djchameleon

If you lived in NYC for as long as they have you would need one as well.

I think the two big cities that most people have shrinks are LA and NYC. High level of stress anxiety and depression in those two big cities.

Also it's not a taboo thing here like it is in other cultures to talk about having one. Well except for maybe the minority community still. It's still extremely taboo to talk openly about having a psych and all of the negative stigma that comes along with it.

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

butthead aka 216

only time i went to a shrink was when i was like 13ish and my parents divorced and my mom made me go but i found it kinda pointless at the time. thought about goin to one more recently cause i been havin paranoid thoughts that were gettin worse but i really dont believe much in that kinda therapy

Mr. Charlie

Haha. Yeah. Maybe. But I've yet to meet anyone who, after getting to know them well, wasn't messed up in the head. We're all mad (crazy) to a degree, whether we want to root the madness out, that's the real difference. Anyway, I ain't judging, if a shrink can improve a person's quality of life then fair do.

Xurtio

I don't know a lot details about the psychology side, but a neural mechanism for reduced plasticity is perineuronal nets. In the adult brain they stabilize synaptic connections, restricting new pathways from being formed. These are associated with the so-called "critical windows" observed in children (for instance, if you cover a kitten's eyes at birth, and let the critical window pass, they will never learn to see).

In the case of a mental disorder, say anxiety, a common proposal is that it is the result of overly sensitive threat-detection systems. Of course, there's a genetic component too, and just because something is environmental doesn't mean it's not permanent (consider abuse during a critical window).

Here's an article that talks about personality traits and finds some evidence supporting higher anxiety being associated with morphological abnormalities in the circuits associated with threat.

Testing Predictions From Personality Neuroscience

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stevie

what philosophy is there in psychiatry there lucy?

stevie

Testing Predictions From Personality Neuroscience

this is hilarious btw. thanks for the humor

Scarlett O'Hara

What are you on about?

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Xurtio

I think it's half-troll, half nervous wreck, judging by several short consecutive posts and baiting tone.

There are several philosophical issues in psychiatry, from the validity of the psychiatric medical model to the ethical questions about what constitutes a disorder.

Philosophy of Psychiatry (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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stevie

Really you're aware? Okay sure

stevie

what constitutes a disorder? a PhD