I'm finding it a bit hard to think of a worse year over the last several decades, in a "reasons to feel optimistic about the direction the planet is heading in," sense. I guess people may have felt this way in (say) the mid 70's - a far from happy decade - but I was still somewhat of a techno-optimist at that stage and had a teenage life to live.
But gee, I mean - now we have the whole Middle East a complete humanitarian disaster again; much of Africa in terrible governance and humanitarian crisis, again; the danger to the West and Western interests from Russia and China, again; the unbelievable election of Trump, again; the loonies he wants to put in control and the drug addled, power hungry billionaire who helped put him in place (well, I guess this not a case of again - it's like a bad gothic Batman story come to life for the first time.) Another Christmas market terror incident in Europe just puts the cherry on top.
Also - overlaying all of this (which was not the case in the 70's) is the global climate disruption that Right wing (mostly ageing) idiots still refuse to acknowledge, and which we can only deal with by waiting for them to die.
Anyway, I'm talking about the vagus nerve because of this interesting story at CNN:
Vagus nerve stimulation may relieve treatment-resistant depression, study finds
And this story that it opens with - about how depression struck someone - surprised me (due to its sudden onset:
Nick Fournie was 24 years old when severe depression upended his life.
Fournie had been married to his longtime sweetheart for two years, and had no reason to suspect he had any mental health issues.
“I just thought to myself, ‘If this is it, if this is all there is to life — if it ended now, I’d be OK with it,’” Nick, now 62 and based in Illinois, said of that fateful day outdoors nearly 40 years ago.
But one day as he was mowing the lawn, his perspective on life abruptly flipped from light to dark. The shift would set him and his wife, Mary, on a tumultuous, yearslong journey of fighting for his well-being and another chance at a happy life together — until they learned of an alternative, obscure treatment that would change everything.
I wonder how often that happens - I am much more used to the idea that it develops somewhat gradually, or perhaps as a result of a sudden crisis such as a nervous breakdown.
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The flip flop mood issue happens. One of the weirdest cases I read was a bipolar patient oscillating every 24 hours! It probably points to a biological component whereas the gradual onset is more about sustained stress.
https://www.healthline.com/health/bipolar-disorder/ultra-rapid-cycling-bipolar#ultra-rapid-cycling
The first thing I would be looking at is being poisoned by non-food pretending to be food in the manufacturing process. You never know what organ that will affect first. With one person it could be the brain. Someone else may be happy and sunny until they get a horrible cancer in their sixties.
Unfortunately no politician is prepared to after Big Food. There are serious issues about modern food manufacturing that are ignored. At least now some bods are suggesting the decades long rise in colorectal cancers might be related to emulsifiers but it is statistically impossible to prove though lab work can potentially reveal the causal mechanisms. That's one example, there are many more.
“Also - overlaying all of this (which was not the case in the 70's) is the global climate disruption that Right wing (mostly ageing) idiots still refuse to acknowledge, and which we can only deal with by waiting for them to die.”
Did you find some evidence that it was to do with CO2 Steve? That’s funny. You never had any evidence before. So what has changed hey retard?
Let’s go over it again. At no time can they find a match between extra CO2 and warming. They fake the figures. This is more than clear. It’s not a rational model except perhaps insofar as it can be applied to arctic summmers, and some isolated dry regions since water vapour pre-empts any CO2 effect almost everywhere. In fact you might just as easily suggest the CO2 might have a cooling effect as it mixes higher than water vapour level.
Am I going too fast for you? Now the weather is electrically driven. And we have a problem with our magnetic field falling away, thus letting more electrical energy into the system. Only enemies of the human race would blame this all on CO2. Because we need to be grown ups and we need to deal with real and not phantom problems.
So you have to stop being a Jew and you have to become something you have never been before. A grown up human being.
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