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Cooper Davis

@Cooperdavis

ExecDirector @_innercompass | pairbonded w/ @lauradelano | depsychiatrizationist l vibe collector

New England Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn@walterkirn·
Jack and Cindy are asked what is 2x2? Jack visualizes a multiplication table. Cindy performs a logical operation. They both answer "4." Are both answers the same? No. Not if an "answer" represents the summation of a procedure. The two 4s are no more the same than a kiss between two lovers in a bedroom and a kiss between two actors n a movie set. That we treat the two "4s" as the same answer is an agreement, a decision made in the interest of efficiency. And efficiency does have its place. But it's not everything.
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Curtis Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin@curtis_yarvin·
Generally, the people at the top aren’t sociopaths either. They’re just inside a giant machine they didn’t create. They see everything through the machine’s screen. How else would it work? But once you allow for this—and they for the reverse—they’re easy to get along with
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Curtis Yarvin@curtis_yarvin

There’s always this moment when they’re like, “lol you’re not a sociopath too? How are you in this room but you’re not a sociopath?”

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𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖞@bacchusrights·
there are no "positive stoic values" in the context of the treatment of SMI, actually . arguably there are no positive stoic values at all frankly , but as a philosophy & ideology it is not only unhelpful for psychiatrists to buy into, it is potentially extremely damaging
Nicolas Badre@BadreNicolas

You are being harsh on stoicism. I view it as emphasizing resilience and inner strength, not a masochistic drive to suffer. I view it as an empowering and alleviating force that risks being harsh but offers opportunities to help people grow. I am concerned that psychiatry has forgotten some of these positive stoic values.

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Renaissance Timber LLC
Renaissance Timber LLC@TimberLlc·
This guy near me in Casco, Maine builds 8x12 greenhouses and delivers them, all for $4800.
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Awais Aftab
Awais Aftab@awaisaftab·
I can’t help but see the British preoccupation with “overdiagnosis” as the flailing of a culture that has given up on the clinical mission of addressing the full spectrum of human distress and disability, because they think they can’t afford to provide the needed care (scarcity), because some people ought to suffer (stoicism), and because some people are only pretending to suffer (malingering).
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Dr Annie Hickox, Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsych
Dr Annie Hickox, Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsych@DrAnnieHickox·
@Cooperdavis @BadreNicolas @meanharmonic @Foreman1David @suzypuss @samhall404 @awaisaftab Nice distinction, and I too like the word ‘courage a lot. In fact I used it earlier today to describe your awesome wife and other courageous women who have written about their experiences, good, bad, and ugly:
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Some of the bravest writing is by those who are candid about their experience of mental illness, & often the huge struggles they had during treatment. Kudos to Linda Gask @suzypuss, Laura @LauraDelano, Cara Lisette @CaraLisette &many others from whom I have learned about courage.

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𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳@MitchHorowitz·
I am proposing a month-long experiment—and I am engaging in it with you. Reduce your output—e.g., commitments, posting, relationships, talking—and your consumption—e.g., food, purchases, energy use, gambling, booze—by twenty percent. See what occurs. If a tiny number of us do this, I reckon that self and surroundings will improve. By improve, I mean: greater happiness, health, power, and reason. You will think better. You will be more appealing. You will be stronger. I am not interested in “more” of anything, including the supposed good things, like reading and community (I dislike that mauve term). Even exercise, although I encourage it. In this case, I am interested in less—approached in a fixed and doable fashion. The supposed more—should any be needed—will naturally fill the gap. I have no idea what it will be. That is not our concern. Our concern is the victory that reduction necessitates. Falsity abounds in excess . . . mitchhorowitz.substack.com/p/twenty-perce…
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Nick Taber
Nick Taber@NickTaber·
I used to read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius over and over again. The amount of value there is hard to overstate.
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I’m flabbergasted by the vitriol and closed mindedness towards stoic philosophy your posts have induced Reading Epictetus completely shifted my orientation to self and to what I considered my “problems” in a way that no other MH “intervention came close to The negative judgements being made here are entirely ignorant of the actual texts

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Muhammad Aadil, MD
Muhammad Aadil, MD@m_aadil·
Psychiatry recognized early on that simplistic explanations of depression were inadequate and moved toward a far more complex understanding of both the disorder and how antidepressants work. The fact that early mechanistic explanations were incomplete does not mean antidepressants are ineffective (which often is the assertion). Also this is not unusual in medicine many effective treatments preceded a full understanding of their mechanisms, lithium being a classic example.
Prof. James Davies (PhD) 💭@JDaviesPhD

If this is the case, why did psychiatric institutions promote the myth, and stand by as the myth grew & enabled the mass pharmaceuticalisation of contemporary society. Psychiatry has never offered apology for this, only new myths, excuses (like this one 👇) & denial.

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Dr Annie Hickox, Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsych
Dr Annie Hickox, Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsych@DrAnnieHickox·
Some of the bravest writing is by those who are candid about their experience of mental illness, & often the huge struggles they had during treatment. Kudos to Linda Gask @suzypuss, Laura @LauraDelano, Cara Lisette @CaraLisette &many others from whom I have learned about courage.
Dr Annie Hickox, Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsych@DrAnnieHickox

Shout out to all the MHPs writing about their own experience of MI facing trolls today. “It is as though they spray our tweets with a cognitive Luminol, highlighting only the evidence they seek, rather than the complex context in which it is embedded.” 1/ @anniehickox/baring-our-bones-the-importance-of-writing-and-talking-openly-about-our-experiences-of-mental-d827172c3663" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@anniehickox/b…

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Cooper Davis
Cooper Davis@Cooperdavis·
I would never in a million years suggest to others that their mental and emotional suffering is indicative of moral failure, because 1. I don’t know if it’s true 2. Even if it were true, I don’t know that it’d be helpful However, my own personal transformation and deliverance from pain was 100% the result of discarding “resilience” in favor of “courage” and seeking guidance not from therapy or self help but heroic narratives like St. George and the dragon etc Transmuting my own struggle to something with a moral valence and casting myself not as a traumatized peon seeking succor via professional validation of my entitlement to my own suffering….but instead as a literal dragonslayer
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Cooper Davis
Cooper Davis@Cooperdavis·
@BadreNicolas Letting go of what is not mine to control, setting and maintaining boundaries with gross, malevolent and unhealthy ppl, managing expectations etc all of this I learned from stoics
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Nicolas Badre
Nicolas Badre@BadreNicolas·
@Cooperdavis Right? My practice of stoicism includes many positive affirmations about what I can do and who I want to be.
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Cooper Davis
Cooper Davis@Cooperdavis·
I’m flabbergasted by the vitriol and closed mindedness towards stoic philosophy your posts have induced Reading Epictetus completely shifted my orientation to self and to what I considered my “problems” in a way that no other MH “intervention came close to The negative judgements being made here are entirely ignorant of the actual texts
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Nicolas Badre
Nicolas Badre@BadreNicolas·
To be fair, the context was “overdiagnosis,” which I understand to mean individuals without any mental illness rather than SMI (severe mental illness). I would probably argue that stoicism also has a place in the treatment of SMI, but I would have phrased it differently in that situation.
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