Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High
by amanaplanacanal on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:35PM
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Unfortunately, for people who are predisposed, going away to college or falling in love can also trigger a psychotic break. I don't think we would tell people not to do those things though.
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This is like equating swimming in the middle of the atlantic with swimming at your local leisure center.
Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High
by NoImmatureAdHom on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:49PM
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You can't make a meaningful comparison without numbers, so I'm not sure where you get your confidence. As it happens, my intuition is that your comparison is wrong.
I would bet that people who are predisposed to e.g. schizophrenia are, for the most part, going to experience some insult that makes it come on at some point before 30 years old. It's just a question of when, where, what, but it'll happen.
I bet the group of people who could develop schizophrenia were they to experience the right insult, but don't, is very small.
>You can't make a meaningful comparison without numbers
Except that these numbers do exist and it's a well documented phenomenon.
I don't know, personally I believe that a person can be genuinely afraid of water, I had it, I was generally even afraid to go into knee-deep water. So I'm 100% sure there is such a thing. Fortunately, the swimming school https://3sswim.co.uk/prices/ helped me get rid of this phobia, now I enjoy swimming, I think that in general, this was my goal