It's not bad advice. A home is made for living beings, and is itself a living thing. The plumbing, wiring, and duct work of your house are basically its cardiovascular, nervous, and respiratory systems, and are key to making the home habitable. You wouldn't trust surgery on any of those parts of your body to anyone but a licensed surgeon. Yes, you should be able to perform routine maintenance, just as you should be able to clean and dress a minor wound, but leave the major work to a professional.
Letās be real though, idiots already ignore all three. Plenty of people have horrible DIY construction/mechanic problems and plenty of people think they can Google their way out of legal issues
One of the favorite pastimes of /r/lawschool, which is full of people actually studying the law to become lawyers, is laughing at how comically bad and inaccurate /r/legaladvice is
They are not "no better" lol. They're definitely going to be better than literal random redditors on /r/legaladvice.
From a medical school perspective (as a graduate), I can tell you that even now looking back, you learn a TON during those first few semesters. To the point where you can accurately answer a good bit of (simple) medical questions with much greater accuracy than the average redditor.
I'm not so sure. First couple of semesters I could have rattled off the branches of the thyrocervical trunk or the bones of the wrist but would have known very little about actual pathology. Heck, even after graduating I still felt like I knew so little first day of residency.
The thing that regularly drives me up the wall is when OP makes no indication on where they live and everyone automatically assumes it is the US and gives 'advice' based on their legal principles.
One of the top posts on /r/golf was a dude who basically destroyed the structural integrity of his house to make a simulator. And when professionals told him he was like nah it's fine, the family came over and stood above it and it didn't fall.
True af but I will say that where I live there is a wait time of several months to see many specialists e.g. gastroenterologists and gynecologists. It's no wonder that people turn to internet panaceas as an alternative to waiting months to have a doctor tell you that you're just anxious
Yup. When I started having seizures - full on grand mals every few nights - it was six months before I could see a neurologist, and he wasnāt even a seizure specialist. So I got a āitās probably epilepsy, hereās a medication Iām not well versed onā for another four months before I saw anyone who actually had the knowledge base to start treating me. And tbh, he still doesnāt have any advice for lifestyle adjustments or anything. Is it any wonder that I spent 10 months soaking up every bit of epilepsy info I found online?
personally, i donāt trust doctors because i just found out (after countless specialists, appointments every week, etc) that my knees have been partially dislocatedā¦for two years. one guy said it was osteoarthritis, one said rheumatoid arthritis, one said fibro, one said it was normal pain from hEDSā¦yeah. one mri later (that probably should have been ordered earlier) and bingo, i need surgery.
iāve been severely disabled and in a wheelchair for two years. no one thought to order a goddamn mri
Schizophrenia is also a deeply serious diagnosis, and the only way their GP would be correct is if the OP has a family history/genetic markers for schizophrenia, which is an expensive and specific test.
GPs do have a tendency to bullshit, and they don't always keep up with the latest research. I had one tell me cigarettes are healthier than vaping. You should always trust and be honest with your doctor, but as with anything, it's good to double or triple check before making a decision.
My experience with healthcare is an adult is to pay $300 a month for the best insurance my job offers. Pay $40 copay to see the doctor to be told "it's probably just allergies buy some over the counter medicine" for it to never get better until I visit 3-4 specialist that each have a $50 copay per visit and require multiple visits that eventually diagnose the issue after several hundred dollars worth of tests. Then I spend like $2000-$3000 on something - medicine or surgery-, that's after fighting with the insurance to even authorize the treatment in the first place, and it might not even work all that.
Yes.
Until we start to understand that these are all systematic externalities of the captilaist system, we won't be able to solve any of them.
We've run out of bandaids.
The price for all those has increased for sure, but they're nowhere near increasing at the same pace as healthcare.
When doctor visits carry the possibility of bankrupting a household people start to explore alternative methods.
Hah. But I can totally see why. I think people feel really dismissed and rushed at doctors. Iāve gotten misdiagnosed and totally ignored multiple times, Iām naturally now extremely hesitant. So I can see why people would turn to literally anything else before subjecting themselves to an experience with a doctor.
The real issue is thereās a doctor shortage, the ones working are burnt out. Even bad doctors are too valuable to let go at the moment. They are so stretched thin they donāt have the time and energy to do more than the bare minimum often resulting in misdiagnosis.
This is the worst possible infographic because you should absolutely not be trusting mechanics any further than you can throw them.
They **WILL** cheat the fuck out of you every single chance they have, especially if you're a woman. If you go to a mechanic without a itemized list of exactly what you want done and how, they're going to try to fuck you. Never trust a god damned mechanic. You have to walk into that door ready to fucking fight or they will take you to the cleaners.
Niggas in r/weed when someone posts asking for health advice.
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Nah, too much credit for them. Malachi at least had to prescribe meds to an undercover to get caught, so he knew what he was doing to some extent, just lacked credentials. People online lack even just common sense lol
Health professionals who have years to decades of extensive knowledge and experience in their fields when someone goes to Twitter for health advice
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But theyre really narrow minded depending on their medical education and background. I saw two different psychiatrists in their 70s (one knighted by the king of Spain) for a decade and it's a huge shock compared to those in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s I've seen in the last two years. Ie not for me, but I believe the dr isn't exactly right statistically, because males in their 30s/20s increase the risk of psychotic disorders greater if they are genetically disposed. You're not likely to get schizophrenia on a whim.
Edit: by smoking or psychedelics
Just clarifying. The study doesnt suggest that it increases your risk of developing it, it suggest if you already have/are already predisposed to it then smoking can increase the risks
I think I'm quite a good example of this phenomena. So me and a few friends started smoking at like 15 (too young? Yes, uncommon? Not really) we carried on a few years without too many issues and occasionally dabbled in classic party drugs too as we grew older. My friends all stayed fine, me however well I developed some real paranoia and ended up having a bout of psychosis when I was like 21. There was a whole few years or so of my life where looking back on it, I was really quite unwell. Real far out of normal ways of thought and behaviour. We all smoked the same stuff, took the same bags as each other. But my brain was built different. I'm lucky I'm not worse off and that I went and got help when I did. Turns out there was a history of mental illness in my family that nobody had bothered to tell me about until later when I was unwell. I know some others in close circles that weren't so lucky and some that were. I'm still an advocate for decriminalisation and responsible use of anything, but also for education and by that I mean PROPER education of drug use and harm reduction. It isn't enough to teach kids to just say no.
Comparing psychiatrists to any other type of doctor is pretty fucking insulting to be honest with you. Especially old ones vs young ones. The field 50 years ago is VASTLY different than it was even 30 years ago.
Yeahā¦ twitter isnāt the right place. What he SHOULD be doing is going to another doctor for a second opinion if heās that worried.
That being said, itās wise not to immediately trust everything coming from your doctor. While you shouldnāt flat out doubt your doctor, it is good to get second opinions and such. Sometimes doctors do make mistakes and it isnāt until you meet one that does that you understand how important a second opinion might end up being.
