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by podgaj 5y ago
Dr. John Campbell posted a video that was "fact checked" by facebook which he calmly dismantles in the video below. Facebook puts up a big warning if you see it or post it. Soft censorship is still censorship. https://w
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Hold on, science never ends, amiright? I want to focus on this article: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/pfizer-new-covid-19-proteas... Where they conclude: "Spoiler alert: Ivermectin does inhibit the same protease tha
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> Lack of credentials doesn't mean lack of knowledge, but their presence is at least some signal. Why not just hear what I say on the merits? Think about it on your own? >the culture is rooted in misery and suffering. Misery and
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Because if that stuff helps them they do not have depression, but they are experiencing sadness. They are not the same but everyone in this thread is treating it the same. We should not be pathologizing sadness. https://www.healt
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Yes. I have schizoaffective bipolar disorder, surviving with it for 45 years. 20 plus years of therapy as well. To say I have no credentials is an immature way to evaluate the knowledge of others and us a logical fallacy. For the last 10 ye
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It was not a trick, it was a deep understanding that changed me permanently.
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It’s not about desire. It’s about acceptance. You don’t desire to be in it or out of it, you accept it and understand it. What I’m getting at I can’t really describe in words because it’s more of an experience. But for people who have depre
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I don’t love it in a way that I crave it. I love It’s because it is. It’s a total acceptance. It can come and go out of my life and I don’t care. It’s just depression. I am not depressed, there is depression. And I wanna make the clear dist
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I’m qualified to comment on it because I am a human, and it’s a human condition.
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I’m not blaming them down your throat I’m having a discussion about them. Did you ever think for a moment that you were wrong? I’ve been going to therapists for 20 years, I’ve suffered mental illness for 45 years. If you met you had a psych
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by podgaj 5y ago
Being sad is like being depressed, but the causes are different. That’s what’s important. And if you were diagnosed by a “nurse” as clinically depressed I would say you are probably suffering from situational depression, or sadness in other
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by podgaj 5y ago
We have come a long way since 2009: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10898... What Sapolsky was talking about was correct, but the fundamental driver seems to be oxidative stress im
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I agree. People here are not even making a distinction between sadness and depression. And we need more talk about oxidative stress and mood disorders. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964745/
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by podgaj 5y ago
> I was depressed for years due to two things: a bad relationship and bad jobs. That is sadness, not depression. It is a mistake so many people are making in this thread. COVID lockdown made you sad, not depressed. https://www
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by podgaj 5y ago
> "Pessimists, on average, are probably smarter than optimists. They're also poorer." This is only true, I feel, under capitalism. Pessimism saves lives when you are living close to nature. Only the positive idiot does not
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by podgaj 5y ago
I wonder why they didn’t try these things with me before the suggested electro shock therapy? In other words, please stop. To people with depression this is an insult.
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> you are the chemicals Yes, conciseness is an hallucination, that is why they will never be able to discover what it is. People never like to hear they are controlled by chemicals since it makes trash of the notion of free will.
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by podgaj 5y ago
> Depression lies to you. And, once you live with it long enough, you know it lies to you. This is why people with depression suffer, because they do not want to see the truth depression unveils. So they fight and fight and fight. Can yo
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by podgaj 5y ago
And to this point, why do we fear depression so much? Why is it not something to welcome instead of fighting and trying to control? Maybe the fighting is what is causing the problem? I will tell you when I ended my battle with depression, m
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> depression is a flatland, yet even within it there are small tiny windows of light that can be noticed and built on. Nothing but toxic positivity. I have depression and three suicide attempts. What stops me now? Not caring if I am depr
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by podgaj 5y ago
NOTE: I have Schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder, Aspergers, hospitalized five times, with three suicide attempts. This will sound ranty because, uhm, I am in a different state of consciousness. I also consider myself a Shaman by heritage, not
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It is usually only when you wake up from a dream when you find out it was only a dream. You are making the mistake, as many do, of assuming that the illusion is not real. The illusion is real, but the ego, which is created by the illusion,
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Here is a series of writings on this from a series of Buddhist writers that might fit the audience a bit better: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel202...
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You should read "I am a Strange Loop". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop But it is an assumption that the body is aware of itself. That is part of the same illusion. When you dream, does that
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by podgaj 5y ago
Any Buddhist or Daoist will tell you the self is an illusion. Not that it does not exist, but that it is not self. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anattā#No_denial_of_self All we are is a bundle of our six senses (the 6t
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Several things can trigger calcium channel activity. One of them is Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21774
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> "all animals are under stringent selection pressure to be as stupid as they can get away with". Thanks for that quote. So maybe that is what humanity is doing by offloading our intelligence to machines, making ourselves stupi
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You can give yourself Bipolar Disoder... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2735813/ It's a blessing and a curse.
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I do not understand this obsession people have with ranking the "smartness" of animals. Each animals has the intelligence it needs to survive in the niche it lives in. Each is as smart as it needs to be. You say a Corvidae is smar
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I will admit what I am about to say is more philosophical, and it might not be directly to your point, but hear me out. There might be an innate rationality in other animals that you are dismissing or overlooking. We all know that when a bi

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