I made some bread, got unbanned, am drinking and listening to 10 hours of the hamster dance. But here's Gizmo in my dirty sink.

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

I study what pharmaceuticals do to your neurological (neuro-chemical really) environment in your brain, as well as what neurological environments are commonly found in specific disorders (like depression, schizophrenia or addiction), these things can be measured by fMRIs and other tools (and better treated as apposed to basic talk therapy and treating everyone like their depression or anxiety is a blanket experience, and prescribing them the same dangerous pharma meds without finding out the true cause for their feelings, as depression for example is a side-effect of something being wrong, neurologically or otherwise, not an illness in itself). I’m against most pharmacy meds and have studied more safe alternatives like Ketamine therapy for depression for example; I’ve received ketamine therapy myself and discovered it from a brain cognition course I took (ketamine increases and takes advantage of neuroplasticity, or the brains ability to repair itself, it’s theorized rn ketamine works via glutamate, and the kappa and mu opioid receptors).

My main area of research is autism and childhood development though.

But basically a “yes” to everything else you asked.. i think you should know me better by now, do you really think I’m a normie lol? I know about the markets, I know what they do, i know who hedge funds like black rock answer to, I know about agenda 2030, I know about the same things as you.. I’m sure I know more than you in certain areas and you more than I, as well, but the basics, I think we both have pretty much covered.. I am on SaidIt after all.. if in doubt you can always check my top/post history..

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

From my experience through hell and back I wished they'd started me out with 5 simple things instead of the Big Pharma Poisons:

1) Blood test and Vitamin D. It wasn't until the 6th doctor and 18 medicines in that they discovered my Vit D was "in the basement" via first blood test.

2) Ginseng. Nuff said.

3) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. By the time it came up as an option I just couldn't even...

4) I KNOW ketamine works for me, like a light switch. Also liquid sugar/syrup will help neutralize too much ketamine, and when you last ate will really affect your trip, if you're doing it recreationally.

5) Maybe some or all the other non-prescription things I have might have helped. I could list them if you want but you already know them. At this point I don't bother with them. Ginseng is the only one I keep up with.

Agreed. I had REAL problems in my life, and I should have dealt with them sober instead of trying to find a happy pill to smooth it over.

I do feel like I know you but I also know I can only see what I can see through this window on my screen. I know people can have diverse interests, but I still don't understand how you might be able to help autistic kids (a noble calling), be creative, and do the markets. Obviously not everything needs to overlap, but in my experience it's nice when it does - and sometimes nice when it doesn't.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Please do not take this as an “inadequate or short” response, because I truly have nothing to say in response to you, other than that comment could have been written by me. 100%. Having epilepsy, I’ve been through it too, and I’m also diagnosed with treatment resistant depression due to the focal point of my seizures in my brain.. so I’ve tried many antidepressants and a few antipsychotics, not long term tho (for my anxiety, sleep, depression issues), and they were horrible. Some made me feel like a tranq’d animal at the zoo, some gave me boners that were painful and lasted for hours, some made me rage or feel even more sad. Some just made me a zombie who couldn’t remember shit.

When I told my neuro I was done trying these pills (around the same time I started really reading medical studies and paying attention to new mental health medical literature, because I was that desperate), he offered me to have my corpus collopsim separated (a surgery where they separate your left and right brain hemispheres so my partial seizures don’t spread, and it has a chance of improving my mood, but it could also leave me paralyzed or with other terrible side effects), or having my focal point removed (like a mini lobotomy, they would laser out the spot in my left frontal lobe where the seizures start), I wasn’t down with either.

That’s why I chose neuropsych as a path of study; at first it was psychology, but as I learned and experienced and went through so much pain, saw the failures of the system, neuropsychology seemed to be something that could actually help more people in my eyes

Edit: and to answer your ultimate question, I’m using my education (I learn a lot, there are pre-requisites I have to take even if they aren’t in my interest area), so I can become an ABA (applied behavior analyst) therapist for children who have autism. In this job, you either plan, or work directly one-on-one with kids who have autism to help them better understand how everything works and set learning goals for them (it’s so much more than that, but it’d be a lot to explain). We also work with their parents. Trading is just something I got into the beginning of this year, I never expected that to happen! And I shut down my fashion line like two years into epilepsy because it was too much - I had clothing that was sold in small street wear shops. I gave up on that professionaly, doesn’t mean it still isn’t a hobby of mine. I enjoy art!

If the world ends tomorrow, owell!

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

What are your thoughts on using extremely limited carbohydrate diets in the maintenance of seizures? I've seen it's use in children too young to treat with medication, but I wonder about the results on adults and if you've ever attempted the method yourself.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

It honestly really depends - epilepsy is just a blanket term for “seizure disorder” - just like our metabolisms are unique, seizure disorders and what works for them vary from individual to individual. But ultimately, yes for sure, that could potentially help someone a lot!

I’ve done things like the keto diet and measured my Ketones with strips, but honestly it isn’t enough. I don’t eat much nowadays due to a side effect of one of my anticonvulsants and I will say eating less junk, and being on a keto-like diet definitely does lower the amount of seizures one has. Ketosis has literally been proven in studies to increase your seizure threshold. How much it helps, and if it will work for your specific seizure disorder, is the question.

A seizure starts off as a partial seizure (basically a glitch in one area of your brain), and spreads to the rest of your brain which is what leads to the loss of consciousness and seizing. The focal point (where that partial seizure starts) is unique for everyone who has a seizure disorder, and where it is depends on how severe as well as how you’re affected by epilepsy and what works for you.

To be totally honest though, Cannabis is a miracle for all types of seizure disorders from what I’ve seen - even if it doesn’t eliminate them completely, it will lower the amount you have by a lot. I didn’t use any drugs or cannabis in my teens, my first time smoking was a few years back, after I had epilepsy for two years. My parents one night just pulled me aside and pulled out a bag of weed and asked me to please try it as we’d been on the pharma ride for a while at that point - I’ve gone over a year without a seizure in the past since using cannabis. I’m not a “420blazeit” guy, but I can’t lie; cannabis has helped me more than pharmaceuticals.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The globalists want to kill natural remedies.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I've heard about this too. Our Western sugar diet is for shit.

Apparently some folks do much better with Keto, and not just for mental stuff.

cc /u/Enza

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I wasn’t down with either.

Similarly, I was considering electroshock therapy. I decided against it. My life had problems but their damage was the poison and it was INFESTED within me and a shock wasn't going to bore that out, even if I did come out with smiles for a while. Further, my sense of self was the young thin handsome man who started the poisons, and my ego is STILL in shock every time I see Santa in the mirror.

That’s why I chose neuropsych as a path of study

Makes perfect sense. You could say I was lucky that I knew I wanted to do computer animation at 15yo in 1986, and Sheridan College near Toronto was one of two places in the world that taught it back then, but I also had to take 3 years of classical animation as a prerequisite.

I have a theory: All cats are autistic. Could this be true? I don't personally know of any autistic people though on the poisons in the hospital they said I was on the Asperger spectrum because I had nothing else to do but repetitive shit to kill the time.

I still haven't seen your portfolio or work. PM me if you don't want it public.