Restless Beehive
@restlessbeehive.bsky.social
Writer & documentarian | Horror, hysteria & healing
Measuring madness: Medical gaslighting & biomarkers 🧬
Measuring madness: Medical gaslighting & biomarkers 🧬
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Breakthrough for diabetes 🔬
A team led by @ucleye.bsky.social scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight loss among working-age adults.
Early trigger of diabetic eye disease identified
A team led by UCL scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Breakthrough for diabetes 🔬
Part of the creative process is accepting critique from your audience
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Part of the creative process is accepting critique from your audience
Eternal Sunshine, a Spotless Mind
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Eternal Sunshine, a Spotless Mind
The heatwave of 2022 seemed the likely cause of my dizziness.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Eternal Sunshine, a Spotless Mind
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Slices of sketches from waiting rooms
2. South London guess the year
2. South London guess the year
October 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Slices of sketches from waiting rooms
2. South London guess the year
2. South London guess the year
The number of days from head injury to head MRI 🗓️ : 1131
Happy Halloween🥳?
Three years one month four days🙁
Amnesia, myoclonic seizures, nerve damage, spasms…and much more
Fun with numerology 🪄
Not so fun neurology. 🧠
Happy Halloween🥳?
Three years one month four days🙁
Amnesia, myoclonic seizures, nerve damage, spasms…and much more
Fun with numerology 🪄
Not so fun neurology. 🧠
October 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The number of days from head injury to head MRI 🗓️ : 1131
Happy Halloween🥳?
Three years one month four days🙁
Amnesia, myoclonic seizures, nerve damage, spasms…and much more
Fun with numerology 🪄
Not so fun neurology. 🧠
Happy Halloween🥳?
Three years one month four days🙁
Amnesia, myoclonic seizures, nerve damage, spasms…and much more
Fun with numerology 🪄
Not so fun neurology. 🧠
A series of sketches from hospital waiting rooms
1. Vending machine dream
1. Vending machine dream
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A series of sketches from hospital waiting rooms
1. Vending machine dream
1. Vending machine dream
Darwinsm in reverse
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Darwinsm in reverse
With amnesia the world was pretty confusing. I wasn’t sure who to trust so I trusted everyone, even my neurologist
Who told me it was just in my mind
The pseudo-stroke and the pseudoseizures
She said “you don’t need tests because it says here that you’re mentally ill”
I paraphrase slightly
Who told me it was just in my mind
The pseudo-stroke and the pseudoseizures
She said “you don’t need tests because it says here that you’re mentally ill”
I paraphrase slightly
October 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
With amnesia the world was pretty confusing. I wasn’t sure who to trust so I trusted everyone, even my neurologist
Who told me it was just in my mind
The pseudo-stroke and the pseudoseizures
She said “you don’t need tests because it says here that you’re mentally ill”
I paraphrase slightly
Who told me it was just in my mind
The pseudo-stroke and the pseudoseizures
She said “you don’t need tests because it says here that you’re mentally ill”
I paraphrase slightly
Today marks 1100 days of myoclonic seizures following brain trauma that has been dismissed under the NHS as “in my head”.
I know my brain, I also know my buns.
I know my brain, I also know my buns.
October 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Today marks 1100 days of myoclonic seizures following brain trauma that has been dismissed under the NHS as “in my head”.
I know my brain, I also know my buns.
I know my brain, I also know my buns.
Therefore does a psychiatric non-degenerative condition such as bipolar or psychosis need to be a lifelong diagnosis?
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One thought this morning over coffee
If the difference between the study of psychiatric and neurological conditions is based on: psych = extra (x) and neuro = after injury deficit (d) then doesn’t d by way of sporadic new neural pathways cause x ?
One thought this morning over coffee
If the difference between the study of psychiatric and neurological conditions is based on: psych = extra (x) and neuro = after injury deficit (d) then doesn’t d by way of sporadic new neural pathways cause x ?
Restless beehive (@therestlessbeehive)
One thought this morning over coffee
If the difference between the study of psychiatric and neurological conditions is based on: psych = extra (x) and neuro = after injury deficit (d) then doesn’t d ...
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October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Therefore does a psychiatric non-degenerative condition such as bipolar or psychosis need to be a lifelong diagnosis?
substack.com/@therestless...
One thought this morning over coffee
If the difference between the study of psychiatric and neurological conditions is based on: psych = extra (x) and neuro = after injury deficit (d) then doesn’t d by way of sporadic new neural pathways cause x ?
One thought this morning over coffee
If the difference between the study of psychiatric and neurological conditions is based on: psych = extra (x) and neuro = after injury deficit (d) then doesn’t d by way of sporadic new neural pathways cause x ?
Restless beehive (@therestlessbeehive)
One thought this morning over coffee
If the difference between the study of psychiatric and neurological conditions is based on: psych = extra (x) and neuro = after injury deficit (d) then doesn’t d ...
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October 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
substack.com/@therestless...
One thought this morning over coffee
If the difference between the study of psychiatric and neurological conditions is based on: psych = extra (x) and neuro = after injury deficit (d) then doesn’t d by way of sporadic new neural pathways cause x ?
One thought this morning over coffee
If the difference between the study of psychiatric and neurological conditions is based on: psych = extra (x) and neuro = after injury deficit (d) then doesn’t d by way of sporadic new neural pathways cause x ?
Casualty the Musical
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There's no gaslighting like medical gaslighting
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Casualty the Musical
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Interesting do read
Landmark study on symptom dismissal and diagnostic delays in women’s health launched
The study will explore women's experiences of medical gaslighting and issues including diagnostic delays and patient–doctor interactions.
Read: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...
The study will explore women's experiences of medical gaslighting and issues including diagnostic delays and patient–doctor interactions.
Read: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...
September 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Interesting do read
I thought I was happy, ambitious. they told me I was mad
I must have imagined my life
I must have imagined my life
September 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I thought I was happy, ambitious. they told me I was mad
I must have imagined my life
I must have imagined my life
September 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It is not in your mind.
September 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It is not in your mind.
Reposted by Restless Beehive
"The culturally and medically constructed image of the ‘hysterical’ woman, characterized by an exaggerated percep-tion of symptoms that are essentially non-existent, continued to appear in 20th-century descriptions of ME/CFS."
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September 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"The culturally and medically constructed image of the ‘hysterical’ woman, characterized by an exaggerated percep-tion of symptoms that are essentially non-existent, continued to appear in 20th-century descriptions of ME/CFS."
#MECFS #MECFSIsAFeministIssue
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Zebrafish are helping scientists tackle rare #mitochondrialdiseases like MDDS
In 2018/19, Lily funded research using zebrafish to test treatments
Find out what happened in our latest Research Zone post with Research Manager Maria and Dr Ben Munro
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In 2018/19, Lily funded research using zebrafish to test treatments
Find out what happened in our latest Research Zone post with Research Manager Maria and Dr Ben Munro
www.thelilyfoundation.org.uk/affected-by-...
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