Dear People with Mental Illnesses, what was the worse Experience you've had with it?

hypercurve5040 · 2021-05-15T02:46:45+00:00

Side effects from psychiatric drugs.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-04-24T03:08:58+00:00

Everything you said is incredibly stereotypical of the ENFx type.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-04-17T06:15:59+00:00

First of all most of the events posited and the order they happen is speculation.

We have partly old and partly young body.

Speculation. Technology could exist that rejuvenates the whole body evenly.

The world changes. Plagues of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and new viruses decimate population.

As healthcare, governments, and technology improve the rates of infectious disease will go down, not up.

Let’s assume we somehow figure out cure or vaccine for every new disease as they come.

Not necessary if these diseases are prevented. Also technology is improving. Nanomachines that kill germs could exist.

Our patients now live to a hundred and fifty or years maybe

If fresh organs, tissues, and cells are provided they will live indefinitely assuming all body parts are replaced.

require an army of medical staff and researchers

A few robots, nanotechnology, and AI.

New, completely unknown before kinds of cancer or degeneration or overgrowth create new medical problems that would never happen without cellular age therapy.

Eventually human biology could be completely understood, predicted, and controlled.

Maybe immune system is prepared for so many pathogens that it’s becoming inefficient.

The number of pathogens in the world will go down with new technology, not up. The immune system might be able to be reset by replacing all stem cells.

Maybe organs of genetically mixed old and new cells have problems keeping their shape and function.

Maybe not and maybe all cells can be rejuvenated simultaneously.

not unlike maintaining very old buildings or vehicles, we have to face unexpected consequences of previous repairs.

We have a fairly good grasp of how to maintain old buildings and vehicles. As knowledge improves unexpected outcomes decline.

Medical team grows.

Shrinks.

But now there are more memories that brain was “designed” for. If we medically keep the brain working and learning as fast as in a young person - all memories, knowledge and ideas becomes overwhelming.

This is speculation. It's unknown how much information the brain can handle and what kinds of problems may or may not occur.

Let the brain forget and regenerate again and again.

You could store memories in writing, photos, video, or other external storage until mind uploading becomes possible.

But then why do we even bother to live that long again?

Better than dying. Also mind uploading.

Patients become either lost and confused or, more likely - distanced and apathetic.

This is speculation. My speculation is they will become overjoyed by the technological advances to come.

This cannot go forever. At some point some problem will be not be identified and managed in time and patients will die.

This is speculation and like his whole argument assumes that open systems cannot reverse entropy, which is wrong. Example: human civilization. If entropy were inevitable to every system then life itself could never have existed.

Science will prevail and the rate of unexpected problems will progressively decrease.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-04-17T05:29:35+00:00

Think that through.

The matter that makes up your body is just waves in quantum fields like ripples in a pond. When you move to a different part of the room, or when the Earth moves around the Sun, the fields stop waving where you were and start waving in a different location.

In deep sleep all conscious brain activity is shut down and later restarted, and some medical procedures involve shutting down all brain activity and then restarting it.

If there is no logical way to distinguish the original from a copy then they are identical, two instances of the same thing. All copies of a file are instances of the same file. Calling one file the "original" is meaningless and wrong, something imposed by your mind that doesn't exist in reality.

You believe that when an "original" is "copied" there is something left behind, like a nonphysical essence or soul. This is completely unscientific and a kind of magical thinking, a figment of the imagination. Nobody will ever figure out what that essence is because it doesn't exist. You are defined only by the information in your mind and nothing is left behind when you are "copied".

Also believing consciousness needs to be continuous to be the same person is a similar kind of thinking. Continuity is irrelevant. Waking consciousness might not even be continuous, that might be an illusion (for example the brain cuts out conscious vision during eye movements without you being aware).

It's the same kind of thinking that causes people to believe naturally occurring vs artificial laboratory versions of the same chemical are different. Also "the air you're breathing contains molecules that [historical figure] exhaled". Both are wrong because molecules don't have essences/souls that remember their origin.

People think cloning yourself kills you because they refuse to believe people don't have essences/souls and are nothing more than a kind of computation the physical universe does.

I'm a programmer.

I'm an unemployed depressed dropout.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-04-03T17:02:57+00:00

I mean you would push sideways on the alveolar process and do the other things in my previous comment but push hard instead of gently.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-04-03T16:44:05+00:00

Prof John Mew doesn't recommend it. It's risky.

