I’ve seen that story go around quite a bit, about schizophrenia, and I must admit that I’m very skeptical of it. Not in the sense of ‘these stories are wrong’, because even in the west, there’s people with schizophrenia that report benign hallucinations and delusions. But I’m skeptical of it scaling, of it being ‘the norm’ to only experience benign hallucinations outside the west.

I have schizoaffective disorder, and my hallucinations are unpleasant, but like, bearable. Annoyances more than anything else. The two big disruptions for me are the mood disorder (big crossover with bipolar and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, with some people not knowing that bipolar can cause psychosis on its own), and delusions. Being able to rationally identify and order my hallucinations makes them fairly benign (if distracting), but the difficulties with identifying baseline reality, truth from scattered thinking, is far more of life-ruiner to me, and the interplay of all of those together is where my ability to live my life kinda tumbles out of my hands. Alternatively manic and depressive, while hallucinating and unable to order my thoughts, I feel like it wouldn’t matter if all my hallucinations were the calm voices of my ancestors.

Regardless, anti-psychotics (Seroquel, in this case) are not a cure to me, but they lessen that burden. Any one of those symptoms is bearable with good habits, a regular schedule, a solid support network, and generally low stress-levels. The pills make the symptoms less frequent and less absolute, lessening the load on the more holistic parts of ‘treatment’ and management. I don’t like the lethargy I get from the anti-psychotics, but it is manageable, while without it, the house of cards is less stable. Manageable, at times, but also prone to collapse, and hard to rebuild from that collapse, y’know? And like, a lack of stress, the grace of time and peace to build networks and stability, is the best single treatment I have. If I had to pick one or the other, between low-stress and anti-psychotics, its low stress, every time. But that’s hard to prescribe, hard to just say “well, stop being stressed!”. The destruction of capitalism sure would help there, but also, its nice to not have to pick one or the other, when I can aim for having both.

Which, none of the above is hard disagreeing with anything you’ve said. I think the overall criticism of psychiatry is absolutely correct. I think the blanket pushing of anti-psychotics as a ‘cure for what ails you’ is incorrect.

Agree with a the overall point, absolutely.

Tricky though, as I do credit psychiatry with helping me a great deal. The anti-psychotics I’m on probably have saved my life. They aren’t really pleasant, but like, it beats the shit out of the alternative.

But your quotations are absolutely correct, about them being handed out to merely sedate ‘problematic’ people a lot of the time. Have heard several horror stories from friends who had like, BPD or OCD, and got brain fried when their psychs just pushed various anti-psychotics on them, which like, is fucked up. That ain’t the way to treat that shit. Let alone the rough history of them, as you say.

Casseroles have kinda a bad reputation, but genuinely, big trays of baked stuff is a great way to feed a lot of people, and they don’t have to suck.

Mac and Cheese is kinda a classic crowd pleaser. Tater tot, other pasta bakes, french toast or bread pudding great for something sweeter. You can make mexican food this way too, basically same ingredients as a soft taco layered up, easier to cook and serve.

I don’t like Star Trek at all, and like, I know its always been cheesy. That’s half the point.

thanks for the blanking. Seeing this go around elsewhere, wild how its still cool to openly shit on ND people

I don’t really care for the beyond meat type stuff. I’d take a portobello cap over it. But my fav would be a blackbeat/mushroom burger.

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Less cynically, good for her. I don’t care about her or her music (I’m very picky with my musical tastes), but like, get that bread

my primary problem with bg3 is I just hate all these fuckers. deeply unlikable cast of companions.

I did add some Dunder slop from my first run, which was mostly piloncillo

You are forgetting that it’s rum on account of me calling it rum

(but fr, you are absolutely correct)

The profound alienation our society inflicts hurts everyone. Shouldn’t be surprising the cruelty and exploitation shown to the the psychotic in particular, but somehow it always is. I’m sure its said by a lot of minorities, but it feels at times like we’re one of the few that its still seen as ‘okay’ to dunk on, even in ‘leftist’ spaces (luckily, the Hexxed Bear has been pretty good about this).

his-and-hers sinks give big ‘wife bad’ energy. Everyone I know who wants them is a guy who complains about how much space his wife’s make-up and hair products take up. (source: I’ve spend a fair bit of time working in custom home construction) The stuff rich people prioritize for their houses is nuts to me.

