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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Strangely, Magon, I'm incredibly familiar with the field, and yeah, I do know two people who've had it, and I was slated to have it myself, until I sued to get control of my life back.

I also know about depression. It's a simple problem with a simple solution, devised back in the early '90s. (earlier if you count west african voodoo) It's a crime that it continues. (depression, not voodoo)

Here's the incredibly simple problem:

Depression is a lack of serotonin in the brain, caused by a breakdown in the system and resulting in the shutdown of neural pathways associated with perspective-based thinking.

SSRIs don't always work because SSRIs do not increase your serotonin level, they decrease your serotonin reuptake, which is one way your serotonin levels can get depleted, but not the only one.

Serotonin starts out life in the gut, as tryptophan. Certain probiotic bacteria can change tryptophan in 5-HTP, which is the only form that the brain will recognize (fortunately, you can also get 5-htp in powder form, as it's 40% of the west african griffonius seed by weight.)

Once the 5htp gets into the brain it is metabolized by the hypothalmus into serotonin. 95% of all depression cases are the result of a serotonin dietary deficiency. The other 5% can come from a variety of related causes, such as lack of metabolites (most commonly Vitamin B6) or less commonly necrosis in the hypothalmus, typically caused by high level heavy metal contamination.

I'm sorry someone you care about had to go through ETC, but that is how it works. It induces a grand mal seizure, which causes brain damage, that's the MoA. It's barbaric, and obsolete. You can choose to travel forward with this knowledge and not have someone else go through that, or you can invest yourself psychologically in the past and not see it, but I actually do know what I'm talking about in this.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Not ALL medicine is bad. And some is live-saving and necessary.

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
You're no longer depressed because you are zombified. No mental health goal is worth this.

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A lot of psychiatric treatment is zombification one way or another. It doesn't matter if they do it electrically, or chemically (neuroleptics), or surgically (lobotomy). Their goals here are not to truly heal and give the person as much freedom and self-actualization as possible, but to make the person less annoying whatever the cost.

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Medical malpractice. Why can doctors kill out of incompetence?

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