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Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff

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262 points Anon84 | 9 comments | 28 Jun 25 21:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.268s | source | bottom
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PaulHoule ◴[28 Jun 25 21:31 UTC] No.44408335[source]▶
Why does no-one dare say "schizotypy?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypy

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crawfordcomeaux ◴[28 Jun 25 21:44 UTC] No.44408414[source]▶
It's dangerous to existing systems for people to become aware they're capable of creating/conjuring/channeling useful new voices in the mind to help learn different things. People get burned at the stake for that.
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1. PaulHoule ◴[28 Jun 25 22:24 UTC] No.44408686[source]▶
Dangerous to the autism-industrial complex and as well as the addictive stimulant industry.
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2. WarOnPrivacy ◴[28 Jun 25 22:38 UTC] No.44408765[source]▶
> addictive stimulant industry.

Whom I thank every day for repairing my retention processes, just enough that lessons become learning.

3. amanaplanacanal ◴[28 Jun 25 22:40 UTC] No.44408779[source]▶
Is this supposed to be some kind of diss for adhd stimulant therapy?
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4. PaulHoule ◴[28 Jun 25 22:47 UTC] No.44408810[source]▶
Gotta a friend who’s 52 and has all his teeth rot out 10 years ago. He goes to Wegmans every month and comes back with a pill bottle the size of a small trashcan. He says he could get nothing done without out but I don’t see him getting anything done. Wouldn’t be surprised if will fall and break his hip 20 years early.

I’ve seen plenty of those pills get diverted with outcomes like somebody stays up for 4 days and gets hospitalized so, yeah, I want to diss ADHD medication. It is clear it helps in the short term, not so clear if it helps in the long term.

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5. fragmede ◴[28 Jun 25 22:58 UTC] No.44408854{3}[source]▶
How scientific.
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6. PaulHoule ◴[28 Jun 25 23:15 UTC] No.44408960{4}[source]▶
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35091797/
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7. WarOnPrivacy ◴[28 Jun 25 23:24 UTC] No.44409014{3}[source]▶
> Gotta a friend who’s 52 and has all his teeth rot out 10 years ago.

FTR, meth mouth has no overlap with ADHD meds. I specifically looked into this, way back when.

> He goes to Wegmans every month and comes back with a pill bottle the size of a small trashcan.

If he took that many ADHD meds he'd be dead on day one. Three tabs/day is a heavy dose.

8. WarOnPrivacy ◴[28 Jun 25 23:41 UTC] No.44409112{5}[source]▶
Even that very limited study didn't link stim use to poor teeth - at all. As far as study went, this was it.

    • Stimulant ADHD medication use in adults is associated with decreased bone
     mineral in the skull and thoracic spine.

    • No other areas of axial or appendicular skeleton showed significant
    differences.

    • There was no dose-response effect between stimulant medication use and
    bone mineral density.

    • The overall effect of stimulant medications on adult
    bone health is unclear.
ref: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9062265/
9. astrange ◴[29 Jun 25 21:31 UTC] No.44416599[source]▶
Stimulants reduce addictive behaviors in ADHD patients.

https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-and-substance-abuse-stimula...

They're also less habit forming than the non-stimulant drugs; I'm taking a non-stimulant right now (Intuniv) that you can't safely quit without tapering off for weeks.

The combination is good enough that I lost my caffeine addiction. Of course that's a relatively mild one.