There are definitely negative consequences for some psychiatric meds. Weight gain is obvious, but the worst outcomes I've heard described are from peo...
Hello wonderer, From DeBoer's Substack. The first is on bipolar disorder, which DeBoer himself battles. He has talked elsewhere quite candidly about t...
Are you arguing that anti-depressants have no positive effects? Alcohol and heroin are demonstrably bad for one's mental health. Anti-depressants are ...
Talk therapy in conjunction with medication is best practice for neurotic disorders, I believe? But I'm not sure how quantifiable the benefits of, say...
Great question Jack, I have been wondering this for some time. I studied psychology at uni and taught it in high school for years, but have only recen...
I just ordered another copy to share with my tenant whose parents both face psychosis, having given my previous copy away. It's one of those books tha...
Well put unenlightened. I agree with most of what you say here, although I don't think of consciousness and subconsciousness as falsifiable. Freud suc...
Hey unenlightened. I certainly agree with the epigenetic take, that's the contentious stance in some psych circles. Gabor Mate takes flak for arguing ...
I just read Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier", written in 1936. His descriptions of the contempt the bourgeois display towards the working class was r...
my bad, I was trying to link to my review of the book, written by the author of the links I posted. Those links are what I encourage you to read. Yup,...
Another good article by Love, this time a personal narrative of her own family trauma. https://www.vice.com/en/article/my-grandparents-trauma-is-in-my...
I assumed yes and googled examples. First result was "Athenian soldiers witnessing the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C.". Second was 'shell-shock' in WW...
Good point ssu. I wish his 'redemption' was more typical, more available to more people. Certainly, people who have made massive mistakes in life can ...
Sorry! I agree with you that government, representing all citizens, needs to be held to a higher standard. I do see a lot of repetition of the 'privat...
Sorry man, I still don't. I included five links that are contrary to your generalization, two articles from John Turley who wrote this exhaustive revi...
Trump does not believe this. I mean, he thinks he can shoot people in public and get away with it. He can 'grab em by the pussy' because he is famous....
dozens of police interventions in speech daily? Yeah, mind-boggling. Pro-woke commenters here on TPF, from the UK, unaware of this? Evidence of dystop...
Athena, I've been hoping to see a thread here on PTSD or mental illness generally. I came back to philosophy later in life searching for answers to qu...
Oh no doubt. But the premise of 'improving one's lot' wasn't the same. The certainty of 'God's plan' was stronger. Etc. I don't think self-loathing is...
I do view woke as a secular 'religion'. John McWhorter's "Woke Racism" is great on this issue - he refers to the leaders as "The Elect" - a self-appoi...
I mean, he was a Democrat most of his life? He changes his mind weekly? What political issues does he care deeply about? Dictator, sure, pass, that ge...
This is false. Per capita, certain Muslim populations are far more likely to abuse children in Britain. You are suggesting that there is no element of...
Hello Outlander. I appreciate you commenting on my post! But I think these questions are nutso. And, irrelevant. Who cares if they know definitions of...
Hey Patterner, I don't, really. Not in the way you are expressing it. Certainly, there would have been people who knew they were less attractive than ...
I may have been unclear, but I am not trying to draw an equivalency. Not sure you read what I wrote, I simply think that the right were waiting around...
Hiya Punshhh. That's an awfully charitable way to put it. Another way is to say that certain cultural groups viewed poor western girls as beneath cont...
Honestly, NE was the first time I saw mature conversations on some of these controversial subjects on television, as a teen in the 80s. The second eve...
Hi Athena. Great story about grandma. Education is in my family too - my maternal grandmother opened a nursery school in basement. One of the first wo...
Nice! I was a camp counsellor one summer in Schwenksville, PA. Spent a few days in Philly afterwards. Great city. Possible World Series opponents, you...
Hi Patterner, it's fun to talk about Northern Exposure! Sadly overlooked. I read somewhere that the show was hard to get for years due to licensing is...
Hi Punshhh, thanks for the reply. The Guardian was one of the papers I used to read that lead me to seek an escape from my progressive bubble. I used ...
Kirk's murder might not have been the best example for me to raise - the response does have a Rubicon feel to it. I didn't predict anything of this sc...
I hope you do! I find it remarkable that I did not realize I had PTSD for close to a decade. I could recognize mental illness in others but not myself...
I am late to this thread, but glad I read it, lots of interesting comments. If not too late, some of my thoughts. Agreed with the OP - the term, as cu...
Hello Fire! Are you an American? I always find it strange how the entire WEIRD world seems to have imported the binary of Republican / Democrat. Or th...
I loved Leonard / Graham Greene, and the show. But I don't think it has aged well philosophically ... self-esteem is a pretty modern concept. I don't ...
We have the same outcome here in Canada. It has caused some problems - as governments everywhere seemingly retreat from open borders, Canada under Mar...
I am tempted to borrow this and use it when I feel the argumentative urge rising... I have wished I could believe in a God or religion my entire life ...
Hey man, I am stretching this term here, perhaps too much, but the philosophical approach is certainly the same, a downplaying of the role of teacher ...
Thanks for the questions Athena! I guess I am a philosophical pessimist, at my most cynical, an existentialist at my least? Without being an expert, I...
I don't know that jargon, but a quick google tells me it includes teaching phonics, which means it is not the whole language approach. The whole langu...
Does your wife still teach? It's a tough gig, primarily because of appalling behaviour, regular violence, tolerance of disruption, etc. I was told thi...
Well said, and I think I've seen that theme touched on in variety of books and articles I've read - the 'somewheres' vs. the 'anywheres'. It all seems...
For sure. Greg Lukianoff is great on this topic - he attributes it to the idea that 'words are violence'. Sorry man, I thought I was clearly indicatin...
It is, of course, taught ALL THE TIME in public schools, here in Toronto at least. Has been my entire career. I like this summation so much I need a n...
Hi jorndoe, thanks for the question. Postmodern, for sure, with the opposition to 'master narratives' (although woke is obviously one such narrative)....
Hey Praxis, thanks for the reply, If the goal is emancipating the weak, woke doesn't work. We've seen data indicating that it seems to be bad for the ...
Well, at least Long Chu is NOT predictable. Repulsive. But not predictable. (repulsive with all the self-infantilizing sex doll stuff. not the 'who ca...
Hey man, sorry for not replying to you sooner. This topic gets me depressed. How is "Cynical Theories"? That's been on my list for a while. Stock I kn...
Hi Fire, I just re-read "Animal Farm". I'd forgotten about the shout-them-all-down sheep. Sure. I mean, Christopher Rufo traces it from Marcusse throu...
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