Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #suffering

1/🧵 Update on Long COVID Prevention‼️

Do meds & vaccines ⬇️ #LongCOVID risk?

1st meet @pamelarbishop, a scientist in forced early retirement due to LC:

“I oscillate between fierce determination to get better & abject horror at the daily destruction of my body."

read on…

2/ A case-control study of 9k unhospitalized COVID pts treated w Paxlovid btwn March & June 2022 versus 47k patients w no antiviral or antibody treatment.

All >= 1 risk factor for hospitalization.

The results are surprising if you think about it.

Why?
bit.ly/3WKmo1V

3/ It’s NOT a randomized trial, so we don’t know why people did or didn’t get Paxlovid.

In practice, we givemeds more aggressively (or want them ourselves) if we’re sicker.

So you might think those who didn’t take Pax would be less sick & do better. That’s not what was found…

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Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.)

@Dorje_sDooing

1/n
Nepalis generally struggle--or have difficulties--with a lot of things.

Here is a list of things that, as far as I am concerned, a lot of Nepalis find #INTELLECTUALLY #challenging.

1. imagining others DOING things that they can't imagine themselves doing

#Nepal

2/n

List of things a lot of Nepalis find #INTELLECTUALLY #challenging:

2. imagining others #WANTING things that they can't imagine themselves wanting

3. imagining others #THINKING about & in ways that they can't imagine themselves thinking

#Nepal

3/n
List of things a lot of Nepalis find #INTELLECTUALLY #challenging:

4. imagining others #BELIEVING things that they can't imagine themselves believing

5. imagining others #REPRESENTING things that they can't imagine themselves representing

#Nepal

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GET A GRIP

@docrussjackson

Pfeffel #THREAD:

1988: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is sacked by the Times for #fabricating a quote.

1995: a recording emerges in which Pfeffel agrees to provide Darius Guppy with the address of a journalist who was investigating him so that he could have him beaten up.

2004: Pfeffel sacked by Michael Howard for #lying about an affair.

2012: Pfeffel apologises for #accusing Liverpudlians of wallowing in "victim status" in a 2004 article.

2016: Pfeffel fails to apologise equates the EU’s efforts to unify Europe with those undertaken by Hitler.

2017 Pfeffel #accused of worsening the plight of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after wrongly claiming she was in the country teaching journalism.

2017: Pfeffel forced to apologise to Parliament for #failing to declare outside earnings totalling more than £50,000 on nine occasions.

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Yuko Washino Brewster

@YUKOWAS

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear,

others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty,

this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt,

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Steven McCulloch

@SteveMcCVet

'Will @Number10cat be out of a job'? - @MrSteerpike

Thanks for article in @spectator today in response to @CommonsEFRA evidence and @Politics_co_uk article on #SentienceBill

https://twitter.com/MrSteerpike/status/1427887772304658432

1. @Politics_co_uk article

https://twitter.com/Politics_co_uk/status/1423282651390042131?s=20

2. Article asks if the #SentienceBill would put @Number10cat out of business. Cites my reference to Animal Sentience Committee role in assessing impact government policy on 'Indiscriminate poisoning of rats using inhumane methods' in @CommonsEFRA evidence.

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1/🧵🎥 This story has a GOOD ENDING!

Look how my patient’s right leg flails around. This is INVOLUNTARY. He’s trying to stop but his brain is doing this against his will. It is “hemiballismus” & was caused by a fungus deep inside his brain. Read🧵
Link: bit.ly/3ixnWcx

2/ He was having these movements day & night. Unable to sleep. We admitted him to our ICU and realized the fungus Cryptococcus was causing a brain infection called meningitis. He had no underlying immune diseases or other health problems.

Another 🎥, all shown w his permission

3/ His MRI showed 2 pockets of infection on both sides of his brain in a place called the basal ganglia, which controls movement. This area had to heal for him to rest and be at peace again.

#medtwitter

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Etienne Arsenault

@JETAR9

#ExperienceReality
#VipassanaMeditation
#Buddha discovered the way:
Whenever you experience any #Sensation
Due to any reason, you simply #Observe it
🙏
Every Sensation Arises & Passes away.
Nothing is eternal
When you practise #Vipassana
you start experiencing this
☀️By #SNGoenka

#VipassanaMeditation
#Sensation Arises & Passes away
🙏
#DirectExperience
This is how your received #Wisdom &
#IntellectualUnderstanding turn into
personally #ExperiencedWisdom
☀️
This #Experience of #Anicca « #Impermanence »
will change the habit pattern of the mind
By #SNGoenka

#Sensation
#ExperienceReality
#VipassanaMeditation
🙏
He dwells #Observing the phenomenon
of Arising in the body.
He dwells Observing the phenomenon
of Passing away in the body.
He dwells Observing the phenomenon
of Simultaneous Arising & Passing away in the body.
☀️By #SNGoenka

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1/ 🧵🎥 Chronic Pain

#Pain comes in all shapes & sizes. Let’s explore how we process pain. Watch & Listen to what Anderson Cooper tells Stephen Colbert about #grief and #suffering: “You can’t have happiness without having loss and suffering.”

2/ My lucid & kind patient (pic w written perm) uses scalding water as a coping mechanism for abdominal pain from pancreatitis. He wants to share his rationale.

