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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I think it’s clear at this point that the Republican party has been working with Right Wing media and other organizations since the fallout from Watergate. The Federalist Society literally exists to create more conservative judges and hands Republican Presidents lists of their approved judges for federal judge appointments. Fox News, am talk radio like Rush Limbaugh, and now News Max and the Wallstreet Journal became the propaganda arm of the GOP. It will not stop until we reinstitute things like the fairness doctrine in media organizations and stop allowing entertainment channels to call themselves News channels.



  • I am not a doctor but did some neuroscience graduate studies and will try to provide a basic explanation.

    The biggest problem with our current understanding of mental illness is we cannot directly connect the cause of mental illnesses to the symptoms like we can in other illnesses of the body. We run into a problem due to the complexity of the brain. For example, Parkinson’s disease is generally caused by degradation of the substantia nigra. This causes problems with dopamine signalling leading to paralysis. However, there are psychiatric disorders, for example the catatonic subtype of schizophrenia, which are defined by periods of paralysis that are not affected by the same medications used to treat Parkinson’s disease. To use Major Depressive Disorder as an example we have multiple classes of drugs that work on different chemical levels (serotonin and norepinephrine being the most common) and systems in the brain but don’t have a one size fits all treatment.

    The focus of the DSM is a diagnosis guide that focuses on standardization of symptomology and diagnosis. It has guides on best treatment practices but it is not the primary purpose of the DSM.