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[heydude6]

If you've been under a large amount of stress lately I would recommend go8ng and seeing a psychiatrist. Take my advice with a grain of salt but while I experience different symptoms my family
Has a history of similar hallucinations so please go see someone before it gets worse. There are a lot
of contributing factors to a psychosis and I've had an extraordinary shit till time coping
With them but feel free to PM me

Eh, don't worry. It's probably just the neighbours. I remember back when they used to play either golf or billiards. I kept hearing the sound of balls being knocked into holes. It was actually quite funny since it was such a silly thing to actually be doing in the middle of the living room.

(BTW, are children actually afraid of the clown?)

I don't know about children, but apparently clown make-up was never meant to be funny. It was the signature style of some clown from the renessaince who had depression and later killed himself. Someone then wrote an opera about a clown who wore makeup inspired by him.

Btw, I'm half remembering this stuff  so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong

[Rolan7]

From Watchmen:

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”

But besides that...  Clown makeup is just unnatural.  It invokes the uncanny valley, maybe by design.  It's fine as part of a funny act, but on its own it's creepy.

[RedWarrior0]

So, I don't know how many of you follow sports, US college football in particular. This will be sportsball talk, I don't care.

But the University of Michigan beat Rutgers today 78-0, which is absolutely absurd. Rutgers had 39 yards of offense, and 603 yards of punting. There was a while there where Rutgers had negative yards. It was the largest margin of victory for U-M since 1939. The thoroughness of this thrashing just sorta mindboggles me.

[TheBiggerFish]

78-0

WTF

I do not football and even I can tell that is not how you football

[King Kitteh]

I'm Australian and I keep forgetting that American football is different to Australian football.

But wow, those scores are insane.

[TheBiggerFish]

I'm Australian and I keep forgetting that American football is different to Australian football.

But wow, those scores are insane.

Even if you divide by 7 that score is insane.  :v

[somemildmanneredidiot]

So, I don't know how many of you follow sports, US college football in particular. This will be sportsball talk, I don't care.

But the University of Michigan beat Rutgers today 78-0, which is absolutely absurd. Rutgers had 39 yards of offense, and 603 yards of punting. There was a while there where Rutgers had negative yards. It was the largest margin of victory for U-M since 1939. The thoroughness of this thrashing just sorta mindboggles me.

Christ on a motorbike. I want to be a fly on the wall on the betting tables when this all went down.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Wikipedia user pages sure are filled with service ribbons barnstars of merit, with clusters.

[Yoink]

Jeez, oh man, this show sure does lay some heavy shit on you from time-to-time.
Now I think of it, the whole theme...

[itisnotlogical]

My stress management textbook, an actual book that is presented as reputable by my school and professor, is seriously discussing biofeedback, auras, chakras, and energy alignment. They recommend this stuff for shit that can kill you in moments. Here's them talking about asthma, emphasis mine:

Currently, drugs (e.g., prednisone) are the first method of treatment. However, relaxation techniques, including mental imagery, autogenic training, and meditation, maybe just as effective in both delaying the onset and reducing the severity of these attacks.

Brb, gonna tell all my asthmatic friends to throw away their inhalers lol

"What? She's blue in the face and unresponsive? No, not the inhaler, anything but Big Pharma! Get her some cat pictures and burn some incense, quick!"

[Frumple]

... you do know those things specifically mentioned are in fact things that have been used for a while to... well, do what was mentioned. Right? Fair amount of other things, too. Less sure about the autogenic stuff, but mental imagery and meditation are both legit. Can be, at least. Having practiced relaxation techniques under your belt can actually do exactly what the quoted bit says it does: Not replace emergency treatment, but help reduce onset and severity. Stuff's been introduced into a lot of actual hospitals and whatnot for a reason.

I'm a mild asthmatic myself, by the by, along with a few other things relaxation methods help with. It works. It's not a replacement, but it can help keep symptoms under control.

Now if they're actually talking biofeedback and chakras and such, yeah, they loco. Meditation et al is good shit, though.

[ChairmanPoo]

The quotation specifically claims that relaxation techniques are just as effective as medical treatment, which I find dubious.

Also, bear in mind that the mildness of your asthma might be sparing yourself the worst of the symptoms. I'm technically a mild asthmatic myself, but I seldom notice it unless engaged in exahusting exercise (which I seldom do), or exposed to allergens (which I try to avoid). As such I've had to use my inhaler maybe twice in the last six months...

[Tiruin]

My stress management textbook, an actual book that is presented as reputable by my school and professor, is seriously discussing biofeedback, auras, chakras, and energy alignment. They recommend this stuff for shit that can kill you in moments. Here's them talking about asthma, emphasis mine:

Currently, drugs (e.g., prednisone) are the first method of treatment. However, relaxation techniques, including mental imagery, autogenic training, and meditation, maybe just as effective in both delaying the onset and reducing the severity of these attacks.

Brb, gonna tell all my asthmatic friends to throw away their inhalers lol

"What? She's blue in the face and unresponsive? No, not the inhaler, anything but Big Pharma! Get her some cat pictures and burn some incense, quick!"

I-um, hope that context is also being taught alongside the impact of O_o nature there.

The quotation specifically claims that relaxation techniques are just as effective as medical treatment, which I find dubious.

^ This.
BioPsychoSocial. Traditional belief on how these things work--one cannot work without the other, and given the origins of asthma in the biological aspect, you've to work with that rather than going 'by thought alone'.

Also who is this Big Pharma? O_o Is this some kind of "Big Brother" idea but in connection with medical stuffs in a dubiously strange way?

[Frumple]

Big pharma is the pharmaceutical industry, notorious for being... lots of things, some quite bad.

And yeah, equal effectiveness is again loco. It helps, not ameliorates in its entirety.

[ChairmanPoo]

 

Imo: "Big pharma" as a whole is no worse than any other business, and better than some. At least it works pretty welll as a drug developmentm platform.

Mind you,  I'm all for state-funded healthcare innovation. Lay down the system, armor it's funding, pay for the infrastructure, and then we'll talk.

Aka: the main problem I see with "breaking the current system"  is that there's no alternative in place, and the initial cost of building one would be huge (even if it was so well designed that further down the road you actually saved more money).

The same thing happens with sponsored medical congresses. There's some outcry about it potentially causing conflicts of interest. Not without some reason (pharma visitor bickering ranges from schladenfreudenly ridiculous to obnoxious).  But in the other hand, sponsors have a legitimate interest in getting professionals to learn how to use their products correctly. Plus all too often, at least in my biz, the supposed conflict of interest is nonexistant because all too often you'll end up using all therapeutic options. AND there's literally noone else putting money for these. 

As an addenum: my impression is that most decriers of sponsoring tend to be from specialities that are getting little sponsoring to begin with.  So I feel at least part of the problem is envy..