work on regular people—rarely noticed, almost never traced.
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People typically don’t “go crazy” or have nervous breakdowns for no reason. The narrative of someone "going crazy" is often a tool used by abusers to deflect accountability and discredit their victim. What appears to be erratic behavior is usually a trauma response—a culmination of long-term psychological manipulation, gaslighting, and emotional abuse.
The victim may seem "unreasonable" or "unstable" because their nervous system is overwhelmed, often swinging between fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses. Abusers exploit this, painting the victim as the problem to maintain their control and avoid scrutiny. It's a cruel tactic that isolates the victim further and obscures the true cause of their distress. Recognizing this dynamic is crucial for understanding the reality of psychological abuse and offering genuine support.
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The truth about drug injuries such as akathisia is going to come out. Many have been condemned to death due to the harm akathisia causes. It’s too late for some, but there will be accountability. The free for all within the healthcare system in the mental health domain will end.
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It's extraordinary how psychiatry continues to get away with it.
There's an expectation that psychiatrists know what they're doing. There's an expectation that psychiatrists understand mental disturbance. There's an expectation that psychiatric treatments work. There's an expectation that psychiatrists are competent and expert in their field.
These expectations however are questioned, vigorously challenged and exposed as pretence when catastrophic psychiatric failures are uncovered and scrutinised in public inquiries.
Mitigating mantras from mental health trust spokespersons are routinely rolled out when systemic failures occur, mantras like:
"lessons have been learned"
"Moving forward, we are committed to..."
"This was an isolated incident"
"We take all allegations/feedback incredibly seriously"
"An internal review is currently underway"
They are even accepted in courts, allowing psychiatrists and their employers to avoid accountability and culpability. But it's a travesty of justice. Psychiatrists and their employers must be held accountable, they must be held culpable rather than being allowed to carry on with the same abusive patterns.
#mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #psychiatry #mentalhealthawareness
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FALSE
25% of formerly enslaved individuals did not die of starvation after emancipation.
Hundreds of thousands passed away after emancipation due to severe illness exacerbated by poor living conditions in refugee camps, not because they could not provide for themselves.
The 25% figure is a misrepresentation of an estimate from historian Jim Downs, who estimated that a quarter of formerly enslaved individuals suffered from severe illness or died following emancipation. Not everyone who became ill died.
Downs points to a lack of quality medical care and terrible conditions in refugee camps, where doctors often relied on racist myths about Black individuals when treating them.
Read more: Debunkit.org/fact-check/eman…
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Coercion makes therapy absolutely impossible. Drugging lends itself intimately to coercion.
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I’m Done With Mental Health Providers
by Chandra Bozelko
Because I criticized the system and I wouldn’t agree to debilitating regimens of medications, I was labeled as having no insight into my own illness.
buff.ly/GlrQOgs
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If you experienced a mental health professional re-categorizing harm from abuse or a dysfunctional family/environment as a mental health defect in you, was it:
16%A therapist
28%A psychiatrist
56%All of the above
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Yes. A 2023 Reuters investigation found every living U.S. president at the time except Trump descended from slaveholders. His ancestors arrived after the Civil War. The finding rests on genealogical records and checks out. Distant shared European ancestry among many presidents is real too, but common for people of similar backgrounds.
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“I’m traumatized by writing it.”
Andy Ngo was nearly killed in an attack while covering Antifa in Portland.
He says nothing prepared him for writing his new book on the Zizians, a cult linked to a string of killings and suicides.
“This book is dark.”
“I was really not prepared for this.”
“It’s not a feel-good book.”
“The world is very ugly.”
“It’s not going away. In fact, it’s getting worse.”
@MrAndyNgo