#MedTwitter #ChronicPain #nurse

3/ Before I share what he told me, I first want to make my mindset as his #physician clear: My first job is to believe in him. Then to understand him. Then to devise a plan to help him.

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1/🧵The Nightmare of #COVID19 & #LongCOVID

Im a doctor who is now spending more & more time daily caring for #LongHaulers (pts w LongCOVID). I just got a TINY dose of what it must feel like to be unheard and unseen…AND I want to apologize to you.

#MedTwitter #NurseTwitter

2/ I just keep hearing you say, “Doc, why doesn’t anyone believe me? My friends look at me and think I’m fine, even as I feel further and further adrift. I’m not myself and I can’t tell if I ever will be again. #COVID has ruined my life.”

3/ Yesterday as my plan landed, my phone vibrated. It was the wife of a former ICU #COVID pt, now trached & living on a vent in an LTAC, asking how she can get his new docs to understand & carefully manage her husband’s ongoing #LongCOVID & Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (#PICS).

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A Non-Genius Immigrant

@anongeniusimmi1

@Rac1ngSnak3 @Marmel @JoJoFromJerz @SenatorLoeffler I'm not religious so I haven't studied the #Bible but it seems to me that this quote applies well to you. I'm tired of those who profess to be #Christians but are just plain #Hypocrites. My illiterate peasant g-mother couldn't read the Bible but she could.....

@Rac1ngSnak3 @Marmel @JoJoFromJerz @SenatorLoeffler 2. teach you & your #SelfProclaimedChristians buddies a thing or 2 about being #Good #Kind #Decent #HumanBeings. Before we left Portugal, I spent a lot of time w/my GM. I remember sitting at her kitchen table sharing a meal w/a beggar on more than 1 occasion. Our family was...

@Rac1ngSnak3 @Marmel @JoJoFromJerz @SenatorLoeffler 3. very #poor but there were others much poorer than us. The #beggars knew that when they knocked at my GM's door they'd be welcomed & that they'd always have at least a bowl of soup to eat! My GM & her equally #Illiterate daughter, my mother, both taught me to help those less...

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1-#Gayatri destroys the three kinds of #Taapa or pain.

Gayatri bestows on one the four kinds of #Purushartha, viz. #Dharma
(#righteousness), #Artha (wealth), #Kama (desired objects) and
#Moksha (#Liberation or freedom) (1/13)

#AstrologyAndSpirituality.

2-It destroys the three Granthis or knots of ignorance, #Avidya, #Kama and #Karma.

Gayatri purifies the mind.

Gayatri bestows on the Upasaka Ashta-#Siddhis

Gayatri makes a man powerful and highly intelligent. (2/13)

#AstrologyThread.

3-Gayatri eventually gives Liberation or emancipation from the wheel of birth and death. (3/13)

#TheWisdomOfTheVillageJyotishi

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1-#Savita is the presiding Deity of the #GayatriMantra,

#Fire (#Agni) is the mouth,

#Vishvamitra is the #Rishi and #Gayatri is the metre.

Gayatri Mantra is recited during the investiture of sacred thread, practice of #Pranayama and #Japa, etc. (1/15)

#संस्कृतिबोध

2-What Gayatri is, the same is #Sandhya, and what Sandhya is, the same is Gayatri.

Sandhya and Gayatri are identical.

He who meditates on Gayatri,

..meditates on Lord #Vishnu, the Supreme Lord of the #Universe. (2/15)

#सनातनशुद्धरूपसेविज्ञान

3-A man can repeat the Gayatri Mantra mentally, in all states, even while lying, sitting, walking, etc.

There is no sin of commission or omission of any sort in its repetition.

(3/15)

#MysticPrayers

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1-ॐ सूर्य सुन्दरलोकनाथममृतं वेदान्तसारं शिवं

ज्ञानं ब्रह्ममयं सुरेशममलं लोकैकचित्तं स्वयम् ।

इन्द्रादित्यनराधिपं सुरगुरुं त्रैलोक्यचूडामणि

ब्रह्माविष्णुशिवस्वरूपहृदयं वन्दे सदा भास्करम् ।। (1/18)

#Astrology.

2-Om Suryam sundaralokanathamamritam vedantasaram sivam,

Jnanam brahmamayam suresamamalam lokaikaphittam svayam;

Indradityanaradhipam suragurum trailokyachudamanim,

Brahmavishnusiva svarupa hridayam vande sada bhaskaram (2/18)

3-I always adore #Surya, the #Sun,

the beautiful Lord of the world,

the immortal,

the quintessence of the #Vedanta,

the auspicious,

the absolute knowledge,

Lord of the gods,

ever-pure,

the one true #consciousness of the world himself, (3/18)

#AstrologyThread.

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1-Multiple commentaries have come and gone about the great #GayatriMantra.

I have personally found the exposition by Swami #Sivananda and Swami Chinmayananda worthwhile. (1/20)

#Astrology.

2-For the next few days, we shall talk about the #GayatriMantra – the pinnacle of #Japa #Sadhana

Here is laying out my little understanding. (2/20)

#AstrologyThread.

3-ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः तत् सवितुर्वरेण्यम् ।

भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि। धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥ (3/20)

#AstrologicalThread.

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