Yeah, Peter, I'm going to need to see those SNT reports
And a video of Titanic babies and The Alarm and Yakkety Sax
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I never ordered this “mass shootings are a mental illness problem” bullshit and will not sign for its delivery
I’d rather not march through the bullshit reasoning of disingenuous chuckleheads arguing that all the mass shootings in America are a result of mental illness or SSRIs themselves(?!) or video games or fucking whatever. It’s guns. Other countries and cultures have all the same things we do but we have more guns. So many more guns. The variable is guns. Guns. Knock knock, who’s there, guns, guns who, just guns.
Take it away, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY:
Are people with mental health disorders more likely to commit mass shootings or mass murder?
The public tends to link serious mental illnesses, like schizophrenia or psychotic disorders, with violence and mass shootings. But serious mental illness—specifically psychosis—is not a key factor in most mass shootings or other types of mass murder. Approximately 5% of mass shootings are related to severe mental illness. And although a much larger number of mass shootings (about 25%) are associated with non-psychotic psychiatric or neurological illnesses, including depression, and an estimated 23% with substance use, in most cases these conditions are incidental.
Additionally, as we demonstrated in our paper, the contribution of mental illness to mass shootings has decreased over time. The data suggest that while it is critical that we continue to identify those individuals with mental illness and substance use disorders at high risk for violence and prevent the perpetration of violence, other risk factors, such as a history of legal problems, challenges coping with severe and acute life stressors, and the epidemic of the combination of nihilism, emptiness, anger, and a desire for notoriety among young men, seem a more useful focus for prevention and policy than an emphasis on serious mental illness, which leads to public fear and stigmatization.
The Alarm: What if U2 had glam metal haircuts?
COMING SOON: Jamie Loftus
Monday’s show will feature Jamie Loftus. She’s all of these things: writer, comedian, podcast creator, podcast host, actor, animator, other things probably. Oh! Mensa member. Or a former one. She wanted to explore what the high-IQ society was all about so she took the test, passed, and then was off on a weird ride through a subculture of people who want you to know that they’re smart but who probably aren’t as smart as they think. But they sure are weird! Then she made it into a podcast.
Jamie is also the creator of Titanic Babies, which I like more than I understand:
New acronym to learn: SNT
It stands for Stanford neuromodulation therapy and there have been some good results on its effectiveness. SNT is a lot like transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, except that it goes a lot faster. And it went to Stanford. The therapy’s parents won’t stop reminding you of that fact.
From The Today Show, of all places:
With TMS, patients receive painless magnetic pulses to specific areas of their brains. Experts don't totally understand how it works, but this type of stimulation appears to activate certain brain areas and gradually relieve symptoms of depression, the Mayo Clinic explains. And it's particularly useful for patients who have already tried more conventional options, like medication and therapy.
But TMS can take a while to actually work. Typically, patients will have to undergo one TMS session per day, five days a week, for a few weeks or months.
SNT uses the same basic concept but with an accelerated, more intensive regimen, Dr. Nolan Williams, assistant professor of psychiatry and brain sciences at Stanford University, told NBC News investigative correspondent Vicky Nguyen in a segment aired Thursday.
With this therapy, patients get 10 treatments per day for five days with an hour between each session. And it can be used alongside other treatments, like medication, that a patient may already be on.
I hope the SMT reports are as promising as the TPS reports:
COMING SOON: Shane Koyczan
I spent some time with Canadian poet Shane Koyczan today, interviewing him for an episode of the show airing a week from this coming Monday. Shane has a brilliant mind, a huge heart, the sickest internal rhymes I’ve heard in a long while, and 25 million views for this poem:
We talked about bullying or, as he points out what it really should be called, assault. He told me about how a kid on his bus menacingly asked him, “Do you want to die?”, to which Shane answered, “Well, sometimes.” And then that bully didn’t ask him that anymore.
Artificial Intelligence improves triteness
I want wooden signs of these in my home.
Thank you, Hugh Grant, almost as much for this as for Paddington 2
(sound on)