Dan Prick

If you are feeling sorry for yourself you cannot love another person. You feel like a sad puppy but really you are in the state of a monster

@JacobTref Please also consider long COVID and ME/CFS!

I'm joining the OpenAI Foundation to lead the Life Sciences & Curing Diseases program. We're starting with three areas of grantmaking: * AI for Alzheimer's * Public Data for Health * Accelerating Progress on High-Mortality and High-Burden Diseases Time to get to work!

People with ADHD have what’s called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD). It’s an extreme emotional response to perceived criticism or rejection. Your brain can’t regulate the emotional pain, so a small comment feels like a devastating attack. A minor correction feels like total failure. Someone’s tone feels like hatred. It’s not oversensitivity. It’s not being dramatic. Your brain literally can’t modulate the intensity of that emotional response. It’s neurological, not a character flaw

40 years of ME/CFS immune research: no consistent blood inflammation signal, no viral persistence in blood or saliva, NK cytotoxicity reduced but nonspecific. The honest conclusion is this illness is happening somewhere standard tests do not look.

Life punishes emotional reactions more than bad decisions, because a bad decision can be corrected, but a visible emotional reaction teaches people how to control you, and once that information is learned, it rarely stays unused for long.

Only fall in love with people who have empathy and consistency, otherwise regret will follow you for life. Empathy means they feel your joy, they feel your pain, and they stand with you in your struggles. Consistency means they show up every day, they keep their word, and they prove their love through action. Without empathy, love becomes cold. Without consistency, love becomes unstable. Together, empathy and consistency are the foundation of trust, the proof of care, and the guarantee of peace in a relationship. Never settle for less, always choose wisely, because love without these two pillars will only guarantee heartbreak, confusion, and lifelong regret.

Neurodivergent people don’t recharge by sleeping. They recharge by being completely left alone long enough for their nervous system to reset

17) Link to the article: mecfsscience.org/immune-finding…

Man to man: If you’re feeling lost, go back to what you loved as a kid. It usually leads you back to yourself. That version of you wasn’t trying to impress anyone or survive, just exploring. When you tap back into it, things start aligning again not perfectly, but honestly.

Urgency kills your vibe. Be slow. Be intentional. Figure out what you really wanna do, and then give it your full attention. Really get into it. Read about it. Sit with it. Get a little obsessed. Don’t rush to copy how others do it. Learn from them, yes. But then step away. And then, do it your own way. What I've learned is that when you move slowly, you go deeper. And when you go deeper, your work starts to feel real. More authentic. It contains your soul's fingerprint. It may not be perfect. But it will be yours. And trust me, that’s what gives it meaning.

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

@useless_priest @liamsLCjourney What’s incredibly frustrating is that many LC researchers STILL don’t understand how important this distinction is. They still lump people with PEM and people without PEM in the same LC cohort. It’s maddening because it really only takes like 5 min to learn this is a mistake

You could literally tell some of these Gen Z hoes “I bought an elephant last week” and they would be like “okayyyy yes elephant” zero facial expression zero follow up questions

Long COVID and ME/CFS can be treated A 20+ year patient I know yesterday told me they had gone from tolerance for only 2 hours of phone per day in a dark room to 12+ hours of function, talking and going outside after a successful treatment. They are cooking for the first time in half a decade Less than 1% of the possible therapeutic space has been explored, and the patient population may be defined 100 subgroups. Meaning if a patient tries 10 drugs at random they may have only a 1 in 1000 chance of response Matching treatments to diverse mechanisms, developing precision combinatorial therapies, and temporal therapeutic resolution may all be needed. But the problem is tractable with enough data scale

This is the type of treatment advance that gets me super excited. The treatments that are being optimized for other diseases are light years away from what is occurring in the MECFS or LongCovid research communities. I mean seriously, compare this to Putrino's recent announcement. I am not knocking brain based (in-clinic only) therapies, I think they could play an small adjunct role in comprehensive treatment - but the difference between treatments like mitochondrial transplants or Anktiva and what is being tested for MECFS specifically - they are just worlds apart.

The quickest way to destroy your mental health is to assume other people's feelings. When you start guessing what they think, what they feel, or what they want, you put yourself in a trap of endless doubt and pressure. You begin to carry responsibilities that are not yours, you waste energy trying to satisfy expectations that do not exist, and you punish yourself for problems that are not yours to solve. Assuming feelings is not empathy, it is self-destruction, because you cannot control what is inside another person's mind. Stop assuming, stop overthinking, stop giving weight to what has not been said. If you want clarity, demand direct communication. If people cannot express themselves clearly, that is their weakness, not your burden. Protect your mental health by focusing only on what is real, what is spoken, and what is proven. Anything else is manipulation or confusion, and you do not owe your peace to anyone's silence.

You had a misunderstanding with your partner, you went on Tiktok, the first video that came on your fyp was "5 Signs that your partner is not for you". You scrolled to the next video, you saw "Signs your parter is cheating on you the 5th sign will shock you!". You came on 𝕏, you saw a tweet that has 1.9k Likes, 430 retweets, 1k comments, & 359Views, –The tweet "Quarreling is a sign to quit the relationship". Social media has made some people make regrettable decisions in their relationships.

You are already dead. You have nothing left to lose. This is the secret to confidence

𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦.

I hope you make all your dreams come true so you can finally recognize that you are in a dream that is not true