Married to someone with anxiety

Post by nommm-nommm » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 1:24 AM UTC

nathan_f77 wrote: post #193

sankae wrote: post #190

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I see my wife as "family." You don't abandon family. Then again I'm Asian so perhaps our sense of family is different. For example, we often treat our cousins like siblings.

You should never make a blanket statement like "you don't abandon family." There are many situations where the best (and only) option is to get away. This includes both your spouse and your family. Abuse is one obvious example. I'm not saying that we should run away at the first sign of mental health issues. I just think that there are plenty of situations where it might be the right decision. It's obvious in extreme…

Post by jtrtoo » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 5:45 PM UTC

b1tr0t wrote: post #160

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After more than 10 years of serious and progressing anxiety disorder I discovered this plant wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypericum (Hypericum Perforatum or Millepertuis in french). In less than 3 weeks I was a different man. Ironically it has one noticeable "side effect": it has aphrodisiac properties (I didn't know it but it became quite obvious after several weeks. It's confirmed by other sources too). Also raises your Phot…

Do you have a preferred brand or online source? I've also had good experiences with St Johns wort but found quality varies a lot from what you get at a pharmacy.

Post by jsprogrammer » Mon, Nov 28, 2016, 12:46 AM UTC

digler999 wrote: post #168

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I upvoted you, but I would like to say that I think jsprogrammer's remarks being downvoted into oblivion is not warranted. He (she?) may have made his (her?) point inartfully, but it is a valid point: what is the basis for believing that "therapy" (whatever it may mean at this particular point in time) actually works, that it is anything more than a placebo? For example, this to me is a yellow flag: > talking to a li…

> jsprogrammer's remarks being downvoted into oblivion is not warranted. he's making loaded statements out of ignorance because he wont bother to google psychotherapy's definition. There is a therapeutic process to talking and learning to manage emotions and cope with defenses. Licensure is a key feature so you prohibit people from making fake therapeutic claims or quackery. Or to limit taking advantage of emotionall…

Post by randomdata » Mon, Nov 28, 2016, 6:03 PM UTC

digler999 wrote: post #199

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> Licensure is a key feature so you prohibit people from making fake therapeutic claims or quackery. Here in Canada, diary farmers need to be licensed to sell dairy products, as do poultry producers (chicken, turkey, eggs, etc.) Not because anyone is worried about someone selling fake milk or trying to claim ducks are chicken (quackery, get it?). If they were, they'd be equally worried about farmers producing other k…

I dont doubt that regulation enables regulatory capture, but what if assholes started selling dairy products that weren't up to sanitary code ? Say, like, a food truck. One day it's there, one day they're gone (conveniently after selling 50gal of tainted milk that sickens dozens). what do you do about that ?

Post by jsprogrammer » Tue, Nov 29, 2016, 7:40 AM UTC

digler999 wrote: post #169

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As astaloli said, the DSM is not valid. If changes in diagnoses are changing yearly...the NIMH seems completely correct in rejecting the book.

> the DSM is not valid. that makes treatment easy then. POOF! all mental illness disappears because the book is "invalid". FYI you're using a defense called denial[1] when you do that :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial