Students and life-long learners alike: at what time of day do you usually study?
When I was in college, I worked a few days per week as a campus computer lab monitor. (In other words, I got paid a few bucks to sit in a room with 30 computers and make sure that the printer didn’t jam up.)
I usually worked the closing (read: midnight) shift, and thanks to an incredibly competent cohort of classmates, I never had much work to do. If the printer jammed, the student who’d jammed the machine would usually walk right over, pull out the offending accordion-shaped piece of computer paper, and print their work again.
Call this job a study hall for the college set.
And study I did.
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What I have learned (maybe before this podcast but it confirms what I had found.) is that antidepressants affect the PFC. This is scary in the sense that (according to the AD’s own commercials) the producers “believe” but are unsure how they “work”. They know they work because they ask the patients. (Just like when you ask a drunk if he is alright to drive they always give an accurate answer.) However, what is proven time and again is that damage, such as lesions, stroke, and trauma, to the PFC causes major and unpredictable behavioral changes. Apathy, Depression, negative social behavior, Dorsal convexity Dysexecutive syndrome, Medial frontal apathetic syndrome, Schizophrenia, Mania, OCD, and oh yeah.. Dementia are the result of damage to the PFC. Oddly these are the same symptoms found existing simultaneously (cause the pharmaceutical companies making $10 billion per year off of them won’t admit they are causing it.) as people experience on AD’s. In world where every month brings new tragedy where AD’s were present or recently discontinued in the system of some psychotic episode, not connecting the dots between AD’s and damaged PFC’s has become a cultural problem.
On a personal note, unless you have experienced it, you can never understand what it is like to have your best friend and decade long lover and mother of your new born child start manifesting behaviors that has many of the characteristics listed under PFC damage shortly after starting an AD regiment. Caught between the physical body of a person you have loved for years and the “new mind” of the monster threatening your child that was released by the drugs, anguish and frustration can magnified enough. To have the doctors tell you that you are just ignorant and crazy yourself because drugs don’t do those kinds of things only adds insult to injury. It’s enough to cause such an insecurity that one can’t stop preaching about it in ever conversation. Thanks for the post.