![]() I believe that global warming is real and anthropogenic not because I've personally studied Antarctic ice core samples or run my own computer climate models, but because all the people who support the theory are climatologists with no evident investment in the issue, and all the people who dismiss it as alarmist claptrap are shills of the petro-chemical industry or just seem to like debunking things, from the Holocaust to the moon landing. You do your best to gauge who's authentically well-informed and unbiased, who has an agenda and what it is - who's a corporate flack, a partisan hack, or a wacko. “If you're anything like me, you don't make up your mind about important issues by doing original research, pounding over primary sources and coming to your own conclusions you listen to people who claim to know what they're talking about - "experts" - and try to determine which of them is more credible. Which is not to say that it will work for you, for me or for others.” Lord knows, I’m not a doctor, and I don’t understand the brain or the mind anything like enough to presume to judge or know better than any other semi-informed individual, but if it works for her…. It’s the only thing that works.” For her. ![]() I sometimes forget my own name, but it makes me happier. This friend of mine is just about one of the most intelligent people I have ever met and she says, “I know. One of my best friends regularly goes to a clinic for doses of electroconvulsive therapy, a treatment looked on by many as a kind of horrific torture that isn’t even understood by those who administer it. For some the condition is so bad that ECT is indicated. Some patients would rather reject the chemical path and look for ways of using diet, exercise and talk-therapy. Finding the right balance of drugs, whether lithium salts, anti-psychotics, SSRIs or other kinds of treatment can be a very hit or miss heuristic process requiring great patience and classy, caring doctoring. The process of treatment can therefore be long and complicated. “The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from individual to individual.
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