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by tcj_phx 5y ago
The original title of this link is “She was headed to a locked psych ward. Then an ER doctor made a startling discovery”, which doesn’t describe the article very well. My substitute title attempts to capture the essence of the piece. I noti
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Report about a case of hydrocephalus mistaken for 'mental illness'(washingtonpost.com)
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
Good essay, though it's a little tilted towards the 'medical model' of mental health treatment. I appreciate the 'insight from epidemiology': "Health care itself explains only a small fraction of health outcome
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
One of these cream whippers came into my hands recently. It came with a box of 10 chargers, where 1 was missing. I speculate the owner used their new cream whipper once and decided it was too much work to clean. After ~20 years they gave it
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
Another submission on this news item is getting a little more traction. I posted there about how tobacco does have some medicinal properties: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29499292
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
Tobacco does have medicinal properties. For example, many psychiatric patients smoke a lot [0]. I propose they use nicotine to counter-act some of the terrible drugs they're forced to take. [0] https://slatestarcodex.com&#x2
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
Blackstone published his Ratio in 1760's England: It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. According to wikipedia, the sentiment expressed is much older than Blackstone: https://en
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
I have the paperwork from my friend's 2015 mental hospitalization. The doctors both said, essentially, "patient expects us to believe that she was psychotic because she'd been drinking 2 bottles of liquor a day, and using coc
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
There are always causes behind the symptom of "psychosis". People commonly develop metabolic problems. My "crazy" friend was doing okay, back in July [ref: my comment history]. I watched her open a bottle of sugar free e
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
> Is the 14th Amendment really written in such a way that you can justify just about anything with it? The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution are known as the Reconstruction amendments. They were passed in t
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
Thanks for the questions. Sorry for the long answer. :) I like to experiment. I'm currently the only subject who's willing to sign up for my experiments. I was married once. She was a little off her rocker, I didn't want her
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
Low sperm counts are a big problem for sub-fertile couples, because it really does take 'millions' to get one to fertilize an egg. It's been about 5.5 years since I started sabotaging my fertility, using 'the old heat me
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
> "Lithium also makes you rock, if you take it long-term. My other friend called me up recently to tell me that she'd just bought supplemental lithium. She thought she was bipolar and needed more lithium. 12 hours later she cal
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
Thanks for your response. Sorry to hear about your GF's experience. "Sectioned"... .. . Mental Health Act -> you're in the U.K.? > she'll be taking the mood-stabiliser until she dies "Mood stabiliser&quot
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
Thanks for your comment. I don't have a success story yet, but I'm optimistic. I've learned a lot, and hope to leverage my 'trial by fire' to help others. > Carl C Pfeiffer Pfeiffer "considered himself a fou
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by tcj_phx 5y ago
All this study says is that stressed teenagers who don't know how to cope become stressed adults who don't know how to cope. People display more psychotic attributes when they don't have the resiliency associated with being a
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
Stimulants -- amphetamines, cocaine, etc -- have physiological effects sort-of similar to Mono Amine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOI). MAOIs were sold as the first generation of anti-depressant drugs. These substances have mood-elevating benefits
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
I agree that taking action is very important for fixing problems. Managing emotional stress is an important part of maintaining a pregnancy. My sister-in-law was also doing other therapeutic interventions. I think the final piece of her puz
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
My brother recently had his first kid... I think it was 4-6 years of 'trying'. His wife got pregnant the month after she had her IUD pulled, but miscarried in the first trimester. I think she had at least two or three more miscarr
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
> why demonise it? ECT is a palliative treatment that does not address any of the causes of the patients' actual problems. While some patients seem to benefit, some are grievously harmed. The precautionary principle, and ethical gui
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
The billing threshold was formerly $15/quarter; now it's $30. I don't have a CC stored on my account, and have never hit the threshold for them to mail/email me a bill. I think they asked for a CC, but I saw the option f
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
You can get most of the documents for popular cases from RECAP (mentioned in this story). RECAP has a browser extension that harvests documents when people pay for them with their own PACER accounts, and reposts them to their service [0]. A
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
>> Not sure how that can help poorer members of society, since most people are quite unlikely to be doing their own case law research anyway. Legal opinions are free, for pro-se case law research: https://scholar.google.com
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
I read something that compared cocaine's mood-lifting effects to those of the MAOI's. I remember it further said the MAOI's were generally safe for short-term use, unless you consumed certain types of fine cheese, and that th
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
What if your goal is to specifically suppress fertility [0]? Do you have a checkbox that says "I am making efforts to reduce my sperm count"? IME, it takes about 3 weeks of consistent effort to get one's swimmers to go away.
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
It's easy enough to make your own magnesium water, using magnesium hydroxide (as the laxative Milk of Magnesia) and carbonated water: http://www.afibbers.org/Wallerwater.pdf Milk of Magnesia is in every grocery store.
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
When a patient's symptoms are treated instead of the cause, most people will have subpar results. The SSRI Lexapro [0] helped my girlfriend relapse on cocaine, before i met her. Cocaine is a much stronger anti-depressant than the SSRI&
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by tcj_phx 6y ago
One of the ways that Prozac helps people is by increasing allopregnanolone in the brain [1]. This is a well-known effect of Prozac, and perhaps the other SSRI's. Allopregnanolone "is a neurosteroid and acts as a positive allosteri
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
Stress is a rather generic term. Emotional stress and biological stress are two ways of distinguishing different kinds of stress. Biological stress is not getting enough nutrients, having to deal with bacterial exotoxin/endotoxin [1] (
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
Niacinamide (a form of Vitamin B3) is supposed to be somewhat similar to nicotine, and supposedly helps with nicotine withdrawal. I think someone here at HN informed me that tobacco also has MAOI properties. Searching now turned up this lin

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