SignOfLazarus wrote:
I had real difficulty reading the huge amount of text and had to stop but the idea that general practice doctors and psychiatrists have never heard of epigenetics is odd?
Most GPs and psychiatrists would have at least passing knowledge of epigenetics and psychiatrists have knowledge of the concept of neuroplasticity simply through there work. There are medications that are even suspected to be neuroregenerative (psychotropic) even. It would be a minority of psychiatrists who would be unfamiliar with the concept. So im saying if you run into these professionals, they probably are not representative.
Sorry about that, but thanks for attempting to read what I wrote, as I wasn't actually responding to you directly.
I have a form of Autism associated with Hyperlexia, where I actually read 10 to 15 times faster than the average human being, and as a lifelong pianist, although I have great difficulty with handwriting, I type up to speeds of 130 words per minute, when motivated as such.
I have no idea now what it would be like to live any other way; however, before a typewriter, and loss of effective vision and hearing, writing and oral presentation was the farthest thing from my interest as a visual thinker and an input guy/problem solver, instead of out-putter in ways of worded written and paragraphed verbal spoken communication.
Yes, so my interest in epigenetics and neuroplasticity, is motivated strongly by my own personal life experience.
I deal directly with many doctors and psychology professionals who have attempted to help me in the past, when there seemed like no escape from my illnesses, and I find that they are very far behind, on any research in the last couple of decades, as truly they just do not have time for research seeing a patient ever few moments, raising families, and other real life responsibilities. And epigenetics and neuroplasticity are definitely products of the last couple of decades of research, although of course they existed long before the terms became available, in science.
So, I do not blame them for not being caught up on the state of science, as is, but never the less, it does harm patients that are not in the know.
Unfortunately, the medical practice is mostly designed around pharmaceuticals as the next big thing, instead of real life solutions to the root causes of illness, that science shows now is mostly stress and repression of human nature, most specifically human emotions and physical intelligence in the ways of emotions and moving that can definitely reduce the need for medicines to truly cure human maladies, from root cause, instead of just medicating symptoms.
Eastern remedies for human DISease per the arts of TAI CHI, Yoga, Acupuncture, etc. have understood this for thousands of years, in real life practice, and modern medical science is finally just starting to catch up.
Yogis in the Tibetan Mountains have been steaming heat off their robed bodies in icy pools of waters and controlling the electrical activity of their brains for thousands of years, as well.
Physician heal thy self, is they way humans lived for scores of thousands of years.
Modern Medicine in many ways, is functionally disabling humans beings, similar to culture and technology, overall.
Hard to escape, but quite an escape when one makes it back to the real strength of un-domesticated human being.
Sorry, if this too is too many words, but I write for the audience, as I have been through literal human hell and survived it, and any part of the information I provide, is certainly worth my time, if it helps anyone reading here, particularly like me, where as before, I would only read, anywhere I went for knowledge, and never communicate much in output.
There are plenty of autistic folks and their relatives like that reading in the background like me, who can read an average post of mine, like me, in several seconds, but do not post at all.
But again, that's the positive part of hyperlexia, the negative part CAN BE the output part, that I struggled with for around 4 or 5 decades. But adapting to change is survival, and I continue to do that, as required.
There is a lot of freedom of different minds expressing different ways of thinking here, and I for one am currently just the guy who reads and types real fast, relating volumes of information stored in crystalized knowledge over decades.
But again, there are different ways of thinking, and different ways of expressing oneself both in volume and content.
And I for one, never have a problem with any other person's communication, as input as such, and I consider myself blessed as such to be that way, but no, I am not going to repress my basic human nature in communication now, to please any particular part of the reading audience here.
We do live in a twitter verse way of life now, overall, where even two sentences is too much for some folks, and that is certainly not their fault, as culture makes what most of us are, whether we consciously realize it or not, as we go through life.
Interestingly, modern science in some studies shows now that human beings have the average attention span of SLIGHTLY LESS THAN a gold fish now, as well.
Humans are evolved for intermittent gratification, not instant gratification, and the price of that pleasure is truly often reduced ability for focus and attention.
And to be clear I am not suggesting you think I should change, but also to be clear I am well aware that some folks cannot nearly digest what I communicate here, and expect that, as again that is just part of innate human diversity and the cultural making of human being as is. :)
01 Nov 2014, 3:13 pm
