Recent content by ramacita

I think that would be quite a challenging argument--at least for me!--even if I was convinced it were true. Nietzsche, Heidegger and Marx spring to mind as possible examples of thinkers who (although clearly influenced by Plato, since who can help being so?) have something different to say...

In my view this is a bit of an overstatement, but I'm still listening. This certainly true. I would say you have a somewhat false dichotomy here--although the phrasing is very catchy and I like it :) There is more of a continuum than you imply in terms of what is available for psych...

Thanks very much herbivore. I am sorry too. And I harbor similar hopes for changes in the way that we tend, by group consensus, to view and react to people struggling with difficult mindstates. I didn't mean to hijack the thread. The original poster started a very engaged (and engaging)...

Yikes, that doesn't sound like a very good trade-off. Personally, I think I'd take the depression over the anxiety anyway. At least I could probably sleep to escape a bit. But maybe I haven't hit the lowest lows possible with depression and just don't know any better. So, don't have easy...

Speaking of "me-search", I'd be really interested to know what, if any, experience people have vaping pure CBD as a means of treating psychiatric disorders. I read somewhere that in the small amount of research done, ingesting CBD had the same effectiveness as atypical anti-psychotic drugs for...