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The way the article is worded it makes it seem like ALL psych medicine is bad, which is the mo of the right, get people off the meds that make them stable and into RFK Jr's "wellness farms".

You can't just say "yeah I fucked up taking benzos recreationally for years and now I'm paying the price".

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

If I remember his deep lore, he got on an all meat diet and attributes that to panic attacks for which he was prescribed or found someone to get him on, presumably, Ativan. He says he had severe autoimmune response to all meat and drinking cider (he said if he drank cider hed be insomnic for days and days). Anyway, he only started the carnivore only diet thing because his daughter told him to. The same daughter that told him not to listen to his Canadian doctors recommending a benzo taper when he was interested and ready to come off of them, and to instead seek a medically induced coma to skip the frankly shitty feelings of withdrawing and have the taper done I guess without his conscious awareness. So they went to Serbia or Russia and of course its not without risks to do that, so his coma was very long.

His wife did have kidney cancer diagnosis in 2019 and this all happened around that time. But hes Peterson, and I guess he cant just accept he was not coping well with his spouses diagnosis and attributed what he was feeling as reactions to food...

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 11 points 16 hours ago

Anyway, he only started the carnivore only diet thing because his daughter told him to. The same daughter that told him not to listen to his Canadian doctors recommending a benzo taper when he was interested and ready to come off of them, and to instead seek a medically induced coma to skip the frankly shitty feelings of withdrawing and have the taper done I guess without his conscious awareness.

And this same daughter will inherit everything in his will you say? Interesting. kyle

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 6 points 12 hours ago

Yeah she's definitely trying to kill him.

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