I have suffered through several depressions( didn't know at the time what they were)Chemicals didn't cause them conditions did. These Days I choose to be happy and its not because I have an abundance of certain Chemicals( natural) in my brain, I have arrived at the place in my life where I understand "Man" is a 3 phase creature-mental, physical and spiritual.
If all crimes and such were caused by deficiencies or overabundance of certain "Brain chemicals" we would be guilty of nothing, cured by simply gobbling the prerequisite amount of certain shaped and colored pills.
I understand my time here is limited and striving to create some positive things around Me, its my sincerest hope when the "Book of Life" is opened my name is in there.
Exactly. The narrative that depression is a brain disease is, IMHO, entirely fatuous.
SSRIs are drugs like Prozac, Paxil, and Celexa. I am not entirely against them, but I do think they are even more dangerous than many drugs that are frequently abused-- like Xanax or Valium-- which can now be monitored more closely through physician database monitoring systems that were not available when tranquilizers got their bad reputation. Benzos can still dangerous, but much less so for those who don't drink or use recreational drugs, IMHO. SSRIs just affect people in really strange and unpredictable ways, and can have permanent side effects that don't remit when the drug is stopped. I'm not intending to give medical advice here-- and I have, on rare occasions and against all expectations, seen SSRIs work wonders, usually in folks with traumatic brain injury-- but I was trying to make a larger, more convoluted point about the difficulties of risk assessment. Sorry about that... my train of thought was a bit elliptical.
Tragic! I suppose what we are seeing is the after affects of mentally unwell people acting out after the confinements of the last many months. If you look at the scandal rags like UK Daily Mail the murder and mayhem seems to be literally rampant. Or ... you could suppose evil is spreading across the globe.
I believe methamphetamine was found in the driver's blood. But I also believe that there has been an explosion of mental health problems since the start of the pandemic. As a clinician, the strategy I chose was actually to
reduce my caseload, both because I wanted to adapt to telehealth but also because I anticipated that I would be seeing bizarre disorders that we may never have seen before, and I do think that's kind of what's happening. It was frustrating to be seeing fewer people when there were more that needed help, but I was worried about burnout -- and here again, Survivor and Seeker really helped me keep my head screwed on straight!
Mostly, what I notice is an increase in people's ability to believe things that cannot possibly true, and it's actually very frightening. On a bad day, it's easy to feel like the fabric of humanity itself is unraveling-- so yes, Reed, in a sense, that is a kind of 'evil' spreading across the globe.
E-biking has really helped me manage the stress. And when I've had patients who feel they can't leave the house even when it's safe to do so-- this weird inertia where people felt they couldn't go out even with a mask when the streets are empty-- I do ask them if they have a bicycle or have tried an e-bike.
Often what I hear is, "There's no place to ride." I have been known to pull up a map in a session, look at a client's address, and ask them if they've ever ridden to a park or recreation center that's within 5 miles of where they live. The answer is almost always "no," and when clients do pump up the tires and start riding around, they are usually very grateful I nudged them a little bit.
I have to be careful, though. I've also had to call a client back and say, "Uh, let's revise that plan. I think the route we chose takes you through an oil refinery, and that big brown patch on the map is actually flooded."
Some forum sites have off topic forums, and political forums, because off topic is sometimes the norm more than the exception.
