Tamar Haspel, Oyster farmer, James Beard award-winning Washington Post columnist and general nuisance feels - I think - treated unfairly by a colleague.
I needed to stop reading his piece after a few sentences. I didn't even make it to "I could go on. (And I do, ad nauseam, in the notes below.)"... which is way to far down for my taste. Yes, he went ad nauseam.
Also, "Medium member since August 2019". Yeah, no. Thanks.
My experience is that meds take the symptoms away. You no longer feel sad, but you are still "depressed". Kind of like pain medication takes the pain away, but your leg is still broken.
I experienced depression as symptom of a deeper "illness" of the brain that needs to be cured with psychotherapy. If it wasn't for that I'd still make the same mistakes again and again that made me depressed in the first place.
Stimulus generalization comes to mind. IIRC Pavlows dogs at some point reacted not just to the food, but even earlier on him entering the room.
I doubt that they train dogs like "Steve's having a seizure. Good! Get that dog here."
I imagine that you do a preliminary training with faked seizures to get responses right and then hope (meaning: Train under real conditions) that the dog will react on a real seizure as well.
Sick Societies by Robert Edgerton changed my view on pretty much all aspects of mankind.
By giving vivid examples of failing or badly functioning and "maladaptive" (processes in) various (indigenous) societies he made made me value our current state of existence very much: Government, rights, laws, police, infrastructure, jobs, and all that really are a great achievement of mankind.
70$ for glasses in Germany? I have to pay about 200€ per glas. Maybe weaker glasses are cheap. After all you can buy glasses in the supermarket for a few bucks.
Those modern glasses get scratches after just a few years of careful handling and cleaning only with „Mikrofaser“ in my experience. No fun having weak eyes in Germany.
I needed to stop reading his piece after a few sentences. I didn't even make it to "I could go on. (And I do, ad nauseam, in the notes below.)"... which is way to far down for my taste. Yes, he went ad nauseam.
Also, "Medium member since August 2019". Yeah, no. Thanks.