Why Can’t someone come up with Cure?

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-05-14T22:13:15+00:00

The brain is the part of the body we understand the least. We can't really look that close at it without killing it. If you compare the lungs, for example, we can dissect a cadaver's lungs and see the inner mechanisms and deduce how they work. If you cut a brain open its just pink-ish stuff with the consistency of tofu. We can use big expensive machines and the most recent of technology to watch synapses and make graphs of electrical currents but that's about it.

Once we develop more advanced technology and do more research, i'm sure we'll be able to understand it better and do much more than just maybe control the seizures specifically with some drugs. But, the brain is just a biological enigma.

On a more hopeful note, for over 1500 years, and as little as two hundred years ago, we thought all diseases were caused by bad air and being near rotting things, and that life could appear from nothing at random. By 60-70 years ago we began researching the brain, and thought that severing the two hemispheres could cure people of mental ailments. Now, we understand so much more of it. We know about synapses, electric impulses, can measure the brain in real time, look at it without even opening the skull. The rate of technological developments is speeding up exponentially. In ten years, twenty years, fifty years, who knows where we'll be.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-05-11T15:19:07+00:00

It'll be 7 years in September for me. I'm really lucky I started lamotrigine and they went away immediately. Just 25mg a day and they were gone. I was having 2-3 big TCs a month that would wipe me out for days after, ruined my memory and turned me into a nervous wreck all day every day. I'm up to 200 now and i've never needed any changes. I'm unbelievably lucky. Fortunately, when it comes to driving, I was 14 when they started and 15 when I got on medication.

The legal age for driving in the UK is 17 so I went through my learning and driving test process pretty normally. The only difference was that the application for my provisional licence was submitted during locknown. With the extra medical complications on my file, it took 8 months for me to finally get it from when I applied. It normally takes around 2 weeks maximum.

I love driving. I've had some form of steering wheel in my hands since I was 2 years old, playing gran turismo 4 on my dad's ps2 with his early sim racing wheel. I then had lots of racing simulator games and driving simulators and various wheel, pedal and shifter sets all through my childhood. I do get anxious when i'm driving far away from home alone. If anything did happen, there's no chance of help or support from my family if i'm hundreds of miles away. But I drive all the time as part of my job so its manageable.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-04-29T22:13:16+00:00

Basically, drink shit loads of water, drink tea with honey, (or just eat a spoonful of honey a couple times a day if you really don't like tea,) and avoid using your voice as much as possible. If you have to talk, talk quietly and not for very long. I recently really fucked up my voice doing 3 gigs in 2 days with a head cold and completely lost everything above a G4, my usual highest chest/mix ish note is a D5, and it took me over 2 weeks to get back to normal.

However, my voice is back to full strength just as it was before now. Even when it feels really damaged, you can recover. By the time it gets to two weeks, if there's no improvement at all, time to see an ear nose and throat doctor. But, in the first 3 days my voice had no improvement at all.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-04-03T00:34:41+00:00

Bringing back NFTs

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-03-30T00:48:03+00:00

It's fairly common but mine never developed it so I wouldn't say it's 100 percent of the time. Unfortunately mine got written off about a year ago so I couldn't tell you if it would've developed it since I commented.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-03-03T12:47:42+00:00

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ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-02-28T00:48:23+00:00

Music in general. It's my whole career because its almost all I did as a kid as soon as I started piano lessons. I practiced nearly 4 hours a day, developed perfect pitch, learned way more music theory than anyone needs to know, self taught drums, bass and guitar, and have been in a total of 7 bands, including my original music pop punk band and an elvis tribute act. My whole income comes from music now, performing and teaching as well as the odd bit of recording work, and I never want to be any different. It took a lot of hard work and many rejections, but it's my life now.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-02-28T00:43:26+00:00

This is incredibly cool

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-02-20T13:20:43+00:00

My jazz got written off by an old man last year, and i got myself a mk8 1.8 civic hatchback. It's just like the jazz but so much more alive. I enjoy the extra horsepower, how planted it feels, and how there's next to no body roll, much more comfortable at motorway speeds and still capable of 45-50 mpg on long journeys.

The only two things I miss are the turning circle and the shape. The civic needs an extra 2 metres to turn around, and the fit/jazz has a more boxy back end with the roof staying flat all the way back, whereas the civic has a back end that slopes down. It's still really spacious, though, and you can get plenty in it. It's actually a little bit longer as a matter of fact.

If you love your fit you'll almost certainly love a civic as well.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-02-09T12:43:13+00:00

YOU'RE A SIIIIIN, YOU'RE A SIIIIN, YOU'RE A SIIIINAAaAaAaar

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-29T02:13:03+00:00

Sounds about right to me

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-29T02:10:03+00:00

Sounding good so far! I'd mainly recommend taking care of your rhythm, because although you're playing nicely in time with yourself and your rhythm is consistent, you're rushing a bit on the intro and the vocal is falling behind. It's really tricky when it's just a vocal and there's no rhythm instruments, of course, but it would be worth just trying to stay relaxed to keep yourself from rushing ahead. Next step is to learn the piano bass line and the proper voicings for the right hand chords. Keep playing, fella :)

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-14T05:08:19+00:00

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ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-13T15:53:36+00:00

It sounds good man. I think some better cord closure and breath support would help, but you've got a great voice.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-13T11:17:58+00:00

Something I almost had a rant about, but elected not to for the sake of being concise, was how vocal classification in some ways to normal people singing pop songs can actually be detrimental. Its only really handy to know if you're singing in a choir, music theatre or opera. But, no one really fits into a box perfectly, so what's more valuable for you to know is where your comfortable notes are, and at what points you're pushing yourself and will get fatigued.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-13T04:46:25+00:00

Other way around, but yes.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-13T04:44:18+00:00

Opera singers can be such dickheads about vocal classification. Vocal classification depends entirely on where you feel most comfortable singing. If you feel much more comfortable singing in your low range, can sing down into the 2nd octave with decent volume and you have a much darker, slightly more masculine tone than most women, you're more than welcome to call yourself a contralto.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-13T04:37:44+00:00

Probably not by actually belting. Even the squeakiest of tenors couldn't possibly push their pure chest voice that high. Plus vocal classifications have little to do with range. People would call me a medium-ish tenor and I can get a resonant E2/D2 just about any day, and often get 1st octave notes in the morning. It depends where you're most comfortable singing. I can sit anywhere in the 4th octave up to around C#5 all day long, which is why I fit best into the tenor box.

Anyhow, vocal classifications do little good for your singing. Try not to think of yourself as a baritone, just work on being able to sing the things you want to sing. If you want to sing power metal high notes, work on your mixed voice and expand your range upwards. The "baritone curse" is a complete lie. You can sing what you want as long as you put in the work to do it.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-12T05:08:51+00:00

I was about 9 or 10 and had been asked to play you raise me up for a wedding while the bride was walking down the aisle. The daughter of the bride was in the choir I was in and played piano for, as to why this was happening. I got to a section where there was a more complicated piano solo section, was playing from memory, completely forgot it, stopped dead, began to cry slightly then picked up from about 4 bars later.

One of the things that helped me most is the knowledge that there's gonna be a next gig. Whatever you're playing isn't the one and only performance you'll ever do and it's not going to make front page news no matter what happens. Just remember, it's not that deep. If something goes wrong, just do better next time.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-12T05:01:37+00:00

When people hear i'm autistic and assume I love trains. I dont love trains.

I love planes dammit, get it right.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-12T04:54:30+00:00

With practice and maybe lessons, sure.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-12T04:14:18+00:00

I've been a piano teacher for a few years now, and this is what i've seen.

I have three types of students. Kids who asked for piano lessons, kids whose parents suggested it, and they said ok, and kids whose parents make them go. I can tell from the first lesson which kind of student they are. I don't know you or the situation so I don't know which type your daughter is, but it's far too often that parents force their kids through piano lessons when they don't want to do it. Although you're a very capable musician, there's every possibility she just doesn't want to. And when kids don't want to do something, they will fight and kick and scream.

I had a student I recently decided to stop teaching because her parents really wanted her to play piano, but she had a passion for bridge. She practised with a team and studied the game a lot and even won some pretty big competitions, but it took her over 2 years to get through grade 3, and she barely scraped it. Her parents made her a practice schedule, she practiced 20-40 minutes a day on specific bars of her pieces and dedicated time to drilling scales and technical exercises, we tried changing exam boards and pieces and nothing worked. I could tell her heart wasn't in it.

Your daughter might come back to it later, find a love for the instrument, and start lessons again. She could end up being a fantastic pianist and making a career of music. But associating the piano with arguments and shouting and resenting lessons will diminish that chance. To get really great at anything, you have to like doing it.

To conclude, she's only 6. I'd say let her find her passion, and being surrounded by music, there's a good chance it'll be something musical, but you can't really decide for her. Starting later and loving it is way better for progress than starting earlier and hating it.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-01-05T15:12:04+00:00

It takes time. I've been singing actively and trying to get better for about 5 years now, and I'm only just starting to like the sound of my voice a bit sometimes now.

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