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TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)

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Post by Volundr »

Banana699 wrote: post #502
Volundr wrote: post #474

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Simple objective reality. Nobody is diagnosing boys as trans or having gender dysphoria simply because they play with Barbies. People in a certain bubble may believe it's happening, but in the real world it takes a lot more than "plays with barbies" to get that diagnosis.

What makes you think you have more access to objective reality than others ?

Your right. Obviously we can't be sure birds are real, because some people say (without evidence) bird's aren't real and how can we say we have a better grasp of objective reality than them? Obviously, based on their absurd and evidence-less claims, we should forever question if birds are actually flying creatures and not government drones, regardless of our own experiences with birds and information provided by people who study birds for a living.

But by all means, provide me one documented case of a biological male being diagnosed with gender dysphoria by an actual medical professional based on nothing but the fact he plays with Barbies and burst my "bubble".

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Post by bufferoverflow »

alexb_ wrote: post #200

People are going to be blaming TikTok, social media, or whatever else for this, but it's important to note that this is not a new phenomenon at all. Tuberculosis was fashionable during the Victorian era and shaped a lot of our modern beauty standards today[0]. Is social media really to blame, or is a desire to be different just a part of being human? [0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-tuberculos...

You can blame social media for bringing it to a psychotic scale.

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Post by luckylion »

balfirevic wrote: post #597
luckylion wrote: post #596

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That sucks, hopefully you'll find some that work better. It used to be kind of like that for me, though me feeling guilty to let people down usually made me fight to barely make it. It's day and night now, I just sit down in the morning and get to work. It helps that they let me hunt squirrels as long as I make enough progress on the main topics, but even things where the work is super boring you just need to put the…

Are you worried about tolerance, taking modafinil regularly?

I was in the beginning and did it only once or twice a week. At some point I tested taking it daily and found that it didn't lose its effect. I've since switched to Armodafinil and have been taking it daily for the past 30 months or so. I'm getting a check up every year and my doctor says I'm fine (well, as fine as a fat guy can be).

The only side-effect is that I feel like I perceive lights and noises as annoying at a lower threshold. I've had that before as well so I'm pretty used to blacking out any LEDs, but it seems to have been increased. Don't know whether that would lessen if I took a break because I haven't for more than a few days.

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Post by balfirevic »

luckylion wrote: post #603
balfirevic wrote: post #597

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Are you worried about tolerance, taking modafinil regularly?

I was in the beginning and did it only once or twice a week. At some point I tested taking it daily and found that it didn't lose its effect. I've since switched to Armodafinil and have been taking it daily for the past 30 months or so. I'm getting a check up every year and my doctor says I'm fine (well, as fine as a fat guy can be). The only side-effect is that I feel like I perceive lights and noises as annoying at…

Thanks for the detailed answer. Good luck with it continuing to work as it does!

May I ask about the dosage?

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Post by AndrewVos »

Minor49er wrote: post #589
AndrewVos wrote: post #508

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Nobody has ever said this to you in your entire life

They actually have. Meeting my significant other's family, her niece came up to me and specifically introduced herself as her father's son

That's kinda different, bud.

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Post by mechanical_bear »

jquery wrote: post #538
mechanical_bear wrote: post #510

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> Being lgbt isn’t a mental illness. No one in this thread was claiming that. With the possible exception of aspects of trans, but don’t conflate that with the larger LGB community. Separate issues, and not being discussed here. …

Divide and conquer is the latest tactic of anti-LGBT folks. They realized it’s futile to attack the gays (for now) so they are focused on separating the T from LGBT, because trans issues are currently less understood by the broader public (who remains largely ignorant of the issue beyond culture war flashpoints). I’ve seen a lot of people making claims about gender in this thread, imagining themselves to be in opposi…

No, it’s the other way around, certain groups have been aligning themselves with other interests through which they attempt to broaden their base of support.

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Post by luckylion »

balfirevic wrote: post #604
luckylion wrote: post #603

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I was in the beginning and did it only once or twice a week. At some point I tested taking it daily and found that it didn't lose its effect. I've since switched to Armodafinil and have been taking it daily for the past 30 months or so. I'm getting a check up every year and my doctor says I'm fine (well, as fine as a fat guy can be). The only side-effect is that I feel like I perceive lights and noises as annoying at…

Thanks for the detailed answer. Good luck with it continuing to work as it does! May I ask about the dosage?

Thanks, I hope so, I really don't want to go back :(

I'm taking 150mg (currently Waklert, but they're all generics) a day, right after getting up.

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Post by inversalAutoDoc »

colordrops wrote: post #324
SQueeeeeL wrote: post #262

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I think a counter argument that makes a lot of sense to me is that our modern society is so novel, interconnected, and overstimulating, that it makes sense the prevalence of ADHD and depression have increased massively, especially compared to the populations of 50 years ago.

Perhaps it's not a "D" Disorder but a normal reaction to the malignent nature of our society.

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Post by collegeburner »

Apocryphon wrote: post #408
MichaelCollins wrote: post #361

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Having been on the receiving end of some physical and social/psychological bullying, I think maybe we've gone astray by suppressing the former in favor of the latter. The times I got into fights I was left bruised and humbled, but in all but one case I was able to bury the hatchet with those people. The rumor spreading is different. With social bullying there's no sense of finality after a fight, no reconciliation or…

Formalize it into combat sports, with rules, referees, and medical personnel on staff. Or just competitive sports in general. But don't permit physical bullying. Your experiences elide over cases where there was serious harm done to the victim, physical or otherwise, or led to disproportionate retaliation.

most times i see people get into fights there's their friends around so nobody pulls a weapon and to break it up if somebody goes down so people don't start kicking the other guy or whatever. it's a controlled way to resolve differences and tbh i don't get why people don't like it. like if it's 1 person jumping another that's different but i've got friends i fought with first and friends i fought with so we stayed friends after.

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Post by antonymy »

Apocryphon wrote: post #408
MichaelCollins wrote: post #361

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Having been on the receiving end of some physical and social/psychological bullying, I think maybe we've gone astray by suppressing the former in favor of the latter. The times I got into fights I was left bruised and humbled, but in all but one case I was able to bury the hatchet with those people. The rumor spreading is different. With social bullying there's no sense of finality after a fight, no reconciliation or…

Formalize it into combat sports, with rules, referees, and medical personnel on staff. Or just competitive sports in general. But don't permit physical bullying. Your experiences elide over cases where there was serious harm done to the victim, physical or otherwise, or led to disproportionate retaliation.

>Formalize it into combat sports, with rules, referees, and medical personnel on staff.

So, what I'm hearing is, we need to bring back dueling.

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