ben_sisko

Sounds like you need to read better books Bromaster General!

The exercise and food science people are the worst of social science buddy. Or just “social” something, because it’s not science. “Science-based” always makes me laugh.

The DSM only matters if somebody is actively seeking treatment for something that they have a problem with in their own situation. So what’s in there is totally irrelevant for the public at large. It’s only if somebody shows up and says there’s something going on that they don’t like. It’s really just billing codes, man. The reality is far different anyway, and it just gets distilled down to these primitive codes.

“Chemical imbalance” lol.

You have inadvertently outed yourself as not having a clue by your reply. It’s nothing personal but you just clearly don’t have a clue and/or don’t have skin in the game.

It’s fine. I don’t know anything about professional juggling because I have zero skin in that game.

Paging Dr. Brochacho: fMRI and brain networks have been around for a while!

The DSM diagnostic categories are glorified billing codes that everybody (who actually has real ground contact with mental health care for real for real) recognizes as primitive, Stone Age relics.

In five or ten years, these categories will feel like missteps of the past (akin to calling all mental illness “hysteria”).

Before I got my first pair of progressives lenses I saw a lot of conflicting anecdotal accounts. After doing research, the conclusion I came to was simple: I got the very best progressive lens that Lens Crafters sells because the best lens has a much larger intermediate “corridor” size than less expensive progressive lenses. I have had zero issues with my progressive lenses. I forget I even “have” progressive lenses at all!

By asking to talk to only those who have problems, you could be self selecting for a population who may not help you actually solve your problem, even if they mean well.

This is just my experience of course. When I did my initial research, I asked a question on Blind about progressive lenses. Lots of people said they have progressive lenses and they have zero problems.

If I was forced to guess, I would say that some (or maybe even all) of these folks who start talking about the computer glasses……it makes me wonder if they simply under-bought their lenses. Yes glasses are expensive. Getting a better lens will cost more. Yes yes, the Luxotica this and that. I don’t care about any of that crap. All I care about is getting the best lens possible and so should you!

Do what I mean!

Julia is the Desktop Linux of these kinds of programming languages: it’s about to get really big sometime very soon in the future! Then you see a post like this years later. “THIS YEAR IS IT!”

This link lays out the case in an exceptionally thorough and damning (for Julia) way.

I’m not saying the non-stimulant options do nothing, but on average the non-stimulant options have a lower effect size than the stimulants. There are many well designed studies that have covered this territory over and over.

Lots of people take these medications at the same dose for years and years.

I get that many people feel strongly about this topic in all kinds of ways and directions, but that fact by itself changes nothing.

Stimulant medication for ADHD has the highest effect size in all of psychiatry. ADHD is highly treatable, when people are properly treated. This just feels like something that somebody made for the parents who are pathologically drug averse at the expense of their children. Of course, the parents don’t realize that their kids don’t get that development time back, so the longer they wait, the harder things can get for their kids.

The “Job Openings vs Interest Rates” section is incredibly weak and amateurish. Just a bunch of assertions and conjecture.

- Superimposing two graphs is the evidence provided? Really?

- The “correlation is causation” part is atomic level cringe.

- With a sorry ass attitude like this, I’m sure this guy doesn’t just have a problem with getting a job; he has problems with all kinds of things. “Why doesn’t everyone just agree with me?”

- The ChatGPT stuff at best comes off as “dumb funny”, but really it’s just a weird mix of desperate and angry. You sure showed them!

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