today i walked for about 1 km. after that, i was gasping for air, didn't feel my legs, had tunnel vision, nearly lost balance, and was simultaneously freezing and sweating. i love antidepressants. sincerely. anxiety before clomipramine was way worse than its side effects
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relevance here is that someone reminded me earlier that apparently some doctors claim that antidepressants are harmless. well, no. you get side effects unconditionally (they vary; clomipramine is one of the worst ones) but whether you get anything useful is more of a dice roll
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it's really depressing how many people calling themselves medical professionals consider it acceptable to lie for no reason at all. also how many are there just for the power trip. you'd think the field would have some ethical standards
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see, the thing is, modern medicine works surprisingly well, considering how little we actually understand ourselves, as a species. even psychiatry! but a lot of doctors do medicine a disservice through futile attempts to practice it https://twitter.com/YaBoyYaqub/status/1043933422257750016 …
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For example: https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2013/09000/A_New,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx … These people think that preventable medical errors kill ~400 000 in the US.
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Also, we don't really know that healthcare as a social institution even works in aggregate (for example, that it doesn't kill more people than saves).
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My statistical analysis of life expectancy of Christian Scientists (who reject modern medicine for religious reasons) and other groups without modern medicine indicates that antibiotics and vaccines are helpful.
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