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1/97 🧵🧵🧵MEGATHREAD:* Things I’ve learned as a patient about **ANTIDEPRESSANT TAPERING AND WITHDRAWAL**, with links to useful info. *“Megathread” sounds like the name of a metal band (Megadeth vibes) so my future megathreads might get mock album covers like the below...
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@historyinmemes BRING BACK "CRUMB BUM"
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@zeta_globin Also from psychiatry: SSRIs
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@NoContextBrits Bangles- Wank Like An Egyptian
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@NoContextBrits Brace yourself for tabloids referring to this as 'a scorcher'
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@SoVeryBritish Other official uses of “right”: -Getting up to make tea -Getting up to go to the toilet -Stopping browsing social media to do work -First person who gets up in office to reluctantly go to meeting (everyone sort of then shuffles in behind) -Said before “s’pose I better ring ...”
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@SoVeryBritish Garages: the home of crap you bought for ideas that seemed great at the time- ideas so great that the weekend you first had them you got distracted by reading an old takeaway menu on the garage floor then going inside to order a curry to never think of your idea ever again.
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@NoContextBrits Nancy Sinatra- These Boots Are Made For Wankin'
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@NoContextBrits ABBA- Wank You For The Music (this is fun)
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@ThatEricAlper A conversation on the phone was something to be excited about
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@finding_hope_2 I had to talk about my 'toolbox' so much I started to wonder if I'd mistakenly signed up for a B&Q training programme
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@NoContextBrits Prince- When Doves Wank
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@NoContextBrits Me replying: "you're so gonna scoff my Pepperoni Meat Feast, aren't you"
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@girlziplocked Have you read this? It's along the same lines of what you're saying and reflects many of the replies you're getting here, such as the spot-on 'being a janitor for capitalism' line in @DemonBob_Badman 's reply
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Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭
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Hi folks, I'm very proud to say that my book, Sedated, is released today! I've done everything within my power to write a book worthy of your time - one that illuminates via interviews, stories & research why our mental health sector is broken & how we may put it right again. 1/5
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1/45 THREAD: I try to respect paywalls, but nobody should pay to read this – what amounts to little more than an advertorial for antidepressants from the NYT, out today (25 April 2024) – link at end of thread.
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@ahmedhankir I don't understand the pushback for this, it doesn't/shouldn't take rocket science to explain smth that's obv thru all human history (But poverty as biggest factor does put more onus on govt so maybe that's why it's always about individual's illness rather than society's illness)
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@DrJessTaylor Reminds me of Patient 'refused' treatment Vs Patient 'declined' treatment Small wording change, big difference in how the patient is perceived ime
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@NoContextBrits Classic recunt
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Psychiatrists: don't use social media for health advice Also psychiatrists: no such thing as antidepressant withdrawal– accept me calling your brain being fried with zaps a return of your MDD, or you can have a new diagnosis of OCD / GAD / ADHD / BD / BPD etc Patients:
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This 👇
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@theBrianaMills
Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈
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Therapy can only do so much if you’re not able to get your basic needs met. Mental health is affordable housing. Mental health is free healthcare. Mental health is free education. Mental health is food security. Mental health is financial stability. Therapy can’t fix the system.
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1/3 This woman lost her eye because doctors wrote off her symptoms as "anxiety". That's because psychiatry's diagnoses are so woolly and so arbitrary they're a dumping ground for every human ailment and experience. Especially women's.
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@NoContextBrits Chorley FM... Coming in your ears!
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@NoContextBrits Almost as disgusting as the taste of orange juice after brushing your teeth
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1/13 One of the many uniquely sh1tty things about antidepressant withdrawal is not just how awful the symptoms are, but how out-of-this-world they are, too. Important piece today by @amyfentonjourno touches on this:
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Someone found a use for the DSM that's less harmful than its official use
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New Mexico with friends and @HestiaTobacco
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@ThatEricAlper 🌍💨🔥
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@NoContextBrits To the people who moan about these being in a box Celebrations: please send them to me
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" “Antidepressants change the brain and the normal state of the mind: the thinking processes, emotions and sensations,” says the psychiatrist Dr Joanna Moncrieff " 1/3
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1/3 THREAD: 'Paris Hilton to Congress: “I was force fed medications and sexually abused” ' If this is how the rich and powerful are treated, what hope is there for the rest of us when seeking help? NB. WHAT SHE DESCRIBES IS *NOT* UNUSUAL. See thread for more examples.