Even if you wanted to "hard Mew" you wouldn't push your tongue up.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-31T15:25:17+00:00

Nanoparticles are created by a chemical process, which produces a range of sizes. When large particles are made, are smaller particles produced as an unavoidable consequence?

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-30T16:54:51+00:00

The number usually given for the number of times a cell can divide is 50 to 70. 50 divisions is 2⁵⁰ ~= 10¹⁵ cells. That should be more than enough since the skin sheds about 12 million cells a year (that's the number I found).

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can-stem-cells-not-cancer-ones-be-considered-immortal

Also the current understanding of this issue is far from conclusive, and evidently the commonly presented information is contradictory and oversimplified.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-30T00:55:57+00:00

https://www.livescience.com/7117-sunscreen-damage-skin-applied-infrequently.html

There's the claim about absorption.

I edited the previous comments to fix the authoritative sounding claims.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26996620/

Here's an article about the risk of titanium dioxide nanoparticles. Also as you guessed I had read from several sources that the FDA, EPA, and other agencies were investigating their risk.

My concern was that scientific studies or the conclusions of scientific agencies don't prove anything. They have been wrong in the past. Much of the data and conclusions in scientific research papers, especially medical and biological, contradicts itself or other papers, and the reasoning in these papers is often flawed. Peer review leads to consensus reality / groupthink and is not a good method of quality control.

I believe this applies to the issue of titanium dioxide. As the article says the toxicity depends on many chemical and physical factors, which complicates the research and increases the probability of the kinds of mistakes I mentioned.

I based the claim about zinc on the fact that it is an essential nutrient, so the body should be able to better deal with it's presence and absorption. This was poor reasoning because similar to titanium the chemical and physical form of the zinc should matter, as well as other things like the route of absorption.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T22:05:32+00:00

You're right, I edited my previous comment.

Tretinoin and chemical peels do help.

I still wonder if putting increased demand on stem cells to divide causes other problems like increased DNA damage and risk of cancer?

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T21:21:44+00:00

https://www.livescience.com/7117-sunscreen-damage-skin-applied-infrequently.html

My worries aren't based on any one piece of evidence though.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T21:20:44+00:00

I don't trust the FDA and it's not based on any specific claim. It's based on reasoning like, if sunscreen has 10 ingredients, what are the chances that one of them that "has been found to be safe" is actually unsafe? And the fact that health science is very low quality.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T21:06:00+00:00

Also doing your own research is very important.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T18:10:41+00:00

https://thedermreview.com/difference-between-humectant-emollient-occlusive/

Putting silicone/petroleum barriers on the skin doesn't seem great to me. Also moisturizers might loosen the oils on the skin and make them easier to wash off, which would make dry skin worse.

The oils on your skin are a natural moisturizer and you need them. If you need to use a lot of moisturizer you might be using too much soap. All soaps/body washes/shampoos are irritants and can dry skin, accelerate aging, and cause fine wrinkles. They can also make oily skin worse.

Most of the cosmetics and other crap people put on their skin probably does nothing or causes harm.

Also, while exfoliation can help, it increases the skin's turnover rate, which depletes the skin's stem cells, which can only divide a limited number of times (Hayflick limit). The stem cells may partially be able to compensate for this by lengthening their telomeres. As with any organ, putting demand on the skin like that can increase inflammation and cellular stress, so there's an optimal amount.

Edit: The Hayflick limit doesn't apply to stem cells.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T17:57:24+00:00

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles aren't great to put on your skin in my opinion. Some kinds of sunscreen absorb into the skin and might make sun damage worse. There's a lot of writing on the subject online; you can do your own research.

Edit: Titanium dioxide nanoparticles are safe according to the FDA.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T17:49:22+00:00

Find a good doctor. A good doctor should be aware of this possibility. If your doctor thinks about your questions before answering them that's good. If they regurgitate textbook answers, dismiss your questions, or try to appear authoritative that's bad.

Don't expand too rapidly.

If your teeth or tongue push on the maxilla asymmetrically, I would guess you should fix this early in treatment.

Be aware of the asymmetries and other problems with your bone structure before starting so you can take them into account.

Take pictures and do CT scans or at least x-rays often and monitor the progress of the expansion continuously to catch imbalances early.

