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monoxide_child
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I don't advise anyone to live in Lebanon. It is a very corrupted country. Do you believe that we get only 12 hours of electricty?
I don't live in the part of Beirut where there are Muslims. But i've encountered many of them and they are really friendly people.
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Zephyrus
Tyrants and Slaves
So I went to be last night, put on Filosofem, and felt the most suicidal I've ever felt. It was horrible. Glad I've got 40 days of vacation ahead of me because I'm finally ready to go clean off psych meds. Wellbutrin was fine for a short while. It certainly gave kept me in good spirits, but I think it was ultimately corrosive of my cognition and depriving me of the ability to think clearly is tantamount to death for me. It's been becoming more and more difficult to read and keep my mental processing speed at a competent level.
Today's my first day off of it and it went just fine. I'm now nearly finished with my term paper. I'm rather anxious, but I'll give myself time and patience to let this all clear from myself and start in earnest my brain's ability to adapt on its own rather than depend on foreign chemicals. I think the Omega 3, Magnesium and Choline supplements will do just fine for now.
Today's my first day off of it and it went just fine. I'm now nearly finished with my term paper. I'm rather anxious, but I'll give myself time and patience to let this all clear from myself and start in earnest my brain's ability to adapt on its own rather than depend on foreign chemicals. I think the Omega 3, Magnesium and Choline supplements will do just fine for now.
Zephyrus
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And the other motive is that Wellbutrin and alcohol don't mix, and I want to be able to drink again. Alcohol is a social necessity.
monoxide_child
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i really think you should definately increase the amounts of Omega 3, Magnesium and Choline that you are taking to compensate for your new lack of psych meds
seriously asking
can you overdose on Omega 3 or Magnesium or Choline??
Zephyrus
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Don't think so. I used to take only one each of those per day (plus a Centrum multivitamin) but I'm upping the Omega to 3 and Choline to 2.
I've still got a whole bottle of Piracetam, but I'll hold off on that till my anxiety's leveled out more.
I've still got a whole bottle of Piracetam, but I'll hold off on that till my anxiety's leveled out more.
ASD
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Well obviously Filosofem is gonna get you all depressed, listen to Somewhere In Time instead.
Zephyrus
Tyrants and Slaves
I had my highest hopes on Wellbutrin because my father takes it and it's done great things for him, but I've always been suspicious of the cognitive side-effects of any antidepressant. I've determined that these medications don't improve depression, but simply make you more content with yourself as you degenerate into the walking dead.
Day two of no meds, and it's pretty clear I'm having some withdrawals, but I'm not debilitated. I should be all set taking my Greek final tomorrow.
Day two of no meds, and it's pretty clear I'm having some withdrawals, but I'm not debilitated. I should be all set taking my Greek final tomorrow.
Vimana
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I've been taking it for a while and it doesn't do shit for me. My doctor is kind of full of shit. Yes, he has medical knowledge I don't have, but he, like the psychiatric care system, fails to take into account that environmental factors can make people depressed, and no amount of pills is a substitute for facing one's problems. I'm fairly certain he's milking shit for money. Last year he said "we're going to have you off by the spring," and then he said the same shit this year. I called him out for it, and the dose got cut in half.
Zephyrus
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Yeah. A week ago I wrote my doc a long, detailed email as to why I would like to discontinue it and how's it's been affecting me. She replied with one short sentence saying she'll renew my prescription for 150mg, which is my normal dose, though she wanted to increase it.
Clearly she doesn't give a shit, so that's the kind of respect I'll give in turn. I'm supposed to see her when I return from break. Won't she be surprised.
Clearly she doesn't give a shit, so that's the kind of respect I'll give in turn. I'm supposed to see her when I return from break. Won't she be surprised.
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The psychiatric care system is a joke for the most part. I find it pretty sick how with the money that can be made off of throwing pills at people, systems will be put in place to keep people depressed. Many people I was in the psych hospital with weren't there for the first time, and it was easy to see why when it was all about pills and group therapy would spend about ten minutes per person per day. Better than nothing, but still. It was clear they gave shit the bare minimum, because if people weren't mentally ill, they'd have less business. I quit that and they gave me this condescending "we can only help you if you want to help yourself" thing, as if spending six hours a day listening to junkies talking about relapsing and only getting ten minutes to talk about problems that built up over years was some kind of godsend.
Zephyrus
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During my last appointment a month ago they had to bring another psychologist in because I was being too skeptical for comfort and they lectured me on how there is an "internet conspiracy" against the pharmaceutical industry and professional psychiatry and that it's a no-brainer that I should trust PhD's who write publish papers rather than the cybernetic hoi polloi. I only listened because I had no reason not to try the Wellbutrin and give them one more chance.
But I've stopped listening to either party in this invisible war. I'm stopping this for philosophical reasons. I will not let a foreign chemical replace my personality. The concept of the self is an idea, but ideas are a material phenomenon and I might as well let it be me.
But I've stopped listening to either party in this invisible war. I'm stopping this for philosophical reasons. I will not let a foreign chemical replace my personality. The concept of the self is an idea, but ideas are a material phenomenon and I might as well let it be me.
Dak
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So in other words, they are suffering from paranoiac delusions and offering appeals to authority in defense? Irony.
Vimana
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If by "internet conspiracy" they mean anyone who takes the time to think about how talking with someone for an hour every once in a while and prescribing a pill and its (lack of) effect on one's developed problems, there is one.
It annoys me to be interested in psychology sometimes, because so many of the resources are full of shit. I keep reading studies that generalize a human behavior, offer no evolutionary explanation, use a small amount of people, put an agenda on the study, and then act like it's science. Like this one. TL;DR: Three people fit a biased study with an agenda to prove sexist humor is a way of releasing internal sexism. It ignores the fact that humor is based on incongruity and people joke about it because they think it's funny how ridiculous it is.
In my psychology class, we watched a video for how Freud's view of why babies are attached to their mothers is wrong. He said that it's because of food and nurturing and stuff, and a monkey in a study preferred to be on a fuzzy fake mother that had no milk whenever it didn't want milk. I just wanted to shout "the monkey feels safe on the fuzzy fake mother because it feels like a real mother that would protect and nurture it. They're basically proving Freud right with a different point and then saying he's wrong."
It annoys me to be interested in psychology sometimes, because so many of the resources are full of shit. I keep reading studies that generalize a human behavior, offer no evolutionary explanation, use a small amount of people, put an agenda on the study, and then act like it's science. Like this one. TL;DR: Three people fit a biased study with an agenda to prove sexist humor is a way of releasing internal sexism. It ignores the fact that humor is based on incongruity and people joke about it because they think it's funny how ridiculous it is.
In my psychology class, we watched a video for how Freud's view of why babies are attached to their mothers is wrong. He said that it's because of food and nurturing and stuff, and a monkey in a study preferred to be on a fuzzy fake mother that had no milk whenever it didn't want milk. I just wanted to shout "the monkey feels safe on the fuzzy fake mother because it feels like a real mother that would protect and nurture it. They're basically proving Freud right with a different point and then saying he's wrong."
Dak
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It's one of the reason's I want to go into the field. Psychology needs a holistic approach. It's no coincidence that mental health problems are skyrocketing along with health problems, economic problems, failing institutions, and rapid cultural/technological changes on an unprecedented level.