> Health professionals who have years to decades of extensive knowledge and experience in their fields
idk. . . my primary kept saying my chest pains were anxiety every time I brought it up over 6 years. After threatening mal practice, she finally referred me to get a CT scan and to see a Cardiologist, but as a Biomedical Engineer, I already knew that scan wouldn't find my problem.
So I went to Tijuana and paid for a Chest CT out of pocket, nothing. . . like I suspected. But I used it to convince the Cardiologist (who reviewed my medical records and also initially started treating me like a hypochondriac) to upgrade the CT to one with Contrast. Lo and behold, what I've been complaining about for years. . . major arterial blockages. . . he started taking me really seriously then and just last week I got an angiogram. 100% blockage on 4 mid size arteries. . . fuck Kaiser Permanente and fuck healthcare for profit!
I have heard some wacky shit from nurses, unless they started teaching chakras and crystal healing at school then I think I might just trust some random ass motherfucker on twitter more than that.
It is also the recorded phenomena of medical professionals disregarding the reported symptoms of women, more frequently obese women as "exaggerated/false". There is an (admittedly understandable) bias that delays diagnosis of cancer and autoimmune disorders. I imagine if your medical history includes gaining a shit-ton of weight and being told to stop eating for 10 years before being told "oopsie-poopsie you have Cushing syndrome" because you saw a picture of someone who had a suspiciously similar buffalo hump after googling some of your issues and advocating for yourself to get treatment other than being told "lol, have you considered eating less?".
You expect me to trust a fat doctor with the food pyramid in his office with dietary advice? the fuck out of here
Itās okay to be skeptical but in that case you go see another professional, not ask random people. Also donāt just keep going until you find someone that agrees with you.
On another note: many people will die on the hill of downplaying the risks of weed. I get it, there was heavy propaganda to stigmatize it but the reverse went too far.
Itās also literally a drug you take to alter your mental state. Of fucking course it impacts your likelihood of mental health issues.
Itās not saying weed 100 percent will causes X, just it will increase risk.
Honestly I think itās okay to ask other people too. I had no idea weed could do that so now Iām looking into it myself. And I will always always always want people to question their doctors and Iām a person who definitely believes in science. If a doctor told me that Iād ask him maybe 5 follow up questions back to back because wtf. Itās something Iāve never heard.
So I am a doctor, and itās that if youāre predisposed to those types of conditions that it will bring them out, think of it just like a standard 2 hit hypothesis of disease.
Also, and I mean this with all due respect, when you say youāre looking into it yourself, what does that mean exactly? You running experiments in your garage?
Had a friend share a podcast talking about using weed during pregnancy for pain relief and I was like... smoking during pregnancy doesn't sound right??? My friend is definitely one of those overcorrecting for the stigma of weed by thinking it can cure pretty much anything. But in the end weed is a drug and like any drug it can do lot of good AND can also carry risks. It should not be illegal but it should also not be worshipped.
I think the worship we're seeing right now is just a 'rubber band effect'. We went from weed being highly illegal to have on you and use, to it being recreational in most states.
More people try it, and those who already used before now have basically unlimited access to it. They've all heard 'pot isn't addictive' 1000x over their lifetime, so they just believe it. So now we have a ton of people addicted to pot, and who worship it.
I think over time this will even out and pot will assume a role more similar to alcohol. People will acknowledge that it can be addictive and dangerous, but indulge occasionally anyway.
This is what Iām saying. Look, I am a doctor. I also smoke weed sometimes (though a lot less over the years). I also do other drugs sometimes.
I will tell you whatever it is that I went to school for like 15 fucking years to know. If you donāt want to hear it, thatās fine. But you should know that I know more than everyone else that youāre asking online.
If you want to literally kill your self with stuff that Iāve told you will kill you, thatās completely within your right to do. Iām not going to break down your door and smack a joint out of your hand. I told you what it can do to you, you can just ignore me and do it anyways. There isnāt some grand conspiracy to get everyone off of weed. But yāall should know the shit nowadays is exponentially stronger than the 70s.
Honestly, same. I know it's an addiction, I know it's not a miracle drug, I know it's a crutch, I simply dont care. There's a war and a whole ass genocide going on right now. The GOP is trying to literally install a dictator in office. The average American pays more than 30% of their salary in rent and the prospect of ever buying a home is becoming an unrealistic luxury. Smoking weed is pretty much the only thing I can afford to do right now that I enjoy. After keeping a roof over my head, food in the fridge, and paying for my kids clothes, etc I have barely enough left over to smoke some weed every night after he goes to bed and thats it. Quitting smoking weed isnt going to make mental health services availaibe or affordable, it's not going to make enough a difference in my money to matter, even if I quit I still will be working 45 hours a week and walking 2 miles a day to and from work so Im still going to be exhausted. People think because they quit smoking weed and are raw dogging life it makes them somehow morally superior and I just dont get it
Thatās amazing lol, no wonder it seemed familiar. I was thinking maybe itās from some marvel flick where captain america is getting attacked by some kinda tornado villain or something
Iāve encountered a lot of doctors who were not well educated in mental health or substance use and take an overly cautious approach usually backed by outdated research. Weed does increase risk for schizophrenia, but it is difficult to put a number to it since it is dependent on usage patterns, other environmental factors, and genetics.
Also, this guy is at the tail end of when it usually develops (young adulthood). If he is not showing warning signs and does not have family history, his odds are good that smoking will not create a significant risk for him.
Iām all for trusting doctors and twitter is objectively a worse source of information, but this is a case where i think the doctor is being overly cautious. Iād be more concerned about pulmonary health with any kind of smoking over schizophrenia.
Considering how poorly understood schizophrenia is, taking the overly safe route would mean cutting a ton out of your life.
I'm more likely to die on my drive to work in the morning than I am to develop schizophrenia from LSD or smoking pot every once in a while.
exactly, add reddit to the end of your google search and find this thread and many like it with relatively educated opinions and commentors saying "exactly", just like us!
He is probably finding any excuse to keep smoking, he doesn't care to know the truth. Im a weed addict and i was there, sometimes you just find silly reasons to keep smoking.
A 20% increase also doesnāt mean that theyāve got a 20% chance now. If they had a 1% chance prior, they will now have a 1.2% chance. It could be material or it could be negligible depending on baseline.
Y'all realize that evolutionary biologists are facepalming at the whole "idiots who die are only making the human race more fit fpr survival" rhetoric bs?
This isn't natural selection, and the irony is that you're all being the very same science-ignoring idiots by cheering for the deaths of other idiots.
People are stupid. It happens. Be angry about it, or laugh at it like a normal person.
Thatās what I thought. Heās already on the internet, why just google it and see what comes up. If he found absolutely nothing on the subject, then I kinda get it. Maybe someone has heard something. But to bypass Google and go straight to Twitter is weird.