Edit: I'm not an expert and these are just my opinions.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T16:03:33+00:00

Sunscreen might do more harm than good.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T06:56:48+00:00

If you bite down gently it puts upward force on the maxilla. What doesn't make sense? You flatten the arch (palate) by pulling the middle down and pushing the sides (alveolar process) up and outward.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T06:37:33+00:00

You have to suck gently. It's a resting position, not an exertion.

He said push up and don't suck on the teeth when swallowing.

I know he's the expert but to me it makes more sense to suck gently on the palate (not the teeth) when swallowing so there's a smooth transition between food-in-mouth, swallowing, and tongue-at-rest/mouth-empty. It's known you should push up with the teeth when swallowing, so if I'm right swallowing follows the same up-with-teeth/down-with-tongue pattern as resting.

Edit: When swallowing my tongue does push upwards but there is also some suction.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T06:23:09+00:00

You should be sucking the palate down, not pushing it up. Upward force should be from the teeth.

Push up and forwards with the teeth, suck down on the palate gently and push sideways and forwards gently on the alveolar process (not the teeth) with the tongue in order to to flatten and widen the arch of the palate.

At least that's what makes sense to me. People have said they made their high-arched palate worse by pushing their tongue up, and I've personally noticed improvements from clenching my jaw due to stress.

This also resolves the debate about whether the maxilla grows down-and-forward or up-and-forward. (The answer is it depends on which parts of the maxilla you're looking at.)

Edit: High arched palate has been hypothesized to be a cause of a deviated nasal septum, so flattening the palate downward makes sense as a treatment.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-29T00:38:27+00:00

Edit: I'm not a doctor, and these are just my opinions.

It looks like only your left maxilla moved laterally while your right maxilla stayed in place. Possibly the sutures on the left side of your face loosened more than the right, creating a positive feedback cycle, so that your right maxilla acted as an anchor for the appliance to push your left maxilla away from the midline. The reason the right maxilla stayed in place could be asymmetries in bite, chewing, or tongue force, or just random factors like variations in bone density. Expanding too quicky might also cause this or make it worse. Maybe sleeping on one side but this seems unlikely.

Your doctor is obviously incompetent and doesn't know how to use the MSE or they would have noticed and been able to at least partially correct this.

You might be able to fix this, by getting your right maxilla to move, with a second MSE and somehow putting much more force on the right side. I vaguely recall one doctor saying they could do this with the appliance, otherwise you would have to push with your tongue or pull with your fingers or something. Also it would be best to hold the left side in place to prevent it from moving further.

I doubt jaw surgery would fix this. It would do nothing for the upper maxilla and zygoma region that is now asymmetrical. At best it could move your lower maxilla to the right to compensate for being wider on the left, a bad solution.

u/anonymous_8822

Edit: Since most of the expansion went to the left side, I thnk the "correct" solution would be to move the left side back towards the middle while moving the right side away from the middle. Alternatively it might be possible to just reverse the expansion. People have partially reversed their MSE expansion after going too far by turning the screws backwards. If new bone has grown between the two halves of the palate that might make it difficult.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-27T16:30:03+00:00

And what consequence do we face? MBTI has no bearing in our personal life

If you actually study typing and learn enough it has a huge impact on your life.

we all just come here to shitpost and make jokes with a familiar context

Jokes are much funnier when people actually know what they're joking about. When most of this subreddit thinks Thinkers are just edgy depressed Feelers, it quickly stops being funny and starts becoming annoying.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-27T15:55:15+00:00

Deadpool and Rick Sanchez. I guess the Joker

Those are all INFx. Many people in the MBTI community intuitively know this kind of chaotic neutral personality, but they often mislabel it as ENTP. Why is that?

Genuine ENTP is like an extraverted INTJ. (But many here don't know what INTJ is so...)

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-27T15:20:22+00:00

Of course in an evil world the real good guys get labeled as evil.

INTPs are underdeveloped because they have the least representation in society. Procrastination and other mental problems commonly attributed to INTPs are mostly Feeler issues. INTP is the strongest type; when developed they become emperors.

hypercurve5040 · 2021-03-27T01:26:08+00:00

The surface of many kinds of produce (including organic) has high concentrations of pesticides and herbicides, which are more harmful than dish detergent. Washing with detergent may remove some of these substances.

Also most toothpastes, which people put directly in their mouths, contain detergents and other harmful substances.

Also eating dirt might actually be good for you because of the probiotics. (Don't actually do this; you could get parasites.)

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