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@NoContextBrits Same vibes but worse
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@NoContextBrits Flamboyant bingo caller down the Mecca and guy who spends six hours cleaning his Mk4 VW Golf R32 every Sunday
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@Rebecca99LT I'm a patient who was prescribed paroxetine as a teen for being bullied at school for being a 'nerd', which was misdiagnosed as an illness. The paroxetine nearly killed me (akathisia) both in starting it, then trying to stop it. (I know there will be psychiatrists reading that
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A question... Diagnoses aside- and in 15 words or less- what's the back story for why you were first prescribed an antidepressant (or psych drug)? I go first with image below. No need to do it as image but by all means do if you want. (Obv don't answer if it's too personal)
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"I'm a brain doctor - trying to come off antidepressants left me in a state of terror" TERROR is the word. Not anxiety. Not panic. Not restlessness. TERROR. For me it was about 21 hours a day, for MONTHS. Link below.
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@NoContextBrits Yeah but they do good chocolate mousse though
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@NoContextBrits We have Jaws III to blame for this not being a thing. SHAME ON YOU FOR FEAR MONGERING, JAWS III!
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@NoContextBrits pat that bum
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@NoContextBrits JUST IN: Fire Service Unveils Breakthrough New Technology To Combat Chip Pan Infernos
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Here, @rcpsych , is a tweet that that is going viral bc general public (ie NOT campaigners) in their droves are identifying with it. She's essentially describing withdrawal, but your profession has failed to explain the difference between withdrawal and relapse>
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Has anyone else been on antidepressants for YEARS and feel like they’re not doing anything bc you’re still extremely depressed, but when you try come off them, you reach a level of depression you didn’t realise existed so you have to go back on them again ???
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@NoContextBrits These guys aren't kissing, aren't standing, and aren't naked. Picture is misleading so this is misinformation. (Sarcasm, ok)
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@SoVeryBritish There's also generic nicknames- mine are themed around 'mog', so 'moglet', 'mogganog', 'moggalicious', 'mogtastico'...
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9/12 I love gallows humour (and satire)- it's a coping thing (including for me). But when it's directed at patients in severe distress by people wielding powerful chemicals, it's also PUNCHING DOWN.
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@NoContextBrits Did Somebody Say Just Eat
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Psychiatry: "Withdrawal symptoms from nicotine, alcohol, from street drugs? Sure. Can be fatal." Also psychiatry: "Withdrawal symptoms from any of the drugs we prescribe? No way. Or it's not a big deal. Anyway, it's addiction." LIARS.
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@Lara_Fergie99 🩸Being forced to beg for pads & tampons, often withheld as punishment 🩸Being humiliated/told off for bleeding on sheets bc you were on a heavy day but used up your quota 🩸Being told you're imagining your cramps so painkillers won't help
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1/12 THREAD: How some psych (and non-psych) nurses respond on social media to a meme celebrating Haldol (for its chemical restraint action). (Source/meme below)
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@NeurologistMom Two stories of #MedicalMisogyny here- physical conditions written off as anxiety (mine was actually severe infection that required hosp stay & IV antibiotics). The word 'hysterical' might not be used now, but 'hysterical woman' concept still v much alive.
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1/3 This woman lost her eye because doctors wrote off her symptoms as "anxiety". That's because psychiatry's diagnoses are so woolly and so arbitrary they're a dumping ground for every human ailment and experience. Especially women's.
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@theBrianaMills This is such a brilliant observation.