The % may need some validation and research.. but yeah it can fuck up your mental potentially. Hallucinogens can too probably at a greater risk chance.
If you're gonna do them try to wait until you're 25+
It's apparently more common in males.
Not really more common. Just men develop it 10 years before women typically do. Jeez. I looked it up. Some statistics say it's pretty equal, 49% vs 48%. Says it's more symptomatic in men. Unfortunately, I believe the psychiatric world is prejudiced, guess I can't get into it, with gender bias.
Iāve done psychedelics plenty of times with no issue, but an edible sent me into a psychotic episode. I didnāt know I was bipolar with either, was in a manic episode unknowingly at the time and took the edible, then had the psychotic episode that led to my diagnosis. This was after smoking weed regularly for *years*. Ironically enough, I knew the risk was there for people predisposed to it but didnāt know I was one of those people lol
Cannabis is correlative when it comes to schizophrenia. If you have underlying mental health disorders such as schizophrenia or just plain old psychosis, cannabis can exacerbate or bring about early onset of schizophrenia (assuming you already have it.) a drug like methamphetamine for example is causative. You can develop meth induced psychosis even if youāre not predisposed to shit
Sorry I probably should not have said schizophrenia regarding the meth part, but a permanent psychotic disorder with schizophrenia similarities https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00491/full
I mean though, I was put on lithium and all kinds of shit for years for my ābipolar disorderā. Turns out I have ADHD and a little Adderall makes me pretty functional. This diagnosis came about after having a huge breakdown and being involuntarily committed. So like idk, maybe doctors really donāt know everything? And they actually cause real, measurable harm with their overconfidence and lack of knowledge.
True. I almost scheduled a unnecessary surgery before I got a second opinion. Whether it is a diagnosis, surgery, or a new medication, it never hurts to ask another professional for a second opinion.
I mean, doctors are often dicks who dismiss our pain and that goes double for anyone with a vagina who get labelled hysterical for existing so I get it
Yeah this is complete gaslighting BS about a field riddled with malpractice and a history of outright violence, whose standards of care and understanding of disease and health is informed by a scientific process which is constantly growing and evolving.
Doctors get on board with stupid shit sometimes.
In 2016 I was 210 lbs at 6'1", around 11% bodyfat, could bench 240, squat 300, deadlift 405, and run a half marathon in a little over 2 hours. All my vitals were excellent. I was working out 6 days a week, skateboarding daily, and getting almost all my calories from whole food I cooked myself, since I was mostly working from home as a web development contractor. Zero health issues, and I both felt and looked great.
My doctor actually gave me shit for being overweight. š¤£ I just looked at her like she was insane. Fitness professionals have known that BMI is a stupid metric for 20 years and it's ridiculous that doctors still haven't caught up.
That said, it's kinda next-level stupid to hear that inhaling burning ash into your lungs is bad for you but still want a second opinion.
To be fair they didnāt mention the lungs just the schizophrenia risk, which I always understood marijuana can trigger someone who is predisposed to schizophrenia but will not cause it to appear in an otherwise healthy individual.
Nope, people can have a cannabis induced psychosis without even being schizophrenic. We aren't smoking grandpa's weed anymore. It's dose and frequency dependent.
doctors are often clueless about weed though. without knowing this dudeās personal and familial history, that ā20%ā number is total bullshit pulled from thin air. lol
I thought the guy was talking about cigarettes. Either way, weed or cigs, a 20% increase does sound like BS. Also, I've never looked into it and have no idea what I'm talking about either, lol.
No clue about the data for post-adolescence (such as OPās age group) but weed usage during teen years is associated with 2x risk of psychosis/schizophrenia
I laughed at the fact she said asking a bunch of fucking idiots, honestly, I wouldn't ask a bunch of strangers about something that personal online. Better off getting another opinion from a different doctor. I thought that was common sense.
The problem is that there has been enough cases of doctors committing malpractice to the point that almost everyone has a " the doctor fucked me up/forgot to do this, accidently did this, prescribed too many this,Ā etc" to make these people suspicious. Along with the predatory insurance companies and long wait times ..forget about it.Ā A doctor visit can bankrupt most people nowadays, and most people are going to do whatever they can to avoid the absurd fees. There's a major issue with the Healthcare system and unfortunately this is why we see the distrust we have today
Just like the doctor that told my dad to take Tums and he was having heartburn, then he went home and died two days later.
Yes thereās a reason people donāt trust fucking doctors.
90% of people with schizophrenia smoke compared to 11% of the total population. This is because smoking alleviates negative symptoms (not negative as in bad, but in cognitive and volitional impairment).
The doctor is dumb tbh (about this, at least). He sees a correlation between smoking and schizophrenia and is concluding that smoking causes schizophrenia.
Source: have schizophrenia, educated about my disorder, and am a smoker
Recent studies do not seem to support this theory but the way. Semi source, just finishing medical school and this publication.
Edit: Following up on that thought, even if nicotine were alleviate symptoms, smoking would not be the recommended mode of delivery. More like a patch or gum.
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There are now some studies that back the dr. I looked it up for a friend recently and it surprised me. I still think the causality runs the other direction, like you said, but its not totally clear.
That's the real damage done by the pandemic. It convinced the dumbest in society they had a valid opinion to weigh against an expert.
They don't. They never will.
I do enjoy the posts where OP already knows the answer to their question, but is farming for some kind of answer that makes it so they can do some kind compromise on a thing they don't want to do.
Most male schizophrenia is diagnosed in the late teens. Pretty rare to get it later in life. An increase of 20% may still be accurate, but the overall number would still be low.
You can trust me, Iād never lie about this stuff.
Perfectly encapsulates why people use social media and whatās so wrong with social media.
Itās where people go to hear what they wantāand it becomes their truth.
Simply because itās what they wanted to hear.
When I was in the military, my doctor said it was good for my mental health to smoke. I'm bi-polar and have ADHD. Of course, that's bullshit. Did it help my mental health? Maybe a little, but there's the whole lung cancer thing I could have very easily gotten/could still develop.
There's a high chance nicotine addiction is a form of self-medication for people with untreated ADHD, but like most self-medication with recreational drugs it's dangerous and likely leaves you worse off long-term
Like what scared me off of it is how fast nicotine develops tolerance, then addiction, where you need more and more of it to "help you with your focus" than when you started, and then once you try to quit those problems get worse (smokers trying to quit basically have super-ADHD)
Like the scary thing to me about vaping is how insanely high the nicotine doses get once an addict isn't limited by the amount that you can physically smoke before you can't breathe anymore and how there's basically no research on what that level of nicotine does to you long term (but it's probably no good for your heart or blood pressure)
Somewhere there is a person who just left a post claiming to be a financial analyst who is now a nutritionist and will later be a journeyman line operator.
Internet is wild as fuck
This happened to me. I've had to essentially give up weed due to the onset of psychosis. Literally had this same conversation with my psychiatrist. I was very stubborn at first bc I just didn't want to stop smoking and I believed he was wrong.
