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Tired: Talk therapyWired: MedicationInspired: Meditation to calm your gut microbes, and eating bacteria waste as a prebiotic.Hired: Realizing all the norms around handling mental disease in western society occurred after the 1870s, co-occurring with the germ theory of disease. https://t.co/61begB6biP
TFW: Reading a science publication that suggests the efficacy of Talk Therapy is on par with taking SSRIs, and then realizing that I could just eat bacteria shit and cure my treatment resistant depression. https://t.co/jN5azdd0ep
I wanna live on my own so I can grow my own bacteria shit.https://t.co/18HdxprafP
Whats that? The microbiome seems to play a role in depression when tested on rats?https://t.co/tpe9hkMdZG
Rat psychotherapy, tested by putting rats in solitary and then seeing how long they swim before drowning.https://t.co/dPQdBJPl13
"Separating out the two influences is important because therapies to change perceptions of loneliness aren’t likely to work if the real problem is not having friends or family who can provide support."https://t.co/0P4Oc4Z0j8
"This study demonstrates the efficacy of a 2-wk smartphone-based mindfulness training for reducing loneliness and increasing social contact in daily life."https://t.co/LfoDccOuzM
"What can be done to help the chronically lonely? [...] it likely won’t be a company whose primary goal is to generate revenue for investors by collecting user data or charging a premium for services such as workplaces and apartments." 😂https://t.co/JgF6ITX5CT
Meditate on the implications that bacteria can improve our white matter.https://t.co/l7L03RC9AD
Somatic Consciousness - Embodied intelligence.https://t.co/SvzHuo3xft
Dysgeusia is fascinating. Why do taste sensors seem to show up in parts of the body that deal w/ chemical concentrations, microbial management, or have a high need to maintain homeostatic / immune responses?We have taste receptors in our brain, ovaries/testes, pancreas, & anus.
Control your fears, they said.It's all in your head, they said.You're problems are caused by your lack of will power they said.I said fuck that noise.https://t.co/U9KBooN1kL
Ever see someone go from having life-long entomophobia to petting bees for fun in less than 2 years?https://t.co/DuwvCKewh8
I wonder what is in zebra butts that help them not get stress and if Robert Sapolsky is read up on microbiome and TRP pathways.https://t.co/LXG6KSLRmU
Have you tried taking pictures of your oven?https://t.co/NQT6YISp8T
"This Is Not How One Treats [OCD], and what if it got out to the broader psychiatric community that instead of giving all of these high-tech medications and sophisticated therapies we were just telling people to [take pictures of their oven]?"https://t.co/Kc9bVNowuPBeautiful: https://t.co/IOeK0nknHh
"This suggests a possible treatment for depression by simply rebalancing the immune system."https://t.co/Y4ZDXzzQ5Ohttps://t.co/7Vrb1d3YMJ
I'm on the same journey but avoiding people. Hacking my vagus nerve and immune system etc. under and assumption that my high-strung / tightness is driven by physiology. My model is i'm more predisposed to getting these symptoms.https://t.co/l4WUn3Zju5https://t.co/BCXaI0hAjC
I think there is something real going on with talk & group therapy. For many, going thru what Forte did and approaching things in that way is viable! For me it didn't seem to help. But by working on the underlying physiology, my problems just went away.https://t.co/19yDZ6lwIo
Trying to figure out how to decondition myself from fear & anxiety.Everybody's doing this whole sensory acclimation thing using stimulus pairing and neurofeedback. But it was taking too long for me.So I ate some bacteria poop to enhance learning.https://t.co/ZRzOHRm9h8
I'd bet could replace "Anger Work" with 'lift some weight' (or 'go for for a run'). Getting physical activity can help drive anandamide release which can help you think clearer; and lots of muscle use can elicit testosterone and reduce cortisol, both help regulate immune system.
My larger model of these systems is that they are homeostatic feedback loops that can get stuck. It is more than likely that by working on the mental hangups and dealing with psychological stresses that you could loosen up the system enough to free it up to fix itself.
But if there is an underlying problem that is forcing you to be more sensitive to social stresses, then you may not get as far. It gets old being told over and over that it's all due to your mental models and that you just need to work thru some issues.https://t.co/f6ZreJisgv
@mongoosenewyork I don't think it would have done as much without mitochondria improving (magnesium is great for that), as I think it was due to aggressive inflammation associated w/ Multiple Sclerosis. https://t.co/7eXe0kSowk + https://t.co/NvycNqn4oY basically constantly butchering my gut.
My thinking has always been there are both psychological and biological causes of unwellness. That there are environmental factors. Both emotional trauma, as well as physical trauma. Lack of healthy food AND lack of healthy relationships. And a lack of skills to mitigate them.
"This is a show about that level of the policy conversation: It’s about how poverty and stress exist in a doom loop together, each amplifying the other’s effects on the brain and body, deepening their harms."https://t.co/huwaL2Pfzfhttps://t.co/ttYekKysKm
I see this problem of people not looking at this space holistically. Similar Robert Sapolsky in the start of that podcast; it could be said the entirety of psychology is based on this muddled model of the human condition from the late 1800s / early 1900s.https://t.co/xfnAiKqJDl
In our collective rush to deal with torments of the 21st century, we end up shitting on each other over which approach is best. We shame each other into inducing a 'once size fits all' approach to wellness. And it's wrong. Because we're not all the same.https://t.co/Os40FGZfpK
So I repeat one of Forte's sentences in his piece."Imagine what life would be like if the voice in your head was encouraging you instead of criticizing you."While asking: What are they trying to tell you? And what if they're wrong about the problem?https://t.co/qaTvqBZIGe
Don't talk to me about serotonin receptors dad.https://t.co/0D6roxkrRa
What's BDNF precious?What's BDNF, eh?https://t.co/4LLmlGPEkA