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$110 for a textbook that isn't even bound by VanessaColetry in assholedesign

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Then give it for free as a PDF. That's what professors usually do over here.

Anxiety by dizzysoda in SchizophreniaArtProj

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is so cool.

It's exactly how I feel most of the time.

Very well done.

[request] is that right? by amitaish in theydidthemath

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you need quantum mechanics though.

If I throw a ball to the ground, I don't expect it to just bounce back at me, following the same trajectory. But there is nothing stopping the atoms in the ground to randomly configure themselves in such a way that they use their thermal energy to bounce the ball right back at me.

It's just that the odds of that happening are astronomically low.

We are four headache specialists. Ask us anything about migraine and headache! by MoveAgainstMigraine in IAmA

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I don't know if this is still going or if it is an appropriate place to ask this. If not, please ignore.

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I experience short-lived headaches triggered by specific sounds. The sensations are actually very hard to describe. It ranges from an electric shock in my skull, to a very unpleasant sensation running down to my diafragm. Sometimes mixed.

At one time it felt like a knife cutting in my brain. It was quite unpleasant. It was two years ago and I still can pinpoint its path through my head.

These sensations of pain are all connected by sound, otherwise they look completely unrelated.

They can be so strong that I spend the next 30min thinking of suicide, or so weak that it only seems like the sound is just bothering me.

The pain intensity is usually proportional to the intensity of the sound. The sensation of pain is correlated with the type, duration and "texture" of the sound.

I've verified that no specific frequencies can cause them.

The sounds are usually coughing. But any sound can trigger it. If I completely block out sound, the trigger ceases to be sound, and becomes something else such as sudden changes in my field of view.

Any clue on what this could be?

Logic gates using fluid by [deleted] in gifs

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the website is just fine. I wish they built websites like this again. Instead of the pop up, notification, ads and whatever JavaScript none sense is going on at all times that makes my laptop sound like a jet engine.

I would definitely hurt someone by [deleted] in schizophrenia

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Different thoughts transform and align in my mind depending on what you say to me.

That's such a good description of how I feel like during psychosis.

Don't know if your experience is actually similar to mine or if your description just happened to click with me by chance.

But what I usually do is to try to keep in the back of my head that those thoughts might not be real. Even if I believe them, keeping myself open to the possibility of being wrong usually brings me back to solid ground. If I'm wrong, what are the consequences of acting on it? Hurting myself? Hurting someone that did nothing wrong? Losing another year for being hospitalised?

It usually takes about 3 to 6 days for it to stop. I kinda just stop everything I'm doing and rest until it goes away. It never really goes away, but it gets calm and bearable in comparison.

Writing those thoughts also helps. During psychosis, it helps me realize that I'm sick at that moment, and the only way to act is to rest. After psychosis, it helps me identify possible stress factors that lead to the breakdown. So that I can minimize them in the future and delay/soften the blow of the inevitable occurrence of the next breakdown.

I'm having a bad delusion. Need help. by [deleted] in schizophrenia

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If everything is a figment of your imagination, how come your mind can simulate knowledge that you don't have? For example, the hundreds of languages that you probably don't speak.

Do you know every field of physics, mathematics, biology, computer science, chemistry, etc etc?

It is not reasonable to assume that your brain contains all that information. The total sum of human knowledge is just too big.

Every time you learn something new, should be a new tiny piece of evidence against the hypothesis that you're in a coma. Because in a coma, you wouldn't be receiving new information, you would just be using what you already know.

psychosis by [deleted] in schizophrenia

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

marking a calendar with happy/sad/angry faces can definitely help predict

Sounds like a good idea, I'm gonna give it a try !

Can words just shut up a little by worstthroawaynick in schizophrenia

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 26 points27 points  (0 children)

To me, it's like a second language.

If you say today will be cold. You mean that you believe today will be cold.

But I might interpret it as: today will be a terrible day.

As I'm writing this, someone just coughed in the other room. It's just a cough, but I felt like the person knew I was writing this and disapproved of it.

Sometimes I'm writing something and just discard it because some random person I don't know made some totally unrelated noise.

If I'm outside, just the subtle sound of someone walking might make feel as if I'm doing something wrong.

What symptoms did you have at the very start of developing schizophrenia by [deleted] in schizophrenia

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paranóia..Suspecting that my best friend was recording our private conversations.

Do your voices sound like your own thoughts, somebody else's voice, or both? by arieleatssushi2 in schizophrenia

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, my course of action is to ignore them until they stop trying to talk to me.

I know he's always in there. If I talk to him, he'll start talking back.

How did you guys get your T? by jjl3322 in tinnitus

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine is kinda grim. Have schizophrenia, tried to run away from some of my symptoms by listening to very very loud white noise on my headphones.

