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Health Conditions and Psychotic Experiences: Cross-Sectional Findings From the American Life Panel, Oh et al, 2021

Discussion in 'Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid' started by Andy, Feb 2, 2021.

  1. Andy

    Andy Committee Member

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    Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.612084/full
     
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    I will always marvel at the inability of medicine to come to terms with the idea that people can have more than one medical problem at the same time. It's like there is this firm belief that life, somehow, maxes out disease at one and any extra illness beyond one disease simply cannot be.

    This is pretty much literally why science had to formalize the fact that correlation does not equal causation, because weird people simply make up whatever conclusions they want out of it. And yet here we are, with "akshually correlation is obviously causation" being a common thing in medicine whenever convenient.
     
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    it says cancer not associated with psychotic experiences obviously had zero interaction with people in end stage liver or kidney cancer . more worthless opinions .
     
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    They start off in the background section talking people with psychotic diseases having poorer physical health than average and that is a clear and valid concern. It is true for all mental diseases as well as learning disability and autism. There are barriers to physiological medicine that need to be addressed urgently.

    But the research seems to look at people without mental disease to see if they have psychotic episodes. Psychotic incidents in physical diseases are called delirium and have been well known for, well, forever.
     
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