🧠💊 Tembrulated Truth: Zoloft, SSRIs & the Cost of Feeling “Fine” What ties Big Pharma, propaganda, mass shootings, suicides, and emotional numbness together? SSRIs. I’ve been on and off a cocktail of pills for over 10 years—every one of them legal, prescribed, and supposedly “safe.” ✅ Zoloft (sertraline) is psychiatry’s golden child. The go-to. Walk in broken, and they hand you a script before you finish your sentence. Why? Because it’s old, it’s profitable, and it’s backed by one hell of a lobby. 💼💉 “Low serotonin,” they say. “This will balance you out.” ⚖️ Spoiler: it’s not that simple. 🙃 The entire SSRI industry is built on the “chemical imbalance” theory — the idea that depression = low serotonin. But a 2022 Molecular Psychiatry review found no solid evidence for that. 🚫🧪 And yet? Millions are still medicated like it’s gospel. 🙏 SSRIs helped me. Some of them. Others left me hollow. 🕳️ Eventually I found one that “worked.” Kind of. But even when it works, what do you give up? ✅ Stability ❌ Libido ❌ Creativity ❌ Joy ❌ Vitality ❌ You That’s the part they don’t talk about. Because libido isn’t just sex. It’s drive. It’s intimacy, expression, curiosity, imagination. 🔥 When a drug kills that, what’s it really doing to the rest of you? 💭 And if it can kill the urge to reproduce — our most primal biological impulse — What else is it muting? Let’s talk about what no one wants to talk about. 😶‍🌫️ Zoloft and mass shootings. Yes, it’s complicated. Yes, correlation ≠ causation. But the pattern? 🔹 Eric Harris (Columbine): Zoloft → Luvox 🔹 James Holmes (Aurora): Zoloft, dosage increased 🔹 Christopher Pittman (12 y/o): Zoloft, killed his grandparents Are these outliers… or warnings? ⚠️ SSRIs can cause akathisia — a restless, agitated inner hell. 🔁 It’s been linked to impulsivity, suicidality, and in rare cases… violence. Doctors don’t warn you. Many don’t even recognize it. 🚨 People say: “Millions take SSRIs and don’t go violent.” True. I’m one of them. 🙋‍♂️ But if a drug can erase your sex drive, flatten your feelings, and disconnect you from yourself… Why is it crazy to ask what it might do in someone already unstable? 🧨 We don’t know the long-term effects. No one’s studying them seriously. Why? Because there’s no profit in questioning. 💰 Big Pharma’s not here to heal. They’re here to sell. 🏦💊 And listen — I’m not anti-med. I’m anti-BS. 👊 SSRIs helped me survive. But surviving isn’t healing. Numb isn’t peace. Flatlined isn’t free. We deserve better questions. Better tools. Better futures. 🌱 🖤 Tembrulated truth, signing off. #MentalHealthAwareness #SSRISideEffects #ZoloftReality #BigPharmaExposed #SpeakYourTruth #WakeUp #July2025 #explore

Tembrulated thoughts on the woman of Vietnam 🇻🇳 Fieldnote: The Cave (🧵) I watched the women. Hunched backs. All day in the heat. Serving tea. Making nothing. Living a life.

Tembrulated thoughts on the woman of Vietnam 🇻🇳 Fieldnote: The Cave (🧵) I watched the women. Hunched backs. All day in the heat. Serving tea. Making nothing. Living a life.

1/3 UK minimum wage: £11.44/hour London pint: £7 = 36 minutes of work for one beer. Rent? £1,600/month = 140 hours just to exist. You’re not living — you’re paying to breathe. #WageToTime #LondonCost #BurnoutEconomy

1/3 UK minimum wage: £11.44/hour London pint: £7 = 36 minutes of work for one beer. Rent? £1,600/month = 140 hours just to exist. You’re not living — you’re paying to breathe. #WageToTime #LondonCost #BurnoutEconomy

Tembrulated thoughts (a🧵) “The £4 pint” Ten years ago I used to sit alone in the bar — notebook and pen — pretending I was deep in thought. Maybe I was. #LondonLife #TembrulatedThoughts #WageToTime #TheWowMoment #TimeIsCurrency #PoetryThread

Spiralbook - The Honda Dream It wasn’t a city. It wasn’t even a town. It was a breath — cradled in green hills and the smell of wet rice. That’s where I found the Dream.

She was the question I couldn’t answer. So I wrote 60,000 words around her silence. (thread within a thread) #TheWowMoment

SPIRAL NEWS: 10/05/2025 Brought to you by @tembrulation — the breath that bites back. “The news is a symptom. Spiral is the diagnosis.” 1/10

SPIRAL NEWS: 10/05/2025 Brought to you by @tembrulation — the breath that bites back. “The news is a symptom. Spiral is the diagnosis.” 1/10

Tembrulated thoughts (a🧵) “The £4 pint” Ten years ago I used to sit alone in the bar — notebook and pen — pretending I was deep in thought. Maybe I was. #LondonLife #TembrulatedThoughts #WageToTime #TheWowMoment #TimeIsCurrency #PoetryThread