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Oh man, the most helpful article I’ve ever read about depression and burnout was on Kuro5hin. Luckily it’s been preserved on Wikibooks: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_D…

First, I don’t know why you feel the need to include a hostile ad hom barb like “You seem to think evolutionary theory came to an end in 1882”. I’ve done multiple Google searches a…

This feels like a just-so story. There are perfectly plausible reasons why the conditions we regard as mental illness are adaptations that help evolutionary fitness: - Depression p…

I’ve largely overcome CFS with a variety of treatments over more than about 15 years. Most of the treatments are physical therapies (particular nutrition and exercise approaches), …

Ok I watched it, thanks. I’m not sure if it is meant to make me aware of anything I wasn’t already aware of, but for the record, I’ve spent much of the past 10+ years thinking abou…

I'm not "stoic" or much into any other "ism", and don't particularly align with many other people in "STEM" fields. The practices I've discovered came after many years of experienc…

> I suffered a rare illness (still have it...) > with a low everything You have an illness. That's all there is to it. Don't be ashamed. I think you probably have an illness of the…

It's a very common reaction for people to assert that the solution to a deep societal problem is to "stop [group] from [doing action] to [another group]", as if that's an answer, r…

I've been living "as if" this is true for over 10 years. After years of struggling with confidence issues, anxiety, and physiological issues like muscle tension/pain and inflammati…

I think you're ending up splitting hairs here, starting out by initially (apparently) saying drugs should be avoided, but then coming around to the position that LSD or mushrooms w…

Thanks for the reply. No DMs on HN but you can email me (address in profile).

Some friends have a 7-year-old son who is being assessed/treated for autism-spectrum disorder; he's outgoing, sociable and highly intelligent, but has issues with emotional and beh…

I think I understand what you're feeling. I'm lucky to have found my way through my period of feeling lost, and have come to a pretty good place as I approach 45 (fathered my first…

It's hard to recommend stuff here (I've been trying for years to work out how to reply to this answer FWIW), as a lot of the popular books about it are too close to law-of-attracti…

Not sure if it counts as spiritual, but for 10 years I've consistently done subconscious, mind+body healing exercises. It's been profoundly transformative. Prior to that (and for q…

Cheers. I take a small selection of supplements - mostly minerals/vitamins and digestive support but also some amino acids. Not NAC these days, but I may again. My main antioxidant…

There are many brands listed on iHerb (all with "dietary supplement" prominently listed in the product description), though most of the items are marked "out of stock", so it looks…

From my own experience I can very much believe an SSRI could have an effect on the immune system and/or the respiratory system. I was a heavy cigarette smoker in my 20s, and over t…

It's hard to answer without triggering backlash in places like this, as the whole world of this kind of healing is a minefield of quackery and woo. It's taken me a long time to wor…

Of NET, some small trials by fringe researchers have been conducted [1] (or just planned [2]), but none has had much impact. This 2017 study [3] seemed to find promising results: C…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24365937

Sure, thanks, but remember we're adults here, and pretty well educated ones at that, so, the need for caution and discernment can be presumed to be understood by readers on this si…

This is where discussions about this stuff can go off the rails, as the main modality I've used has links to the chiropractic profession (even though I think that profession is hig…

Out of necessity (after existing conventional treatments offered little help) I've been conducting a 10+ year self-experiment related to this topic. Like others have described, whe…

Fair enough, I expanded my comment with more explanation and detail.