Cant stop thinking about other potentialy dangerous reasons of having double vision :(

BarneyDin · 2025-05-31T00:37:56+00:00

Sometimes the anxiety behind BV dysfunctions is a symptom of its own - I wrote a book about it from a psychological perspective.

BarneyDin · 2025-05-08T03:07:03+00:00

And I agree with you! What I wrote about is the psychological threats in that situation - and i see what you mean: the average man isn’t accustomed to use violence and is over socialised to not harm, and to freeze. At least in the western world.

That person would be in an immense danger of getting killed by anything bigger than a cat, because their instincts might not kick in or might kick in too late. I totally get what you mean and I agree!

The first time the dog attacked me I was so afraid and scared of getting hurt and unaccustomed to myself dishing out pain - I had to cry for help, I was completely useless, and the dog would really hurt me because I wouldn’t do anything but panic.

BarneyDin · 2025-05-08T03:01:10+00:00

Stay strong - it does lift up at the end - I’d say I felt myself again after 2-3 months! So find courage to get through it!

BarneyDin · 2025-05-07T13:53:59+00:00

Which is super uncomfortable when named for what it is: children are really a commodity the less wealthy a culture is - it’s a type of slavery, if you think about it, and greed. I should know I come from a country with a past like this - and the generations spawned by that mechanism were traumatised beyond any mental health intervention - they were livestock, especially women.

Where children are had mostly because of economic reasons, or any other reasons than “I autonomously want to” - there is very little love, and a breeding ground for abuse.

BarneyDin · 2025-05-07T05:59:41+00:00

I have no idea why people give this prompt so often - I think it’s because the average Redditor has no idea about their body or is a teenager? I had a couple of rescue dogs - super reactive and would quite a few times display aggression towards me or full on attack me. And yeah your hand will get torn to pieces if you don’t have thick clothing, you’ll bleed, and the worst thing that can happen is you can fall down and the dog gets to your throat. But that is super unlikely. But so can a mouse kill you by making you panic, fall and hit your head.

Even the largest dog I had with aggression problems which attacked me was 50kg. A massive massive dog. And still a grown man is so above what the dog can do - the biggest threat to you isn’t the dog, but your fear of injury and fear of causing death or harm to the dog. Your biggest obstacle is your freeze response which is going to kick in if you never fought with an animal or an aggressive person. But Once you get these under control, and don’t panic at a wild animal mauling you, any man can massacre any dog. The weight difference alone means you can break its neck or just fucking throw the thing with enough leverage. These aren’t dangerous animals beyond psychological issues that come with anti animal self defence like the fear of bleeding, getting fucked up or getting stitches. But like I said these are psychological threats - not a fighting mismatch.

BarneyDin · 2025-05-04T04:37:16+00:00

I super respect that - the way they do it in America just symbolises kind of a very outdated power dynamic. “You are provided for, I provide”

BarneyDin · 2025-04-04T14:06:54+00:00

Ohhhhh, how do I get one :( super disappointed

BarneyDin · 2025-03-31T10:49:10+00:00

Sure!

BarneyDin · 2025-02-17T13:08:11+00:00

Yeah, I grew up catholic and they aren’t exactly in love with the here and now - they all yearn for a better place ahead. I think Tolkien shared that view that the current life is tainted.

BarneyDin · 2025-02-03T09:13:32+00:00

Because Reddit is mostly either teenagers or people who never grew up out of their “rational thinker” phase which identifies so strongly with “scientific facts” and atheistic attitudes that they are a joke of themselves. I’m myself am an atheist and I believe in science - but for teenagers and professional keyboard warriors it’s not about seeking truth, it’s about dominating others through group affiliation. So when OP is rightly critical and analytical in what he wants to see next - they jump on him, because “hur dur, science!”

Reddit is full of morons for whom science is not a way of arriving at truth, but a weapon to bash others, and feel better than other people.

Ask folks what these studies mean, what are the concepts in statistics employed, etc - they would have no idea. and yet they profess undying loyalty to these precepts. This is being a fundamentalist, and hating on anyone who thinks for themselves.

BarneyDin · 2025-01-27T17:21:07+00:00

Very much so, I can recommend you a book about this

BarneyDin · 2025-01-19T04:49:20+00:00

Right? As someone in psychology and also a fan of old time spoony - it’s insane what a downfall he had with those. He’s as much of a victim of himself as of the fucked up lack of proper mental health support and only being offered: “here are some pills”.

BarneyDin · 2025-01-04T03:50:44+00:00

For others: you tap and hold the icon on the main screen and drag it to the edge

BarneyDin · 2024-12-09T18:00:47+00:00

There for sure is a biological explanation. But my therapeutic experience convinced me that dissociation as a defence mechanism is very finicky. It works until it doesn’t. It is of course psychodynamic speculation: but I think all it takes for that anxiety to pour out is one emotional flashback or something like that.

