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Beige background :Image with copy on a beige background: When the nervous system is already dysregulated, heat just adds fuel. 🧠 Brain fog 💓 Heart racing 💦 Sweating or not sweating at all 🪫 Crushing fatigue It’s not “just the heat.” It’s #dysautonomia. It’s #LongCovid. Stay cool. Rest. You’re not alone. 🔁 Share if you feel it too.

The heat isn’t just uncomfortable, it’s disabling when your nervous system’s already fried.

🔥 Dysautonomia + Long COVID =
🧠 Brain fog
💓 Heart racing
💦 Sweat chaos
🪫 Energy crash

Stay cool. Rest. You’re not imagining it.

#LongCovid #MECFS #HeatSensitivity #POTS

People need to name Kennedy’s desire and goal of killing as many ‘unfit’ poor, sick, disabled, Black and brown people as possible—this is the only reasonable conclusion one can make from his ideas and policies.

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💧If drinking water is hard try: ice chips, fruits like melons or cucumbers, herbal teas, broths, or electrolyte powders in water
💧Keep your space cooler by blocking sunlight (blackout curtains, aluminum foil, cardboard boxes)
💧Hang a damp sheet in front of a fan
💧Stay low(since heat rises)

Accessible ways of staying cool:

💧Use wet washcloths or cool packs (frozen veggies from the freezer) on your wrists, neck, groin, behind your knees, and under your arms
💧Mist your skin with a spray bottle and sit near a fan
💧Take a sponge bath with lukewarm water while seated or lying down

If you or someone you love is on psych meds:

🟡Drink water before you’re thirsty
🟡Avoid direct sun during peak hours
🟡Seek shade, AC, cooling centers, or even just wet towels/fans
🟡Check in on others who might not know they’re at risk
🟡If you’re tapering or coming off meds, do so with care & support

If you or someone you love is on psych meds: Drink water before you’re thirsty; Avoid direct sun during peak hours; Seek shade, AC, cooling centers, or even just wet towels/fans; Check in on others who might not know they’re at risk; If you’re tapering or coming off meds, do so with care & support; Mutual aid saves lives. Systems don’t.

Accessible ways of staying cool: Use wet washcloths or cool packs (frozen veggies from the freezer) on your wrists, neck, groin, behind your knees, and under your arms; Mist your skin with a spray bottle and sit near a fan; Take a sponge bath with lukewarm water while seated or lying down; If drinking water is hard, try: ice chips, fruits like melons or cucumbers, herbal teas, broths, or electrolyte powders in water; Keep your space cooler by blocking sunlight (blackout curtains, aluminum foil, cardboard boxes); Hang a damp sheet in front of a fan; Stay low (since heat rises); Avoid layers and tight clothing

Houseless folks, institutionalized people, & those in carceral mental health settings are often denied AC, water, or the right to leave overheated environments.

Extreme heat isn't just a medical issue. It's an abolitionist issue.🌿

#PsychAbolition #PsychMeds #DisabilityJustice #MutualAid

Graphic with Project LETS logo on the bottom, and it reads, "Extreme Heat and Psychiatric Medications"

Psychiatric meds can impair the body's ability to sweat, regulate temperature, or sense thirst. As temperatures rise, folks on psychiatric medications are at higher risk of heat stroke, dehydration, and medical crises-- especially antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and some antidepressants.

This isn’t just a medical issue. It’s an abolitionist issue. Houseless folks, institutionalized people, and those in carceral mental health settings are often denied AC, water, or the right to leave overheated environments. Many are forced onto meds without (informed) consent or support to taper safely. Extreme weather is yet another way systemic neglect becomes lethal.

☀️🔥Extreme heat & psych meds: Did you know that psychiatric meds can impair the body’s ability to sweat, regulate temperature, or sense thirst? 🧊

As temps rise, folks on psych meds are at higher risk of heat stroke, dehydration, & medical crises.

#PsychAbolition #ExtremeHeat #PsychMeds #MutualAid

Detroit Peer Respite Pilot Program By Detroit Peer Respite

I just met with Detroit Peer Respite folks & as always feel so honored & happy to be organizing this beautiful project of anti carceral care for mental health crises. if anyone is so moved, we'd love to have a few more monthly donors supporting our non nonprofit!
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🙏🏽❤️‍🔥

this will be fire

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Access information:

🌿A recording will be made available (you can also register just to receive the recording).

🌿ASL interpretation will be available.

🌿You can share additional access needs via your registration form or by emailing support@projectlets.org.

Register: bit.ly/lets-herbalism

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Donation info:

🌻Our suggested donation for community members is: $20-$40, $30-50 for mental health workers.

🌻You can choose how much to donate- more, or less.

🌻Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. If you cannot donate at all, use our Free Access form.