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FAO Lord Alton ( @DavidAltonHL ), as mentioned before, I wanted to share with you a thread. It's about this, by @thetimes : 1/70 (yes, a 70-post thread)
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@NoContextBrits Aussies are more direct
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@NoContextBrits Having a Mitchell brothers moment
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1/13 THREAD: "I was 20 the first time I was prescribed antidepressants. I had gone to the doctors during January in rainy, miserable Manchester complaining of flu. Somehow, I came out of the appointment having been diagnosed with depression and prescribed a course of SSRIs. But
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1/4 Australian Pharmacist ( @PSA_National ) covering deprescribing of antidepressants AND other psych drugs AND explicitly mentioning *akathisia* and not some wishy-washy euphemism like 'restlessness'...
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BREAKING: Having Had Their Decades Of Lies Exposed, Psychiatrists' Latest Antidepressants Elevator Pitch To Patients Looks A Lot Like This:
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Today, from one of UK's biggest daytime TV shows- two patients incl @mirandalevycopy , with @markhoro on horrors of stopping #pregabalin . Patients faces say it all when the soulless gone-through-legal-42-times pharmaco statement is read out.
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1/3 BREAKING: With The Help Of The Pharma-Bankrolled @SMC_London , Antidepressant Field Sales Team Sorry Psychiatrists Rehashing Pharma's Past Attempts At Denying And Downplaying Problems Of Antidepressant Withdrawal, Such As This Atrocity:
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BREAKING: When It Comes To Antidepressants, Most Psychiatrists Recommend A 'Do As We Say, Not As We Do' Treatment Plan, Finds Study
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79.3% of psychiatrists recommended immediate antidepressant treatment for a person with depression, but only 39.1% would follow that recommendation themselves. 🧵1/10
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The study wasn't about them being *addictive*, so in exploiting the public's confusion about dependency and addiction, you are LYING TO AND MISLEADING PEOPLE here. And yes, they most definitely are a vital tool in psychiatry, hence your totally dishonest BS, pharma PR guy.
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My new article in the ⁦ @guardian ⁩ is out: The myth that #antidepressants are addictive has been debunked – they are a vital tool in psychiatry
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If only psychiatry was as dedicated to patients as it is to prescribing chemicals, things would be very different indeed
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@NoContextBrits RIP Jamiroquai
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It doesn't even make logical sense that tying someone to a bed for 10 days could improve their mental health (or any aspect of their health), let alone make humane sense. (This is South Korea- an advanced, wealthy country. The Hankyoreh is South Korea's liberal daily newspaper.)
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@NoContextBrits *In the style of ginger Bianca* "RISHIIII*
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Thread: from National Geographic, today. Link at bottom of thread First- good headline: DON'T abruptly stop antidepressants (or stop them too quickly)-can be DISASTROUSLY dangerous. (Unfortunately, 'stopping too quickly' often stems from doctors- more on that next.) 1/10
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BREAKING: People Whose Livelihoods Greatly Involve Prescribing Dubious Chemicals Strangely Talk A Lot About Prescribing Dubious Chemicals And Very Little About Anything Else, Which Suggests The Biopsychosocial Model They Claim To Practise Is Basically This:
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@cwfrederick @HenryRunamucker @stclairashley @Cernovich To recap: 1. Psychiatrist sets stall out with appeal to authority 2. Says ssris helpful for 90% ppl 3. Asked for source of that figure; offered FDA study: no better than placebo in 85% of cases (therefore massively/misleadingly overprescribed) 4. Psychiatrist: shrugs
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@NoContextBrits ...which you get back as an Amazon gift card
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1/3 BREAKING: Psychiatry Sets New World Record For Being So Completely Out of Touch With Human Beings And Up Its Own Arse It Celebrates A New Study That Somehow Fails To Notice The Blindingly Obvious That... ...Being Homeless Is Depressing And Disturbing And Bad For Your Health
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Breaking my own rule to never comment on self-serving OPs by docs, but I can personally say that as a psychiatric patient, antidepressants nearly cost my life multiple times due to start-up then withdrawal akathisia. And in between that, gave me years of emotional blunting where
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@KonLontos If a doctor can't explain a difficult subject honestly and sensitively, they shouldn't be a doctor.
