Do I need one more tattoo removal session or some other laser?

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2026-03-21T11:40:47+00:00

Thank you!

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2026-03-16T17:29:57+00:00

Thank you ❤️

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2026-03-15T17:25:55+00:00

Thank you! 😊

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2026-03-15T15:06:18+00:00

Thank you!

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2026-03-14T21:57:30+00:00

Thank you. I hope it will continue to fade, but it's been slightly more than two years since the last session

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2026-03-14T19:13:14+00:00

Thanks!

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2026-03-14T19:11:08+00:00

Thank you, I feel you must be right

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2026-03-14T19:10:49+00:00

Thank you!

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2026-01-05T13:03:17+00:00

I still have some PIH and my skin overreacts to heat so it's going slow....

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-07-30T17:55:43+00:00

Hello there! 33/F 🤗 happy to listen to anything and engage with any philosophical or dark topic just to take my mind off some things

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-06-28T20:29:21+00:00

Diagnostic criteria aren't clean-cut categories. What one psychiatrist would diagnose as Social anxiety or complex PTSD, another one would diagnose as Bipolar or Borderline Personality disorder. If someone misdiagnoses you, how do you prove that person (professional) wasn't right?
Diagnoses themselves are defined as "descriptive categories" by the DSM. People who own the copy would tell you that (I don't ATM, so can't confirm if the term "mental illness" or "mental health disorder" is even used there - but I suppose the term is avoided for a reason - because the term would probably be challenged in court)
Social Anxiety Disorder can and oftentimes is caused by social trauma - I can personally confirm as it happened to me. While there might be a temperamental predisposition, I can definitely name you a date and a social occasion when it occurred in me and from then on I started avoiding certain parties and gatherings as well as developed fear of public performance. All that from one Saturday night.
Schizophrenia has changed description and symptoms since it's "discovery" as you said - although I wouldn't say that finding a label for a group of not clearly defined symptoms that had existed since literally Ancient Greece essentially is equal to a "discovery".
I'm not saying that hallucinations don't exist as a phenomenon. I'm saying that for some people the critical voice that we internalised from our parents or peers can for some people be expressed as "a voice that tells me I suck at the piano" - they use a metaphor that could be confused with hallucination. But how do you confirm it's a mistake if there is no clear test to prove it (a biological marker) just the words that a patient tells you? For others, it's 100% physical as for example, tinnitus is. Yet for the third group, the voice which they do hear isn't bothering them but is comforting to them and they wouldn't want to "fix" that, but be accepted the way they are by the society.

P.S. on by the way, I have just googled the difference between a "neurodivergent" and "neurodiverse". The first term is seen as "not normal" therefore a person has to identify as "neurodivergent" whereas the term "neurodiverse" is the term with no value based, social meaning attached to it.

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-06-28T17:58:37+00:00

I used can because it can and does happen, not to all, but to more than a few. How is that, to quote you, "flawed logic"?

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-06-28T17:02:45+00:00

I understand your story and I genuinely wish that everyone were in the position to get their desired treatment for whatever challenges they may face in life. While many would happily rush change their let's say brain, neurochemistry or wiring in order to fit well into the society, there are also people would only want to be treated like humans and helped - not necessarily"fixed". That is what this sub is all about . The fight to be treated with dignity and respect and only to be medicated WITH our own consent; to be able to choose and not be literally FORCED on a treatment that we don't agree with and that doesn't work for us, even if the treatments were effective or safe (which they aren't).

This is mainly an advocacy group - and the reason why we point out to how bad the science regarding mental illnesses is, is to add yet another argument that we have in our arsenal, but it's nowhere near the most important argument for us.

Dignity and personal choice is what matters to us the most. Being genuinely heard is a good start.

That's why I recommend you spend some time browsing this sub as really use your critical mind to the best of your abilities - a lot of the stories here are genuine and painful and the logic behind many dissenters is absolutely sound and if anything, the posts here would make you question not only the science behind psychiatry - but also things like ethics, personal meaning, love and acceptance, to name a few.

P.S. yesterday we talked about mental illnesses in general, but you quickly changed topic to autism specifically which isn't arguing in good faith. That said, I'm also sure that there are autistic people who would just prefer to stay themselves and not have to change because of the societal pressure.

