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> And I have to say, it's a bit creepy that you went and started researching me to try to win an argument. You gonna start trying to figure out where I live next?

David, this is weird. I went to your public website that you list in your bio to understand your world view more, because your unhinged remark about my excitement over seeing a study linking the immune system to mood disorders.

- I did not give advice to anyone. That is delusional.

- You seem to think that "people with mood disorders" and "being suicidal" has some equivalency. I think people who are suicidal need to get in a psychiatric hospital and while they are there they can see a psychiatrist and in the future, hopefully, an immunologist. Because since we do not know what causes mental illnesses we should look for every possible cause, which in some well known cases is immune related.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/06/01/schizophr...

I get it is ok for most people to be fine with giving up on people like me and say "You have no evidence blah blah blah" while I am homeless, mentally ill, and in chronic pain. You see, somehow I keep my excitement alive during all of this, and people like you just want to kill it because "there are no studies yet" while all these people keep getting millions in grants for testing 40 year old treatments where 1/100000 of that money give to me to help me get housing would do more for my mental illness than anything else.

BTW, nutrition helped me get off all the meds that were killing me, so kudos for posting that paper on your website.






Au contraire, I am not fine on giving up on people. I wouldn't be where I am if people had given up on me.

I just want real solutions. We can say results are promising and be excited about them without being "big believers" and presenting them as more sure solutions than they are.

Nutrition has correlated with some pretty positive changes in my own mental health journey, and I think the risks of eating the foods recommended by that study are pretty low. Note how careful I am being about what I say here: speaking this carefully is what I'm encouraging you to do if you want to talk about science. All I'm asking is that you be careful that what you say is actually, specifically, true.

I'm really sorry to hear you're homeless, mentally ill, and in pain. That sucks.


Thanks. So you see, I do not have the time to be careful. Neither does anyone else like me. If I can get someone, who is currently under psychiatric care, to go see an immunologist, then that is much better.

When I tell 99% of people I meet that there is such a thing as Neuropsychiatic Lupus they are dumb founded. That has to change.

You are making it sound like I was saying people should not see psychiatrists and just see an immunologist, but that was only your interpretation. IF you asked me if I think they should see a psychiatrist as well this thread would not have happened.




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