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Addiction, therapy, future, mental illness, bad social constructing, and the huge danger of boredom
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Addiction, therapy, future, mental illness, bad social constructing, and the huge danger of boredom These questions keep coming up in my head and I haven’t d a brain dump on these specific thoughts to get them out, so here we go: 1. Are people addicted to drugs because the chemicals have addicting attributes of is it more than that? 2. Are there better alternatives to therapy and why do we think the current models work? 3. Is mental illness genetic or the life experiences you encounter through living? 4. Do we give enough concern to the problem of “boredom” and it’s correlation to depression? 5. Are the people designing our new social world really qualified to do so and what adverse effects are the results of these design? A study that was d in 178 tested the addiction to morphine in rats that I think is highly relevant today. Now there we plenty of other studies before that showed rats would prefer morphine water over plain water and that it was addicting and blah blah blah. The difference here is Alexander made a rat park, basically Disneyland for rats. When this alternative was introduced the rats, who are social creatures like us, took the regular water over ol’ bama water( Alabama has the highest opioid use in the country). The idea being that if you give rats and therefore humans rewarding alternatives, you have less drug use. (study) https://www.summitbehavioralhealth.com/blog/overview-rat-park-addiction-study/ I was talking with my who knows people who have addiction issues as many of us do now considering it will only be a matter of time before we all have a loved in the same boat. thing she noticed was that the people she knew that were home-hooled all seemed to jump right into every drug known to man once they got to the real world. She thought it was because they were deprived from the experiences of interaction and then kind of went loose with all the sensory enhancing once they got a chance. This is kind of what is happening in rural areas everywhere. Most addicts when interviewed in these small towns will tell you there is literally nothing to do here besides drugs. Of course there is no real job opportunity, no future of that changing, and it doesn’t that Big Pharma has just been allowed to send pallets of dangerous drugs to cities without any oversight. (Link) https://www.summitbehavioralhealth.com/ience-and-health/2018/1/30/1651316/opioid-epidemic-painkillers-west-virginia-shipments things interest me in this information. is that you could probably see a map of the issues with Opioids and where places have dick all to do, Buckeye ring a bell? Apache Junction isn’t known for its parks people. The other is this conservative idea that the decline of western society is in divorce, the liberal agenda, and not wanting to have this nuclear family model from the 60s. The way they combat this is by homehooling their to hide them from influence and liberal programming. The problem is the result of this is drug addiction is ramping up more kills than Mortal Kombat. The bible belt is hit very hard by drugs, my pointed out some terrible success rates with the rates of the she knows that were raised in home hool christian settings and their battle with drugs. example is brothers both dying from alcohol excess, a complete shut in with a heroin problem, the other who just slammed a bottle of fireball after heart surgery due to the effects. Overall it was 8 out of 10. The s that joined the military seemed to avoid the issue the rest were swept away. So the question is how dangerous is boredom? How dangerous is not having prospects of a future? I think the rat park is an example of idle hands make devil’s work. We know that parents that get their into extracurricular activities have better outcomes but considering that most poor areas don’t have the option of job, and purchasing soccer outfits for , this may be a luxury of the rich. Rehab is a pipe dream for most poor people as well. Job opportunity and college plans is also a luxury of the affluent as much as the model of parent working per household. So how do you combat and epidemic that poor people cant fix without an economic plan to shift poor and bored to middle class and working? Not by cutting funding but that is another debate. There is a finding that shows poverty is linked to mental health issues as well which makes perfect sense and the ramifications on addiction fall perfectly in line with that sense. (link) https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/10/30/4777541/can-poverty-lead-to-mental-illness So how do you combat the addiction we now know exists? This idea of habit forming is true and dangerous if you don’t respect it but do you heal the mind or do you fix it chemically? Some people have been going to extremes in the psychedelic frontier but I think they’re missing something in some areas and completely bullshit in others. Where does the mental illness reside? Some think it is in your DNA. Others believe that is its a genetic trigger, like you are born with the genetic disposition but if certain events happen then the genes change. example is how you can be predestined to develop breast cancer but it never triggers. Another is a linking between smoking at an early age can cause your to be overw. other study was d on the MAOA, the warrior gene, or psychopath gene to some. The study showed that if certain environmental factors did not happen the gene would not trigger and the person would not be more impulsive of violence. (link) https://www.summitbehavioralhealth.com/us/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/201410/gene-violence