Inflammation, Myelin Repair, and a Possible Cure for Mental Illness
I don’t count ptsd or c-ptsd as mental illness but rather a natural response to trauma.
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Regardless, this might be useful for many people
@Museek We've been ignoring 90% of the cells in the brain -- that is starting to change.
I'm going to quibble a tiny bit with one part. (apologies in advance for piping up.)
Not counting them as mental illness, even the way you did is sort of like saying PTSD is OK but mental illness should keep its stigma.
Ur analogy is just in a way, but we don't say a fever isn't part of disease or illness yet it's just a response to infection.
M.I. has to be OK the same way it's OK to have a broken arm.
@electrikmonk great point. I see mental illness on a spectrum. There are some who are severely mentally ill. I suppose that could be considered stereotyping and so I am glad you brought it to my attention.. just a few moments ago I was surprised to be stereotyped.. I’ll explain in a moment. I guess I’d like to know how one differentiates?
@Museek My post-doc adviser had a good friend of his (also in our depart) was in the hospital after a suicide attempt. When I asked if people were getting flowers/something-basket going he replied that he did not think it appropriate.
After a long sigh, I reminding him that if his friend was laid up with a broken leg after crashing his bike, wild horses wouldn't keep him from going into his hospital room and teasing the hell out of him for doing something stupid. This wasn't really different...
@electrikmonk this is an excellent point and I’m sorry I came off ignorantly because I just don’t think of depression as mental illness but clearly it is classified as such.
@Museek No worries.
Philosophically, Western brain sciences have been hampered by an assumption that mind and brain/body are two different things when mind emerges from the brain's physiological activity. This creates the false impression that stuff about the mind can be treated differently than stuff about the body which has all been reinforced by the stigma mentioned earlier. It's so easy to trip into the pitfall b/c society has marked the path to fool us unless we walk with intention.
@Mrs_Bones and I have a book related to that. It's about the Aboriginals whose genes have 2 fewer chromosomes, and the difference between them and "Civilized" people. Worth a read. 👍
@Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones @electrikmonk @Museek I looked this book up and there seem to be legitimate questions about its authenticity. Particular, aboriginal Australians have slammed it pretty hard and I'd sooner take their word for it than blindly trust the author.