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@SoVeryBritish Clear glass mug = use for cappuccino to be more sophisticated Brown glass mug = use for golden vegetable soup out of a packet to be more 'I'm on a camping trip'
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@markhoro "An Australian doctor has published a landmark step by step guide on how to get off antidepressants safely. It followed his own experience of using the medication for 15 years ending in severe withdrawal symptoms when he came off it."
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@ThatEricAlper Sugarhill Gang- Rapper's Delight
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@NoContextBrits Wand was a crack pipe all along. I knew it.
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. @markhoro discussing #deprescribing on both sides of the planet- here on Australia's national public TV network with @mjrowland68 and Lisa Millar. Source/ full video below👇
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@DudespostingWs 🎶 When you lounge in the pool With your pasta e fasule, that's amore 🎶
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9/13 NONE of my withdrawal symptoms had any resemblance to my original diagnosis and yet psychiatrist after psychiatrist were insistent it was relapse, and when I said no, it's antidepressant withdrawal, out came the loaded questions to line me up with new psychiatric diagnoses.
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BREAKING: Newly Qualified Psychiatrist And Bankrolled-By-Pharma TikTok Hottie Doing His Best Deep Thinker Pose For The Cover Of His New Book, 'Smashing The Stigma Out The Park: A Life Of Saving Lives'
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"AnTiPsYcH's mUsT Be SiLeNcEd BeCaUsE ThEy;Re tELlInG PeOpLE To JuST StOp ThEiR MeD"s" Errrr no, psychiatry, that's you that is 👇
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Psychiatrist essentially telling people they can abruptly stop Prozac with no issues. Ignorance or lies?
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. @bbcpanorama and @rachelschraer , I'm sure you'll remember the below- you unearthed it for The Antidepressant Story documentary. I'm sharing it because it's tied to the quoted viral tweet right at the top of my thread here.>
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@PaulMinotMD It's so refreshing to hear a doctor talk with HUMILITY- I don't think I'm the only patient who appreciates this. And it goes way beyond mental health circles, too...
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. @ParianteLab : you realise patients would be justified in seeing your post/headline and thinking they can just abruptly stop antidepressants, right? WHICH THEY ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT DO.
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It's so refreshing to hear a doctor talk with HUMILITY- I don't think I'm the only patient who appreciates this. And it goes way beyond mental health circles, too...
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I'm sick of seeing defenders of contemporary psychiatric practice sticking its thoughtful critics with the label "Antipsychiatry"--equating us with a rather wacky movement in the Sixties, and the even wackier Church of Scientology. Defenders of the psychiatric faith love to
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13/13 Here's the piece that inspired my thread. Please read it- it's about venlafaxine but for a little article there's so much in it that so many will recognise painfully well:
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1/12 THREAD: Remember this viral TikTok about the horrors of antidepressant withdrawal from a couple of months back? It was uploaded on 10 February 2024, and as of now, it's had 2.4m plays, 213.8k likes and 19.8k comments. Emily did a follow-up to it, as follows...
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@NoContextBrits When you hold a door open for one person but then more and more people keep coming and you can't stop holding the door open
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Who are you referring to by "anti-psychiatry crowd" and likening to Scientologists here? Is it... a) Patients treated appallingly by psychiatry and disabled by its interventions? (Will put some examples in replies) b) Professionals- eg J Davies, P Kinderman, J Moncrieff etc?
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@NoContextBrits Talking Breads: -Road To Doughwhere -Psycho Miller -Girlfriend Is Batter -Bake Me To The River
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"When I was 17, I was placed on a psychiatric ward for offenders which was not legal. It was a really unsafe place and the patients were violent. One woman flew at me and attacked me. " 1/n
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They often leave people worse off than when they went in.
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genuinely concerned by how many ppl think “mental hospitals” and “asylums” actually help people, brother they are corporate holding facilities where they drug you against your will, it is incarceration by another name
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