🖋 𝒮𝒲𝒜𝒩𝒦 Dispatch | 10 January 2025
THE UNSEEN BURDEN: MUSCLE TENSION DYSPHONIA IN THE MIDST OF HARASSMENT
📍 Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
✒️ Author: Polly Chromatic
🗂 Filed Under: Muscle Tension Dysphonia · Vocal Strain · Stress-Induced Voice Disorders · Speech Therapy Needs · Psychosocial Impact · SWANK Medical Dossier
To the Institutions Mistaking Silence for Consent:
Glen Peache, Sarah Newman, Eric Wedge-Bull, Kirsty Hornal, Rhiannon Hodgson, Fiona Dias-Saxena, Rachel Pullen, Milena Abdula-Gomes, Samira Issa
Cc: aaforbes@gov.tc, alsmith@gov.tc, Annabelle Kapoor
Bcc: Laura Savage, Simon O’Meara, Philip Reid, Gideon Mpalanyi, Nannette Nicholson
🗣 WHEN THE BODY SAYS “NO” AND NO ONE LISTENS
Muscle Tension Dysphonia (MTD) is not theatrical.
It is not convenient.
It is a diagnosed medical condition resulting from excessive laryngeal tension, often provoked—and prolonged—by forced verbal compliance under psychosocial duress.
🔍 CLINICAL PATTERNS YOU'VE CONSISTENTLY OVERLOOKED
– Strained, hoarse, or breathy voice—misread as emotional volatility
– Physical tension in neck, shoulders, and throat—dismissed as “behavioural”
– Vocal fatigue from effortful speaking—ignored because I did not scream
– Triggers: forced phone calls, public hostility, demand for “meetings”
– Feedback loop: stress → vocal dysfunction → institutional misinterpretation → further stress
🛠 PRESCRIBED, IGNORED, AND STILL NEEDED
– Voice therapy: relaxation, proper breath support
– Stress reduction: counselling, non-hostile environments
– Postural awareness: ergonomics for breathing ease
– Hydration and vocal hygiene: simple, overlooked, essential
– Medical treatment: for reflux and inflammation where relevant
🎭 CONTEXT: FORCED VERBALISM AS A FORM OF ABUSE
Let us not pretend this is coincidental.
When social workers insist on verbal meetings despite medical documentation,
when state agents weaponise a mother’s vocal limitations as proof of unfitness—
they are not safeguarding. They are enacting procedural cruelty.
Polly Chromatic
Whispering truth through strained vocal cords, with dignity and court receipts.
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