tcj_phx

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by tcj_phx 10mo ago
"Institutional inertia" is a great term, thanks. > I've tried 19 antidepressants over about 15 years. Stuck with mirtazapene [...] Have you tried any anti-serotonin interventions? (chatbot in comment link below) Mirtazapen
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by tcj_phx 10mo ago
The SSRI's have always been terrible drugs. Apparently the trials before their approval found increased suicidality. Another response to this thread shared how his/her mother was given a "murderous impulse" with Prozac i
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by tcj_phx 10mo ago
Thanks for sharing your mom's experience with big pharma's then-new wonder-drug. > Somehow, I doubt there is much motivation to look for economically inconvenient and unnerving side-effects in some demographics, Robert Whitaker
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by tcj_phx 10mo ago
> > SSRIs never help because of boosting serotonin. > That's a hell of a claim, which could use some evidence. My experience with the chatbots is that they start with the conventional marketing tropes, but if you ask pointed q
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by tcj_phx 1y ago
In 2022 psychiatrist Chris Palmer MD [0] published Brain Energy [1], which shares his discovery of the 70+ years of science establishing that the behavioral/mental symptoms traditionally given 'psychiatric' labels are cause
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by tcj_phx 1y ago
The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded in 1847 to lobby for making competition to the Medical Doctors (M.D.) illegal. At the time, upstart approaches to medicine [0] did not believe bloodletting and calomel were effective medici
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
The most important line in this interview was at about 33:00: “The hardest thing is not having something meaningful to do in here”. https://x.com/tuckercarlson/status/1897709140535132442 Prolonged use of Solitary
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
I have a friend whose son was prescribed Adderall when he was 12-13 years old. She noticed the adverse effects right away, so she discontinued the drug, and took her son out of school for a year. He did much better getting homeschooled, and
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
This submission is about using a sharpie to 'fix' the government's final booklets for its filing in the Supreme Court of the United States [SCOTUS]. The career lawyers thought the government's right was 'plenary&#x2
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
When people's brains run low on energy (ATP) they start to exhibit 'mental health' symptoms - depression, psychosis, etc. Sometimes a person just needs a better diet and they'll snap out of their spiral. Chris Palmer MD
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
> As soon as a remotely stressful situation, and they began pouring themselves drinks, often maintaining a certain level until their day ended. Emotional and physical stress increases the brain's use of glucose. Alcohol has 7 calori
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
When my friend overdosed on heroin she was revived with two doses of naloxone. Her drinking was under control for about 2 weeks. Naltrexone is very similar to Naloxone, and is FDA-approved to help people with opioids and alcohol use. https
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
Modern psychiatry is a well-intentioned cargo cult. I borrowed from Feynman for my essay at Mad In America: Cargo Cult Psychiatry. https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/06/cargo-cult-psychiatry/
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Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor(madinamerica.com)
4 points by tcj_phx 2y ago|1 comments
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
This essay is inspired by the 1978 Saturday Night Live skit, Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber. Something I’d appreciate your comments on: allopathic psychiatry is a cargo cult [0] today, but the doctors in the trenches don’t realize i
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
Just saw this on Reddit. Self-medicating with cocaine and meth seems to have played a roll in his early departure. The tragedy of addiction is that there are interventions that work rather well. But in modern America, self-medication is tre
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
I used to think the United States took the idea of inalienable rights seriously. I've since learned that "missionaries get eaten by cannibals." The quote above was kindly used by the founder of an organization to explain why
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
Dr. Palmer's book was inspired by his discovery of the 80+ years of research establishing that "mental health" diagnoses are caused by metabolic problems. > Metabolic abnormalities have been identified in the brains and bo
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by tcj_phx 2y ago
Scotusblog coverage: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/harrow-v-departm... Filings can be read on the docket: https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public&#x
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by tcj_phx 3y ago
The friend I've written about here before has been occasionally labeled as 'schizophrenic' by the psychiatrists forced on her. The psychiatrists try to treat her psychosis with antipsychotics. In 2018 she figured out for hers
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by tcj_phx 3y ago
My friend eventually figured out for herself that she has the genetic condition of not being able to methylate the provitamin folic acid into Vitamin B9 (important for dna synthesis). She told me how adding L-methylfolate to her routine was
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by tcj_phx 3y ago
I do appreciate the info about haloperidol and alcohol withdrawal. As you note, delirium tremens is a serious problem. The essential feature of alcoholism is that the sufferers have broken metabolisms, and they find alcohol provides the cal
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by tcj_phx 3y ago
Haloperidol is sort-of useful for it's anti-serotonin properties [0]. The Soviets used this drug to induce agony in political dissidents. The physiology of psychosis is now fully described, so there's no need to use haloperidol as
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by tcj_phx 3y ago
GHB is approved for narcolepsy - I understand it helps improve the quality of sleep. My friend ran out of alcohol - we were not aware of how much she was drinking. She lived with her mother at the time - her mother & aunt called the men
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by tcj_phx 3y ago
Wikipedia doesn't mention that Ian was apparently adversely affected by psychiatric drugs. Autopsy reveals Debian founder committed suicide (theregister.co.uk) [July 7, 2016] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120
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by tcj_phx 3y ago
Thanks for the tip: Pimavanserin has a unique mechanism of action relative to other antipsychotics, behaving as a selective inverse agonist of the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor, with 40-fold selectivity for this site over
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by tcj_phx 3y ago
Strictly speaking, psychosis is more strongly related to excess serotonin, 'the molecule of stress and inflammation'. Doctors sometimes recognize 'Serotonin Syndrome' in their ER patients: "too much serotonin causes
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by tcj_phx 3y ago
Submitted Cargo Cult Psychiatry (2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37110874
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Cargo Cult Psychiatry (2022)(madinamerica.com)
5 points by tcj_phx 3y ago|1 comments
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by tcj_phx 3y ago
This was inspired by Richard Feynman's commencement address, which gets posted to Hacker News fairly regularly. Scrolling the comments on the latest submission of Cargo Cult Science, I saw ... my name [3]? Hah. I might have figured o

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