Register: bit.ly/lets-herbalism

Flyer with a background of blooming linden flowers. Text reads: “This panel is a fundraiser for serenus herbs & moonpence farm, and 50% of all proceeds will go towards sustaining their farm. The panel is also an introduction to an upcoming course/series for Project LETS titled “Madness, Disability, and Herbalism: Plant Magic and Allies for Reclaiming Ancestral Healing.” We are excited to share deeper, more intentional space with those who attend. The course will be featuring some of our panelists as guest educators. Register: bit.ly/lets-herbalism” Project LETS logo in bottom right corner.

This panel is a fundraiser for serenus herbs & moonpence farm, 50% of all proceeds will go towards sustaining their farm.

The panel is also an intro to an upcoming course/series for Project LETS titled “Madness, Disability, & Herbalism: Plant Magic & Allies for Reclaiming Ancestral Healing.”

Flyer with a background of blooming linden flowers. Text reads: “What to expect - Discussions on how to build relationships with herbal allies for emotional, spiritual, and physical support; Practical insights into working with herbs while navigating medications and other treatment modalities; Stories of resistance, healing, and reconnection from community herbalists and practitioners; A deep honoring of ancestral traditions, cultural survival, and collective care. Register: bit.ly/lets-herbalism” Project LETS logo in bottom right corner.

What to expect:

🌱Discussions on how to build relationships with herbal allies for emotional, spiritual, & physical support

🌱Practical insights into working with herbs while navigating medications & other modalities

🌱Stories of resistance, healing, & reconnection from herbalists & practitioners

Many of us—especially multiply marginalized Mad, ND, Disabled, & psychiatric survivor communities—have been told that plant medicine is unsafe, inaccessible, or incompatible with our bodies & experiences. This panel invites us to challenge those narratives to reclaim herbal medicine on our own terms

Together, we’ll explore how we can work with plant medicine to support us in navigating altered states, easing chronic pain, and nourishing our nervous systems.

We’ll connect with ancestral knowledge systems that have often been stolen or suppressed through colonial, imperial, & carceral violence.

#chronicillness #abolition #CovidIsNotOver #covidconscious #panel #ancestralhealing #fundraiser #liberation #kinship #medicine #community #communityhealing #neurodivergent #survivor #apothecary

#herbalmedicine #disability #disabilityjustice #mentalhealth #healing #plantmedicine #herbs #farms #madness

Meet our Panelists!

🌿Atava Garcia Swiecicki, Ancestral Apothecary
🌿@cyreejarelle.bsky.social Balm in Gilead
🌿Myrna, Flor y Machete
🌿Simone Sobers
🌿Nicole Rose @solidarityapoth.bsky.social

❤️‍🔥 This event is also a fundraiser for Moonpence Farm & Serenus Herbs. linktr.ee/moonpencefarm

We view plants not as a replacement for psychiatry or tools to “fix” people, but as a practice of intentional relationality & a deep medicine in its own right.

This panel is part of our commitment to building & sustaining community-rooted, non-pathologizing approaches to mental health & healing.

Flyer with a background of blooming linden flowers. Text reads: “Madness, Disability, and Herbalism. A panel discussion with community herbalists and folks with lived experience. June 20ᵗʰ @ 1:30 PM ET. Register: bit.ly/lets-herbalism with ASL interpretation.” Project LETS logo in bottom right corner.

🌿Join Project LETS & community herbalists/folks with lived experience for a virtual panel discussion on the intersections of Madness, disability, & herbal medicine through a lens of liberation, kinship, & ancestral reclamation.

June 20ᵗʰ @ 1:30pm ET
ASL Interpretation
Register bit.ly/lets-herbalism

WE ARE RAISING $600 FOR OUR COMRADE. WE ARE ALMOST THERE! Thank you for the quick action!

Old school last wishes at 76 yrs old with a terminal illness, after over 40 years in prison - is just to eat well from the prison store.

Help us send him off proper!! ⛓️🔥 Clenched fists salute!

Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics A timeline of the president's thoughts on "good genes," IQ, and which disabled people should "just die."

Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs.

For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE already has, especially people with psychiatric disabilities and those already at higher risk of Covid complications. Important report here: phr.org/our-work/res...

Wow thank you for shouting us out, and thank you everyone for your donations!! Much much gratitude 💞🌿

Donate — Project LETS

May is Mental Health Awareness Month.

If you can afford it, consider sharing whatever you can with @projectlets.bsky.social

projectlets.org/donate

thank you for the shout out <3 folks can learn more about our free crisis & advocacy support on this thread or by visiting projectlets.org/get-support.

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On 4/5, the police responded to a crisis call & shot autistic teen Victor Perez 9 times just seconds after arriving on the scene. He died shortly after.

No amount of training or funding will ever make the police safe crisis responders.

@autisticadvocacy.org: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/asan...

not just Rhode Island ! most of what we do is virtual :)

RFK praising a doctor for spreading measles is the logical conclusion in a place that intentionally tried to eradicate its native population with disease. At this point getting diseases is not accidental, it’s their will we be diseased. The blood is at the root!