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The brain isn't 'badly' designed as much as people often claim and it also shows a remarkable amount of neuroplasticity and ability to alter it's cognative abil

The brain isn't 'badly' designed as much as people often claim and it also shows a remarkable amount of neuroplasticity and ability to alter it's cognative abilities based the demands and situations that it is placed in. I have reservations on the focus that our society places on magic pills versus training your mind... At some point I would love to be able to modify and edit my mind and cognition, but honestly the chemicals we peddle now are akin to fixing a CPU with a butane torch.

Sanddancer 10y ago
I feel it's more complicated than that. The problem seems to be more that psychiatric medication is being prescribed without therapy being prescribed as well. I don't feel I could be able to discuss the things I do in therapy without the psychiatric medications I'm on helping with the healing process -- blocking adrenal response due to social anxiety is one example. While I try to gain the confidence needed to socialize at all, having a medication to help me not run and hide is definitely a good thing. Regarding your last statement, sometimes you do fix a CPU with a butane torch. There are techs that use butane solder irons so they don't have to worry about cords getting in the way while repairing bad solder joints. Sometimes there really is a mechanical problem, and not just a logic error.
- cannonpr 10y ago
  I have some experience with therapy under medication for exactly the same reasons you describe, and it was the right choice for me at the time, so I agree, sometimes they buy you time and space to do the work. I also have fixed solder joints/BGA's via last ditch attempts such as the towel technique for xbox 360, and a few variations for certain Nvidia chipsets in certain cough cough apple crap. So I did choose the example for a reason, however, I eventually bought a soldering oven and a desoldering hot air gun lol.

Sanddancer 10y ago

I feel it's more complicated than that. The problem seems to be more that psychiatric medication is being prescribed without therapy being prescribed as well. I don't feel I could be able to discuss the things I do in therapy without the psychiatric medications I'm on helping with the healing process -- blocking adrenal response due to social anxiety is one example. While I try to gain the confidence needed to socialize at all, having a medication to help me not run and hide is definitely a good thing. Regarding your last statement, sometimes you do fix a CPU with a butane torch. There are techs that use butane solder irons so they don't have to worry about cords getting in the way while repairing bad solder joints. Sometimes there really is a mechanical problem, and not just a logic error.

cannonpr 10y ago
I have some experience with therapy under medication for exactly the same reasons you describe, and it was the right choice for me at the time, so I agree, sometimes they buy you time and space to do the work. I also have fixed solder joints/BGA's via last ditch attempts such as the towel technique for xbox 360, and a few variations for certain Nvidia chipsets in certain cough cough apple crap. So I did choose the example for a reason, however, I eventually bought a soldering oven and a desoldering hot air gun lol.