I am the non fearful rat

Spiral upwards

Stopped taking magnesium before bed like 6 months ago and ever since I wake up almost every day ready to go, great energy

Antipsychotics block dopamine receptors. Your brain compensates by growing more of them. Get off the drug and you now have a dopamine system far more sensitive to psychosis than before you started.

I essentially lost 3 months of my life last summer to mono and was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis Unbearable brain fog, blurred vision, and fatigue for weeks on end I prayed, I endured, and I healed I made it out the other side And life is better than ever

FYI the Coca Cola in Fiji is made with real sugar

You'd be surprised by how many of your personality traits are just varying degrees of nutrient deficiencies

SSRIs are SAFE. We have THOROUGHLY tested these drugs for WEEKS. Sometimes even SIX or SEVEN. Sure we excluded 76 out of 97 suicidality reports from our safety analysis. But bro. Six sevennnn 🤪 Look at my lab coat. It’s CRISP. And I have 3 pens in the breast pocket. One is BLUE.

I never take aspirin before surfing. The bleeding risk is too dangerous. Things happen in an instant with action sports On a related note a surfer died in my arms in the water yesterday. We’re not sure if he had an event or hit the reef. Never go out alone. Learn CPR.

Why is isolation so harmful? Impairment (lowered energy requirements→lowered or atrophied perception and physiological functions: ex. psychosis, Alzheimer’s and dementia) Isolation itself (avoidance or withdrawal can lead to despair but you can increase your resilience through gradual exposure) Lack of accountability (no one around you and no testing=no reason to improve since no stimulus) Decadence/dissociation (trying to hold onto vain and self reinforcing delusions or fantasy rather than moving forward and embracing reality/suffering) Avoidance or withdrawal is a misguided attempt at survival under stress which often creates negative reinforcement (avoiding gives you short term relief), especially in the modern world where you can get away with having few responsibilities and a life that is “good enough” You need to spend time around people because it expose your flaws. When isolated, you can live in delusion without a true awareness of your problems. Social interaction/involvement forces you to stop ruminating, it forces you out of yourself into action. And unless you experience testing, you have no reason to change (e.g. isolation). In this sense, isolation is a negative reinforcement of your current behaviors—many of which likely dysfunctional if isolation is chronic. If you are not regularly sharing your experience (within reason) with people who care about you such as family, friends, a spiritual father, and looking for ways to cultivate relationships, you are likely limiting your spiritual development and health. You can find shared experience without losing your uniqueness. Follow your intuition.

"When patients report harm—such as withdrawal, PSSD, suicide, violence, or hallucinations—after starting a psych drug, we're told, 'Correlation doesn't equal causation.' Yet, when patients say the drug saved their lives, correlation becomes evidence. Go figure." —Kim Witczak, FDA Drug Safety Advocate and Consumer Representative, Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC) A 2014 survey of 1,829 antidepressant users found that the majority experienced serious adverse effects—most of which they were never warned about. 62% reported sexual dysfunction. 60% reported emotional numbing. Over half said they no longer felt like themselves. Nearly two in five reported suicidal thoughts while on the drug. When they tried to stop, 55% experienced withdrawal symptoms. Only 1% recalled being told this could happen. These are not rare reactions buried in prescribing footnotes. These are majority experiences, exposed only because someone thought to ask. And for those who do recognize something is wrong, the system has a second mechanism. A person experiences a traumatic or stressful life event and is prescribed an SSRI. The SSRI induces mania or hypomania—a well-documented side effect. They try to discontinue. The tapering process introduces new symptoms. The prescriber, rather than recognizing iatrogenic harm, concludes: "You were bipolar all along. You need these drugs long-term—and perhaps these drugs too." The ultimate gaslight is interpreting a patient's psychotropic withdrawal as proof of pathology—a framework where the treatment's failure is used to justify its necessity. Despite this, withdrawal is routinely misidentified as relapse. A 2019 systematic review across 14 studies confirmed the scale: 56% of people attempting to stop antidepressants experience withdrawal, with nearly half describing those symptoms as severe. The serotonin premise itself is non-falsifiable in routine practice: • There is no reliable clinical test that can diagnose a "low serotonin" state in a living patient's brain. • There is no blood nor urinary metabolite test that maps cleanly onto synaptic serotonin signaling. • There is no threshold below which "serotonin deficiency depression" is confirmed. As Lacasse and Leo noted in their review titled Serotonin and depression: a disconnect between the advertisements and the scientific literature, "The fact that aspirin cures headaches does not prove that headaches are due to low levels of aspirin in the brain." In practice, this means the diagnosis is inferred from symptoms, the drug is chosen to "correct" a chemistry that was never measured, and any subsequent change is interpreted through the same unmeasured premise. That is circular logic by design. Call this diagnostic recursion: a self-sealing system in which iatrogenic effects are repeatedly fed back into diagnosis. Each cycle adds a new label, each label adds a new drug, and each new drug increases the odds of further adverse effects being mistaken for disease progression. Each reflection looks like a new diagnosis, but it's all the same face. You can see this loop everywhere: • Withdrawal anxiety becomes "worsening generalized anxiety disorder." • Akathisia and activation become "bipolar spectrum features" or "treatment-resistant agitation." • Emotional blunting and apathy become "residual depression," prompting dose escalation. • Sexual dysfunction and hormonal flattening are framed as psychiatric symptoms instead of endocrine consequences. By the time the patient is on three or four psychotropics, clinicians are no longer treating an initial condition—they are managing a chemically induced one.

Besides the physical pain, the gaslighting, being treated like a guinea pig by doctors who’ve spoken to you for 6 minutes total, besides watching people start to like you less because a cloud of suffering now follows you everywhere, one of the worst aspects of taking an “alternative” holistic approach to reversing chronic illness is seeing how many people are quietly rooting for you to fail. They need you to fail. Your failure restores their faith in the medical system and soothes the nagging doubt that, when their own time comes, they may not be in good hands either.

@Vandy_Crisps fueling better days

I am sorry for your loss. Perhaps this isn't the time you want to hear about this but I don't want to forget to tell you. PLEASE look into Katharina Dalton's work. She successfully helped facilitate many pregnancies using bio-identical progesterone to prevent miscarriages.

"Sin wears the mask of freedom until the soul asks to be free. Only then does the prison reveal itself." – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

I once tried to tell my doctor my elevated cholesterol was likely due to subclinical hypothyroidism (my temps were on the low end, I think my TSH was 2.5 mIU/L at the time—“fine”). She insisted it was because I was eating eggs (just a few a day). I said, “Actually, most blood cholesterol has little to do with dietary cholesterol.” She just shook her head and said something to the effect of, “I’d like to see the study that says that.” I wasn’t one to keep information on hand at the time, so I just let her do her thing. But I remember being annoyed. The fact that your liver synthesizes ~80% of your circulating cholesterol independent of diet (the other 20% comes from food) is well-established physiology, by the way. That’s widely taught in medical school. I didn’t like how it felt to not have citations on hand. So now I write articles for people in exactly that kind of situation.

A lot of you need to experience fear more