Monica Cassani
@monicac.bsky.social
Sentient being memetic mediation / intersectionality / mutual aid https://linktr.ee/Monica.Cassani
We dissociate from the perpetrator and that is a very serious issue…why is no one ever discussing their own perpetration? We only point to those committing xy or z when the fact is we are all perpetrators of some kind.
We can only connect with people in as much as we know our deepest selves. We're all limited in different ways. In as much as we shy away from looking at our own limits, we are not doing our work.
my natural authentic self makes most people uncomfortable… I actually once believed that waking up, being aware and being oneself openly and honestly would create a person that everyone could not help but adore…. oh well, just don't believe the hype.
PSA: Shit happens. It seems people forget this now in the midst of hell. Shit happens. You will hear about that shit in all its guises on social media. Some shit is really bad. Other shit is made up. Some shit is really not shit but those folks don't really know what shit is. That is all.
Ok. OpenAI President and cofounder Greg Brockman has been one of Trump's biggest donors. In 2025, he gave $25 million to MAGA Inc. a super PAC that supports Trump. That's ChatGPT essentially. Supporting Trump. Take that in.
Some people view madness as a spiritual journey. But can spiritual experiences be distinguished from psychotic ones? Studies have found it impossible to differentiate between mystical experiences and psychosis solely on the basis of phenomenological description beyondmeds.com/2012/02/02/p...
Spiritual aspects of psychosis and recovery - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
spiritual aspects of psychosis
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my site is being combed today by AI. It shows many more 1000s of hits than usual, but not more visitors. I know that it's likely that the content will be stolen and rehashed. It's been done by humans and AI will do it better for the nefarious purposes that it's used for in these sorts of instances 😰
Coping Strategies for Pain Relief -- helpful for a vast array of chronic pain issues. beyondmeds.com/2012/06/11/c...
Coping Strategies for Pain Relief while Withdrawing - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Getting well takes effort and time and listening to the body for most of us. These are some of the things I do to help with pain that is part of withdrawal syndromes for many people. Coping Strategies...
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old piece from @mad-in-america.bsky.social interesting to see old stuff. My journey had really only just begun when I got off the drugs. The injuries were far deeper than I understood at the time of that writing. Enjoy a little piece of mad history below: www.madinamerica.com/2013/05/befo...
Everything Matters: a Memoir From Before, During and After Psychiatric Drugs
Psych meds can not only put weight on regardless of how you otherwise care for yourself, they also tend to make people feel gravely lethargic and vaguely sick all the time. I could not exercise as I h...
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Hi folks. I've been straddling bluesky and threads for a while but I just got kicked off of threads for violating community standards... for some ridiculous misreading of a nuanced think piece. That is my plight on social media these days. Anyway I'm now HERE .. there is no straddling left to be had
Sensitivity might just be considered altered interoception so that we might have the information to heal. beyondmeds.com/2017/01/02/h...
Healing brain injury - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Healing brain injury
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If no one reads anymore why do I have 20 conversations a weeks with people ABOUT THE STUFF THEY ARE READING?
The knowledge of horrible events periodically protrudes into public awareness but is rarely retained for long. Denial, repression, and dissociation operate on a social as well as an individual level. ~ Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman, M.D.
All the Cassandras — Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks
I was ashamed to tell this once, but now . . . He came like a wrestler, magnificent, took me down and breathed his fire through me and - I yielded, then at the climax I recoiled -I deceived Apollo...
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I'm stuck at a gas pump in a torrential thunder storm. It's been 30 minutes and it doesn't look like it's going to let up.
None of us are free until all of us are free. This isn't everybody's day of Independence. Our population includes many African Americans and native Americans who have never been free.
AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY@africanarchives.bsky.social · last mo.What our ancestors were doing on 4th of July 1776.
I have multiple systemic infections...weird is that the person I get on with best has HIV. He found my work on Lyme/TD and contacted me because it was resonant. Multiple systemic infections are what is happening to a lot of people. Dx can be as diverse as HIV and Lyme beyondmeds.com/2026/07/03/c...
Chronic Illness, Lyme, HIV the somatic connection - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Chronic Illness, Lyme, HIV . endless manifestations: diagnosis not so important
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THE ESOTERIC This is a collection of many of the posts that have aphorisms and slightly longer meanderings. Many of them were first conceived in conversations on the then Twitter platform. It is not exhaustive. With close to 6000 posts it’s hard to organize the work beyondmeds.com/2026/07/01/t...
the esoteric posts - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
esoteric posts
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That's right. The United States is the only country in the world cup that does not have universal healthcare. Scream it loud and everywhere. Citizens of the United States get a clue.
Sonofrojblake@simonpblake.bsky.social · last mo.I don't give a shit about football, but I just heard my favourite stat about this World Cup. Every single country taking part has universal healthcare... Except one. Can you guess ?
I miss the great American tradition of not thinking about the president constantly.
strawberry moon - the neighborhood toads all trilling at once #haiku
As the nation prepares to mark the 250th anniversary of our independence from a king, the Supreme Court and our current president are doing everything possible to resurrect a king in America. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-end-of-independent-agencies
I’ve been asking the question for many years: beyondmeds.com/2026/06/29/w...
Who am I? - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Who am I?
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So a little piece of trivia: there are 1000s of non-famous Donald Trumps. I wondered about this because a man jokingly introduced himself to me as Donald Trump. It made me wonder...are there actually others. Can you imagine?