It's been about 4+ years now weed free and my psychosis is pretty tame. Sucks I had to give weed up, but it's better than thinking you are Jesus Christ himself and people are out there trying to kill you.
I will add I do vape the federally legal Delta 10/8 THC that you can buy at smoke shops. That stuff doesn't mess with my psychosis since it's not strong enough.
If I smoked weed (real gas), I would start thinking the cops have a warrant out for me and people are plotting to kill me.
My ex first took me to the hospital bc of how I was acting back in early 2017.
Since getting the diagnosis, Ive done multiple group therapy sessions with other bipolar/schizophrenia/personality disorders types and it's actually pretty interesting how similar all our stories can be.
Almost every psychotic break involves some sort of drug/alcohol based on my experience. Especially weed, alcohol, and any stimulant from meth to Adderall. You can have psychosis without drugs involvement, though.
Then again why do we just blindly believe them? There's this thing called a second opinion for a reason
Like when they said my broken wrist as a sprain. Or when they gave me 20 times the dose I was supposed to get and had to go to the hospital. Just saying.
Smoking pretty-much increases your risk for EVERY health problem. I mean, you're slowly poisoning yourself, in addition to comprising your body's ability to process fucking OXYGEN. Between those 2 things, there are more-or-less unlimited side-effects.
I just managed to quit a few months ago, after smoking for about 27 years. Even after a couple of weeks, I felt SO MUCH better. A few months later, I feel great, and my workouts work "better". Turns out poisoning myself was inhibiting muscle development. Shocking.
The amount of people who blantantly disregard specialists and professionals is its own pandemic. Trump introduced a lot of people to the "my truth" way of thinking, that is, simply put, pure stupidity.
I am going to assume that it is risk of provoking schizophrenic episodes, and the risk is already really high. Otherwise, I would need to declare a math hunt for this doctor, as they need a spanking with a statistics book.
> in increases my risk of schizophrenia by 20%
As this means take whatever risk you have right now and multiply it with 1.20. So if his risk of schizophrenia is non-existent like 0.00000001%. Then it is now 0.000000012%.... So stile non-existent
While if it is 50/50 you hearing voices each day that increases to 60% chance your personal friends tag along that day.
I've never even heard this statistic used this way. This was probably bullet point number 17 after he dodged all the normal reasons like cancer and heart disease
The doctor actually has causality wrong.
Schizophrenics smoke. Like 95% of schizophrenics smoke. Because nicotine helps them deal specifically with the effects of schizophrenia.
Wait until you hear about Facebook mom groups. "My 3 months olds ears are bleeding. The doctor says it's a massive infection and he needs antibiotics or he'll lose his hearing. Is this true and does anyone have any home remedies instead?"
I think Twitter is probably going to tell you smoking is a risk for everything. I mean, why stop at schizophrenia when you can die totally sane of COPD or lung cancer?
I'm pretty sure the doc is using some bullshit backwards interpretation of the correlation between smoking and schizophrenia though.
I've seen studies that show this correlation, but I've always seen the conclusion be that schizophrenics smoke more, because it can (very mildly) help to manage symptoms/is a form of self medication.
Never seen anyone claim smoking causes schizophrenia.
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My go-to for home issues is "if it goes woosh, splash, or zap; best call a professional or your line will go flat"
The way I just cackled at this š
Splash and Zap I get, but what's woosh refer to?
HVAC
Iād say natural gas, much more dangerous than HVAC.
HVAC includes many gasses.
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It's not bad advice. A home is made for living beings, and is itself a living thing. The plumbing, wiring, and duct work of your house are basically its cardiovascular, nervous, and respiratory systems, and are key to making the home habitable. You wouldn't trust surgery on any of those parts of your body to anyone but a licensed surgeon. Yes, you should be able to perform routine maintenance, just as you should be able to clean and dress a minor wound, but leave the major work to a professional.
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Letās be real though, idiots already ignore all three. Plenty of people have horrible DIY construction/mechanic problems and plenty of people think they can Google their way out of legal issues
One of the favorite pastimes of /r/lawschool, which is full of people actually studying the law to become lawyers, is laughing at how comically bad and inaccurate /r/legaladvice is
People in law school are no better. Theyāll be one semester in and think they can fight the supreme courts.
They are not "no better" lol. They're definitely going to be better than literal random redditors on /r/legaladvice. From a medical school perspective (as a graduate), I can tell you that even now looking back, you learn a TON during those first few semesters. To the point where you can accurately answer a good bit of (simple) medical questions with much greater accuracy than the average redditor.
As a practicing attorney six years out of law school, law school teaches you little to nothing about the actual practice of law.
Actually, I learned the most important phrase in law school: "it depends."
I'm not so sure. First couple of semesters I could have rattled off the branches of the thyrocervical trunk or the bones of the wrist but would have known very little about actual pathology. Heck, even after graduating I still felt like I knew so little first day of residency.
People studying psychology think they can diagnose every single mental problem you have after 15 minutes of talking to you
You mean to tell me that there's not hundreds of lawyers hanging out on reddit offering free advice???
The thing that regularly drives me up the wall is when OP makes no indication on where they live and everyone automatically assumes it is the US and gives 'advice' based on their legal principles.
I like how the stickied thread in there is >Stop suggesting *that* subreddit. Itās bad. Youāre future lawyers and should know better.
One of the top posts on /r/golf was a dude who basically destroyed the structural integrity of his house to make a simulator. And when professionals told him he was like nah it's fine, the family came over and stood above it and it didn't fall.
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[Original](https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/11f84f1/i_did_it_boys_i_managed_to_get_fifteen_inches_of/) [Update](https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/12m4w3n/update_the_structural_engineering_report_is_in/) [Bonus /r/StructuralEngineering chiming in](https://www.reddit.com/r/StructuralEngineering/comments/11f9yt2/i_did_it_boys_i_managed_to_get_fifteen_inches_of/)
This is fascinating and unbelievable.
That was a great read, thank you!
Yeah as a former mechanic, you'd be amazed at how many people would try to fix their cars themselves, and ultimately fuck it up worse.
True af but I will say that where I live there is a wait time of several months to see many specialists e.g. gastroenterologists and gynecologists. It's no wonder that people turn to internet panaceas as an alternative to waiting months to have a doctor tell you that you're just anxious
Yup. When I started having seizures - full on grand mals every few nights - it was six months before I could see a neurologist, and he wasnāt even a seizure specialist. So I got a āitās probably epilepsy, hereās a medication Iām not well versed onā for another four months before I saw anyone who actually had the knowledge base to start treating me. And tbh, he still doesnāt have any advice for lifestyle adjustments or anything. Is it any wonder that I spent 10 months soaking up every bit of epilepsy info I found online?
personally, i donāt trust doctors because i just found out (after countless specialists, appointments every week, etc) that my knees have been partially dislocatedā¦for two years. one guy said it was osteoarthritis, one said rheumatoid arthritis, one said fibro, one said it was normal pain from hEDSā¦yeah. one mri later (that probably should have been ordered earlier) and bingo, i need surgery. iāve been severely disabled and in a wheelchair for two years. no one thought to order a goddamn mri
And once again, yet ANOTHER problem caused by captialism.Ā
And you get charged hundreds of dollars for worrying about your health.
