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by tcj_phx 10y ago
When I last went laptop shopping, my choices came down to a Dell with a DVD drive, or an HP with a backlit keyboard. I went with the HP, and have been pretty happy. I like that the backlight on this line's keyboards is red, which disru
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
I make an effort to a avoid foods made with biodiesel, as I am of the opinion that deodorized polyunsaturated oils are not appropriate for human consumption. If I'm sort of lazy, I'll eat something made with palm oil, even though
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
I've used my own variant of the heat method: http://www.newmalecontraception.org/heat-methods/ I verified with a microscope - the amscope 150 (iirc) was not quite $100 with some slides. I should have bought the m
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
Thanks for that link - the subject has been on my mind for a while. > It's still really messy and I haven't heard anything new in 3 years There is some very good-but-old research into reproductive physiology. There is quite a g
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
As I read along, I found myself hoping that the author of this piece would talk about psychiatric drugs, and then... boom! > Mental-Illness Over-Medication > Mental-health care suffers from similar problems. Over the last few decades,
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
Crazy people are hard to deal with. The mental health profession doesn't really care why people are in its care, it just treats the symptoms with FDA-approved drugs. Because the patients never get better, there is an ever-expanding nee
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
My experience as an observer of the mental health system is that it's a complete disaster. See my submissions & comments. If your app was combined with my "scrap & rebuild" of the System, it'd probably be quite u
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
This is a revision of my earlier idea, "Hacking Mental Health": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555863 ryporter helpfully pointed out, "Based on recent events surrounding drug prices, it takes a cong
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Apply HN: Mental Health for Hackers
3 points by tcj_phx 11y ago|1 comments
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
> I wouldn't even initiate due diligence unless you had already convinced a couple doctors or researchers from respected hospitals or universities that your company could succeed. There is much inertia in maintaining the status quo
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
Thanks for your comments. One of my goals is to "falsify" the current approach to mental health. It shouldn't take much to embarrass the medical system into fixing itself. Before this case, I had another who was a hopeless al
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
Thanks for your comments, and your encouragement. My girlfriend represents an extreme case. Most people don't get stuck in a well, they fall into ruts. There are many possible ways to get out of a rut, but only one way out of a well. M
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
When describing the process of getting someone involuntarily committed to be evaluated for court-ordered treatment, the engineer at my graphite manufacturer said “Really, you can do that? … I’m going today.” One of his old friends has been
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Apply HN: Hacking Mental Health
4 points by tcj_phx 11y ago|7 comments
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
It'd be nice if HN let me know when someone responds to my comments, though there are 3rd party tools for this purpose. Otherwise I'm not exactly sure what you mean.
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
Sometimes I have something to say that I think people will find helpful. Sometimes people reply to my comments with useful information. Feedback is important for everyone.
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
Justice is flimsy, punishment is gratuitous.
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
> It's not known to me whether this is the theoretical purpose of psychiatry The fringe of the mental health profession objects to treating people’s symptoms as if they are the problem. The mainstream has standardized on a perverse
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
When reading this piece, it's important to keep in mind that psychiatry diagnoses symptoms, not causes. > During my hospitalization, I was diagnosed with "Bipolar Affective Disorder with Psychosis", ... which was caused b
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
My girlfriend intended to suicide herself in December 2014. This was a few months before she met me in March 2015. She's mostly better now. There are reasons that people feel depressed. American psychiatry does not treat causes, it exp
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
My attorney said that we have 3 cases: my criminal case (misdemeanor charges - trial is next week), my civil case against the hospital (false imprisonment), and my girlfriend's malpractice case. The industry is partially protected by &
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
Wow, thanks for the link! Something that was lost in the trimming (to fit in 2000 characters) was that my girlfriend is doing pretty well now, because I've figured enough out to make a difference.
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
Much of what I'd intended to submit didn't fit in HN's 2000-character limit. A lot of it was about my girlfriend's hospitalizations, and how they haven't helped at all. Here's the link to my original post: htt
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Ask HN: I hacked the mental health industry now what?
2 points by tcj_phx 11y ago|5 comments
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The article says the low-fat diet was 10% saturated. What type of fats were used in the high-fat diet?
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
"This small book is divided into three parts. And it is with regard to the first part that I join a very long list of those who have seen and experienced things they cannot prove happened." I went to Mr. Swann's Las Vegas tal
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
Your link seems to make a case for SSRIs causing learned helplessness. It's been 17 years since this article was written, and the profession is still working on fixing itself. "Hmm." Thanks for the link!
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
This section is particularly useful to me: http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#mentalhealth Thanks!
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The original paper has this quote: "But cocaine makes the housekeeper throw away really important things, like mitochondria, which produce energy for the cell." - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01
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by tcj_phx 11y ago
> If sugar industry efforts skewed research about sugar’s harmful health effects, then national and international guidelines about sugar consumption are, in fact, based on flawed science. Ancel Keys' holy-war against saturated fat w

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