The Failures of Psychiatry, The Kundalini, and Adrenal Overdrive
This is a continuation of my conversation with @churdtzu during which we go into more detail about his psychotic break which he sees more as a shamanic awakening, though he is careful to point out that the experience is not a universally positive one, which is why it is so important to understand how to deal with it as it is happening, an approach that is fundamentally ignored by modern medicine which is purely reactionary in such cases.
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I'm thrilled at this topic of discussion. Too many thoughts to type. Almost skipped dinner lol. Little manic one here. It helps with creative process; very bad for motivation to find a job which takes time away from my passions.
Universal living allowance would really help us outliers contribute more to society in the best way we know how.
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Re: Prozac comments
I think that depression is for sure overmedicated. It's not the fault of psychiatry as it is the busy nature of modern life; it prevents people from taking care of themselves to maintain mental health. The 40 hour work week is sickening. Point is, over-diagnosing could be why the placebo works better in studies. I might google them and see how they choose test subjects.
The suicidal side-effects are because people are predisposed to it. People with other condition (bipolar) can have year long depressive bouts before ever having a manic one. Anti-depressents on bipolar people who aren't treated with a mood stabilizer as well are at risk for that.
My own experience:
I wanted to quite smoking, went on bupropion to try, as I was really incapable of altering bad habits. I became really aggressive and smoked twice as much. I was in denial, my roommates told me they were scared to even ask me for a lighter, or borrow my comp, anything; walking on eggshells. Later that year I was diagnosed with bipolar. I was cynical about psychiatry, but there's no way I could maintain anything of a productive life without medication. So I have seen many others with similar problems, and have knowledge of how being cynical towards psychiatry can be someone not wanting to admit a problem (I'm not implying that is always the case)
edit: Now I am on bupropion in conjunction with other meds, and have no problems with it.
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I followed the first link you posted about the effectiveness of psychiatric medications. From my interpretation of what the article says early on, it doesn't seem like the drugs are doing worse overall than placebos, it's just that the trend is towards a closing gap between placebo and drug in the trials. In other words, placebo used to induce no or negative outcome in patients while now there is a slightly positive outcome in placebo patients. Conversely, the actual drugs now do poorer overall than they used to, but they still do significantly better than placebo.
That said, there was one comment in the article by Ivanova in which she says that "...an increasing number of medications are unable to beat sugar pills..." which would mean that there may be some other metric that wasn't mentioned in the article specifically that clarifies what Ivanova is saying. It would be nice if I still had access to these kind of data still without the huge pay wall because I'd be interested to read the papers. Journalists don't always do the greatest job if encapsulating the important points if these papers, and honestly who could blame them with all the jargon they contain?
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I was watching some interviews with Steven Pinker where he talks of how all the jargon is unneeded, overused. Its almost like the purpose is to create a clique over share the info
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I love Steven Pinker's work. His book "How the Mind Works" was one of those reads I just simply couldn't put down.
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Haha, there must be something to this organic chemistry thing because I sort of breezed through it as well when I took it. Manipulating the objects in my mind's eye just came naturally. The only thing I struggled with was the new vocabulary, which has always been my weak point intellectually. I guess it's not surprising that I like listening to you talk about your ideas.
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