So how do you go about fixing yourself? Reset the brain with mushrooms? Do some therapy while on ecstasy? Microdosing LSD? Go on a Ayahuaa retreat? Take some electric volts to the brain? How bout regular therapy or counseling? I think you first got to find out thing. Is your mental disorder something you are born with or something you were wired with through environment? I tend to think it is the latter and here is my evidence. PTSD is a good example of something that was triggered through an event. Now some could say you were predisposed to be effected more so than some else but they cant deny when it changed from dormant to affecting the individual. Another is the way they treat hizophrenic behaviors with electric shock. They could literally wipe your brain of the existence of the disorder if you didnt mind losing your memory. This is a very good documentary on the subject of Bi-Polar but I want to note 2 things here. Most people dont just have disorder, a ton have PTSD and considering they didnt look like vets I can assume their childhood was of nightmares. The other is the woman who didnt want to lose her memory for the cure. Memory is paramount in these disorders even if you make a case for genetic predisposition you would also have to admit that environment s a huge role in all these and in some it is seems like it is 100% that. (link) https://www.summitbehavioralhealth.com/watch?v=eyiZfzbgaW4&feature=youtu.be I believe the big reason why therapy works is because you out the trauma over and over and talk about the terrible things you endured to some. This could be a friend that doesn’t mind hearing the story over and over or a therapist. I think the addition of medication is ary but as a stop gap I can see this as a necessity in a small timeline but there are a ton of adverse effects that are dangerous if going unchecked. Most mass shooters were on some anti depressants or adhd meds. This is why the holistic view garners some respect if used in logical ways and for a short time as well. Case in point is that you cant overdose on marijuana. So holistic does trump pharmaceutical if you cant die from it or the side effects of a pill meant to you be happy makes you want to harm yourself and others. PTSD effected military folks have been swept under the rug by subribing them some meds and sending them on their way. This is not being monitored by therapists but by doctors who get backs from the industry that benefits solely on people using more and more of their drugs. As you can see, business is good. (pic) https://www.summitbehavioralhealth.com/2014/04/rates-of-preription-drugs-cdc.jpg This is an example of re-enacting trauma in a light way can repair the mind, this is similar to continuous telling of the story of your trauma. There are more elaborate studies that people cope by recreating high quality versions of the trauma over and over till the brain can cope: (link) http://Senior Sizzle.com Now I think most people go to far on the merits of psychedelics and definitely on the catch all uses of marijuana. There are cases where it s and the evidence in seizures is proof in the pudding. The over exaggeration of its effectiveness on cancer when its anti inflammatory effects are equal to you using tumeric or eating blue berries. Now I do think that if you were to take some ecstasy and focus on therapy, either talking about trauma or working out relationship issues, the different perspective and openness could make what would have been a toxic conversation that is more easy to cope with. They have shown similar success with drugs like Ketamine and huge effects with mushrooms. Now if you were to take ecstasy and sit there and talk about a bunch of bullshit like music or how could a mouse have a for a pet in Disney films, you are not getting shit out of the experience. The same could be applied to doing a bunch of psychedelics and going to burning man, what would you really learn from that? Intentions matter is all im saying. Other drugs like Ayahuaa and mushrooms have a different effect but the results on heroin addicts cannot be ignored. This isnt because you became with the universe but the effects that brain wiring has on your life. If you were raised in a household where love meant violence and calm could be interrupted by chaos in any moment, you would have some fucked up wiring. It would effect the relationships you choose and the friends you can keep. There are ways to rewire the brain with actions. This is where therapy comes into again. Some telling you that what you think is boring is boring because your wiring needs enough positive links to love and relationships before it is wired to normal. The same reason why habits are formed like drinking while gaming, or the need to<b> workout </font></b>once you missed a day. (link) http://Senior Sizzle.com These drug may have an effect of getting their sor by ealating the progress and putting you in a frame of mind to take it in more. Now these effects are fleeting but with practice and focus on the therapy and not just watching a shit Dead cover band you may get there without the danger of mood altering drugs that can have terrible reactions. So what about our current social mediums? Do they actually do what we need them to do? Many people have talked about the dangers of social media and the addiction to likes. Here is a study which ranks them on how bad each sucks but I have an idea behind why. (link) https://www.summitbehavioralhealth.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2017/05/31/instagram-depression/#3d5451d7453 Here is a study showing the uptick in stress issues as a whole: (link) https://www.summitbehavioralhealth.com/watch?v=vqevGkjuLW0&feature=youtu.be Now most of these can be contributed to the asshole in charge, health care(mental as well), and economic concerns. 