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doing science is so easy lol
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Replying to @nosilverv
people whose lives are going well are nearly twice as likely to be able to spontaneously cry about a life event if they want to (compared to those whose lives are going poorly) (~64% of going-well could cry, vs ~35% of going-poorly) ⚠️disclaimer: stats are easy to over-interpet
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the defenders of SSRIs point to the mood question having a particular response but there’s some evidence that SSRIs inhibit emotional crying without affecting mood lol
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the origins of "emotional constipation" on twitter, as far as i know (although it's a term i heard and used irl previously):
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @meditationstuff and @QiaochuYuan
👆 Digging into this, the metaphor of emotional constipation / being regular / diarrhoea is both memorable and just seems kinda *right*, right?
My experience is whatever reductionism you do (finance, physiology, social dynamics), skilled practitioners are going to end up with a "charge-discharge" model to capture the "physics" of it one level above the atomic ones. My craziest claim is that people will collectively...
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