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from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 01 Jun 13:32
https://mander.xyz/post/31172903

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roguetrick@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 13:45 next collapse

To be clear: the historical treatment for too much black bile (melancholic) is to shit it out with laxatives.

Nikls94@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 13:49 next collapse

Weird take, but blood-letting is a treatment against microplastics. As is menstruation and donating blood, but the first one is more medieval.

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip on 01 Jun 14:49 next collapse

The solution to pollution is dilution!

roguetrick@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 19:08 collapse

That’s a treadmill. You have to eat and drink more micro plastics to replace the lost blood. Bloodletting was the opposite you wanted to do with melancholic illness btw. You wanted to increase sanguine humor(blood, the opposite of black bile) so you ate and drank sanguine foods(meat and gravy, red wine) while taking laxatives and enemas.

Hilariously there is one aspect of this that is actually accurate to modern suggestions. To increase sanguine humor you should exercise and get hot and sweaty (sanguine humor is considered hot and wet). Vigorous exercise is considered by modern medicine to be good for depression.

glitchdx@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 01:32 next collapse

Can confirm. Worked my ass off today. Felt good.

Ziglin@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 08:01 collapse

However the microplastics that had previously accumulated would leave your body, thereby reducing the concentration temporarily.

inconel@lemmy.ca on 01 Jun 14:16 next collapse

gut microbiome’s link to gut-brain axis and depreasion so partial points earned? laxatives usually have adverse effect on gut microbiome tho

match@pawb.social on 01 Jun 17:42 collapse

yeah you are going to want to combine this with probiotics, or eating ass

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml on 01 Jun 17:57 collapse

Gotta make sure you’re eating undepressed ass though, else you’re just back at stage 1

match@pawb.social on 01 Jun 18:09 collapse

But where am I going to find a happy bottom 🥺

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip on 01 Jun 14:46 collapse

You ever go a long time without a good shit? Those alchemists may have been on to something.

bratorange@feddit.org on 01 Jun 13:58 next collapse

Men you know hard it is to get therapy?

TrickDacy@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 15:02 collapse

And then once you have the means, finding the right therapist…? The original post seems tone deaf

Deme@sopuli.xyz on 01 Jun 16:34 collapse

The wording is a meme, but yeah, somewhat detached from reality nowadays.

Carrolade@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 13:58 next collapse

The idea of imbibing potions whose recipes predate our awareness of things like radium or mercury toxicity somewhat disturbs me.

GandalftheBlack@feddit.org on 01 Jun 16:41 collapse

Thankfully he didn’t actually put in any of the dangerous ingredients

gnufuu@infosec.pub on 01 Jun 15:06 next collapse

That guy’s name is Dr. Justin Sledge and his Occultism channel is the first one I found that doesn’t make me cringe.

Shuilishu@lemmynsfw.com on 01 Jun 17:37 next collapse

Justin Sledge is awesome

Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com on 01 Jun 18:17 next collapse

He’s a hero to us all! Without him, how would you have ever heard of the clerical necromantic underground ? (Which will be the band of my next black metal band, yes, thanks for asking)

TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 05:35 collapse

He’s also got great politics and taste in music.

BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net on 01 Jun 16:12 next collapse

Okay but I want to know where they got that stovetop alembic from. Were they just hanging out on Amazon the entire time while I had to struggle with wok distillation?

Derpenheim@lemmy.zip on 01 Jun 16:27 collapse
luciole@beehaw.org on 01 Jun 17:12 next collapse

Extra spoon of lead for me, I got a sweet tooth 🥰

Sergio@slrpnk.net on 01 Jun 19:16 next collapse

All right, either:

  • try to decide what kind of therapist is needed (difficult)
  • figure out what kind of therapy/therapists are covered by insurance (time-consuming and stressful, sometimes impossible)
  • provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
  • look through a list of relevant therapists nearby (usually easy)
  • try to identify one that you might relate to or at least be able to deal with (very difficult, sometimes impossible)
  • call them up one at a time to see if they’re really accepting new patients (time-consuming and stressful)
  • try to find a regular time that works in your schedule for the new therapist and for other obligations (difficult)
  • again provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
  • go meet with the therapist. try to get along with them because if you don’t it’s your fault and you have to start all over (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)
  • do all this while dealing with whatever problem you need therapy for (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)

Or:

I know the wording’s a meme, but the hell with whoever made the original post. Fuckem.

glitchdx@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 01:30 next collapse

Let’s also take into consideration that if you’re in the US, the current administration wants to make a database of neurodivergent people to make it easier to find them and send them off to camps later. It is actively dangerous to go to therapy.

Inucune@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 05:29 next collapse

Find only 2 therapists in your area, one rejects your application, and the other double bills you.

flora_explora@beehaw.org on 02 Jun 08:08 collapse

I get that it’s hard, I was in the same boat multiple times. Everyone experiences the problems you list and I guess women and non-binary people actually have it worse because of on average greater financial instability and dependence on others.

But the issue is, for therapy to work you have to acknowledge you have a problem, be willing to reflect upon yourself and change some own misconceptions. I feel like cis men have great difficulty with that and therefore avoid therapy.

Sergio@slrpnk.net on 02 Jun 18:16 collapse

I didn’t say anything about gender, and I agree with everything in your comment. In addition, I maintain that the original post’s divide-and-conquer victim-blaming is one of the worst possible takes on the fact that accessing mental health care (in the US) is harder than performing esoteric medieval alchemy.

flora_explora@beehaw.org on 03 Jun 07:00 collapse

Hm, I’d see the joking about men in this case as a way to blow off some steam caused by the frustration of how the people in our society with the most power and who are the most violent continuously refuse to change anything or make concessions. Men not going to therapy and working on their issues results in heightened patriarchal violence. And it is just utterly frustrating how many decades people have fought for systemic change just to see the vast majority of men blocking any change or even pushing back against it.

[deleted] on 01 Jun 19:29 next collapse

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TheLastHero@hexbear.net on 01 Jun 20:23 next collapse

maybe the real therapy was the potions we distilled along the way

woodenghost@hexbear.net on 01 Jun 20:40 collapse

And maybe the real potion was the therapy we went to along the way along the way

sammer510@hexbear.net on 01 Jun 20:48 next collapse

God forbid a white boy catch a vibe

synae@lemmy.sdf.org on 01 Jun 23:38 next collapse

Congratulations, it works. You now have depression!

Allero@lemmy.today on 02 Jun 05:58 next collapse

I bet it was alcohol-based

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 03 Jun 07:11 next collapse

involves quicksilver, aka mercury, potentially organo-mercury.

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 03 Jun 07:12 next collapse

Ok but did it work?

GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jun 13:41 collapse

I did therapy for a little while a few years ago. I quit after the third week of listening to my “therapist” talk about his wife’s after church activities, and attempting to convert me to a Southern Baptist.

I’ll take the mercury.