30% showed concerns about trust in government as well. Overall, people are not mentally better than they were last year and there are plenty of studies that show stressed households or classrooms can have huge effects on learning and stress in general. Stress is deeply tied to your health in a biological way as well so it is cause for concern. I don’t want to get to far down the rabbit hole but I think it is because we have people who have no idea how to talk to people creating social media apps. We have people that have no idea on dating making dating apps. That these applications dont take into account what is best for the user but what is best for making and in return programming people to behave in a way that makes the developers and provides mild success in the results desired by the person. For example, the interfaces are indicator that no cares how you think. No needed a tile interface for Windows 8/10 but here we are. Games are designed for in app purchasing and are curbing gamers to be loot and grind hounds that keeps them ing an unrewarding experience for continued activity and not a desire for rewarding game . FB does a few things right but there are no ways to actually meet real people compared to AOL chat rooms in the 0s where a ton of people found love. World Of Warcraft does a better job match making friends/lovers than the current offerings and the reason why that is could be attributed to the way the app makes its . chat rewards users by encouraging them to stay active and post often which in turns means more ad clicks etc. N of these reward the user in the ways they want, you get a few clicks but no fill for the lliness. Use FB,IG, , Tinder all you want but in the end you will be no better off than when you started since there is nothing gained. I can use it to dump my thoughts into the ether but I dont expect any to read it, and no reward will be given for the effort. It has its merits but they are few. FB is great for connecting to the family and friends you already know but rewards you by making meaningless fake friends with no geographical filtering. Friends without the actual benefits of being . It is devoid of filtering to location, unlike Tinder. Tinder on the other hand is devoid of emotion, information, and compatibility. You are given enough to explain yourself in emoticons and maybe your dick size  but all you did was find out of some 5 miles away swiped right, which is usually d be default for people not wasting time. So you match and it is cool you are close but now you have to sift through all the fake matches and see if you are compatible by having shitty after shitty conversation with people too busy maintaining their social media presence to respect your time. Also beware of neckbeards and the crazies. Other sites like OKCupid have personality matching by asking questions, sounds cool until you realize you match with an 80 year old woman or man in Novia otia, too bad they didnt have age or location sorting. It is no wonder ghosting exist, that people have moved their respect of the fake meaningless friends that accrue on social media and it has bleed over to some literally unswiping you in front of your face and not caring about a human they were intimate enough to reply with sentence over a text.Twitch(Also any live shows with chat) is an interesting case for me. People watching gamers is a simplified term for what it really is. The parts, well some, missing in other applications. For example, FB should have geographical filtering so Tinder half asses it. FB should have ways to talk to others and socialize so another app will half ass the lack of it by creating something that almost gives you everything but not quite to keep you along. Twitch fills in the gap of chatrooms no longer existing but also s to a need of the socially awkward in the guise of gaming. What it really is, is a sense of community without the need for working on your social interaction skills. This is what is lacking in the current apps, this is why men cant put together 3 sentences before they say “I hope you get r*ped” for being ignored. So they go into a chatroom while some is gaming who is successful because they talk to the diontent and not because they are good at them. These people are the therapists, a way to belong while remaining awkward. They can have sided conversations with other regulars but they can still have a connection with the streamer of vlogger who reads their comments and validates them. You really do have to appreciate the gift of gab, especially when it s to keep the fans relevant, if you watch the successful s they are really good at stringing people along and keeping then engaged by responding, the game is secondary: (link) https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Fortnite It is no wonder an asshole who couldnt keep friends failed at successfully making an application where people have the same effect. They are just not capable of it sometimes, and other times your mental health has nothing to do with profits so it takes a bad seat. Much like our democracy got in the way of paid ads during our presidential campaign, we wonder why we keep getting sicker and never understand that the tools we have at our fingertips have not ed us at all but have made us worse if we put any faith in them. While developers not listening to the users in an Office suite may effect productivity, and a developer not listening to a user on a game may effect entertainment. Social media applications can effect your life, your stress levels, your sleep, your job, your mental health. So we better make damn sure we take that into account when we keep looking to them for happiness when I know they can never bring it. |
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