markroseman

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by markroseman 8y ago
First decide if you just want it to look nice, or if you want it to work nice. For the first there are already lots of suggestions here. For the second, do you have some users or potential users (right needs, skills, etc.) nearby? Get them
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by markroseman 8y ago
While most people intuitively would agree with the headline, the study itself doesn't add a whole lot. Single study with 100-ish undergrads, evaluated only via the standard 'trails' test. Not a bad beginning, but a broader au
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by markroseman 8y ago
You got shitty psychiatric care. The real tragedy is that is so common.
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by markroseman 8y ago
In this or anything else, exercise isn't suggested as a cure. Almost without exception, the people she sees are looking for ways to help move themselves forward. By the time they get here, they realize (and it's part of the educat
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by markroseman 8y ago
I'd consider the value to be motivational ammunition for an intervention that generally has few downsides and multiple possible benefits for the person affected. Your point about stigma does counterbalance that somewhat. In other words
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by markroseman 8y ago
That would be the "fuck if I can help you" non-response. Around here it happens a lot because it takes so long to get into a psychiatrist that unless you admit to suicidal ideation, intent and a plan, you're not going to get
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by markroseman 8y ago
Good point. The value in this one is the large size of the data set, but mental illness is hardly a uniform phenomenon, so if you fit the "mental illness" category it doesn't say much about how many people in their data set r
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by markroseman 8y ago
Agreed for most people with mild-moderate mental illness. It's an intervention that can reduce intensity for quite a number of people, though not everyone. (I wish more people would also get checked early on for easily fixed metabolic
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by markroseman 8y ago
In practice, it probably just adds a bit more motivation or reinforcement to the existing body of knowledge. There is a lot of conflicting info out there about how much is needed, what kind, etc., so the fact that this is saying a broad ran
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by markroseman 8y ago
Few academics stake their careers on papers saying that X does fuck all (unless everyone already things X is amazingly effective)
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by markroseman 8y ago
Check out tkdocs.com
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by markroseman 8y ago
Check out http://tkdocs.com to get started _properly_ with tkinter. The blocking thing you can do in two ways. First, put your blocking stuff in another thread and do it there, and when it's done call back into the main thr
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by markroseman 8y ago
I think this is a nice start. I'd like to see you take it further. The problem I have with your list is that it treats depression as a black box, and the solution is to throw random things at it until something sticks. There are things
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by markroseman 8y ago
And doing your GUI with Tkinter, which has an API that fits incredibly well with Python is a problem because...?
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by markroseman 9y ago
Some people do get what they'd describe as emotional numbing. Think of it as a decreased range of emotion. Sertraline has a relatively higher incidence of this than other SxRI's
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by markroseman 9y ago
Ha! You know what they say, if we just add one more level of abstraction, all of our problems will be solved! Nobody will even have to know what's going on inside. Famous last words.
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by markroseman 9y ago
This. It's like watching master craftsmen work on some parts for the sheer joy and challenge. (Pity the parts that don't have the craftsmen working on them mind you)
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by markroseman 9y ago
This (or anything else) isn't going to bring back a resurgence in Tcl use. A simple web app framework like this is something many languages have, and I think in this case it's best seen not so much about the web framework being th
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by markroseman 9y ago
Yes, when I did something like that nearly 20 years ago it was quite odd! But turned out to be terribly useful for us at the time. (Google 'proxytk' if you're curious)
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by markroseman 9y ago
Being on more than one antidepressant is not unusual, and can even sometimes be optimal. Even ones acting on the same neurotransmitter often target different receptors and hence different symptoms. More often it's because doctors are b
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by markroseman 9y ago
We're not ignoring their environment. But unfortunately, most of the time drugs are quicker and easier for the prescribers, and therefore cheaper and more available for the patient, than extended psychotherapy, etc. If the underlying p
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by markroseman 9y ago
Statistically, rating scales typically used in these studies have been validated as showing effect, and clinical interviews can pick up a lot of things. That said, it's normally hard for you to be able to look back eight weeks and subj
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by markroseman 9y ago
Glad that worked for you. Having seen many psychotropics poorly chosen/prescribed, your experience is certainly not uncommon, though far from universal. Best thing would be understanding that different solutions are right for different
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by markroseman 9y ago
Close enough to accurate. The better ones can apply useful heuristics (symptom matching, family response, etc.) as well as more sophisticated management of dose, side effects, etc. to converge on the solution much faster, but at this point,
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by markroseman 9y ago
The anti-psychiatry folks are extreme enough that they deny mental illness altogether, though many other "psychiatric survivor" communities do not deny, and often celebrate "lived experience", but are critical of psychia
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by markroseman 9y ago
Yes the science has a long way to go, but you're ridiculously generalizing. Some people stay on antidepressants long term, but most don't. Many psychotropics are used only short term. I think your test/cure paradigm is a bit
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by markroseman 9y ago
Three months in some places. Here in Victoria, unless you're in crisis, it's actually almost impossible for most people to get in to see a psychiatrist, and if you can, the waiting list is well over a year.
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by markroseman 9y ago
Depression and other mental illnesses are defined by a set of symptoms. Suggesting one particular cause is being disingenuous. Having said that, the whole notion of "too much" or "too little" of something like serotonin
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by markroseman 9y ago
Amitriptyline is a tricyclic; it's MAOI's that require a special (low-tyramine) diet.
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by markroseman 9y ago
Never? Dude, Tk back in the day! Compared with all the raw X11 predecessors, it was a revelation for Unix GUI's.

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