me: i am depressed because my adhd seems to be getting worse and medication isn't helping

doctors: here is medication for depression

literally 0 doctors: it could be perimenopause as that makes adhd significantly worse in many women. let's try HRT.

seriously, why does no one talk about this?

Eat the patriarchy

The iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones, the oxygen that fills your lungs each time you take a breath - all were forged in stars that lived and died before the Earth and Sun were born. You are literally stardust made flesh. You were literally born in heaven www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Furnac...

Good public health is invisible. People tend not to notice the absence of disease.

Until people like RFK Jr start bringing it back.

My new piece

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Fact check: true

You hear about residential schools and forced relocation and denial of language and history, and you think you have absorbed what white governments did to indigenous people. And then you read that, to deprive villages of communication and mobility, the Canadian government shot thousands of dogs.

Not opioid related, but here's a story about people self medicating for ADHD with meth because it's so hard to access treatment. (Incidentally, almost everyone I encountered doing this was a woman... women with ADHD are much more likely to go undiagnosed.) www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-adhd... 🧪

How I pitch bluesky to people: