fellow_human

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by fellow_human 4y ago
It's funny your term "vortexing" has an actual name in the world of psychology, it's called dissociation. Anyway well done for realizing these things, it's taken me years of continued therapy to keep making progress
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by fellow_human 4y ago
The "Chemical Imbalance" hypothesis is extremely simplistic and seems very appealing to believe amongst the HN crowd. Unfortunately the evidence for it has been sorely lacking and within the past couple of decades more psychologis
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by fellow_human 4y ago
Try psychodynamic therapy, it works to treat the root causes of depression, not offerring a magic chemical imbalance pill that makes you dissassociate from the root causes of sufferring.
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by fellow_human 4y ago
The golden standard of depression treatment is long term talk therapy to actually work with the qualitative nature of ones depressive thoughts and sufferring and resolve those feelings, not magic chemical imbalance pills that don't act
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by fellow_human 4y ago
Your appeal to reductio ad absurdum here fails because it's not established that SSRIs work by restoring an imbalance. SSRIs are only little more effective than a placebo, suggesting there's something deeper at play with regards t
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by fellow_human 4y ago
Glucosamine is taken a lot by runners as its promoted as a suppliment that helps cartilidge in the knees. Runners are unlikely to be current smokers and more likely to be working their lungs in a healhty way.
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by fellow_human 4y ago
With all the common sense replies explaining why, I guess this was not the real question at all.
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by fellow_human 5y ago
I think "social construct" is the term you're looking for and yes every culture on earth relies on social constructs to navigate reality.
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by fellow_human 5y ago
I'm not saying porn should be banned, I'm just think people are misinformed that there are no consequences to it, or that it's harmless. Just like the solution to drug addiction isn't making drug usage illegal, neither i
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by fellow_human 5y ago
> Stats are showing that women are consuming lots of porn now too. And that somehow makes porn nice and healthy does it? > Personally I'd do away with 'mainstream' porn, my inner voyeur likes the homemade stuff too much
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by fellow_human 5y ago
> A lot of people don't (and in my opinion, shouldn't) conflate such a primal activity as "sacred". Is it really a good idea to put sex up on a pedestal? I think people should have a realistic view of what sex is. It
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by fellow_human 5y ago
Trauma leads to changes in brain chemistry that can cause reenactment behaviors until the trauma gets resolved https://lakesidemilam.com/blog/trauma-stress-repetition-comp... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2
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by fellow_human 5y ago
> It was so traumatic .... Lena decided to go back two more times to do more humiliation scenes with same producer. $$$$ I'm not sure if you're trying to imply snarkily that because Lena went back to do more pornography shoots
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by fellow_human 5y ago
Similarly, a brick has the ability to deep sea dive!
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by fellow_human 6y ago
People will just be giving you advice based on their own subjective values. It might be stuff like "spend more time with your family" or "make sure you're contributing to your pension" or some other abitrary thing s
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by fellow_human 6y ago
Not to mention the fact that neither comment says which country or region they're based in. I suspect these things can vary a lot by geography, yet both are making very generalized statements.
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by fellow_human 6y ago
Vaccinations can bring us closer to herd immunity too. Or at least take the load of the hospital system by covering off the vulnerable population.
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by fellow_human 6y ago
Also amusing that the HN title omitted the word "rare" from the title of the original article (and is the only change). Can't help but feel there was a specific intent behind that decision.
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by fellow_human 6y ago
An obvious example of this is pop music. Often following the verse chorus form and also different genres having different constraints in terms of instruments used.
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by fellow_human 6y ago
I only skim read the article, but I think it's missing a key section which is "strong relationships". Having the right people around you and having a sense of connection with those people can have a dramatically positive effe
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by fellow_human 7y ago
I think it is a remarkable achievement regardless of young or old. I think it would be difficult for both adult and children, but achievable by both, just very tedious.
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by fellow_human 7y ago
Thank you for going to the effort of letting me know that. I will be checking out the book. Knowledge can definitely be power when healing.
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by fellow_human 7y ago
Fair enough, I did probably knee jerk or interpret things in the wrong way. Will give it a go perhaps. I'm currently using the headspace app which I suspect is a similar approach.
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by fellow_human 7y ago
That would explain why I've been using dreams as a sort of indicator of progress for my time in therapy and working through my anxiety and depression. Certain things I've been anxious or angry about and held on to have been '
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by fellow_human 7y ago
What cultural practices are you referring to? Every non-white cultural practice? That would be proving my point. I never stated there was value in every non-western cultural practice, only that the value that actually does exists is easy to
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by fellow_human 7y ago
Perhaps whiteness is irrelevant, perhaps not. Socioeconomic background was controlled for the fact that the participants were from the middle class. Whether that's inherent to the US population due to the fact that it's a big part
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by fellow_human 7y ago
> Even the studies that have passed the test of time look a little weird. The Adverse Childhood Experiences study found that obesity and other seemingly nonpsychiatric diseases were linked to child abuse, and recent studies confirm this
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by fellow_human 7y ago
Wondering what the disclaimer would be? And why wouldn't it apply to a talk therapist?
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by fellow_human 7y ago
Sounds like a depressing fantasy painted as brutal reality. Maybe an enticing belief for those of us here who are also depressed, but just a fantasy nonetheless.
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by fellow_human 7y ago
This is absolutely true in my experience. Going to my therapist I realized that I spent all my time focusing on negative outcomes for a given life problem of mine. So much so that the failure to imagine a more optimistic outcome left me par

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