Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

Xentrix - Desperate Remedies

“He told her that she was the bright spot of his life: that her existence was far dearer to him than his own: that he had never known what is to love till he had met her.”

Desperate Remedies | Thomas Hardy

Diablo IV Episode 210: Desperate Remedies

this poor woman ended up in hospital because she ate cayenne + cinnamon coated orange (unpeeled) because there’s a health and wellness influencer with millions of views who recommends it for digestion - she burned her oesophagus

i always saw a few really good other additions of similar things on the comments

please be so, so careful taking advice from these people online, as many of them are not formally trained or educated, brand ambassadors, deep in pseudoscientific rabbit holes and unfortunately, there are many out there who struggle with disordered eating habits

(not mentioned here but another one worth noting: i have personally known people who have burned their oesophagus with viral apple cider vinegar shots and drinks. don’t do that. a burned oesophagus is not fun)

banging my head against the wall, thinking about how the darkest timeline is the one where troy leaves

Chapter 3 of 'Kill your Darlings', a Dr Darling x Tom Zane fanfic

Synopsis: The experiments are providing good results, and their collab is working well. But when Zane offers to educate Darling on cinema, things take a turn for the better and the worse.

at the point of the day that i’m at, i cant look at pictures of richard manuel. i hope you understand. best wishes, erica.

nothing quite like crying alone in the dark holding a beanbag against your ear to make you feel alive

i just don't like how often video games seem more like vehicles for something that would have been 10x more interesting as like. a book.

Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

i honestly don't know how many times i have to repeat myself that the u.s. is not a two-party system but is already a multiparty system. you're just being deliberately obtuse ignoring other legitimate parties that are not republican or democrat. you're just mad that the republican and democrat parties have spent literal decades building foundations to have a platform and raise a ton of money to run candidates across the country. if you want other parties to do that, then you have to actually put in the fucking work.

if any of you actually took two seconds to study comparative politics (or just looked at a multiparty system in action), you'd recognize that every single one operates the same fucking way: through coalitions. there are usually two major opposing parties and if one can't win a majority, they work with other parties to create a fucking coalition party. you fucking dumbasses are so thick that you can't be bothered to see that that is exactly how it works in congress in the united states (and in all state legislatures). most independent politicians are gonna lean towards the left and libertarians are gonna lean to the right (until the republicans piss them off).

it isn't fucking rocket science. politics is pretty similar across the world. but every single country is just a little different. and it has to be. because every nation is unique. their way of government cannot be cookie cutter same.

the real problem facing the united states elections is two-fold: money in elections and voter suppression.

stop getting your fucking information from idiotic memes about european countries that are wildly racist and xenophobic.

i caught a cold i think, and yesterday it was mostly bearable but now i’m feeling so sick and i would kill for some proper medicine and yet all i’m thinking about is this

i failed him. where can i summon him for the hands to catch to bring me medicine though. Banri please answer my texts. 

For the Love of Buddha, People, Please Be Safe with Making Your Herbal Teas

Piggy-backing on that post about using very dangerous "natural" herbal abortion methods, if you want a good, thoughtfully compiled book about herbal medicinal teas, co-written by a professional herbalist and a doctor, may I recommend "The Good Living Guide To Medicinal Tea by Jennifer Browne.

It's one of the most comprehensive guides I've ever seen on the subject, that goes from growing or foraging for your own herbs, to how to store them for long term use, and how to safely use them: especially if you take certain synthetic medications. I picked it up with a gift card @lenesahara sent me and haven't regretted it. (I mostly use it for writing reference because I'm on so many meds I'm scared to try too many of them.....)

Sometimes you go to order grimms fairytales since when you were drunk you wanted to read them to you sisters cat and you end up spending $150+ on books on your break at work.