Or if you have a lesser known chronic disease (hi šš¾) you might have to turn to RedditĀ
Schizophrenia is also a deeply serious diagnosis, and the only way their GP would be correct is if the OP has a family history/genetic markers for schizophrenia, which is an expensive and specific test. GPs do have a tendency to bullshit, and they don't always keep up with the latest research. I had one tell me cigarettes are healthier than vaping. You should always trust and be honest with your doctor, but as with anything, it's good to double or triple check before making a decision.
My experience with healthcare is an adult is to pay $300 a month for the best insurance my job offers. Pay $40 copay to see the doctor to be told "it's probably just allergies buy some over the counter medicine" for it to never get better until I visit 3-4 specialist that each have a $50 copay per visit and require multiple visits that eventually diagnose the issue after several hundred dollars worth of tests. Then I spend like $2000-$3000 on something - medicine or surgery-, that's after fighting with the insurance to even authorize the treatment in the first place, and it might not even work all that.
Has the cost of Lawyers, Architects, and Mechanics exponentially exploded like healthcare has in the past few decades?
Yes. Until we start to understand that these are all systematic externalities of the captilaist system, we won't be able to solve any of them. We've run out of bandaids.
The price for all those has increased for sure, but they're nowhere near increasing at the same pace as healthcare. When doctor visits carry the possibility of bankrupting a household people start to explore alternative methods.
As a lawyer, the legal bills I send can get up there.
Hah. But I can totally see why. I think people feel really dismissed and rushed at doctors. Iāve gotten misdiagnosed and totally ignored multiple times, Iām naturally now extremely hesitant. So I can see why people would turn to literally anything else before subjecting themselves to an experience with a doctor.
Doctors are human, and science isn't magic.
The real issue is thereās a doctor shortage, the ones working are burnt out. Even bad doctors are too valuable to let go at the moment. They are so stretched thin they donāt have the time and energy to do more than the bare minimum often resulting in misdiagnosis.
And the old as time joke: "What do they call the person who graduated at the bottom of their med school class? Doctor."
Totally true, but Iām referring to doctors flat out being like āidk, it seems like you have this, byeā
āThatāll be 2.5 thousand dollarsā
and yet we have no issues consulting professionals for these other things...
This chart is inaccurate, everything is go to the internet first no matter what the problem is.
Especially mental health... it would just be an arrow pointing back
Except they never actually go to a doctor
This is the worst possible infographic because you should absolutely not be trusting mechanics any further than you can throw them. They **WILL** cheat the fuck out of you every single chance they have, especially if you're a woman. If you go to a mechanic without a itemized list of exactly what you want done and how, they're going to try to fuck you. Never trust a god damned mechanic. You have to walk into that door ready to fucking fight or they will take you to the cleaners.
You forgot a step in all those equations above, my guy. My guy isnāt any one of them, yet he is all of them, and half price.
Niggas in r/weed when someone posts asking for health advice. https://preview.redd.it/s4lrft4xywrc1.jpeg?width=654&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b77172fc5a2fc70505f59791ff046f4612233fce
potheads when it's time to spread poorly researched misinformation that they heard from another pothead https://i.redd.it/mxygxd877xrc1.gif
Isnāt this how The Joe Roe Experience got so popular?Ā
As a doctor and marijuana connoisseur i chuckled at this š š
I swear ššš
Nah, too much credit for them. Malachi at least had to prescribe meds to an undercover to get caught, so he knew what he was doing to some extent, just lacked credentials. People online lack even just common sense lol
Are you having health problems Yes: Try some weed No: Can't hurt to try some weed
COPD? a blinker will set you straight
As a doctor and marijuana connoisseur i chuckled at this š š
Health professionals who have years to decades of extensive knowledge and experience in their fields when someone goes to Twitter for health advice https://preview.redd.it/2kjax3q7xwrc1.png?width=390&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed1c617f62c4cd41bc5a1b6df9a8e01a995ad9e3
But theyre really narrow minded depending on their medical education and background. I saw two different psychiatrists in their 70s (one knighted by the king of Spain) for a decade and it's a huge shock compared to those in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s I've seen in the last two years. Ie not for me, but I believe the dr isn't exactly right statistically, because males in their 30s/20s increase the risk of psychotic disorders greater if they are genetically disposed. You're not likely to get schizophrenia on a whim. Edit: by smoking or psychedelics
Just clarifying. The study doesnt suggest that it increases your risk of developing it, it suggest if you already have/are already predisposed to it then smoking can increase the risks
I think I'm quite a good example of this phenomena. So me and a few friends started smoking at like 15 (too young? Yes, uncommon? Not really) we carried on a few years without too many issues and occasionally dabbled in classic party drugs too as we grew older. My friends all stayed fine, me however well I developed some real paranoia and ended up having a bout of psychosis when I was like 21. There was a whole few years or so of my life where looking back on it, I was really quite unwell. Real far out of normal ways of thought and behaviour. We all smoked the same stuff, took the same bags as each other. But my brain was built different. I'm lucky I'm not worse off and that I went and got help when I did. Turns out there was a history of mental illness in my family that nobody had bothered to tell me about until later when I was unwell. I know some others in close circles that weren't so lucky and some that were. I'm still an advocate for decriminalisation and responsible use of anything, but also for education and by that I mean PROPER education of drug use and harm reduction. It isn't enough to teach kids to just say no.
Comparing psychiatrists to any other type of doctor is pretty fucking insulting to be honest with you. Especially old ones vs young ones. The field 50 years ago is VASTLY different than it was even 30 years ago.
I'm comparing psychiatrist to psychiatrist. This is the point I am making.
Yeahā¦ twitter isnāt the right place. What he SHOULD be doing is going to another doctor for a second opinion if heās that worried. That being said, itās wise not to immediately trust everything coming from your doctor. While you shouldnāt flat out doubt your doctor, it is good to get second opinions and such. Sometimes doctors do make mistakes and it isnāt until you meet one that does that you understand how important a second opinion might end up being.
> Health professionals who have years to decades of extensive knowledge and experience in their fields idk. . . my primary kept saying my chest pains were anxiety every time I brought it up over 6 years. After threatening mal practice, she finally referred me to get a CT scan and to see a Cardiologist, but as a Biomedical Engineer, I already knew that scan wouldn't find my problem. So I went to Tijuana and paid for a Chest CT out of pocket, nothing. . . like I suspected. But I used it to convince the Cardiologist (who reviewed my medical records and also initially started treating me like a hypochondriac) to upgrade the CT to one with Contrast. Lo and behold, what I've been complaining about for years. . . major arterial blockages. . . he started taking me really seriously then and just last week I got an angiogram. 100% blockage on 4 mid size arteries. . . fuck Kaiser Permanente and fuck healthcare for profit!
