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Project LETS @projectlets.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

☀️🔥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

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.

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Project LETS @projectlets.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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

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

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