The Chemical Mind

@chemicalminds
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Hi! I'm Nicholas, an Author, nerd, occasional podcaster and anxious-as-hell guy. I write a lot about how the brain works chemically, mostly because I'm trying to understand why my brain does weird stuff all the time.

#adhd #neurodiversity #autism #writing #neuroscience

Come read my essays: https://chemicalmind.substack.com/

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The Chemical MindSep 30, 2024
#PhotoMonday Mum's #cancer has returned in metastatic form. She's stoic as anything in the face of her own mortality. If you feel so inclined, please send a kind word of #support I know she'd greatly appreciate every last one. #ThankYou #Kindness
The Chemical MindSep 30, 2024
I wrote a really personal, really serious essay on #women in #pain after seeing my mum be put through the worst #trauma. Women's pain is not taken seriously, and they are left to suffer. Enough is enough. https://chemicalmind.substack.com/p/notes-on-women-in-pain?r=2el0yx
Notes on Women in Pain

A story of neglect in medicine, and the emperor of all maladies.

A Chemical Mind
The Chemical MindSep 4, 2024
Deus Ex MacGuffin Sep 4, 2024

I just got a COVID booster shot and a flu shot. My wifi and 5g reception have never been better, I can even see what the neighbors are streaming on their Onlyfans page.

Get your shots people!

The Chemical MindSep 3, 2024
Aaaand suddenly, out of nowhere, I feel great again! This is the roller-coaster of inexplicable fatigue in my case: it strikes at random, and leaves at random.
The Chemical MindSep 3, 2024
ikuoSep 2, 2024

REALLY tired of people saying, "Why are you still worried about covid? It's endemic."

"Endemic" does NOT mean "harmless & without risk".

It DOES mean "here to stay" which means the RISKS of covid are here to stay, which means we're all living with a HIGHER baseline of risk which means governments & institutions & people should be making PERMANENT changes that address that risk.

I curse the journalists & "let it rip" "experts" that made people think "endemic" = "harmless".

#CovidIsNotOver

The Chemical MindSep 3, 2024
It's a special kind of hell to be a workaholic who is stricken with inexplicable profound fatigue at random. If I ever go to uni and study Neuroscience, I think my goal will be to end the scourge of chronic fatigue. Easier said than done, I know. Anyway, just a mid-day half-conscious ramble.
The Chemical MindSep 3, 2024
Augie RaySep 3, 2024

Powerful words: "It’s not the task of the church to 'Make America Great Again.' The contemporary task of the church is to make Christianity countercultural again. And once we untether Jesus from the interests of empire, we begin to see just how countercultural and radical Jesus’ ideas actually are. Enemies? Love them. Violence? Renounce it. Money? Share it. Foreigners? Welcome them. Sinners? Forgive them."

- Brian Zahnd, Postcards from Babylon: The Church In American Exile

The Chemical MindSep 2, 2024
Fatigue strikes again. I wonder sometimes if it's because I over-slept. It seems whenever I get more than 7 hours sleep, I get major sleep inertia. Here's last nights fitbit graph. My body just wants to keep sleeping. Urgh. #fatigue #illness
The Chemical MindSep 1, 2024
Show threadForeverExpatSep 1, 2024
@chemicalminds About the effects of leaded gasoline, I first came across it from Kevin Drum, a political blogger with a bent towards data. He had a whole series where he overlaid falling crime data on top of the elimination of lead in gasoline. It was amazing how consisten the pattern was - lead in gas is banned then 20 years later crime goes down. See here for a compendium of his work plus links to other research. https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-lead-crime-roundup-for-2018/
An updated lead-crime roundup for 2018

 

Mother Jones
The Chemical MindSep 1, 2024
Show threadForeverExpatSep 1, 2024
@chemicalminds A great read/listen. Consider that the inventor of leaded gasoline, Midgely, also “invented” the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigeration. Quite the legacy.