My own writings reading list on anything Mental.
Reality and Imaginary are mutually exclusive as study objects.
I was inspired and I dedicate this post to Brooke Bader/Teegarden, her wittiness moved me to write it. All are my writings and responsability alone.
Consequences of treating the mind as real.
About Understanding the Mind and its Disorders. This is a Summary of my thinkings about it. It is a Good Starting Point, I think. More consequences of Believing and acting as if the Mind was real.
A comment to a Post about changing oother Peoples´ "Mind". A a complementary restatement in bullet Points of About Understanding the Mind and its Disorders. An explainer of why mental believers, beyond Fundamentalism won´t change their thinking. I even Quote the Great US Supreme Justice Sonia Sotomayor talking about Seinfeld…
Why Psychologists and Psychiatrists might not be appropriate guides. In english. Short but solid piece.
Confusing things will not solve our biggest problem yet.
The moral thought is second to legally thinking.
What most people learn when reading about the mind is worse than a fake used car.
Genetics does not explain anything about the mind.
The Ostrich technique is not going to help, specially real Ostriches, vide supra.
This might be a good way to explain to teenagers what is Science, what is not Science nor Scientific, the Scientific Method and the Empirical Scientific Method (2 more parts to be posted).
This applied to the ideas markets might explain Our Lemon World.
This might explain by analogy why somethings are simply not logical, never will. And the non-transivity applies directly.
This contains an example, perhaps hypothetical but there might be narratives, of why psychiatric drugs should not be given to dangerous people, and there is no way to know who is one even after psychological and/or psychiatric “evaluations” for months or years.
This is a long and detailed example of how illegal medical practice might be in México.
My recollections of Autism in the 1990s. Before pretending to educate, inform, etc., other people about autism, at least two things are necessary: 1.- People need to be competent reading about Autism, before actually reading about it. 2.- People intending such, communicating Publicly about Autism, need to actually do their previous thorough work. Before misleading, deceiving and harming other people when talking about things: A.- They can´t understand, and at least, B.- Don´t even get they don´t get it…
Stop talking About Neurodivergent Things.
Fundamentalism and Radicalization related to Mental Beliefs. Part 1.
Fundamentalism and Radicalization related to Mental Beliefs. Part 2.
My Guess of Where Transgender Medicine is or was going to.
A short writing on why some Empirical Findings, or lack therefore are of no use because they can´t measure anything Real.
Psychologists and Psychiatrists help People Allegally, Asocially, Amorally and Arreligiously.
Beliefs, Opinions and Facts are Different.
Confusing Opinions with Beliefs has had consequences for decades
I quit trying to Help Mind Believers.
This is just me:
But there is a story related to this picture and it explains in part why I can´t call people mentally ill nor mentally disordered.
This again is just me, sorry for repeating myself:
But I have another related to it story justifying in part why I refuse to call people mentally sick or deranged.
This is just a coincidence as it happens:
But she looks like her and her didn´t talk much, many times just pointed at stuff and did kick ass tamper tantrums.
The only picture I have of her was taken too far to see the resemblance when I met her older than the coincidental portrait from centuries ago and was taken too far away. Coincidentally…
I am not saying and never will there was anything sick or disordered about them. I never did and never will label them anything they were not to me: Beautiful as they were.
This is me when I last saw her:
I have pain since I never knew what happened to her…
This the
of this post and da end of my Substacks.
It´s not my end yet, but when I finally leave as until now, I will try to die with nothing but Gratitude.
Thanks.
Federico Soto del Alba.