Meier Lowenthal

Meier Lowenthal

@meierlowenthal.bsky.social

@meierlowenthal on Twitter. Photo is my twin brother and his son in 2009. #myelinectomy

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PTSD should be called stress process injury or progressive stress injury. Posttraumatic stress disorder makes it sound like something you can't treat. It's as much a "disorder" as a broken arm or kidney stone.

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Vòt bonè deja kòmanse. Vote pou Angie Nixon pou Sena Etazini nan Florid. Yon vòt pou Angie, se yon vòt pou lavi miyò, pou konbat koripsyon, e k'ap pote bon rezilta pou kominote nou a. Pa tann dènye minit. Al vote kounye a!

all dogs are happy unless they've been hit, right? We are the same. The good news today is that the injury that causes us and them to lose happiness and to withdraw is recognized as an orthopedic injury that can be treated. That injury - plaque produced after every impact - blocks flow of CSF.

an increase in stress in cerebrospinal fluid increases stress in thought and makes a range of behavior that will be described as "mental health" possible when in fact, it's physical injury or more accurately injury to a physical process.

and it may be the increase in stress hormone isn't in CSF, but it makes sense that it's there because people get more stressed after brain impact. stress hormone not cleared by the glymphatic system will collect there and make your every thought progressively more stressed.

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Replying to @angieforfl.bsky.social

I’m a middle of the road, old white woman (recently converted to being a Democrat) and I’m voting for you. Just want you to know I like your fire. And it’s not just voting against that rubber stamp Republican (Moody), it about what you are for too…helping the people.

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Ashley Moody voted to end the ACA subsidies. Nearly 300,000 Floridians lost the help they were getting to pay for health insurance. I support bringing those subsidies back and Medicare for All. Nobody should go bankrupt for going to the doctor. #AngieforFlorida

@marypeltola.com that said, get a good night sleep, eat right and avoid or minimize alcohol. Without those, every person can be the hardest person of hard people. And again, that is ability, not inability. If you didn't have emotion, you wouldn't have empathy, and you might even change parties.

Sunday the 13th is scarier than Friday the 13th. It is a nightmare for many families. Protect yourself every Sunday as you do the rest of the week. Keep your eyes open and your gaze aware. Instinct will take care of you if you stay out of its way.

@duckworth.senate.gov Tammy, please run for President. go for it and good luck. pick Yassamin Ansari as your vp. she is hardworking & smart and she has emotion, which is the most important thing & something we lose after head impact. and no more contact sports in schools! it’s crazy they exist!

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You enslave me & reduce me to the condition & status of an object. But I resist & struggle to liberate myself. In doing so I reaffirm my individuality, my autonomy & my refusal to be classified as object or property. I reinstate myself as a political animal. We are #OneBillionScreams

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Your violent exploitation of us fellow animals has no ethical nor dialectical justification. It’s just a majority sanctioned form of fascistic domination with only flawed logic, self-serving rationalisations & euphemistic rhetoric used to excuse your base depravity. We are #OneBillionScreams

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Because of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” five million Americans have already lost their health care. Americans don’t want to pay for a new White House ballroom. They want affordable health care, groceries, and housing.

Capability of emotion - including ability to laugh and cry - is determined by volume of CSF delivered to the brain. Any brain impact, and plaque constricts flow, so you lose volume. Theory: people with ptsd and dementia have an orthopedic injury even years later that can be easily eliminated.

add higher gas prices, higher food prices, loss of funding for science and every stingy social policy that is the published Republican party m.o. designed to hurt poor and working people, immigrants, minorities, LGBTQ and others not like them. it's mean and weak and small-minded and quite insane.

Jon Frandsen@jcfrandsen.bsky.social

Democrats take heed. The various ways Trump is crushing small businesses (tariffs, crackdowns on seasonal immigrant workers, increased health insurance costs etc.) has to be a campaign theme for candidates at every level. Our economic well-being is being throttled by stupid & extremist ideology.

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Memorial Day: If you've never done it, you want to know what war is? -stupid -boring -terror -not knowing anything -occasional shooting -incoming daily -picking up body parts -trying to rebuild THAT IS WAR. Why do we continue to do this? None of it makes sense. STOP.

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After medical school, I started residency in 2005. My salary was $35K. On average, I worked 80hrs/week. It was less than minimum wage. Yesterday, I learned our trainees are now making around $100k. Yes, there is twenty years of inflation there, but this is clearly proof that unions work. #medsky

100% inability to emote is a disability, but the same 100% it's the consequence of orthopedic obstruction to brain function, so it's easy to treat. (they will reduce the obstruction, a choke collar of plaque, in a breeze of a surgery (myelinectomy?) with a night or two in recovery.) #medsky