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Neuroscience and the Emotional Life of Your Brain(youtube.com)
1 points by _98fj 10y ago|0 comments
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by _98fj 10y ago
That sounds like something Terence McKenna would have said.
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by _98fj 10y ago
CBT can treat severe depression, but the problem is that all those deep-seated underlying mental patterns don't just change because you want them too. Most people don't seem to realise that the celebrated prefrontal cortex is the
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by _98fj 10y ago
You know, I don't think europe's immediate future is pretty either. But I don't think there will be much more oppression of it's citizens. I think the borders will be closed and immigration forced to stop. After that hap
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by _98fj 10y ago
I understand. But still: the US has homeland security, the patriot act and so on. Aren't those rights like "permanent extraordinary circumstances"? We don't have anything in that magnitude. I think it's actually way
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by _98fj 10y ago
I happen to live in Austria, and while the presidential election (between a far right and a far left candidate) stirred up global attention, I can tell you we are not a tyranny or authoritarian state. I always read about this supposed &quot
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by _98fj 10y ago
I don't know what assumptions you think are incorrect: that people are afraid of getting killed? What I said was that situations involving guns tend to scare/alarm all involved parties. And that getting rid of the guns is easier a
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by _98fj 10y ago
Aren't these events statistically likely in a way? 1. Some white people are afraid of black people. (the other way probably too) 2. Most people are very afraid of other people carrying guns. 3. Most people are afraid of some form of re
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by _98fj 10y ago
Destroying stuff is just more fun than building stuff. That applies to kids in the sandbox like it does to ill-bred grown-up politicians. Dropping a bomb onto a house is more fun than building one. Leaving the EU with a bang was certainly m
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Toxoplasma gondii – 30 to 50% of humanity has a brain parasite(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by _98fj 10y ago|3 comments
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by _98fj 10y ago
That reminds me of philosophic "free will". Am I really free to choose or are my thoughts and surroundings "forcing me" towards. If the miners freely agree to accept a fork, were they really free in their decision or did
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by _98fj 10y ago
If you take some days off: Are you feeling better? Than burning out is your main problem. If you actually start to feel worse when having time to relax, that hints at different problems like depression or anxiety.
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by _98fj 10y ago
Not at all. When I discovered ethereum a couple of years ago I thought it was a good idea. Partly because I was turning similar ideas in my head at the time. But what I read now sounds like amateurs designed & implemented it. Sorry.
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by _98fj 10y ago
(the answer is yes)
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by _98fj 10y ago
So weird. Mine is a circle. I too have summer on top, but spring is on the left and fall on the right, so it goes clockwise. And it's kinda tilted in the third dimension depending on which date it is.
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by _98fj 10y ago
Why do you assume it has ever been any different? Rate of serotonine production for example is coded in two genes. Don't forget that it's not necessarily an evolutionary disadvantage to be slightly depressed or anxious, because y
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by _98fj 10y ago
Agreed. Thank you for this important amendment.
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by _98fj 10y ago
Look for someone who works with a lab that does neurotransmitter testing. If you're not psychotic, but plainly depressed, the question is basically if you need your serotonine or your dopamine/noradrenaline boosted. A blood test c
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by _98fj 10y ago
There are well established connections. About 90% of the neurotransmitter serotonin in your body is produced by enterochromaffin cells in the stomach. Though this does not directly affect the brain (the brain has it's own serotonine sy
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by _98fj 10y ago
I started to shower cold (actually first warm, then cold, then "neutral") every day when I was 9. I'm 30 now, so 21 years of that :). I almost never feel cold, when I do i'm sick or very tired. I do martial arts and I ga
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by _98fj 10y ago
<Sarcasm> StartUps were the boys' loophole for not having to learn to deal with their fathers. (/fathers' companies, structures, power games) </Sarcasm>
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by _98fj 10y ago
For anyone interested in the dynamics of disorders like this and how they can develop, you might want to read "I never promised you a rose garden" by Joanne Greenberg [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_N
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by _98fj 10y ago
I'm not blind, but I think like you do. My thoughts aren't linear and I feel that words only appear when they are already leaving my mouth or the tips of my fingers. I can formulate sentences in my mind, but it feels really slow a
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by _98fj 11y ago
The author fails to differentiate quite a few things here. Long-term depression is a way of thinking and feeling that some people fall into easier than others and that is also cultivated over time. If you had a rough childhood and coped wit
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by _98fj 11y ago
Dopamine also excites a _downregulating_ part of your brain, that's why it focusses you. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368605
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by _98fj 11y ago
A tip for that, similar to the service: Create a file, where each day you enter a list of positive things that occurred or that you did that day. Can be really anything like "got out of bed again :)", "didn't argue with
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by _98fj 11y ago
Best, and most scientific [0] book in this regard: "the emotional life of your brain" by Richard J. Davidson. One of the TLDR: the feeling of being happy and being sad are not the same brain-function with a sign reversed. Just bec
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Slavoj Žižek: Political Correctness Is a More Dangerous Form of Totalitarianism(youtube.com)
3 points by _98fj 11y ago|0 comments
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by _98fj 11y ago
Like many, I thought about this since a couple of years. My idea was a browser-plugin for youtube, that would take the downloaded video and start seeding it. On the other side, if a video has been blocked by YT, it would automatically use t
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Cursor speed and precision link to anger and other negative emotions(arstechnica.com)
12 points by _98fj 11y ago|1 comments

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