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Eases the overthinking/overanalyzing
Makes it easier to be in the moment
Serious question. Can you give me an example of how you overthink things and overanalyze things?
Eases the overthinking/overanalyzing
Makes it easier to be in the moment
That happened to me when I was on Cymbalta..well, not the penis, but you get the gist. Horrible.Lexapro
numbs the penis
Pucky my mind is always racing, either analyzing people, ideas, the news, potential purchases, past conversations, future plans, etc.
I spent part of my life reenacting conversations and trying to see if and how I fucked them up, etc. Lexapro, and to a certain extent my experimenting with recreational drugs, has helped a lot in fighting off that crippling mindset.
Plommer I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
Pucky my mind is always racing, either analyzing people, ideas, the news, potential purchases, past conversations, future plans, etc.
I spent the better part of my life reenacting conversations and trying to see if and how I fucked them up, etc. Lexapro, and to a certain extent my experimenting with recreational drugs, has helped a lot in fighting off that crippling mindset.
Might go off Lexapro once again and see how it goes. I went back on it last year during my vertigo issues.
BTW Joe Rain has started experiencing the exact same thing (vertigo). We've been sharing our experience with him.
rr i'm not sure if you're being dim on purpose
numb penis = less desire to beat off, and beating off is less pleasurable and more tedious
sciencebasedmedicineOne popular fake illness is chronic candidiasis. Candida albicans is a fungus that colonizes about 90% of the population (meaning it is present in the body but not causing an infection or any problems). It can, however, become an infection, usually at times of stress or immunocompromise. The most common manifestations are thrush (a superficial Candida infection in the mouth) and vaginitis, also commonly referred to as a yeast infection.
Candida can also rarely cause serious systemic infection, but this is mostly restricted to those with compromised immune systems, such as patients undergoing chemotherapy or with advanced AIDS.
Candida became the focus of a fake illness beginning in 1986 with the publication of The Yeast Connection by Dr. William Crook. In this book Crook proposed the idea that systemic candidiasis, or Candida hypersensitivity, was responsible for a host of common conditions and non-specific symptoms, such as fatigue, sexual dysfunction, asthma, and psoriasis.
Over 25 years later Candida hypersensitivity remains an unproven claim, but popular among “alternative” practitioners. The claims have also spread, unhindered by logic and evidence. For example, in a 2009 article in The Huffington Post, Kim Evans claims:
First, an estimated 90 percent of the population has a problem with candida overgrowth, although most don’t know it. And second, candida overgrowth can be the root cause of literally hundreds of different problems in the body.
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It’s also fascinating that an oncologist in Rome, Dr. Tullio Simoncini, says that cancer is a fungus and actually an advanced form of candida overgrowth.
There is absolutely no science behind the claim that 90 percent of the population “have a problem with candida” or that Candida causes cancer, or that cancer is actually a fungal infection.
Of course, fake illnesses require fake treatments, and they are numerous for Candida. One such example, ZapCandida, claims:
Fungus is the silent killer that robs you of your life-force, controls how you feel, and even how you think, this website will not only help you understand what fungus, Candida Albicans among others, and its relation to severe skin-issues, it will introduce you to a little known method to heal yourself by reclaiming your Immune system.
They don’t say what their treatment actually is – it sounds like some type of supplement with lifestyle advice to avoid Candida.
While there is precious little in the published literature about Candida hypersensitivity, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology did review the claims and evidence and concluded:
The concept is speculative and unproven.
Elements of the proposed treatment program are potentially dangerous.
I could only find a single double-blind placebo controlled trial of treatment for Candida hypersensitivity, which found:
In women with presumed candidiasis hypersensitivity syndrome, nystatin does not reduce systemic or psychological symptoms significantly more than placebo. Consequently, the empirical recommendation of long-term nystatin therapy for such women appears to be unwarranted.
Dr. Crook himself conducted no research to demonstrate the claims he made in his popular book. He essentially bypassed research, peer review, and scientific consensus and went straight to public promotion.
Conclusion
Candida hypersensitivity is an implausible syndrome, simply another “one cause of all disease” alternative claim. Such claims are useful only for generating demand for fanciful and worthless treatments.