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ada1981

This was very impressive to read and while I don’t have the technical Knowledge to do this, it reminded me of “fixing” my mental health when Stanford Psychiatrists diagnosed me and said I’d be on pills the rest of my life, incurable.

Years later, after rebuilding my psyche from scratch, happy to report they were wrong.

But striking similarities, where the “professionals” just didn’t bother to solve a solvable problem.

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You might feel that your mind is a computer program you can simply rewrite, but I feel that mine is a horse that does not listen to me

Pills work for a lot of things (ADHD for instance) and they're a lot faster than years

Trade offs for sure. Short term vs. long term impacts.

Having fully healed from so called bipolar, schizoaffective, anxiety and suicidal depression, I’m quite grateful I read the primary research and didn’t listen to the pharma-industrial complex.

Wild that things like dancing have proven to be more effective (and with no side effects) than SSRIs.

And sure, you can always tranquillized a horse, or you can take the time to learn to ride.

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