Xenek Stoehr

I can’t comment so reposted - I’ve been prescribed lamotrigine before, along with psychiatric medication. It sometimes took years, but I managed to get my medications down to zero. It was not easy. I had to be persistent. What I see these medications as is a lazy, incompetent way to try intervene. It’s an effort rooted in failures to understand or even seek, root causes. From experience, no effort was made by psychiatrists or nurses to focus on my wellbeing, particularly, food and drink, exercise to sweating, sunlight, and social activities, or other psychological matters, stresses and financial health. It’s a ‘medicate and hope’ situation at the moment. Literally no different to the dark ages. It makes me worry for Anthropic, the makers of Claude, as they have indicated they intend to produce pharmaceuticals. I see profits from limited social gains, and a significant social risk. That’s… as a psychologist once told me, a slippery slope. @AnthropicAI I hope you’re listening. For my wellbeing, my healthspan, let me tell you what worked. 1) Cronometer app. Plug in what you eat. Study the micronutrients and proteins, and fats / lipids, particularly the omega 3 : 6 ratio. Try to reach everything at 100% or better. This took me a full year, with about a year to really begin using the app, and understanding the nutrients. 2) Becoming at peace with myself, regardless of what other people thought. I’m unbelievably lucky, I’ve been a reader my entire life, and have contributed back enough to be comfortable that I matter, independent of anyone or anything else, such as a ‘system’. 3) Still loving the people that lost it, the people that decided I was unwell. I forgive them for not appreciating my perspectives, and for being scared that I was different, understanding different things than they do. I forgive those supposed to care for me, for their failures and inadequacies, their inability to understand that medication wasn’t necessary. 4) Lessening my care for others. Instead of trying to teach or illuminate things for them, allowing them to remain in the dark, unaware. Rather than challenging their mindsets, just, not caring about those failings I see, the gaps in their knowledge. This is huge, because people are terrified if you present different worldviews. They assume something is wrong with you. 5) Tracking sleep with a smartwatch. It’s small, but a huge thing. When rested, it’s easier to handle the failed mess of humanity, easier to leave people to their own beliefs. 6) Supplementing. I was the first in my family to study medicine, biology, relating to humans. Also the first to buy vitamins and minerals, and take them. I supplement far beyond that now, I have perhaps 30 things I take, that are in essence, just food. 7) Staying true to my beliefs. When medicated, and everyone assumes you’re mentally unwell, it’s easy to abandon beliefs, especially those that you might share that make people think you’re unwell, deranged or deluded. I don’t do that. I set beliefs aside at times, but they remain a constellation for me. I build on them. I hone them back when I learn I am wrong about something. I never abandon them. ~ It’s tragic to read of a death, relating to medication. Perhaps disastrous advice was given by an AI model. But I suggest there was a disaster at the start, when medication was prescribed. As I said, it’s the lazy intervention. This is my experience. I am no medical health professional, no mental health professional. But I stand by my belief that the entire profession is primitive, lazy, and essentially, little better than practice in the dark ages. Read this to understand what I mean. share.google/aimode/K3D4msYx…

To anyone who might see a post or comment of mine, if you’ve liked it or commented back, sorry, but I can’t see those, blocking of some sort in progress. Don’t assume I don’t care, just if you’ve responded, I can’t see at all. Hmm I wonder if the same problem occurs on PCs or other phones..? Nah can’t be bothered testing. I’ll wait for whatever this blind vortex is to sort itself out and apologise for being so black-hole like. Now how do you destroy vortexes and black holes? … muttering, muttering…