La historia de Steve me tiene enamorada. Un boceto para un hombre que hace bocetos. 🥹❤️

Live your values. Lift others up. Life is short. Let's make it as beautiful as we can together 💕🙌

I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.

Laughter is anti-inflammatory. Crying is regulating. Hugging is immunoprotective. Singing is vagal toning. Dancing is neurogenic. Joy is a biological necessity.

curing your inner turmoil is simple: do the one thing you most resist doing. face the truth you least want to face it, feel the feeling you least want to feel but even as you read this, let me tell you what will happen next: you won’t do it. you’ll forget, or find reasons not to do it, and delay and delay until years pass and you finally throw up your hands and say “FINE”, and do it for a bit, then forget again and I’m going to do the exact same thing. it’s what we all do. that’s the grand drama of it: we’re trying to remember even as we’re trying to forget, and out of the interplay of those two forces emerges a life the work is in trying to shift the balance just a bit towards remembrance, knowing it’ll never be complete. humbling stuff, over & over. but even a little less forgetting makes a difference, so it’s worth trying. always worth trying

A new study suggests that different types of childhood trauma (abuse vs neglect) correlate with specific brain-immune interactions that influence the child's psychological health. Here is what all parents should know about this study. Abuse and neglect alter a child's brain activation and connectivity. However, the way in which this connectivity is altered depends on the type of trauma (abuse or neglect) and if they experienced it early (ages 0-11 - child) vs late (ages 12-18 - adolescent). The functional connectivity between the following three brain regions was investigated by fMRI in 128 adults (who experienced trauma in their youth) and presented with visual cues and fear triggers: - The fear center (amygdala) - The memory center (hippocampus) - The emotion regulation center (vm prefrontal cortex) \ Adults Abused as Children and IL-8 In children who were abused (physical, emotional, or sexual abuse), the relative amount of a pro-inflammatory cytokine, IL-8 = reduced activation of the brain's fear center. \ Adults Neglected as Adolescents and IL-8 However, in adolescents who were neglected (not abused), IL-8 = reduced activity in the emotional regulation center of the brain. This likely manifests in adolescents as severe emotional dysfunction. \ Adults Neglected as Children and IL-17 Elevated IL-17 levels = enhanced connectivity between the fear (amygdala) and the emotional regulation center (the vmPFC) of the brain. This likely manifests as: - emotional dysregulation - inability to appropriately process fear - impaired immune function (elevated chronic inflammation) It's tempting to think that stress triggers a spike in inflammation, leading to altered functional connectivity. However, future studies are required to determine whether stress triggers inflammation-mediated changes in the brain or whether changes in the brain mediate the inflammation. This study is yet another piece of the neuro-immune network hypothesis, which posits bidirectional communication between peripheral immune cells (which mediate inflammation) and the brain circuits involved in threat processing. Let us know what you think by dropping a comment below. Read more: neurosciencenews.com/childho…

Looked back at the recovery journal I was keeping a couple of years ago. Noticed how much lonelier I was then. Good friendship is deeply healing. #MECFS #longcovid #mindbody #BPS

Most people aren’t talking or thinking about this. But before you know it, this will be all anyone is talking or thinking about.

This is so true. @RespectYourself

One of the most ableist things people do is assume every limitation is negotiable. When someone with a disability or chronic illness says they can’t do something, they’re not asking for permission. They’re informing you.

Nah its definitely been a control thing with every psychiatrist I've ever met working in UK '"mental health care'. And when I highlighted abusive nurses' and HCAs actions they simply dismissed my pain and suffering as delusional. Seriously f'ed up.

Love Anj's work, she explains holistic healing approaches SO WELL instagram.com/reel/DZkMZbWB2… It's so far from just 'thinking positively'! #MECFS #longcovid #mindbody #healing #nervousystem

Psych meds leave an indelible scar on the mind, body, & spirit.

SERIOUS QUESTION: Do you ever really get overwhelmed by how our current reality is a genuine dystopian nightmare yet everyone still acts like it is completely normal ??

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors so now it's like 'the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives.

Your emotional brain (limbic system) is 300 million years old. Your thinking brain (neocortex) is 3 million years old. That means emotion is the operating system. Logic is the app that runs on top. We've spent centuries pretending it's the other way around.

This really worries me A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…

Fed up. Just spent 14 weeks at @nottsinquiry didn’t miss a minute as this was all I could do in my daughter Grace’s name against all those who failed. Get to my desk and this is what I’m greeted with……

SSRIs and antipsychotics are, at best, short-term solution to be used to rescue someone in a crisis situation. In 2008, they rescued my wife from psychosis. 18 years later, continued use and polydrugging basically erased her. And we supposedly had 'the best' doctors in one of the wealthiest county's in the US. The real issue is that modern psychiatry got LAZY and uses a 'crisis' as an excuse to ruin lives and drug someone for life. Modern 'pill-focused' psychiatry is a joke and embarrassment. The few psychiatrists with a conscience recognize their industry's fall and focus on cleaning up their own house. The majority of psychiatrists are fixated on covering their own butts and mocking the very people they failed.