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This is a gross over exaggeration of ADHD and under exaggeration of the effectiveness of non pharmacological treatments

Asian Americans and East Asians have lower suicide rates than Americans (over 60% lower), and especially American white males, you've fallen for a false trope, which is exactly wha…

I'm using the definition of the threshold necessary for a clinical diagnosis as defined in psychiatry, which is not merely "negative effects" or as I've repeatedly stated "discomfo…

So you've clearly just restated what I said which is that it was principally a matter of discomfort, not clinical outcomes or justification, which is the defining characteristic fo…

Tobacco didn't exist for most of the world until the 17th century and you're discounting the fact that life was objectively much worse by virtually every metric. People were consta…

Yes I have and it was just as difficult post medication as it was pre. Ironically, while on the SNRI my ADHD was "worse" due to the sheer apathy I felt about literally everything, …

Why are you just making stuff up? Exact quote from second article "Furthermore, the SSRIs were accorded a rock-star status as effective antidepressants that they did not deserve. M…

They were incomprehensibly difficult for me, so yes. My mind and body literally entered fight or flight at the thought of not doing a compulsion or forcing myself to focus on doing…

Yes they do, as the OP said and I myself experienced, they make previously torturous tasks doable with a significantly reduced levels of discomfort and a priori mental resistance.

East Asians are "impaired" the least, and the presumption among Western scientists, particularly American scientists regarding Asian Americans, is that they are simply undiagnosed …

What the DSM defines as normal is far too narrow and we're too eager for quick fixes without discomfort or discipline.

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The point is it's obviously a problem of perspective. Things are not important because they aren't considered important. If the stakes are higher they are elevated in importance an…

You're behind the times https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0 https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/debunking-two-chemical... https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/i…

Why do you presume I'm neurotypical and undiagnosed with any psychiatric disorder? I'm formally diagnosed with severe OCD, depression, and ADHD. I was on SSRI, then SNRI and additi…

Nearly all of it, because that's the case for the overwhelming majority of the social sciences. When you do not have an objective metric to measure, prove, or hypothesize (as in ph…

There isn't one because a sprained ankle is a binary diagnosis. One of the biggest problems with psychiatry is that every diagnosis is a spectrum, and over time it's become more an…

>First paragraph The argument posited was that Europeans during the "Dark Ages" were inferior economically and culturally to the Native Americans. There's virtually no point in his…

The "Dark Ages" are a complete myth and Europeans were far more technologically, culturally, and economically advanced and prolific than Native Americans in the Early Middle Ages, …

You can write a simulation that does this (as MIT and several others have) and Monte Carlo it. You will find that the logic is 100% correct. The prize MUST be either the door you p…

Perhaps it'll be more intuitive to you if you scale the number of doors up. If there are 100 doors, only one containing a car, you pick one, the host reveals 98/99 remaining doors …

I feel the same way about Marx

This is what happens when MBAs are made technical leads in charge of engineers. All the big 5 Federal Contractors are plagued like this.

What would you recommend instead?

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