I feel like its everywhere. Like, scrolling other social media, there’s just, constant thirst traps, horny ass art, conversation topics that are thirsty as hell. Photos with just, a girl doing cosplay or another hobby are full of people harassing her.

Some of the above things are ‘fine’, others aren’t. Like, idk if people want to post and discuss their fetish art. But its all very gross to me, and I want to stay far away from it. I don’t have any desire to talk about sexual content with anyone other than my partner.

Oh rad, glad I could inspire you! I’m just about to fully crack my own open; I’ve been traveling, these past 2 weeks, though I did sneak a taste before I left, and thought it was great.

I really like this recipe, largely because I’m allergic to nuts, so this, and silken tofu-based cheese, are the only two I’ve found that I can make/have. But that goat-cheese like tang is something I like, that I’d been kinda missing.

Maybe this is judging by its cover, but Alan Wake 1 and 2 both seem, not my speed? They seem very ‘cinematic’, in a way I don’t like. Emphasis on cutscenes, acting, campiness, etc. Which like, aren’t objectively bad qualities, but I just don’t like ‘movie-like’ content myself, idk why, but it doesn’t work for me.

I had heard so many good things about Control, and was left very disappointed.

Mostly from a gameplay side; I found the ‘shooting’ boring, to the point of killing all fun and momentum the game had for me. Not even on a ‘difficulty’ front, its just the constant waves of pissants everywhere you go all the time sucks.

The story was ‘cool’, in that it had vibes, and some of the side content was great (like the Doctor Darling tapes and such). The actual writing/plot was pretty basic videogame stuff, which is to say fine in the context of ‘games’ and bad in the context of ‘all writing’.

Overall, I did not finish, making it like halfway through I think? Before just watching the rest of the cutscenes on youtube. Which, I suppose, me feeling compelled to do even that is a point in its favor, that I was invested enough to want to know.

Disagree, that’s not what hard science means, nor can it be isolated in such a way for a lot of people.

I don’t agree.

Your second paragraph is true, yes. Though, I’d frame it more around ‘health’ than ‘weight’. I’m not saying ‘weight’ has no impact on health, but the health is the important part of the equation to focus on (and, even there, ‘health’ can be a dog-whistle for fatphobia sometimes). It’s that focus of ‘fat=bad’ that is the ‘concern trolling’. You don’t need to ‘fix fatness’, you need to fix all those other problems.

Its not a ‘poisoned well’ if someone is telling people their weight needs to be fixed pisses people off (even if it’s framed as not their fault!), and it is understandable that others find such comments to read as concern trolling.

That’s so vague to be useless though. Many people that struggle to lose weight, the ‘problem’ isn’t the physics of it. It’s the mental aspects, of appetite and craving, and the socioeconomic aspects, of time, money, attention, what food is available at what distance, price, and effort.

And, when eating fewer calories can make their bodies go into ‘starvation mode’, burning fewer baseline calories and making any physical exertion exhausting if not impossible, it is insulting to say ‘CICO!’

I don’t understand how the first part disagrees with what I said? Many body builders do estimate it close enough to be useful, yes. But, it’s still estimates. We have no way of tracking things like ‘basal metabolic rate’, and how that might change over time and under different conditions (which, isn’t to say it can’t be estimated). If you are working out or doing physical labor to a large degree, like body builders and professional athletes do, you can make those basal calories and their fluctuations basically negligible, able to be left as just a line item. When professional bodybuilders are eating 5000 calories a day, yeah, deviations in ‘background calories’ don’t really matter.

I don’t want to discount the math pros do as unimpressive, or not useful. But there’s a lot of it that is ‘napkin math’, figured out second or third hand, from the data that is able to be tracked accurately.

but I don’t think the ‘average person’ is expected to work out for 6 hours a day, nor would they likely be capable.