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by tcj_phx 10y ago
There are lots of useless and harmful "treatments" in Medicine. Most of the evidence shows that patients given psychiatric drugs almost universally have a poor long-term prognosis.
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> (b) Lots of psychiatric drugs are hideous. The side effect profiles of anti-psychotics are such that being schizophrenic can look fine. The ironic thing about "anti-psychotics" is that they worsen the conditions they supposed
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The CCHR has to be considered in context. Robert Whitaker's book, Anatomy of an Epidemic [1], makes the case that Scientologists were used by the drug companies to deflect criticism of the mass use of ineffective drugs: THE CRITI
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> Which raises the question: which is better, to be noticed by the authorities, or to have your episode of mania / psychosis, and then return to your (slightly more?) centre way of being? I tried to protect my girlfriend from the me
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> Consider the recent bone broth craze, for example. Broths made with cartilage and bone are much more nutritious than muscle proteins. Humans have traditionally eaten as much of the animal as they could, for efficiency. Incorporating th
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I have tried to play some of the old games that I used to spend hours on - most of them are very slow. But my cousin got Herzog Zwei (1989, Sega Genesis) working on an emulator, and we have a little duel when I visit. Best game ever. :) ht
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> But when I stopped taking my drugs, I was basically nonfunctional for months. The body adjusts to compensate for the activity of the drug in the body, so the original problem frequently gets worse if the drug is taken away suddenly. Th
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The government has probably spent $150,000 to $200,000 hurting my girlfriend since last September. She's less functional now, on psychiatric drugs, than she was over the 2015 labor day weekend (when she decided to quit using the street
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> My personal impression is that the rise of mental conditions is an increase in diagnosis, not occurrence. Robert Whitaker [1] has looked into the matter, and proposes that standard treatments take an episodic disease and make it chroni
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> For those who suffer from acute, short-term anxiety over a specific event, for example an exam or an interview, beta blockers such as propranolol can be really helpful - as I understand it they interrupt the fight-or-flight adrenaline
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
Healthcare is corrupted by the influence of industry. There is a very good article on http://www.mises.org called "100 years of medical robbery" that covers how the status quo of medical thought was established. There
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Interesting... Big tobacco contaminates their cigarettes with ammonium to speed up the delivery of nicotine to the body. I would be interested in using one of these breath analyzers on my girlfriend.
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
Arizona voters approved an initiative in 1996 to keep low-level drug criminals out of jail. I believe this was the first effort to tone down the war on drugs. http://staugustine.com/stories/102100/nat_1021000023.sh
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
I used to always sleep on my back. About 6 years ago I tried to switch to sleeping on my stomach, but I'd wake up with a very stiff neck. Last year I saw some research that suggests side-sleeping helps improve the circulation in the he
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
AFAIK, there are no long-term (30+ year) studies comparing women who have never-used, briefly-used, and long-term-used hormonal drugs to suppress their menstrual cycle. The Women's Health Initiative found that prescription horse piss (
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> but we eventually found one that has worked for nearly a decade, with no issues. Surely you'd agree that fixing the cause of ovarian cysts would be better than putting women on maintenance medication? > Reddit (or any other fo
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> I know this is anecdata, but I know two different young healthy women who suffered strokes or Deep Vein Thrombosis before the age of thirty because of Yaz. (Both fully recovered, thank God, but will never be able to take hormonal pills
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
There is a problem with birth control that the media doesn't like to talk about. While millions of women take birth control, almost all of them eventually (or immediately) hate the side effects. So most women take these awful drugs onl
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> However, having bipolar can cause a susceptibility to psychotic incidents and requires different treatments than depression. All her psychotic incidents were self-induced with substances. Whatever label gets applied, I suspect one of t
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> Right now our approach to these issues is like trying to tune a malfunctioning jet engine without any knowledge of how it works and experimenting via trial and error by dumping liquid oxygen or coal dust into the intake. That's a
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> from my personal observation I have to wonder whether those drugs actually help more than they hurt, on average. From my own personal observations, I am certain these drugs do a lot of damage. I've managed to get my girlfriend sta
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This and other articles blames the recession for decreased fertility, but I think it's more likely that the health of young women is getting worse. Unhealthy women have a much harder time getting knocked up. I have a friend who was put
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> Eat a variety of food and try to avoid as much processed food as possible. "Vegetable oil" is the most processed of all food ingredients. Almost all cheap vegetable oils are extracted with solvents (Hexane) and steam-treated
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> The overall result is that there are a bunch of people shouting "less salt!" and a bunch of people shouting "the same amount of salt!" and no one has any model of how much salt they actually need, so they occasional
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From my position as an observer of someone who has struggled with substances for a long time, Amphetamines are the worst of that list. My friend recovers from Alcohol and cocaine fairly quickly once she stops taking them. Cannabis (CBD, spe
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> HRT with estrogen and progesterone has been long considered to have anti-aging effects; results of larger studies though, particularly of the Women’s Health Initiative, have shown that an anti-aging effect is not necessarily to be expe
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> There have been studies showing that amphetamine leads to definitive cognitive improvement in the general population. Stimulants cause people to become psychotic. Some are more vulnerable to this effect than others. https://
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
This study is an example of "missing the forest for the trees". One of the most promising avenue of investigation for this group of conditions is the connection with inflammation [1]. [1] https://www.google.com/#q=
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
Phoenix's sky train connects to the east economy parking lot, before continuing to the light rail. Wikipedia says it's being extended to the rental car center on the west side of the airport. When this is finished, they won't
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Justice is flimsy, punishment is gratuitous.

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