I worked inpatient psychiatry for ~6 years.
All substances you consume have non-zero risk associated with them.
Including seemingly benign things like milk.
It's the job of every person to understand their body and to do a risk/reward analysis on anything you consume.
For many, the benefits of THC/CBD/cannaboids outweigh the risks.
> I would never engage in any activity that increases the likelihood of a permanent life ruining mental illness!
I'd be willing to bet a substantial amount that you already do.
Sugar, antibiotics, medications, heavy metals... take your pick.
probably things have changed now but—-This likely sounds dismissive of psychologist and psychiatrist with regards to technology and I’m sorry for that it’s not what I mean.
I’m just curious where do all these psychiatrists and psychologists happen upon the interest to participate in what is ostensibly a technology form, although strictly speaking, it’s for anything that’s intellectually gratifying…But how do y’all come across it?
I wasn't a psychologist or psychiatrist, I was a Hospital Corpsman in the Navy (medical, kind of like a nurse), I went to what is called "C" school for training in psychiatry, and worked on a few different in-patient psych wards. The closest civilian equivalent would be somewhere between a psych tech and a psychiatric nurse.
As for how I got into that - I sort of fell into it. I did terribly in highschool, and grew up in a small, rural town. I didn't have a lot of options, so I joined the Navy.
I did well on the entrance tests, so was able to qualify for any job I wanted. The recruiter told me the best jobs were nuke power and hospital corpsman, I went with HM thinking it would be easier to get a civilian job afterwards.
I did so well on the exams, I was guaranteed a C school, after boot camp my options were pharmacy or psychiatry. Counting pills didn't sound interesting to me, so here we are.
This was all in the 90s, I'd been writing software and messing around with making games since the late 80s. Suddenly, in the mid and late 90s, writing code became highly in-demand. I bought a laptop (very rare at the time) and spent nights on the ward while the patients were sleeping teaching myself C, C++, and Visual Basic. I started moonlighting on my off time, and was able to get a full time job within a week of getting out of the service.
Been doing it ever since.
I like how the Navy gives people a chance when they might not otherwise, and how you did so well on all your tests that you blew away your high school expectations. So cool!
Cows are hooked up to metal frames with tubes going in and out of all the holes, being pumped full of hormones to keep them lactating.
These tubes, of course, cause infection so they are also pumped full of antibiotics.
The produced milk contains infectious pus. The FDA has (weak) standards on how much pus is permitted in consumer milk. Hint: it's not zero [1].
Milk also has a ton of other allergens. I personally developed an allergy to milk protein that causes rashes and blisters.
My wife, son and step daughter all have the same allergy.
And milk is probably one of the more benign of the terrible things the food industry sells us.
[0]: potentially worse than the UK and Denmark, other systems are either tradeoffs or strictly worse.
