hermeticist 𓁟, humanist, licensed social psychiatric care worker in forensics. Based: Vienna. Ich poste in Englisch und Deutsch.
Jan 5 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
(1) Long live Salutogenesis!
Salutogenesis is an approach that systematically focuses on how health is created and maintained. In contrast to pathogenesis, which primarily looks for causes of illness, symptoms, and disorders, salutogenesis is interested in protective factors…
(2) …coping, and conditions that promote health. In many fields of practice, this is helpful because it does not only explain what is not working, but also provides concrete starting points for how functioning can become possible again.
The sense of coherence describes…
Jan 3 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Trauma always unfolds its impact within a field of tension between individual and surrounding factors. […] Instead of the relationship between sociopolitical and intrapsychic processes having become clearer and better understood, there is ... (1/x)
(2/3) ...today a trauma research landscape that is essentially narrowly psychiatric and exclusively symptom-oriented. [… It must] be understood and translated into sustainable practice that ...
May 3, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Psychiatry distinguishes between events that can trigger PTSD and events that cannot trigger PTSD. If psychiatrists had learnt a little more anatomy, they would know that the so-called ‘fight-or-flight’ response signals the same danger to the body for all events: (1/ff)
(2/ff) The moment the event occurs, the sympathetic nervous system takes control and puts the body on alert. This leads to vasoconstriction (e.g. in the digestive tract) - the blood is centralised, the pulse increases, the muscles tense up and the body reflexively prepares...
Apr 14, 2025 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
@ChrisPalmerMD (1/ff) The professor will say: “It was the Age of Enlightenment that brought about this transformation – a transformation that humanity urgently needed. The mechanistic worldview displaced the ecclesiastical one. That was a positive development and moved us forward. At the same…
@ChrisPalmerMD (2/ff) …time, however, it led to the loss of the holistic image of the human being. In its place emerged a mechanistic conception of the human. That, too, was important at this time, as it stripped the Church of its power, which had hindered humanity’s progress. Yet over…
Nov 1, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@assoc1counsell (1/ff) Having studied this issue in depth and having experience as a prison guard, I know that the ebb and flow of politics is really a trial of strength between psychopaths and empaths. When the empaths are strong, we all do well; when…
@assoc1counsell (2/ff) …when the psychopaths are strong, sick studies like this one are promoted and enshrined in society as "truth". The next study will …
Oct 31, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
@ChrisPalmerMD (1/ff) May I summarize the process you keep describing here? So that I understand it correctly? Please remember that you are a specialist in psychiatry and I am a nurse specializing in social psychiatry.
@ChrisPalmerMD (2/ff) In a person with a stress response ("mentally ill"), the
cells take up more glucose to provide more energy, except for the immune cells. Activity is reduced there as the body saves energy in the short term.
Sep 6, 2024 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Listing the major events of my childhood that led to my CPTSD. Thread. 🧵Trigger warning!
1. I learn piano at 6. No one takes care of me. I have to organize myself. I have to audition at an event, and I wish no one from my parents would come. Apparently I noticed something that bothered me from the age of 6. I am on my own.
