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a8da6b0c91d | 10 years ago

You get all these folks freaking out with nonsense self diagnoses and labels when the plain fact is they have messed up health. They've eaten garbage for many years and spent too much sedentary time inside and spent too much time alone. They'd clearly show elevated prolactin on a blood test. They have elevated serotonin and cortisol. It's "learned helplessness" same as you can predictably induce in rats.

The labels are meaningless. The problem is shitty health. There is no such thing as mental health divorced from physical health.

You do not have "social anxiety"[tag]. This is another destructive idiotic label. Death to psychiatry. At one level you might have some health problems leaving you in an overly reactive state. At another level you might simply be insufficiently practiced with dealing with group settings of strangers.

At no point does some medicalized label like "social anxiety" or "aspergers spectrum" make sense. Keep in mind that all psychologists and psychiatrists must be executed.

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dang|10 years ago

> all psychologists and psychiatrists must be executed

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