Rie Sinclair

@Uber please inform ALL drivers to Turn Off their lights!! And DRLS (I don’t know what’s worse) when parked a fraction longer than pickup or even pulling to the side of the road in residential areas. This used to be common courtesy before lights were laser like and Blinding.

@Newsforce Actually antipsychotics that boost GABA are helpful but not a long term solution.

🚨DID THIS STUDENT RESEARCHER JUST SOLVE SCHIZOPHRENIA? A young woman is going viral after breaking down her research paper claiming modern psychiatry has been focusing on the wrong part of the brain for decades. She argues schizophrenia isn’t primarily a dopamine disorder, but a “leaky thalamus” — the brain’s sensory filter — that fails to block out irrelevant information, causing the brain to hallucinate and create its own reality to fill in the gaps. Her theory also suggests antipsychotics only mask symptoms, questions Big Pharma’s funding priorities, and even links the same mechanism to ADHD. She questions why the thalamus has been so neglected in psychiatric research.

@LORWEN108 What do you mean by anxiety here? For years I was using it as a state of stress past a certain threshold, an opposite of the depressed state. For instance, Anxiety from unhinged excitement, from lights and external sensory stressors causing symptoms.

Your analytical mind can understand your anxiety. But it can't relieve it. Churchill and Jung both knew this. The nervous system needs contact with the real. I’m teaching a free webinar on May 26th on how to use your creative brain to lower anxiety and move out of depressive overthinking. Sign up here: offers.lorwenharrisnagle.com/visual-anxiety…

Churchill and Jung both understood something modern psychology forgot: Depression grows when life becomes only thought. The way out is not more analysis. It is action, symbol, body and imagination. Here are 7 body-based ways to move from collapse into momentum: 🧵 1. Use your hands to build something.

@newstart_2024 I can simultaneously agree that Gabor is solid on this argument. And also needs to stay out of assuming he knows much of anything about ADHD.

Dr. Gabor Maté just called out sleep training: “Ignoring a baby’s cries goes against human biology.” Infants can’t understand abstract reassurance. They only feel safe through physical closeness. When they cry, they need to be held — not left alone to “self-soothe.” Maté says the message they receive is far more stressful than we realize. Tana Amen shared how she was criticized for co-sleeping with her daughter but followed her instincts anyway. Maté’s comforting reply: “Don’t worry about it. By the time they’re 18, they won’t be sleeping in your bed.” Modern parenting trends often fight millions of years of evolutionary wiring for early closeness and security. I’ve watched so many parents feel guilty for doing what feels natural — this conversation felt like a big permission slip. What about you — did you co-sleep or sleep train, and how do you feel about your choice now?

@newstart_2024 85% of autistics are unemployed. The theory of Monotropism is a great way to understand how divergences with potential are linked. Gabors framework is backwards. Historically, these differences have always existed, just as Jung. They would’ve been an advantage in the wild.

Steven Bartlett quoted a striking study during his Diary of a CEO conversation with Gabor Maté: Parents who’ve survived more trauma and adverse experiences are significantly more likely to have children diagnosed with ADHD — backed by a large survey of 65,000 children. Maté expanded on it: diagnoses are more common among poor kids, and patterns differ by gender. Boys tend to get diagnosed more often because their hyperactivity is noticeable in class, while girls who are dreamy or inattentive often go under the radar. He also noted that infant boys appear more sensitive to stressful environments. His key point: ADHD symptoms frequently reflect a stressed environment rather than an intrinsic brain defect. Medication can help manage symptoms in the short term, but there’s no evidence it heals the underlying issue. The deeper approach is reducing stress at home, supporting parents to heal their own trauma, and creating a safer, more accepting atmosphere. Kids often respond strongly when conditions improve. We’re quick to label and medicate, but addressing root environmental and relational factors could support healthier long-term development. There’s real wisdom in looking at the environment first before jumping straight to medication — it shifts the focus from fixing the child to improving the conditions around them. What’s your experience — do you think we’re over-medicating ADHD, or is Gabor Maté right that we should focus on the environment first?

@DrJessTaylor Multiple projects plus endocrine system imbalance from youth? Well, yes. “Introvert” plus nervous system imbalance and continual misunderstanding since youth? Well, yes again. This is why biology matters.

