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by tcj_phx 8y ago
It's easy for people to make assumptions about others -- pattern matching is a survival skill. When people have assumptions made about them, sometimes they become self-fulfilling prophecies. The author of this essay, a black woman, lea
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The opposite side of Dunning-Kruger's coin is that "competent students tended to underestimate their own competence" [0]. I have no idea where I fall on the spectrum, I just try to be observant. I read books, and check refere
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Mad in America makes reference to an approach to psychosis from Finland called "open dialogue". http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Effective/OpenDialogu... It was recently re-established that
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> My best friend's father is a paranoid schizophrenic. Antipsychotic medication allows him to live a relatively normal life. How do you know that it's the medication that allows him to "live a relatively normal life",
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I find it ironic that this article is posted on a website aimed at the mental health industry. The actual challenge faced by mental health practitioners is with the futility of their approach. I met a young man (early 20's) who'd
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This is a good article, if a little long. I mostly skimmed the sections on specific classes of medications. There are two quotes that I especially want to 'bookmark' with a comment here. This was on medicating "schizophrenics
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"Stress" experienced by people who are traumatized (fresh trauma or PTSD) has effects on the physical body. There are some good prescriptions that can help with the biological effects of stress: MAOI's [0], various supplement
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> “As in the earlier run-up in drug spending, we’re largely uncritical of the price-value trade-off for drugs in the U.S.,” said Michelle Mello, a health law scholar at Stanford. “Though we pay high prices for some drugs of high value,
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> Sadly, the Chinese government has less incentive to let the poor survive. It’s a cold, heartless form of population control. [...] I have some friends who lived in Canada for a while. They said the Canadian medical system doesn't
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> That's literally the opposite of what happens: Patent-expired drugs can be made more cheaply, and become more popular, precisely because there's no patent holder exerting a pressure to keep prices up. The parents who got ripp
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> ECT is very useful for some things: ECT's cheerleaders promote their machines. The ECT-resistance claims there is considerable evidence against the use of electrically-induced brain damage [0]. Who am I to believe? I'm biased
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> Often times "intervention" means some heavy life debilitating medication. Lobotomies and electro-shock "therapy" didn't cure patients, they just made patients more manageable. The tranquilizers (later rebranded
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> but why methamphetamine? [...] Why risk your health when amphetamines and Adderall are just as good? The phenomenon is called the "iron law of prohibition" [0]: The iron law of prohibition is a term coined by Richard C
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This is a fascinating article. I'd run across the term jailhouse lawyer in my readings about habeas corpus. The law and courts have long recognized that some people aren't capable of writing their own petitions for relief, and nee
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Feminists were making progress figuring out how to take charge of women’s fertility. The availability of prescription birth control shut down progress in this arena for generations. Senator Nelson called the Nelson Pill Hearings to figure o
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Cocaine is a sort of anti-depressant. When used as unrefined coca leaf, it's relatively safe. Three Catholic Popes have partaken of coca leaf tea on visits to South America [0] -- it helps people deal with altitude sickness while they
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Otto Warburg figured out a lot about cancer. Unfortunately he was a jew in Nazi Germany, and his insights were mostly forgotten when the “bad genes” theory of cancer took hold of the medical profession. There was a semi-recent NY Times arti
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The mental disorders are better understood as manifestations of “stress”. Epigenetics > genetics. My one friend’s dad was diagnosed as schizophrenic. His original problem was he fell out of a tree and broke his back. The medications only
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I voted down throwaway8879's comment below, then I noticed they had a more substantial comment in an earlier submission of this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18037552 From throwaway8879's earlier comm
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> Third, they do not show the direction of causality. It’s easy to imagine how a life lived with schizophrenia could substantially increase your risk of inflammation. Schizophrenia is a manifestation of "stress" (infections&#x2
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A very important factor for helping people with addiction is considering its context. Gabor Maté says in In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts [0] that nearly 100% of his most-hopeless addict-patients had experienced some sort of adverse childhoo
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> I've never seen a doctor in the field ever recommend any of these, [...]. There is a disconnect between what we know and what is practiced. The disconnect has been present since the 1800's (ref: Mad in America [0]), where the
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Methylene blue is also an monoamine oxidase inhibitor. I add it to my dog’s food to boost her metabolism. She blew her knee out a year ago (common injury for large 10yo dogs) but has mostly recovered without the surgery the vet said she’d p
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This article repeats several myths with regards to mental health treatment. While I believe that the treatment providers truly believe they are helping their patients, any objective evaluation of the current medication-based standard of car
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Stimulants shred the cells' mitochondria. Psychosis is a metabolic problem.
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> Perhaps a similar solution should be added to birth control to continue the natural production of progesterone? There are very effective ways for couples to deal with the fertility problem (edit: that don't involve chemical castra
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Fake-progesterone tricks the body into reducing its own production of Progesterone USP. Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (Provera, typically injected as Depo-Provera for 3-months of chemical sterility for otherwise-healthy young women) is a very
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Something important about hormones, that this article completely avoids, is how the pharmaceutical industry abuses the actual findings of science to sell products. A British doctor, Katharina Dalton, noticed that her monthly miseries went a
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Thanks for sharing your experiences, and your success with self-experimentation. It's tragic that a similar protocol is not a first-line treatment for so-called "mental illness" (a term which should be entirely discarded [edi
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> People at risk of developing psychosis Psychosis is an episodic condition caused by metabolic failure. Contributing factors include malnourishment, alcohol withdrawal, chronic stress, certain prescription and OTC drugs, street drugs, e

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