The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Yes I'm sure. Your linked quote is just filler words in an abstract, we know plenty about the pathophysiology of Schizophrenia with specific gene targets (although it is not fully understood), asking a question about the nigrostriatal pathway is a med student level question. It's likely appropriate to say that we have a better understanding of Schizophrenia than Parkinson's, and it's 100 percent appropriate to say we have better treatments. We understand Schizophrenia more than most of the dementia types (including the billions of dollars in research for Alzheimer’s). We understand Schizophrenia infinitely better than depression, which is why depression is a common topic when complaining about this.
Now do we understand it enough? No. We can reduce the risk of conversion from genetic risk to illness (ex: avoid weed) but not stop it, which would be the goal. But we can't also do that with Type 1 Diabetes or MS, and while we have an elevator pitch for what causes those now it's by no means a solved problem.
Schizophrenia in particular is unique in that the vast majority of cases are essentially a lifestyle disease problem - reducing morbidity and mortality is a matter of social solutions and ethics, the treatments are what we need already.
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