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> Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN. Thanks for letting me know. I will send an email tomorrow.
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Psychiatric medications have a way of making people die before their time. Carrie Fisher: Bipolar Meds and Heart Disease - https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/12/carrie-fisher-bipolar-m... They got Robin Williams to
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Science libraries are fantastically helpful for tracking down the origins of error in scientific thinking. For example, the female doctor who gave PMS its name also gave a recommended treatment, though she admitted that it was uncertain why
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> Erm, manic depression as distinct from schizophrenia was basically established by Emil Kraepelin in the 1880s. The physiological basis for scihzophrenia wasn't figured out and ignored until the 1970's. > Dr. Whitaker could
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> "Mad in America" is obviously not willing to make a fuss of things like bipolar where people will take their lithium for decades and bear the side-effects [...] The creation and promotion of "Bipolar" as a DSM disor
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> This is more a site that advocates for a particular policy point of view than a site that neutrally reviews the latest methodologically careful research. Mad in America was the title of investigative journalist Robert Whitaker's
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Thanks for sharing your anecdata. I also replied to that comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13206356 > I think we see a lot more homelessness in that group of people than we should, because we basically trap t
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> Where is the data for the point about making psychotic chronic? The term for psychosis which is worsened by its treatment is Supersensitivity psychosis, or tardive psychosis [0]. I think it originated in the early 1980's. Whitaker
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> This is getting downvoted with no explanation, rude if you ask me; If I check my comments frequently enough I sometimes notice oscillations. That one was voted up once, then down twice, then I didn't check for a while. 2 people ha
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> places like CA attract homeless people from other places, because they have good services. California's winter weather is more survivable than most parts of the country. > Part of the problem is that the US doesnt have a good p
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The anti-opiate Naltrexone does something to the nerves that basically stops people from drinking. Gold is a treatment for... rheumatoid arthritis, iirc. When treating with gold, it's easy to cross the line from "enough" to &
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What state are you in? Laws vary... > and it's a travesty that there's no functioning mechanism to return their agency with things like mandated medication. My observation is that most of the commonly-used medications make the
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> I don't believe you get a court order for outpatient treatment as a result of being voluntarily admitted to a hospital. The hospital can "petition" you for court-ordered evaluation if they find an excuse. It happens all
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> But: acute mental health care happens for a pretty short period of time, and then, from what I can tell, "the State" gets completely out of the picture. This is not what I've observed. If you have a court order for outpa
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> and it has not been my experience with any of them that the State has come in at all, let alone refused to leave. My friend got trapped with a court order for treatment - see my comment history. Most of the drugs her psychiatrists for
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I listened to this as an audiobook. It has some good points, but the author assumes that all sugar, salt and fat are the same. Why does the holy war not also fight against flour? Against corn? Should it not distinguish between "vegetab
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It was a little shocking, but the firefighters did their job and it turned out fine. The police were dispatched too. The investigating officer decided they didn't need to make the problem worse, took the rest of her heroin, and everyon
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> I would also be curious to know how many of the dead also had alcohol and/or benzodiazepines in their systems, which dramatically increase respiratory depression in combination which each other and heroin/other opioids. I did
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Overdoses tend to happen when a person relapses, and doesn't realize their tolerances have changed. If you know someone who has a problem with opiates, the anti-opiate naloxone is very effective. It is now available without a prescript
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Starch molecules are chains of the simple sugar glucose. There is no difference between the glucose molecule in flour and the glucose molecule in cane sugar. Calorie for calorie, flour (100% glucose) provokes twice the insulin release of ta
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> Now I count him as a delusional and deluding self-promoter. I think there is probably a context to Linus Pauling's making an end-run around the medical-industrial complex of his day. My understanding is that the physiologists were
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Psychiatry in America is an ongoing "crime against humanity". The third world gets better results for their mental health patients because they can't afford the pharmaceutical industry's FDA-certified psychotropic medica
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The mental health system is broken because psychiatry was captured by the pharmaceutical industry in the 1980's. Robert Whitaker's book Anatomy of an Epidemic [1] examines how commonly-used drug treatments actually worsen patien
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> Well, without mentioning an agenda, stress causes heart disease. Stress impairs the body's ability to function optimally - think "fight or flight response" vs. "relaxation response" [1]. [1] https://
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The article is about Billionaires trying new approaches to medical research. My point was that more progress could be made by re-examining old assumptions. > So says the cardiology fellow… For the record, I was traveling when I wrote thi
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I can't match you on credentials or acronyms, but I'm pretty good at figuring out what matters for improving my own health. "Should cardiologists evaluate their obsession with LDLs and HDLs?" - http://www.kevi
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> Would you say "so says the cryptographer" to circumscribe something that `tptacek says about cryptography? The American Heart Association still promotes Ancel Keys' dietary philosophy, so everything they touch is tainted
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So says the cardiology fellow… One theory as to why statins have a small degree of influence is that they actually have an anti-inflammatory action. When my father talks with his patients, he finds many of them couldn't tolerate stati
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Medical science will make great progress when it's able to to challenge some of its basic assumptions. No single person did more damage to the progress of Medical Science than Ancel Keys [1]. Dr. Keys hypothesized that heart disease wa
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My thinking is that delirium is probably a symptom of impaired metabolism and/or malnourishment and/or insulin resistance. When a person's mitochondria can't make enough ATP to keep them going, sometimes they become deli

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