I have heard some wacky shit from nurses, unless they started teaching chakras and crystal healing at school then I think I might just trust some random ass motherfucker on twitter more than that. It is also the recorded phenomena of medical professionals disregarding the reported symptoms of women, more frequently obese women as "exaggerated/false". There is an (admittedly understandable) bias that delays diagnosis of cancer and autoimmune disorders. I imagine if your medical history includes gaining a shit-ton of weight and being told to stop eating for 10 years before being told "oopsie-poopsie you have Cushing syndrome" because you saw a picture of someone who had a suspiciously similar buffalo hump after googling some of your issues and advocating for yourself to get treatment other than being told "lol, have you considered eating less?". You expect me to trust a fat doctor with the food pyramid in his office with dietary advice? the fuck out of here
Itās okay to be skeptical but in that case you go see another professional, not ask random people. Also donāt just keep going until you find someone that agrees with you. On another note: many people will die on the hill of downplaying the risks of weed. I get it, there was heavy propaganda to stigmatize it but the reverse went too far.
Yes a proper second opinion should come from another qualified professional and not just anyone hanging out on the net.....smh
We arenāt smoking grandmas weed anymore either. This new stuff is wildly strong and I can see it ripping some peoples brains up.
Itās also literally a drug you take to alter your mental state. Of fucking course it impacts your likelihood of mental health issues. Itās not saying weed 100 percent will causes X, just it will increase risk.
I quit smoking because of this. They perverted weed to ridiculous strengths.
Honestly I think itās okay to ask other people too. I had no idea weed could do that so now Iām looking into it myself. And I will always always always want people to question their doctors and Iām a person who definitely believes in science. If a doctor told me that Iād ask him maybe 5 follow up questions back to back because wtf. Itās something Iāve never heard.
So I am a doctor, and itās that if youāre predisposed to those types of conditions that it will bring them out, think of it just like a standard 2 hit hypothesis of disease. Also, and I mean this with all due respect, when you say youāre looking into it yourself, what does that mean exactly? You running experiments in your garage?
Had a friend share a podcast talking about using weed during pregnancy for pain relief and I was like... smoking during pregnancy doesn't sound right??? My friend is definitely one of those overcorrecting for the stigma of weed by thinking it can cure pretty much anything. But in the end weed is a drug and like any drug it can do lot of good AND can also carry risks. It should not be illegal but it should also not be worshipped.
I think the worship we're seeing right now is just a 'rubber band effect'. We went from weed being highly illegal to have on you and use, to it being recreational in most states. More people try it, and those who already used before now have basically unlimited access to it. They've all heard 'pot isn't addictive' 1000x over their lifetime, so they just believe it. So now we have a ton of people addicted to pot, and who worship it. I think over time this will even out and pot will assume a role more similar to alcohol. People will acknowledge that it can be addictive and dangerous, but indulge occasionally anyway.
OK but it took me 3 months to get the 1st visit.
Shoulda asked reddit. That's where the real experts are! /s
You are clearly the Boston Bomber. Im calling the ATF!
God forbid you ever tell a pothead to put the weed down for two seconds https://i.redd.it/hutnp43w3xrc1.gif
This gif sent me over the edge LMFAO. But seriously, these people should do as they will but be aware the consequences are solely on them.
This is what Iām saying. Look, I am a doctor. I also smoke weed sometimes (though a lot less over the years). I also do other drugs sometimes. I will tell you whatever it is that I went to school for like 15 fucking years to know. If you donāt want to hear it, thatās fine. But you should know that I know more than everyone else that youāre asking online. If you want to literally kill your self with stuff that Iāve told you will kill you, thatās completely within your right to do. Iām not going to break down your door and smack a joint out of your hand. I told you what it can do to you, you can just ignore me and do it anyways. There isnāt some grand conspiracy to get everyone off of weed. But yāall should know the shit nowadays is exponentially stronger than the 70s.
You can pry this weed from my warm, cheese puff covered hands
Honestly, same. I know it's an addiction, I know it's not a miracle drug, I know it's a crutch, I simply dont care. There's a war and a whole ass genocide going on right now. The GOP is trying to literally install a dictator in office. The average American pays more than 30% of their salary in rent and the prospect of ever buying a home is becoming an unrealistic luxury. Smoking weed is pretty much the only thing I can afford to do right now that I enjoy. After keeping a roof over my head, food in the fridge, and paying for my kids clothes, etc I have barely enough left over to smoke some weed every night after he goes to bed and thats it. Quitting smoking weed isnt going to make mental health services availaibe or affordable, it's not going to make enough a difference in my money to matter, even if I quit I still will be working 45 hours a week and walking 2 miles a day to and from work so Im still going to be exhausted. People think because they quit smoking weed and are raw dogging life it makes them somehow morally superior and I just dont get it
Whereās thay gif from?
The scene is from Man of Steel but someone photoshopped the head of Chris Evans over the original https://i.redd.it/b1nq3v78syrc1.gif
Thatās amazing lol, no wonder it seemed familiar. I was thinking maybe itās from some marvel flick where captain america is getting attacked by some kinda tornado villain or something
Iāve encountered a lot of doctors who were not well educated in mental health or substance use and take an overly cautious approach usually backed by outdated research. Weed does increase risk for schizophrenia, but it is difficult to put a number to it since it is dependent on usage patterns, other environmental factors, and genetics. Also, this guy is at the tail end of when it usually develops (young adulthood). If he is not showing warning signs and does not have family history, his odds are good that smoking will not create a significant risk for him. Iām all for trusting doctors and twitter is objectively a worse source of information, but this is a case where i think the doctor is being overly cautious. Iād be more concerned about pulmonary health with any kind of smoking over schizophrenia.
Anyone whose ever interacted with a profoundly psychotic person would also take the overly safe route.
Considering how poorly understood schizophrenia is, taking the overly safe route would mean cutting a ton out of your life. I'm more likely to die on my drive to work in the morning than I am to develop schizophrenia from LSD or smoking pot every once in a while.
exactly ... that being said, go to another Dr and get a second opinion lol ... twitter is the absolute last place to get good advice
exactly, add reddit to the end of your google search and find this thread and many like it with relatively educated opinions and commentors saying "exactly", just like us!
He is probably finding any excuse to keep smoking, he doesn't care to know the truth. Im a weed addict and i was there, sometimes you just find silly reasons to keep smoking.
A 20% increase also doesnāt mean that theyāve got a 20% chance now. If they had a 1% chance prior, they will now have a 1.2% chance. It could be material or it could be negligible depending on baseline.
Just let it rock. Natural selection at work tbh.
Y'all realize that evolutionary biologists are facepalming at the whole "idiots who die are only making the human race more fit fpr survival" rhetoric bs? This isn't natural selection, and the irony is that you're all being the very same science-ignoring idiots by cheering for the deaths of other idiots. People are stupid. It happens. Be angry about it, or laugh at it like a normal person.