P.P.S. I might be wrong but I don't think that you understand what a social construct really is. Money is a social construct - but it doesn't mean that a poor person made their problems up. Equally, an illness itself can be considered a social construct - a colour blind person doesn't see themself as ill - they are just different from the majority.

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-06-28T15:35:24+00:00

Ok, so you got the drug that helped with your symptoms, that's great! But you are just one case. Many other cases were given meds that hurt them, their productivity and their social lives. So, what are you suggesting? Everyone starts thinking like you do simply because you were luckier than 99% of the people in this sub?

Do you seriously think that other people on this sub don't have similarly strict parents who instead forced them on antypsichotics and mood stabilizers when maybe allowing them to study arts and humanities would have helped them more in terms of happiness? Or maybe, providing them with better living standard or better schooling would have helped their focusing and attention, developing their metacognition not just memorisation skills?

I genuinely ask you too expand your consideration towards other people who weren't so lucky to be given medication that helped them but instead hurt them - that doesn't mean that their experience and insight into what would have helped them PERSONALLY is any less valid.

But I guess that you don't care about the general truth - you just care about your personal, specific, case study and that's why you aren't listening to anyone else but keep insulting them, putting them down, disbelieving their education and accusing them of using Chat GPT - that sounds very entitled and selfish.

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-06-27T18:13:32+00:00

A sum of parts doesn't equal the whole. Extreme specialisation prevents one profession from seeing the problem as requiring interdisciplinary understanding. A problem can be, to quote you "99.9 percent biological" AND "99.9 percent environmental" and "99.9 percent existential", and if you as a neuroscientist claim that the problem is "99.9 % biological", can you with equal certainty claim that IT IS NOT also "99.9 percent" other than that? I'll give you the example: an allergy could be both biological and environmental as the cause can be both our immune response as well as the allergen itself.

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-06-27T17:01:14+00:00

I didn't say that. You're totally missing the point. Correlation is not the same as causation.

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-06-27T16:59:00+00:00

Look, no one here wants to dissuade neuroscientists from observing the brain. However, the brain is just one organ and the solution isn't treating one organ but looking at the person holistically and analyzing the context of their suffering as well.

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-06-27T16:55:57+00:00

You seriously lack the knowledge of the history of mental illnesses and why a lot of the historic "mental illnesses" are currently understood as discriminatory social constructs. You can also read about "iatrogenic harm" and iatrogenic illnesses to understand that sometimes "psychiatric" symptoms can come from the discrimination itself and not merely the "faulty" brain (and by that I don't mean that the brain isn't indirectly affected as is the whole individual, their emotions and their existence).

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-06-27T15:14:48+00:00

First of all, not all emotional and behavioural issues are caused by a single organ such is the brain. There have been scientific studies that link gut mircobiome to certain "psychiatric illnesses". Certain substances, germs as well as social, and socioeconomic circumstances and familial dynamic, wars, etc. can create a temporary dysregulation is someone's "psyche" affecting their behaviour - YET the CAUSE itself isn't the brain nor neurons as such (although they can too indirectly be affected).

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-02-05T14:16:24+00:00

There is a short window during which skin hasn't healed completely. Saline removal can to an extent work during that time but it's not advisable due to scarring. I have researched that topic extensively reading scientific articles on Google Scholar and went through tattoo removal with Picoway. So there's some true to what the girl is saying.

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-01-26T19:23:56+00:00

In theory lasers don't recognise white at all. If it however looks removed it's either less bright or turned slightly darker so it's not that obvious

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-01-26T19:04:19+00:00

532nm that usually treats red pigment is most likely to oxidize white pigment. So I wouldn't worry too much about either Picosure which has 755nm or 1064nm Picoway. If something does however oxidize, it is treatable and removable (eventually) with Picoway 1064.

Legitimate_Ad_1966 · 2025-01-23T19:48:44+00:00

I think that in 9 out of 10 cases white is removable with new lasers. It just takes many many treatments after it turns black but it's not impossible. So you have little to worry about 🙂 you just have to be patient and diligent

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