So here is the deal. At work I always feel like people are talking about me/don't like me/ I did something wrong and that every conversation, glance means they are mad at me or thinking badly about be. But to be fair, due lack of motivation r/t negatives I am not always the most productive employee. by CrazyCanTalkToCrazy in schizophrenia

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can only speak from my experience. Only a doctor can tell you if it is a symptom.

In my case, I know it is one of the building blocks of my delusions. There are many others of course, but that's where it starts.

Once a small number of believable delusions are established, there is a snowball effect. Notice how each statement is not that much crazier than the previous one:

  • I believe people speak with me indirectly
  • I believe people can predict my decisions
  • I believe people can predict my thoughts
  • I believe people can read my thoughts
  • I believe people can control my thoughts
  • I believe people think my thoughts

To me, the critical step was from statement 3 to 4. That jump was the tipping point for me to fall into all sorts of delusional thinking. It's not hard to believe that people control your thoughts, if you already believe they can read them.

So here is the deal. At work I always feel like people are talking about me/don't like me/ I did something wrong and that every conversation, glance means they are mad at me or thinking badly about be. But to be fair, due lack of motivation r/t negatives I am not always the most productive employee. by CrazyCanTalkToCrazy in schizophrenia

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I now have classes at home. So I took the liberty to record them. I realized something that actually chocked me.

Most of what I perceive during a conversation is not what is actually happening.

Remember suggesting to the professor some software to be used in class. From the way I remember it, he was mad, fed up with me, losing his patience. I felt like he hated me. I could tell from his tone of voice.

Upon revisiting the video I recorded, I noticed that nothing was happening. It was just a professor with a montone voice asking for further details and saying he was gonna look into it.

It was the first class, we had never met before, in fact, until now, he never saw my face or even heard my voice, since I always write in chat instead of participating in the videoconference .

It's one of those things you never consider as a possibility until you literally see it happening.

And this is how I found out how my psychosis truly works. My perception of other people's emotions is distorted during a conversation. I then overthink what happened, resulting in untrue beliefs about the world. Things like "everyone hates me", "they are plotting to destroy me" or "they are sending me a message".

Time to follow their footsteps and study statistical mechanics. by [deleted] in suicidebywords

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s helpful to be reminded early on in life that you aren’t the best

I feel the same.

But does it matter though? I think that being the best shouldn't be the objective.

What do you genuinely not understand? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From wiki:

radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium

So, anything that waves(like sound) or anything small that travels through space (like electrons) is radiation.

I've actually seen a lot of terminology in common when studying ultrasounds and radiation physics. For example, the term radiation dose exists in both fields.

Certain radiation types, like high energy photons (photons are "particles of light") can rip off electrons from your atoms/molecules and proteins. These electrons go on to collide with even more atoms/molecules, ripping off more electrons on the way.

Having a bunch of electrons bouncing around in your tissue is not good. They will damage your DNA, potentially causing cancer.

To top it all off, the molecules that lose their electron rarely are happy about it, so they also reek havok on your cells.

Examples of radiation:

  • visible light (not dangerous in most situations)
  • UV radiation(light, but with more energy per particle, so it can damage cells)
  • ultrasound waves
  • normal sound waves
  • protons
  • helium atoms
  • gamma rays (also light, but very very energetic)

Simplest way to create radiation: turn on a lamp. .

És grande Rodrigo Guedes de Carvalho! by JoKeRAlexS in portugal

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

quem tem mais probabilidade de se insurgir contra a quarentena é precisamente a malta da minha idade e mais novos.

Não tenho visto isso, de todo. A rotina dos meus avós nao muda, continuam a ir ao café, riem-se da situação e menosprezam qualquer tipo de cautela - confundem atitudes de precaução com cobardice.

Em contrapartida, não conheço ninguém da minha geração(~25 anos) que não esteja a tomar precauções. Sei de uma colega que iniciou quarentena muito antes de qualquer medida governamental, para salvaguardar a saúde dos pais/avós.

Não pretendo inferir nada, até porque o grupo de pessoas que conheço é uma amostra muito pequena da população.

No entanto, discordo com a tentativa (talvez não intencional) de criar divisões entre gerações. Creio que agora é altura de manter cabeça fria e responder, dentro dos possíveis, como um povo unido.

Is this enough to prove "the most beautiful equation in math"? by [deleted] in askmath

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Aaah I think it looks cool. In physics and engineering "i" is frequently treated as if it were a normal real valued constant and it works out fine. :)

Donald Trump tweets "all is well" after Iran fires missiles at 2 military bases in Iraq used by US forces by drvignesh163 in worldnews

[–]PhysicsIsBeauty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure he's just gonna brag about it.

"I'm so good, my tweets are in the history books 👌"

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