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by tcj_phx 7y ago
Deplin [0] is a patented prescription version of Vitamin B-9 aka L-Methylfolate. It's approved as an add-on treatment for when so-called antidepressants don't help with a person's symptoms. There's a genetic test that te
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
Stimulants have the adverse effect of harming the mitochondria/metabolism. Most conditions improve when the metabolism is normalized. B-vitamins are pro-metabolic. Sometimes doctors do good work. My girlfriend's doctors eventually
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
Thanks for commenting. The treatments I dismiss as 'palliative' are poor interventions when the patient's full circumstances are considered. For example, anti-psychotics are harmful for helping someone get their drinking unde
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
> Saying that scientists know most of the causes, is pure bs. A few years ago I caught a reference to a book originally published in 1956 and updated in the 1970's. My local state university's science library has a copy. It tal
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
> I wish people would stop saying online that SSRIs are a scam. Some people like their SSRI's, some people kill themselves soon after starting that class of drug [0] (presumably due to the serotonin syndrome [1]). > My life was s
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
The United States' mental health system feeds itself with its palliative approach. As bad as the system might have been 50 years ago, in Rosenhan's time, I'm sure it's much worse today, on account of 50 years of developm
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
I don't particularly care about the NBA, but I followed your link anyways, and came across this gem: > A recent study by WHOOP, a biometric device company with NBA clients, found what researchers called a "four-day hangover&quo
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
I’d gotten my partner’s microbes... After some searching I decided it was the male equivalent of BV. I’ve used various kinds of iodine on myself successfully, but I don’t have a vagina to experiment on. I’d like to experiment on my current
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
Some years ago I did some searching on scholar.google.com about bacterial vaginosis. While douching is generally discouraged as non-helpful at best or counter-productive at worst, I remember reading a study that found washing the vagina wit
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
> That, after all, is how we’ve ended up with anti vaxxers, a resurgence in largely cured infectious diseases, and many other medical and social ailments of our modern age (politics anyone?) Medicine is great when it works, but sometime
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
I really like your link [2]: > A dose-dependent relationship was found between smoking and protection from schizophrenia. This is really interesting. The study found smoking protects against schizophrenia. The blog author skewers later s
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
> Things like needle biopsy of the prostate can miss cancerous cells, unless you take 100 samples. biopsies can cause a stable tumor to metastasize [0]. Sometimes medical screenings are useful, but when you’re looking for problems and do
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
I remember the first time I used a specific industrial gas recreationally. I felt the arteries in my brain open up, and there was a sort of clarity that wasn't there before. Then the benefits faded into the background, and I now don&#x
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
My understanding of "the statin issue" is that in the 1970's drug companies found new chemicals to poison the liver's ability to manufacture cholesterol. They reasoned, "as cholseterol is a major part of the arterio
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by tcj_phx 7y ago
Most of the supposed "mental-health conditions" are manifestations of stress. There are two kinds of stress: biological and emotional. Biological stress is related to things like being malnourished and/or having hormonal imba
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
I recently went to a presentation by the Arizona Justice Project [0], an organization that works to free the wrongfully convicted. They said something about how the best way to do a lineup is to present photos one at a time, with no prompti
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
You've been a passive observer for a long time. Psychiatrists usually see their patients for a few minutes when they're at their worst, and have no perspective on how the patient actually does on a day-to-day basis. They haven&#x2
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Sometimes less treatment is better than more treatment. If your friend will let you go to his appointments, maybe you can advocate on your friend's behalf. If he's ordered to submit to involuntary mental health treatment, you can
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Your profile says you have some experience in the mental health world. > You can't cure psychosis with fucking coconut oil. The person I responded to said in a later comment that his psychosis was related to alcohol use. This being
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
> Very interesting, especially for someone which psychosis was alcohol induced My earlier comment about the reason some people find alcohol to be so seductive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14085230 > I avoid c
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Abilify is one of the least-bad of its class. But it doesn't address the metabolic problem that is at the root of psychosis. Coconut oil, niacin/niacinamide (vitamin B-3), and other pro-metabolic interventions help get at the actu
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
> In the course of a year, her doctors had created what’s known as “a prescription cascade”: the side effects of one medication are diagnosed as symptoms of another condition, leading to a succession of new prescriptions. This term, &quo
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
My girlfriend’s involuntary treatment providers decided to give her a benzodiazepine addiction, on top of the other non-helpful prescriptions they thought she needed. Initially the benzos helped her “anxiety”, but the effect wore off after
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
You don't have to be kept in an actual cage to feel trapped. This is one of the themes in Johann Hari's book about the drug war, Chasing the Scream . [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122637 The econ
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Excess lithium causes other problems: "A recently discovered environmental health problem of potential public health relevance is the presence of elevated concentrations of lithium in drinking water []. Lithium has been suggested to be
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
The quakers figured out that most people could recover from what are now called "psychotic breaks" by being put in a safe place ("asylum") and provided 4 meals a day [2]. Much of the current problems of Psychiatry stem f
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Mens rea - Latin for “guilty mind” - is the intention to commit a crime, and must be present for many types of prosecutions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
The so-called drug war is a great tragedy. It is unwinnable because we can't wage war against inanimate objects and expect to win. War-as-a-metaphor [1] is usually a bait-and-switch campaign: war on poverty, war on cancer, etc. Real wa
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
This reads like a condescending, "don't drink while pregnant, mkay?" (that's a southpark reference [0]). If the doctor wanted to be more helpful, she'd point out why alcohol is so seductive for people -- male or fem
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Last week I watched a video about Vitamin B1. The term Alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome [0] was mentioned. This form of vitamin B1 deficiency is experienced by some heavy drinkers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoho

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