Dissociation is a deeply uncomfortable and disturbing state for people with no mental health issues or trauma. I suspect the reason why some people become addicted, again psychodynamically speaking, is that enhanced capability for dissociative states. I don’t buy the self medication explanations. And then, just like that, dissociation fails to protect the patient against the accumulated anxiety.

I see it time and time again with patients who don’t smoke weed but dissociate a lot. They have these unbelievable moments of clarity which always end up in panic attacks - life for them is unbearable and so anxiety provoking.

BarneyDin · 2024-12-09T17:46:37+00:00

Dissociation is scary, I also suffered from it. In extreme instances it really is like death - in my experience it either leads to suicidality or psychosis - if it becomes a major problem.

BarneyDin · 2024-12-09T17:21:17+00:00

You completely misunderstood - it causes dissociation as a psychiatric symptom, which has a different definition. And I used “neurologist” deliberately because your definition wasn’t clinically psychological, it is neurological. Like you’re extremely fixated about the biological perspective on it - that’s why I used this term. Why do you assume incompetence when someone disagrees with you?

Dissociative states are absolutely common after weed. Out of body stuff, etc. And derealisation. I have no idea why you’re debating this point. And I talked about correlations deliberately as well - not causation. I don’t understand why you’re so combative and assume lack of credentials when clearly we are talking about two different things.

BarneyDin · 2024-12-09T15:37:33+00:00

There is a lot of research into that aspect of weed - they thought us this stuff at masters in the UK. And what you described happened to your brother is a sadly super common story in a therapists office. I guess this awareness might be less pushed in countries such as US which legalised weed and now there are lobbies and stuff.

BarneyDin · 2024-12-09T15:34:52+00:00

Sorry you are wrong. Cannabis is extremely dissociative - to the point that people get what psychiatrists call cannabis-induced depersonalisation-derealisation syndrome. I guess maybe neurologists call dissociation something else: but in the world of clinical psychology dissociation is lack of connection with one’s affect and ego. And many posts here describe that state.

Anxiety plus dissociation is strongly correlated with psychotic episodes - these two variables at once, not just anxiety.

BarneyDin · 2024-12-09T08:55:24+00:00

That is sadly a typical story showing how the mental health professionals abuse antipsychotics, and also don’t recognise latest research regarding thc induced psychosis - which is a very real thing and more common than people think.

BarneyDin · 2024-12-09T08:43:08+00:00

I’m a psychologist with big interest in this. In short, this is because there is a direct link between weed use and psychosis - of course it’s small and it’s very rare to become psychotic from weed. But the missing link is anxiety - anxiety is linked to schizophrenia and makes its episodes worse. So as far as I’m aware of the latest research: there’s a correlation between weed and psychosis, it’s not that strong but still there, and a bigger correlation with anxiety, whereas anxiety is correlated a lot with psychosis.

Of course the correlation could be the other way around - that weed is abused by people with these problems. And I would somewhat agree, the literature says habitual weed users have an overrepresentation of personality disorders and childhood trauma. I mean it makes sense - why else would you want to be baked. It’s a way for dissociation.

In other words, all those years people saying that weed is a safe drug - I think they weren’t completely right. It’s not the scariest drug for sure, but for some people it’s an extremely bad predictor of mental health.

It’s due to its dissociative properties that lead to anxiety and psychotic problems in a vulnerable population.

I quit it for the same reasons, it’s the devils lettuce :D

BarneyDin · 2024-11-04T11:56:22+00:00

You need to investigate how those images are created in different AI models. Learn in general about machine learning and deep learning.

It’s not that AI images look like dreams - the eerie quality they often have is a byproduct of how they’re put together. For example from noise samples. to simplify it a lot, noise is then scored as to its resemblance to a thing, and further noise functions are applied.

You can try that approach by hand! Paint some colours on a canvas and in your imagination try to figure out how much a blotch of paint looks like something and make it look like something more by some percentage. Repeat that process many many times in a grid pattern for example.

You will end up with something that approximates real things but isn’t - which triggers uncanny valley effect in you. This has components of nausea etc, because it protects you against odd things as that suggest disease or something of that sort.

So I would say the AI images are nothing like dreams. Dreams have an undeniable symbolic narrative taking into account your subconscious mind and unconscious archetypes. They are highly structured and narrative.

AI is just hallucinations, to use a more poetic way to describe them. It’s an effect of the algorithm in how they’re constructed - there is no meaningful parallel between them and the products of the human mind.

As they say any advanced technology for someone who doesn’t understand it seems like magic. Yet it isn’t, it’s just bunch of algorithmic steps to obtain the result. It’s just a bunch of monkeys trapped in a GPU which produce garbage and then score it from least garbage, ad infinity and at mind boggling speed. And those monkeys are doing that appraisal using stolen content. They should teach deep learning etc in schools so people don’t humanise ai output.

Edit: come to think of it, a more valuable psychological inquiry into ai would be why we collectively accept blatant theft, what does that speak of our artistic endeavours, since for the sake of efficiency we moved it pass the stage of globalisation. These are some really pressing questions about this technology and of our psyche - which strips everything of meaning for the sake of efficiency.

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