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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> Not everyone is a fan of prescription anti-anxiety, antidepressant, or antipsychotic medication (or their side effects, especially). Lots of people go along with the "professional's" prescription, not knowing that these
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Thanks for commenting here, and for your link. She's had plenty of experiences with psychedelics (including bad trips), so I don't know that it'd be appropriate for her individual needs at this time. Right now she's gott
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
>> Anti-psychotics (and benzodiazepines) are bad drugs that make people's mental problems worse. > This is not true. Many people are able to live high functioning lives thanks to anti-psychotics, which are sophisticated drugs
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> but they still might be in prison for robbing CVS to feed their addiction. Drugs are very cheap. 'Society' could easily afford to provide drugs for addicts, so they wouldn't have to advocate drug use to their non-addict
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In many ways Alcohol is worse than all the 'illegal' plant-based substances that people use to self-medicate. When I met a new friend, I said to myself 'this woman is high as a kite', because she fluttered from topic to
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> Thank you for this link. this seems right up my alley - I'm trying to avoid being an uninformed critic. You're welcome, thanks for responding. > i've had bad experiences in my life with psychiatry, been in and out of
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Robert Whitaker [1] has looked into the "mental health" industry, and proposes that today's patients do worse on their medications than their unmedicated predecessors. It used to be that people had "episodes", now t
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The problem with Psychiatry is that it treats symptoms, not causes. The hope represented by this article is that by catching symptoms earlier, or by better pinpointing linguistic markers, vulnerable patients can be treated earlier with more
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Several good points in this article, thanks for the link. I think that psychosis is a symptom of exhaustion. It's never appropriate to treat exhaustion with sedatives ("anti-psychotics"). I posted about this yesterday: https
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hi, thanks for your comment. > Getting into a mess by yourself is easy, getting out is really hard. This is well-said. > I think we need the notion of "mental injury" instead of mental illness. It's more like a broken l
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Thanks for your supportive comment. I've learned a lot over the past year and a half... As I've said elsewhere, she was doing quite well until the system got its tentacles onto her, and I can't allow them to wreck her like th
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The main observation was "cocaine use". The inference was that this drug had damaged her mitochondria. She'd turn into an anorexic, and become more psychotic. I'd feed her, and she'd get better. It seems to me that
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I know scientists mean well, but there is something rotten at the core of conventional psychiatric practice. Sometimes people are helped, but there's a lot of "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again," where the ps
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I'm pretty sure there is some amount of B-vitamins in coffee, and some other useful substances. When you're locked up in a mental hospital you're mostly helpless to do anything for yourself. The food is usually pretty bad...
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> Again, I understand that cocaine causes such damage, but my question pertains to how you evaluated her specific case. She invited me into her world a little at a time. As the months went buy, I observed her buy and smoke a lot of crack
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What is your motivation for defending the status quo? My goal for posting was to point out that existing mental health treatments don't work, and that there are promising developments that point to a better model. I didn't share a
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> Thank you very much for taking the time to write these comments. You're welcome, thanks for the feedback. The only thing my girlfriend can do for herself while in the mental hospital is eat sugar for the stress response and caffei
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There is a lot of technical debt in treating thyroid problems too. T4 needs to be converted to T3 to stimulate the metabolism; most of this conversion happens in the liver. If the patient's liver doesn't work very well (because sh
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In June some scientists in Australia published their paper that links an inability to produce cortisol to psychosis: https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2016/june/stress-hormon... Cortisol is produced f
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You can read the full paper if you click on the 'DOI' link at the bottom, which takes you to this page: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/08/18/bra...
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Justice is flimsy.
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> If you're doing anything interesting, there's a good chance that you'll end up in a courtroom, either criminal or civil. Funny you put it that way... I made this account to tell about the time I tried to protect my girlf
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A nurse assistant at the mental hospital told me how none of their patients have a normal temperature - they're all 96 or 97 degrees. That's quite a clue to one of the causes of mental problems. I'm curious about the interven
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If Psychiatry wants to "turn itself around", it needs to do some house cleaning. In a recent "skeptic" magazine [1], Harriet Hall, M.D. had this to say about the situation: "Psychotropic drugs are far from ideal. Th
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Last week I posted a section [1] from Robert Whitaker's book Anatomy of an Epidemic about how Scientology was probably used to deflect attention from the ineffectiveness of commonly used drugs. [1] https://news.ycombinator
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The idea that addiction is a disease was reinforced by decades of trying to help people with strategies that don't work. ... Pellagra is only cured with Vitamin B3; scurvy is only cured with Vitamin C. Treating diseases of nutritional
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> For the field of schizophrenia research, and for psychiatry more broadly, this opens the possibility that new technology can aid in prognosis and diagnosis of severe mental disorders, and track treatment response. For mental health pat
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Getting rid of pastries also gets rid of a lot of soybean oil. Because of the holy war against fructose, it is easy for them to interpret the results of their study as confirming their assumptions.
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> Why are you afraid of rational discussion? There are no rational discussions, there are only echo chambers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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"Science" tries to present itself as unified, but everyone has a unique perspective. It would be nice if the people at the top of the science world would acknowledge that weeds have become resistant to roundup, that they will rapi

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