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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Please. Give us your plan for relief of suffering "First, do no harm". Stop the dehumanization and torture that goes on in many mental institutions: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/29
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Is a mental illness diagnosis (i.e. schizophrenia) + a subjective pre-crime judgement + some signatures not the prerequisites for a 5150?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I'd love to be drill a hole in your well-protected cranium and stick a needle in your brain to obtain a sample to diagnose major depression, schizophrenia, or PTSD. Just a small sample, ok?. Let me know if you're ok with that
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
1. You can murder your spouse with an STI. Mental illness do not necessitate murder. 2. It is the opinion on the behavior as being good or bad that is subjective
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Quarantine is much rarer than psychiatric commitment, and is based on objective science.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
1. Psychiatry is not bound to the medical ethic of patient autonomy. Medical doctors cannot lock someone in a cell and forcibly drug them because they have an STI. 2. Psychiatric illnesses are defined based on "fallible subjective judg
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
And yet they are not bound to the same medical code of ethics or the same degree of objective science that all other medical doctors are.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
> please don't confuse badly trained psychologists and the pharma industry trying to pump you full of drugs and nutritional supplements, with the science of psychiatry. 69% of psychiatrists defining mental illnesses and their treatm
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Imagine you see a squadron of fighter jets flying in above in the sky. Then, one of the jets inexplicably breaks formation and flies off by itself. How do you know which group is on the right course? It could be that the supposedly "ro
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Don't most people only have real social relationships with a few hundred people or less?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Assuming the number of $ initialized remains constant, wouldn't all of the money end up in with a single player leaving all other players in perpetual debt? Since the money required to pay the interest is never created, this would crea
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Given how much we've learned about the role of the brain in mental illness, many people are surprised to learn that we can't know what psychiatric diagnosis a person has—or even if the person has any diagnosis—by examining tha
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>However, the ancap vision of no government and everything done by "voluntary" contract has no meaningful basis in reality at this point What about tribal societies?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Then why not live somewhere else?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Agreed. You shouldnt need a diagnosis to take a day off work
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>if you don't think mental illnesses subside in molecules and physical structures in the brain, where exactly do you think they come from? No ones knows for sure because no one can objectively explain the nature of consciousness and
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>it's not feasible to haphazardly take biopsies of the brain to test for them It is feasible post mortem but scientists still have no conslusive proof from such examinations. >Conversely, my point still stands that the vast major
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>patient self-survey is just as objective as any other test. Subjective: based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. Objective: (of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in co
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>fibromyalgia, IBS, CFS There are objective tests for all of these pathologies, though those tests are often inconclusive in the face of the symptoms. >If you don't think there's a physical basis for mental illnesses though
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Do you have a source for these claims? Because the DSM-5 says otherwise >Diagnosis is based on observed behavior, the person's reported experiences, and reports of others familiar with the person...As of 2013 there is no objective t
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
That is because pain is not a disease, it is a subjective experience (or symptom) generated by the nervous system.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>some psychiatric conditions have lab tests of the same sort available. Which ones? "psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests" -Allen Frances https:
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>We are in a knowledge economy. Our jobs require us to execute at peak mental performance. When an athlete is injured they sit on the bench and recover. Let’s get rid of the idea that somehow the brain is different.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Medically speaking a mental illness is no different than a physical illness. I am a proponent of taking time off for mental health, but I have to nitpick here. Medically speaking, physical illness is different from mental illness. One
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Define "magic". If we cannot understand something, does that make it magic? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Read books on body language. https://www.amazon.com/Emotions-Revealed-Recognizing-Communi... https://www.amazon.com/Unmasking-Social-Engineer-Element-Sec...
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Is admitting that we do not know so uncomfortable that you must invent fairy tale strawman arguments to cover up our ignorance? Hubris is the antithesis of science.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Quantum physics has thrown a wrench into the 17th century Newtonian theory of the universe being totally mechanical, like a game of billiards.
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>everything that is part of our universe is governed by physics. Roughly 68% of the observable universe cannot be explained by physics ("dark matter").
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The alternative, according to the scientific method is: "We don't know"

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