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Do you have a list of which SNP's are related to this/are pathological? I have an Ancestry partial genome that I've imputed to expand. Would be curious whether those SNP's are present in the data.
They are listed as benign, since I find the people first then get the sequence I think that classification is incorrect.
Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff
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#212>The persistence of schizophrenia is an evolutionary enigma how much schizophrenia is actually going to manifest in peak procreating years?
I have two relatives with schizophrenia. Both had onset in their mid 20s.
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> is not appropriate here Actually, if the agenda of pushing CBD therapy applies, then it is. I know a number of folks that have autistic children, of various levels, from "nerd," to "wheelchair-bound." Their parents are usually absolute saints, regardless of their political views, or misinformation diets, and live in constant pain; making daily sacrifices that I don't think many folks here, can even comprehend. We w…
CBD has an antipsychotic effect. There's not really any debate on that in the scientific community, and I've already provided a link. That's not part of some sinister agenda to legalize cannabis, it's just stating facts to clear up the misinformation which at this point you are willfully repeating. > The real villains, here, are the people that have secondary agendas (like legalizing drugs, or pushing political agend…
I don't believe you. If you had, you would have led with it, just like I did. I value people that have skin in the game. Jenny McCarthy is a big fat pain in the ass, but she really does have an autistic kid, is a good mother, and has formed her worldview around that.
> So please, stop with the reefer madness.
WTF? I've never believed that crap in my life. Interesting that it's important to you, that I support that twisted worldview. You've mentioned it a couple of times, so it seems to be something that you're fixated on.
I do, however, have considerable experience with the fallout from drug use. I have spent my entire adult life, helping folks out, who have had their lives shattered by it. There are a small percentage of the population that can't handle drugs, and need help to recover from it. I do my best to help them out, and don't insist that the vast majority of the population change their worldview to fit mine.
Personally, I think that pot should be legal everywhere, including at the federal level (which will basically kill all the "mom and pop" operations out there, so be careful what you pray for). I don't use it, and don't care, myself. That doesn't make me an enemy.
I'd gently suggest that a professional forum, read by many of the most influential people in tech, might not be the best place to be a crusader for drug use.
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> And no, please spare us all your justifications for how caffeine is fine or micro-dosing has been amazing, because they are simply varying levels of rationalization, I do it too, I’m just not in it as deeply. And no, just because you were able to become rich with and on the back of drugs does not mean you did it without harm, you likely just scandalized a lot of harm to, e.g., get rich selling some service to some…
I hate to write out these words, but you're strawmanning. The point is caffeine etc. corrupt the mind and cause a person's mental faculties to run in a way they were not initially designed to. The point is not that these drugs are all extremely harmful, only that they are all harmful. Caffeine and other things get a pass because the "hard drugs" are so uniquely and visibly harmful that they overshadow all other forms…
Not everyone is the same, there is a lot of variety, what you say could indeed be true for most people but can also not be true for a small minority of people.
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This is personally interesting to me, as I am the first generation of my family that is not semi-nomadic (not sure about the exact term in English). When you say you've cured it - did you move somewhere more adequate or you did you stop moving?
I believe my sensitivities came from a semi-nomadic people, but northern European cold climate, so I generally focus on staying in cooler climates.
We also have a lot of mental health issues in my family since the switch to "civilization", not sure that any one of us is totally sane.
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Do you know what is considered as "latent schizophrenia"? Is it like in your 40's or 30's or just couple years after the mean?
if you are a man and make it past age of 29 without starting to hear voices, you can breathe a sigh of relief (I did)
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Mental illness and creativity are not closely related. There is correlation but mental illness is not required for creativity. According to Wikipedia, creative people are 25% more likely to have a mental illness. As for why so many bipolar people are famous, manic episodes can be very productive. For myself, being bipolar has given me several lifetimes of perspective to inform my writing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w…
> Mental illness and creativity are not closely related. There is correlation What do you think a correlation is if not a relationship? No one said it was "required".
There’s absolutely a correlation, enough to be causation. But it doesn’t make mental illness a primary factor in creativity in modern society.
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Thank you for sharing your journey! Most difficult part of this relationship has been to have her not worry about me leaving her because of her symptoms. Communication is the key. The only thing that can get tiring is when sleep schedules are so messy, and I have to go to work in the morning. If you don’t mind sharing, what was your progression towards being cured? Did you do anything different lifestyle wise? I have…
First, I’m sorry if there’s any typos I am doing speech to text on my iPhone writing this and it’s early in the morning. There are many psychiatrist that have different viewpoints, for example I’ve talked to many who see purines as a problem and then you have the whole keto/mitochondrial doctors. There are many psychiatrist that will never change their minds about mood disorders because why do they have to? I should…
The thing about treating it all as some sort of an allergy makes sense for me since connecting some ideas from Gabor Mate about the immune system.
And the covid triggering a phychosis like state rings true for me as well (not that I need to corroborate what you are saying, once you know you know). One of the worst trips I've had was "just" having covid during the summer.
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if you are a man and make it past age of 29 without starting to hear voices, you can breathe a sigh of relief (I did)
We dont even know what constitutes a mental voice. Hell, a huge percentage of people cant hear their own voices in their heads