Women who start multiple projects, generate ideas rapidly, and build businesses are being told they have ADHD. They tell me that their doctor or their online diagnosis told them that the real reason they manage multiple projects at once or have loads of business ideas is actually because they ‘have ADHD’! Women who prefer solitude, depth, or meaningful connection over superficial socialising are being told they are autistic. Appalling. Women who cut off abusive families, question authority, demand justice, make institutional complaints, or refuse to comply with harmful systems are being told they have ‘rigidity’, ‘black-and-white thinking’, or ‘social deficits’. They are being told they have sensitivity to justice because they must be Autistic. Even women who pursue PhDs, create new frameworks, challenge dominant paradigms, and become intensely focused on their work are being told they have ‘special interests’. At what point do we actually wake up and realise what is happening to us? AGAIN. Read my new article to find out more.

@PeterJFilipovic @BigBrainPsych The problem is your criteria. Not the difference. I mean, humans once thought planetary orbs sat on crystal plates. 🤷‍♀️

@riesinclair @BigBrainPsych How could there be a biological difference between children who are subject to unfalsifiable psychiatric diagnoses based on fuzzy criteria like "often leaves seat when remaining seated is expected" and children who have not

Dr. Gabor Maté challenges that ADHD is a disorder: "ADHD is learned 'tuning out' behavior from childhood stress that gets mislabeled as disease"

@DebsValidation @libriscent If only her story weren’t hijacked by NT wives of autistic husbands. Yes. That’s a thing. 😒

@libriscent See Cassandra in Greek mythology.

for autism month: there’s a real loneliness in being the person who notices the pattern, names it softly, gets doubted, stays quiet, watches it play out, and then has to act normal when everyone else finally catches up.

@psychgeist52 Nevermind the articles on possible outcomes of covid! Loss of the super ego, ADHD “like” disruptions without the pattern recognition and quick insight… good lord, man. This info is everywhere.

@psychgeist52 *lateral. Looks like autocorrect has issues with this too. LOL

Psychiatric diagnoses are efficient; they remove the need to understand.

@psychgeist52 I'm not here to do your research. Dr. F Happé was uncovering a difference with GABA decades ago. Loads of peer reviewed research on endocrine and nervous system imbalance linking ADHD and Autism... Happy hunting.

@riesinclair There is still no neuroscience that establishes any of it, I'm afraid. Finding it in neuroscience assumes the correct model of mind and brain. Freud was wrong about the mind/brain.

@psychgeist52 Freud, Jung, Fromm... all said in black and white text... they were making the best possible guesses, only Neuroscience would proof the pudding. Consciousness is still a hot debate in philosophy. Even covid has proofed a LOT around the gut-brain axis.

@riesinclair In the realm of mind & psychiatry, the very problem is that there is only biased perception.

@hubermanlab @drmarcbrackett I’m only at the top. 🙋🏼‍♀️Have I been using “self awareness” completely wrong??? I thought it was a gradient process of embracing strengths and limits - a graciousness to the self not a me-focus in defence mode navigating social judgment… 🤪

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@psychgeist52 Let me be clear: I’m WILDLY surprised there aren’t more lawsuits.

@psychgeist52 They are observable - but not with a biased perception. These almost always involve medical differences - some known since the 90s and still ignored AND made worse. The increase has not only aided further understanding but helped many left in survival mode.

@DoctorPerin LOL. True

@JonathanShedler All or nothing isn’t that more an immaturity than specifically a diagnostic? easily applied to anyone regardless of added complexities?

I'll pass on these psychoanalytic words of wisdom. It may take a minute to sink in. The narcissist says nothing is my fault. The narcissist says everything is my fault. (from MJ Peebles, “When Psychotherapy Feels Stuck”)

@DrMcFillin When you can’t exit a society loaded with crude oil derived endocrine disruptors? Petrochemical companies will invent a new pharma to attempt to sort it. Might be coincidence. I mean everyone likes to be the hero.

The evolution of Psychiatry Antidepressant talking points: 1. Depression is a brain illness 2. We can treat it like insulin for diabetes 3. Deficiency in Serotonin is responsible for depressed mood 4. SSRI's increase the availability of Serotonin and treat this brain disease 5. Antidepressants are safe, effective and non-habit forming 6. We believe the cause of depression MAY be related to imbalances of key brain chemicals 7. Antidepressants are effective for SEVERE Depression 8. Antidepressants are safe for most people 9. Antidepressants increase suicide in adolescents 10. The Serotonin Theory is an "oversimplification" 11. We don't know how antidepressants work... they just do. 12. Well.. ok Antidepressants create dependency- we were misled by the pharmaceutical companies 13. Antidepressants help a portion of people who are severely depressed.. we just don't know which ones 14. Antidepressants may cause violence, mania, and permanent sexual dysfunction... it's just extremely rare and the benefits may outweigh the risks. 15. Calling SSRI's antidepressants is probably not accurate, they are tools and its the General Practioners fault for over-prescribing 16. Lets try Ketamine