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by md224 10y ago
Everyone taking opiates would be depressed but nobody would be sure if it was pre-existing depression or Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome. In general, it can sometimes be difficult to differentiate drug withdrawal from re-emergence of a pre-e
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I am also not religious (and generally agnostic about the so-called supernatural), but it seems pretty obvious to me why religious beliefs play a major role in the debate over abortion. It all comes down to my favorite subject: the Explanat
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I think it's more productive to look at the question of consciousness and immortality outside the context of religious doctrines and narratives. Religion provides answers to this question, as does Science, but they don't exhaust a
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A lot of people have pointed out how real depression makes it difficult to do the very things that would help alleviate it. In some cases, medication can be the crucial tool that helps you escape this cycle. At the same time, I have mixed f
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Exactly... the mythos of the "depressed artist" is a joke; if you're truly depressed, it's almost impossible to create. The light within you is extinguished. I suspect a lot of "depressed artists" are actually
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> realizing that you have to just do whatever you have to do, simply because it's the right thing to do, regardless of your emotions, or how intense they are, or lack of them. Right, but how do you figure out what the "right th
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Very refreshing to see positive coverage of responsible psychedelic use. Just earlier today I was reading an interesting NYTimes article on Ayelet Waldman's use of microdosing to treat her mood issues: http://www.nytimes.com
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"Put another way, this is the premise that the mind arises out of ordinary physics... If you are very religious, you might believe that a brain is not possible without a soul. But for most of us, this is an easy premise to accept.&quot
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You're right that it's already usable, but it could be even better. For example: 1) Making it easier to compose Tweetstorms (third-party services like WriteRack exist, but it would be nice to have official support). 2) Enhancing t
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I've been saying this for a little while now: Twitter should really try to capitalize on Tweetstorms. What they don't seem to realize is that Tweetstorms enable Twitter to be a kind of inverse annotation platform. Most annotation
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Your definition of dependence seems to assume there is harm involved, but I can think of a lot of dependencies that are either beneficial or neutral. Are you referring specifically to psychological dependence, as opposed to physical depende
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> It's all motivation. Addictions are a way to deal with deep-seated and excessive shame, guilt, fears, hopelessness, despair, and loneliness. If that's why you take a drug, you're only hurting yourself by not seeking help
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Okay, but why not?
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> Addiction is self-medication of excessive pain Well if you're going through excessive pain, self-medication sounds like a pretty reasonable response. What are you going to do, just suffer it? Therapy is nice but it doesn't so
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"Addiction" is a very tricky concept... Wikipedia defines it as "compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences". But what if the person engaging in the behavior doesn't mind the adverse co
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"They can't. Please send my prize money to..."
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> Every single psychiatrist I've ever visited had the same policy, only their lock was medicine rather than a door (outpatient vs inpatient). I'm confused, are you complaining about psychiatrists forcing medication on people? I
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> I find this experiment a bit strange/disturbing, avoiding political subjects is a way of putting the head in the sand. This community already has its head in the sand. Political topics are flagged to oblivion, and even those that
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Thank you. I really need to read that book.
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Because he's talking like he thinks the study is a scam to pave the way for legalization of psychedelics, and he does this by comparing it to the legalization of marijuana. This goes against my worldview for multiple reasons: 1) Psyche
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> Some medical professionals held the studies at arm’s length. Dr. William Breitbart, chairman of the psychiatry department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, questioned this use of cancer patients. “Medical marijuana got its foo
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> just like selling heroin in stores did in the early 1900s Does anyone have a good resource for reading about what actually happened when they sold heroin in stores? Statistics about addiction, anecdotal reports, etc.
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> the only real consequences of deciding that we are part of a greater conscious system are going to be philosophical I think the question of consciousness is critical in at least one domain: the question of whether or not consciousness
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Are you categorically opposed to punishing people for political opinions, or is it a matter of crossing a certain threshold? For instance, what if Trump had openly advocated putting Muslims in "internment camps" and Thiel had dona
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Thanks!
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Shameless plug: if you're interested in crowdsourcing, check out my subreddit AskOuija ( https://reddit.com/r/AskOuija ). It's a platform for linguistic collaboration at the most granular level possible: indivi
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I don't know if I've ever seen #1 given as advice, at least around these parts... very contrarian! I like it.
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> Sure you do. Then why is commenting closed? From the post: > All this said, we're still learning. So we would like to better understand your use cases for setting autocomplete=off. To have that conversation in a more focused ma
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> Therefore whether you re-throw the error or squash it depends on whether another 'reject' function will be there to squash it further down the chain etc. Does it matter if another 'reject' function is there to squas
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I feel like something clicked for me once I realized that all functions in Elm are curried by default. Cool feature.

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