throw18376

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by throw18376 6mo ago
imagine somebody slipped a tiny, barely detectable dose of meth in your morning coffee. barely above placebo. then they slowly start increasing it day by day. by the time it reaches a large dose you are not going to be thinking very clearly
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by throw18376 6mo ago
my inclination when hearing these stories is that these were people who just happened to have a first manic episode (which can strike anyone at any time with or without mental health history). blowing up finances by starting an ill-advised
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by throw18376 1y ago
people in states of psychosis often behave in frightening ways out of their control, and do and say hurtful things to those around them. if someone hurts you or does something very frightening, fear and anger are natural emotions. but it’s
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by throw18376 1y ago
all kinds of authoritarian regimes and movements certainly do this. that said... you just have to have a conversation with someone experiencing psychosis. it's a totally altered state of consciousness, they are sensing and understandin
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by throw18376 1y ago
I think they would say (reasonably accurately, tends to be exaggerated though) that traditional cultures all around the world did have psychedelic practices of one kind or another. a lot of places on earth have some kind of psychedelic plan
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by throw18376 1y ago
some people should never take psychedelics. in the last few years' surge of popularity, I found that your typical psychedelic advocate* would never admit this category of people exists. they were committed to the idea that everyone c
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by throw18376 2y ago
this is more or less exactly what i was trying to say. for most people SSRIs are safe, they experience manageable side effects and little health risk. psychedelics and dissociatives seem like they must be really drastic and risky. but actua
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by throw18376 2y ago
i think that "we all want to get high on drugs" situations, like festivals, are actually a lot better. it's about personal choice. when i talk about psychedelic advocates, i mean the people who think that widespread use of ps
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by throw18376 2y ago
i generally consider myself an enemy of psychedelic advocates, because I think they want to make it effectively socially mandatory to do these drugs, which is really bad. ("sure, it's your choice what you put in your body, but a r
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by throw18376 2y ago
it's pretty hard to establish causality for something like this, but you have: 1) very solid evidence of correlation at a population level 2) a lot of clinical experience from doctors that patients with psychotic disorder diagnoses who
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by throw18376 2y ago
I support the legality of cannabis and alcohol. However, on an individual level, I think people need to know about the psychosis risks. It undoubtedly can trigger schizophrenia and make it much worse once it exists. I know more than a few p
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by throw18376 2y ago
cannabis is pretty safe for the average person, even heavy users. it's not good for you, but i think most of the effects like this are explained by selection effects. unhappy people use it to self-medicate. however, using cannabis come
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by throw18376 2y ago
i think if the main thing is “hearing voices” this kind of thing is probably a good strategy, but there are lots of other probably worse symptoms of psychosis.
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by throw18376 2y ago
this and other alternative schizophrenia treatments a very good thing when they work, which is relatively rare. as we can see from the comments here already, many people choose to believe these alternative treatments always work and there i
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by throw18376 2y ago
in northeast urban areas, if someone uses y’all it means they are probably a left-wing/social justice oriented person. use is correlated with “folks”/“folx”. no idea why, maybe to replace gendered “you guys”. weird but true.
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by throw18376 2y ago
people with lots of good things to do in their lives have less time to post. on platforms like twitter, this means that the posts are disproportionately made by people with unhappy and limited lives, who have too much invested in their stat
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by throw18376 2y ago
the reality is the vast majority of students have no interest in seeing the beauty of any mathematical or technical field. they want the professor to tell them the passwords they need to memorize. then on the exam they repeat the passwords
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by throw18376 2y ago
sometimes the obvious advice is the most important to hear. thanks for posting. unfortunately the nature of some health problems that require a caregiver, makes both the sufferer and caregiver into social pariahs. in that case asking for he
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by throw18376 2y ago
i think we would agree a lot about the brutality and incompetence of the current system of psychiatric institutions. however, the reality is, psychosis frequently prevents people from recognizing their own impairment. it's just true th
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by throw18376 2y ago
well, okay, then we can say that a lot of people diagnosed with schizophrenia now, even if the concept of schizophrenia is not viable, do have biological disease(s) that cause psychosis alongside what we now call the negative symptoms of sc
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by throw18376 2y ago
i'm getting very argumentative on the internet today (under a pseudonymous account because as you might guess from my incessant posting, this issue is personal for me) trauma (at any time), drug use, other experiences -- all can make s
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by throw18376 2y ago
this is completely true, but they take up a very disproportionate amount of time and energy from social service providers, people who work in shelters, etc, and make all spaces for homeless people much more chaotic. the crisis would look ve
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by throw18376 2y ago
look, if someone has actually have a new drug that works like antipsychotics but doesn't have the nightmare side effects, i am very happy for that person to get filthy rich. if this pans out the way they hope, by all means give the lea
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by throw18376 2y ago
i'm curious what is the longest conversation you've ever had with an untreated schizophrenic person? it's so obviously a "real disease" even if we don't fully understand the biological basis. it's subjecti
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by throw18376 2y ago
this is a good point about stock characters. a very lively and thriving art form can rely on these (as theater, movies, novels have at various times). that’s not all of what bothers me though. if you look at Frieren, every main character
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by throw18376 2y ago
outside of the actual pornography, more and more of anime is just emotional pornography for people with attachment troubles. it can be a great art form. even some of the emotional pornography can have artistic merit (recently: Frieren). but
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by throw18376 2y ago
concern for the plight of boys and men is more fashionable than you might think in progressive spaces, especially in the past few years. for example, Barack Obama's summer reading list just came out. I think being on this list indicate
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by throw18376 2y ago
at the very least, they can induce manic episodes for some susceptible people. that alone proves these are real psychoactive drugs that have powerful effects on the brain. there is still a question of whether they are really an overall good
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by throw18376 2y ago
very, very early on in Signal, back when it was still called TextSecure, they did actually federate with other servers, in particular with servers run by CyanogenMod (predecessor of LineageOS, briefly a commercial startup, now defunct). ht
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by throw18376 2y ago
my theory is that schizophrenia is so difficult that most people prefer not to think about it. People seem to have a mental block or resistance about the fact that some people have the disease of schizophrenia, and about what its symptoms a

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