Toward a new understanding of mental illness – Thomas Insel
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Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing. (Filmed at TEDxCaltech.)
Talk by Thomas Insel.
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Evolution is not science. It is a mindless false belief.
There is no evidence of evolution.
It doesn't even exist.
You are too stupid to even be worth my time.
The evidence is of Creation by a Maker, if you want to prove objects made you, that is your positive assertion that you have to prove before you can say they did.
And who made the super intelligent maker?
Hair is an on/off switch.
What you said makes no sense anyway because white men are said to have come from black men.
That is not even true because white people and Asian people have *another* mother who gave them mtDNA from Neanderthals.
Noah was actually albino.
The Maker of all matter is obviously not made of the matter that he made to work inside of us when it is directed.
This guy must think that our actions have no effect on how we think about ourselves.
Wait, so for every American being killed by another two Americans are killing themselves?
by looking at comments i think i watched the wrong video
What a load of Crap .If you don't know the answers at least have the integrity to admit that you don't know. Your argument is shooting itself on the foot your trying to explain something complex with something a million times more complex .If the maker can just pop into existence then it makes it even more plausible that lesser complex system such as the universe can pop into existence.
You can only go by the information that there is.
You made the faulty assumption that your Maker was made.
You are the observable evidence of what is not made of matter.
Yep lol
That awkward moment when both top comments are by the same person…
what do you realize?
This is a totally OLD understanding of Mental Illness. Psychology and new research has been targeting BEHAVIOR changes, even Thought patters, NOT the Brain, as to prevent, improve and save lives to Mental Illness and Distress.
obviosly you dont know internet dude… and since you are talking about DNAs and homosapien evolution, why do you defy the evolution teory?
Why do we need to fix them. Why not just work out the problem and see what it is they do wrong and work out how it can be useful, and then they don't feel that they are broken. I think you should cross out the word disorder, and replace it brain differences. And then when you look at all brains are different and that a disorder is just something we see as "too different" to what we like. And that to me is discrimination! Figure out how to get these peoples abilities and find a purpose for them.
You need to begin with understanding that everything you were ever told is wrong.
You need to understand that everything the Bible says is being confirmed.
Euro-Asians have mtDNA from Neanderthals through their mothers that are all from a different mother than the mother of Africans. Science has confirmed it.
Noah had three sons that married three different women. There was the mother of Africans, the mother of Semites and the mother with Neanderthal mtDNA who is the mother of Euro-Asians.
okay, how about the indian-american natives? and what about the aboriginal people from australia? and oh, there is history in east asia before the dates of the bible. compared to the western history, east asian history is dated way back.
The earth broke up 100 years after the flood.
Some of the Native Americans are Asian and others are somewhat different.
No actual secular records or calendars are more than about 5,000 years old.
Aboriginals came from a group of people in India who are related to Africans.
OMG are you kidding me? the earth broke 100 years after the flood? Did you learn geology at school? And yes there are evidence of civilization in asia from 5000 years ago. You are just talking your mind out, you got no evidence to backup your theory, but i have.
FYI, the earth would have to break apart when the sediment layers hardened into rock and an asteroid or comet could have caused the break up, the slide of the Americas to the west and the deep folds of the trenches on the other end of the Pacific.
The Chinese calendar is not even 5,000 years old.
You have no actual evidence of secular humans before that time because that is when there was a global flood that buried everything living on earth.
Evolution is a fallacy belief bordering on mental illness.
That is all fine and good and I am sure they would be left alone if they did not become a danger to themselves or other people.
Even "harmless" mental illness is such that the person themselves cannot cope with what the rest of us deal with on a daily basis so people that are mentally ill often turn themselves in or they shut themselves out of living a normal life because everything is a problem to them.
You cannot really understand it unless it happens to you or you are close to someone ill.
…and there are a lot of brain abnormalities/disorders, that often make people very exceptional, that are not the same thing as mental illness.
Mental illness is more of a self-destructive direction the mind takes that leads to severe aberrations or alterations of the mind and it is not always the fault of the person with the mind, as far as I can tell. I do know everything has to be relearned and you have to dump almost everything you think or believe that brought you to that place.
That means all of your "pet" hallucinations have to go. Just ignore them. You can't believe in them or give any significance to them, for them to go away.
Believing in witchcraft is like a mental illness. The more a person gets into it, the more whacked out and fearful they become.
You have the right idea. It is the thought patterns that have to be addressed or the beliefs themselves.
Schizophrenia can be very dangerous because, if the person has a mind to do something, they are capable of doing just about anything they have a mind to do but generally and fortunately, they usually don't have a mind to do harmful things.
Just be advised that, if they are talking about something, they are thinking about it and they are very capable of doing it. That is just an FYI.
yes i have, just look up antropology discoveries of the glacial age. And the chinese calendar is not even registered, it just goes round and round. There are findings of pieces of written turtle shells that dates back to 3000 a.c. Oh and in a previous coment you just said: Some of the Native Americans are Asian and others are somewhat different. does that even respond to anything? Religion is iventoin of men and early versions of it dates waaay back.
The Chinese calendar does have an age and it is not even 5,000years old.
Dating methods are not reliable… 3,000 BC is 5,000 years ago.
Some Native Americans have a Semitic influence.
It is not about religion, it is about the fact that objects cannot make you, without being directed.
>Dating methods are not reliable… 3,000 BC is 5,000 years ago.
you basicly just justified my facts. And objects cannot make you? So god made you out of nothing? Oh and how about chemistry and physics? are they all a lie to you?
5,000 years of human history is the maximum possible number of years. I was pointing out that it is no more than 5,000 years and you said there are turtle shells with writing that is 5,000 years old so it proves nothing except what I was saying that secular history is no more than about 5,000 years old.
Being made of is not the same as being made by.
Chemistry and physics do not write any directives to make any working mechanisms.
infact they are. physics define movement and chemistry ARE what working mechanisms are made. And with the recent tecnologies in biology, humans are able to create living tissues from molecular structures
Humans making things is evidence there is a maker.
Physical objects never significantly sequence anything.
Being made of is not the same as being made by.
Your fantasy is hopeless.
False conclusions. It's titled Shamanism. I no longer believe in madness as a negative.-Jody
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