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Agreed. Being a victim also gets pretty cosy after a while. It can become a catch-all excuse you make for yourself.

Well, I think it's overstated when people say "nobody knows how anti-depressants work"-- plenty of people have really strong, robust results that paint a pretty clear picture. It's just that tge devil's often in the details, which are still being worked out in some cases. You're right when you...

Ah... yeah, that's true. A drug can cause a temporary psychosis in someone who has no history or genetic predisposition toward neurological illness. But in that case, when the drug is out of the person's system, the symptoms dissipate/disappear. Or, as is often seen with LSD or hallucinogens...

Personally, I'd wager that TV and new media are more responsible for peoples' complacency than SSRIs could ever be. Several times over. But admitting that would be too much like taking personal responsibility...

In concert with genetics. Otherwise, how do yo explain the fact that not every soldier suffers from PTSD, and some suffer far more than others? Anxiety, like any other emotional response, is regulated by hormones and neurotransmitters. Some peoples' systems bounce back more easily than others...

Case study: me My DNA codes for a brain that misregulates glutamate, a synapse excitatory neurotransmitter. I produce far too much of it, and my receptors don't properly uptake it. This leads to seizures, chronic migraines, and, mostly likely, bipolar disorder. My medication is well-known for...

I never said a person can't change their brain chemistry without drugs. But they're certainly not going to get their DNA to start transcribing RNA, then translating RNA into proteins, that ARE NOT CODED FOR in the DNA. Some people have DNA that doesn't properly code for certain proteins-- just...

I can explain that extremely easily. Not everyone who experiences periodic mild to moderate depression has a genetically based depressive disorder. There are very strict, extensively studied diagnostic criteria for diagnosing someone with a depressive disorder or other mental illness. Another...

Congratulations on your recovery. You might not be as useful to the Kapitalist Resistance Front now, but Who cares? :D

Basically, there has been a problem with over-prescription of some psychiatric medications due to misdiagnosis. But this 'problem' is far less wide-spread and far less of a gravely serious issue than a lot of people would have you believe. People reeeeally, reeeally need to get over the...

I wondered the same thing. These sorts of quantitative measurements of largely qualitative phenomena are almost inevitably skewed toward whatever the ideological bent of the data analyst happens to be. In statistics there are entirely different ways of dealing with straightforward "discrete"...

I've heard people say that the acidity of the oceans now is a huge and intractable problem in and of itself that no one has any clue how to approach. Just think of what will happen when the marine species-- which make up a huge percentage of all known species-- start dying off. Famine, basically.

I did this for "Greenpeace" (that's what our shirts said-- but it was actually just for the Fund for Public Interest Research) one summer in Manhattan when I was teen. Back then you got paid $40/day plus a commission of $50 for every person you got to sign up for "membership." A good day would...

It's still bullshit macho posturing, though. I mean, I've said it myself. Plenty of times. It's also just a silly internet meme. But it originates in macho posturing. The idea that black men are some kind of dark and terrifying threat to us spotty geeks is sort of strange... I mean, to...

Access to goods, services, capital, education, jobs, wealth, security, food, legal services, medical services, justice in court, respect, freedom from institutionalized racism... I could go on forever.

From an economic/capitalist point-of-view, the geeks have a lot more power than some black men fighting over drug turf do. Believe it or not.

So, when white men engage in macho posturing it's ok. It's only bad when the scary black men does it? I hope that's not what you're saying, but it sure sounds that way...

Love that quote. Ah, so now 'trolling' is writing one slightly negative and dismissive comment on a message board where you've contributed tons of very lengthy, in-depth posts on hundreds of topics. Whatever, mms. Every so often you get into a little huff whenever someone suggests that the...

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Everytime I read "modus pwnens" I always think "modus LOLens" for modus tollens as well.