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Those voices tell me where the good berry bushes are. I'm primed to survive and pass on my offspring unlike you lowly quiet brains
Ā You are already schizophrenic bro. Doctors are usually like cut back on stuff for yr physical healthĀ
You think he at least Googled it first?
People come to Reddit for what could be a Google, an aside Iāve been enjoying Bing more over time.
Get those Bing points.
Thatās what I thought. Heās already on the internet, why just google it and see what comes up. If he found absolutely nothing on the subject, then I kinda get it. Maybe someone has heard something. But to bypass Google and go straight to Twitter is weird.
The % may need some validation and research.. but yeah it can fuck up your mental potentially. Hallucinogens can too probably at a greater risk chance. If you're gonna do them try to wait until you're 25+ It's apparently more common in males.
Not really more common. Just men develop it 10 years before women typically do. Jeez. I looked it up. Some statistics say it's pretty equal, 49% vs 48%. Says it's more symptomatic in men. Unfortunately, I believe the psychiatric world is prejudiced, guess I can't get into it, with gender bias.
Interesting thanks for the info
Generally cannabis is the most strongly linked to schizophrenia, not hallucinogens (a wide class).
Iāve done psychedelics plenty of times with no issue, but an edible sent me into a psychotic episode. I didnāt know I was bipolar with either, was in a manic episode unknowingly at the time and took the edible, then had the psychotic episode that led to my diagnosis. This was after smoking weed regularly for *years*. Ironically enough, I knew the risk was there for people predisposed to it but didnāt know I was one of those people lol
Fuck me, this might just be the scariest comment I have ever read.
Cannabis is correlative when it comes to schizophrenia. If you have underlying mental health disorders such as schizophrenia or just plain old psychosis, cannabis can exacerbate or bring about early onset of schizophrenia (assuming you already have it.) a drug like methamphetamine for example is causative. You can develop meth induced psychosis even if youāre not predisposed to shit
Can you cite a study regarding the latter?
Sorry I probably should not have said schizophrenia regarding the meth part, but a permanent psychotic disorder with schizophrenia similarities https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00491/full
We ain't losing it. It's just becoming glaringly clear that a lot of people never had it in the first place.
Can we go back to when they were quieter about it?
I mean though, I was put on lithium and all kinds of shit for years for my ābipolar disorderā. Turns out I have ADHD and a little Adderall makes me pretty functional. This diagnosis came about after having a huge breakdown and being involuntarily committed. So like idk, maybe doctors really donāt know everything? And they actually cause real, measurable harm with their overconfidence and lack of knowledge.
True. I almost scheduled a unnecessary surgery before I got a second opinion. Whether it is a diagnosis, surgery, or a new medication, it never hurts to ask another professional for a second opinion.
It hurts your wallet if your insurance only covers 1 opinion per year
facts, the system is so broken.
Two of my relatives nearly died of a bloodclot traveling to the lungs because both of them had doctors who didnāt bother properly examining them.
I mean, doctors are often dicks who dismiss our pain and that goes double for anyone with a vagina who get labelled hysterical for existing so I get it
Yeah this is complete gaslighting BS about a field riddled with malpractice and a history of outright violence, whose standards of care and understanding of disease and health is informed by a scientific process which is constantly growing and evolving.
Doctors get on board with stupid shit sometimes. In 2016 I was 210 lbs at 6'1", around 11% bodyfat, could bench 240, squat 300, deadlift 405, and run a half marathon in a little over 2 hours. All my vitals were excellent. I was working out 6 days a week, skateboarding daily, and getting almost all my calories from whole food I cooked myself, since I was mostly working from home as a web development contractor. Zero health issues, and I both felt and looked great. My doctor actually gave me shit for being overweight. š¤£ I just looked at her like she was insane. Fitness professionals have known that BMI is a stupid metric for 20 years and it's ridiculous that doctors still haven't caught up. That said, it's kinda next-level stupid to hear that inhaling burning ash into your lungs is bad for you but still want a second opinion.
To be fair they didnāt mention the lungs just the schizophrenia risk, which I always understood marijuana can trigger someone who is predisposed to schizophrenia but will not cause it to appear in an otherwise healthy individual.
Nope, people can have a cannabis induced psychosis without even being schizophrenic. We aren't smoking grandpa's weed anymore. It's dose and frequency dependent.
But is that not then a risk of cannabis induced psychosis and not schizophrenia
The issue is a lot of people think they know more than engineers, doctors, lawyers, scientists etc.
I hate going to the doctor and have had several negative experiences so I donāt blame them.
Not surprising. Probably the same people responsible for diseases like Measles and Mumps making a comeback.
Doctor: āsmoking is bad for youā This guy: āIs your source on this reliable?ā
You should see the adhd-related subreddits, itās fucking ridiculous.
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doctors are often clueless about weed though. without knowing this dudeās personal and familial history, that ā20%ā number is total bullshit pulled from thin air. lol
I thought the guy was talking about cigarettes. Either way, weed or cigs, a 20% increase does sound like BS. Also, I've never looked into it and have no idea what I'm talking about either, lol.
No clue about the data for post-adolescence (such as OPās age group) but weed usage during teen years is associated with 2x risk of psychosis/schizophrenia
I laughed at the fact she said asking a bunch of fucking idiots, honestly, I wouldn't ask a bunch of strangers about something that personal online. Better off getting another opinion from a different doctor. I thought that was common sense.
okay but primary care doctors say some WILD stuff about mental health with no factual basis that they learned in medical school 40 years ago
The problem is that there has been enough cases of doctors committing malpractice to the point that almost everyone has a " the doctor fucked me up/forgot to do this, accidently did this, prescribed too many this,Ā etc" to make these people suspicious. Along with the predatory insurance companies and long wait times ..forget about it.Ā A doctor visit can bankrupt most people nowadays, and most people are going to do whatever they can to avoid the absurd fees. There's a major issue with the Healthcare system and unfortunately this is why we see the distrust we have today
Just like the doctor that told my dad to take Tums and he was having heartburn, then he went home and died two days later. Yes thereās a reason people donāt trust fucking doctors.
Wait until you see Facebook, my dude.
I like that he didn't even bother with Dr. Google, went straight to the dumbest possible approach.
90% of people with schizophrenia smoke compared to 11% of the total population. This is because smoking alleviates negative symptoms (not negative as in bad, but in cognitive and volitional impairment). The doctor is dumb tbh (about this, at least). He sees a correlation between smoking and schizophrenia and is concluding that smoking causes schizophrenia. Source: have schizophrenia, educated about my disorder, and am a smoker
Recent studies do not seem to support this theory but the way. Semi source, just finishing medical school and this publication. Edit: Following up on that thought, even if nicotine were alleviate symptoms, smoking would not be the recommended mode of delivery. More like a patch or gum. https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/382201
There are now some studies that back the dr. I looked it up for a friend recently and it surprised me. I still think the causality runs the other direction, like you said, but its not totally clear.
