If you can’t be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!

Ah, looks like you already said (more succinctly!) what I just posted. Ah well, maybe twice will help get the point across.

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A lot of the problem is the false dichotomy posed by your question: biological vs. “mental.”

I agree, even if the cause is mental, aren’t the effect still actually physical? All pain, sound, vision, etc. is actually produced by your brain. The schizophrenic does actually hear the voices because they come from the part of the brain that processes sound.

Decartes’ name makes me angry. I guess at the time circular logic was considered valid logic.

It’s alright. I got divorced and things got better. No thanks to my PCP or therapist. And I’m currently not being treated by either. Trying to find someone who CARES is fucking hard.

Might want to start that in med school. I went to my PCP for YEARS suffering from the physical symptoms of a long slow nervous breakdown, and all she would say is “It’s stress. Talk to a therapist.” My therapist had no recommendations for the physical symptoms. Just keep coming in and shelling out lots of money for no…

YES. I mean, we know, neurologically speaking, that we process physical pain and emotional pain in the same centers of our brain. It makes complete sense that physical pain could actually be psychological in origin.

I bet the Germans or Finns have a word for that feeling when you really wish you had known about a thing before you picked your major/thesis subject/etc.

This is pure conjecture, but I think it has something to do with mind-body duality. If there is something wrong with your body, you can point at it and say, “There’s the problem.” The body is not you. It’s just where you happen to reside. The mind, however, is you and if the problem is mental, then that means there’s…

You don’t think the cultural idea that mental illness isn’t “real” illness has anything to do with how these patients perceive their condition?

This is probably the fourth-most-pedantic thing I’ve ever read on the Internet.

“Some were also nerve fibers: in extreme cases of delusional parasitosis, patients will dig practically to the bone in a futile effort to stop the pain.”

Interesting and sad. And TIL Susan Sontag invented “pics or it didn’t happen”.

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I was a bit confused about this article until I reread the title. I thought it said “Shockingly ‘Looking For a Girlfriend’ Dude Seems to Kinda Like Dick”.

My god, you’re so right.

We are all clapping hobbits, deep down.