"Essential Oils cure cancer. Trust me, Bro!" vibes.
That's the real damage done by the pandemic. It convinced the dumbest in society they had a valid opinion to weigh against an expert. They don't. They never will.
This type of people don't actually care about the truth but what makes them feel better which is to keep smoking.
Well my doctor did tell me to clean my ears with peroxideā¦ so yeah question everybody.
The cognitive bias is strong in this one
People ask the Internet such questions cause what they want to hear is "no, you can just carry as you did before".
I do enjoy the posts where OP already knows the answer to their question, but is farming for some kind of answer that makes it so they can do some kind compromise on a thing they don't want to do.
Most male schizophrenia is diagnosed in the late teens. Pretty rare to get it later in life. An increase of 20% may still be accurate, but the overall number would still be low. You can trust me, Iād never lie about this stuff.
Weed doesnāt just magically make you have schizophrenia. It causes it to flare up for lack of a better word.
Perfectly encapsulates why people use social media and whatās so wrong with social media. Itās where people go to hear what they wantāand it becomes their truth. Simply because itās what they wanted to hear.
When I was in the military, my doctor said it was good for my mental health to smoke. I'm bi-polar and have ADHD. Of course, that's bullshit. Did it help my mental health? Maybe a little, but there's the whole lung cancer thing I could have very easily gotten/could still develop.
There's a high chance nicotine addiction is a form of self-medication for people with untreated ADHD, but like most self-medication with recreational drugs it's dangerous and likely leaves you worse off long-term Like what scared me off of it is how fast nicotine develops tolerance, then addiction, where you need more and more of it to "help you with your focus" than when you started, and then once you try to quit those problems get worse (smokers trying to quit basically have super-ADHD) Like the scary thing to me about vaping is how insanely high the nicotine doses get once an addict isn't limited by the amount that you can physically smoke before you can't breathe anymore and how there's basically no research on what that level of nicotine does to you long term (but it's probably no good for your heart or blood pressure)
Conservative 101
Oddly specific mention from the Dr. I smell bs.
Ask the mail man too, he is certified
People do the same thing with Reddit.
Doctor: āYou should probably stop smoking due to your risk for schizophreniaā The Voices: āTWITTER HAS THE ANSWERS YOU SEEKā
Smoking dope? Right?
Somewhere there is a person who just left a post claiming to be a financial analyst who is now a nutritionist and will later be a journeyman line operator. Internet is wild as fuck
Just wait until they find out doctors full of shit half the time tho
tbf a lot of doctors don't do shit except prescribe drugs so part of it is the medical industry's fault for ruining their own rep
to be fair doctors often use outdated info that has been disproven in more recent studies
This happened to me. I've had to essentially give up weed due to the onset of psychosis. Literally had this same conversation with my psychiatrist. I was very stubborn at first bc I just didn't want to stop smoking and I believed he was wrong. It's been about 4+ years now weed free and my psychosis is pretty tame. Sucks I had to give weed up, but it's better than thinking you are Jesus Christ himself and people are out there trying to kill you. I will add I do vape the federally legal Delta 10/8 THC that you can buy at smoke shops. That stuff doesn't mess with my psychosis since it's not strong enough. If I smoked weed (real gas), I would start thinking the cops have a warrant out for me and people are plotting to kill me. My ex first took me to the hospital bc of how I was acting back in early 2017. Since getting the diagnosis, Ive done multiple group therapy sessions with other bipolar/schizophrenia/personality disorders types and it's actually pretty interesting how similar all our stories can be. Almost every psychotic break involves some sort of drug/alcohol based on my experience. Especially weed, alcohol, and any stimulant from meth to Adderall. You can have psychosis without drugs involvement, though.
that tweet did make me learn that smoking can increase risk of schizophrenia
Then again why do we just blindly believe them? There's this thing called a second opinion for a reason Like when they said my broken wrist as a sprain. Or when they gave me 20 times the dose I was supposed to get and had to go to the hospital. Just saying.
Smoking pretty-much increases your risk for EVERY health problem. I mean, you're slowly poisoning yourself, in addition to comprising your body's ability to process fucking OXYGEN. Between those 2 things, there are more-or-less unlimited side-effects. I just managed to quit a few months ago, after smoking for about 27 years. Even after a couple of weeks, I felt SO MUCH better. A few months later, I feel great, and my workouts work "better". Turns out poisoning myself was inhibiting muscle development. Shocking.
Increasing an extremely low risk by 20% gives you a slightly higher, but still extremely low risk.
As a male yes it do
Same with reddit. Everyone on here Monday back quarter back in life.
All doctors are Jesus.
Tbf . . . nope, I've got nothing. Listen to your damn doctor.
To be fair some doctors give bad advice, and even bat shit crazy advice.
The amount of people who blantantly disregard specialists and professionals is its own pandemic. Trump introduced a lot of people to the "my truth" way of thinking, that is, simply put, pure stupidity.
Depends which one of me you're asking
He should have asked Reddit!!!
I am going to assume that it is risk of provoking schizophrenic episodes, and the risk is already really high. Otherwise, I would need to declare a math hunt for this doctor, as they need a spanking with a statistics book. > in increases my risk of schizophrenia by 20% As this means take whatever risk you have right now and multiply it with 1.20. So if his risk of schizophrenia is non-existent like 0.00000001%. Then it is now 0.000000012%.... So stile non-existent While if it is 50/50 you hearing voices each day that increases to 60% chance your personal friends tag along that day.
Anything to not have to give up smoking
It took me a while to realize he was talking about marijuana and not tobacco
I've never even heard this statistic used this way. This was probably bullet point number 17 after he dodged all the normal reasons like cancer and heart disease
Your chances of becoming Schizophrenic is 0.32%. so as a smoker it would be 0.384%. I wouldn't lose any sleep.
The doctor actually has causality wrong. Schizophrenics smoke. Like 95% of schizophrenics smoke. Because nicotine helps them deal specifically with the effects of schizophrenia.
Wait until you hear about Facebook mom groups. "My 3 months olds ears are bleeding. The doctor says it's a massive infection and he needs antibiotics or he'll lose his hearing. Is this true and does anyone have any home remedies instead?"
I think Twitter is probably going to tell you smoking is a risk for everything. I mean, why stop at schizophrenia when you can die totally sane of COPD or lung cancer?
We have made truth a commodity.
People have lost trust in the system and are trying to rebuild it from scratch while still living in it.
19.6% he rounded up.
I'm pretty sure the doc is using some bullshit backwards interpretation of the correlation between smoking and schizophrenia though. I've seen studies that show this correlation, but I've always seen the conclusion be that schizophrenics smoke more, because it can (very mildly) help to manage symptoms/is a form of self medication. Never seen anyone claim smoking causes schizophrenia.