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SpacedOutKarmanaut t1_j8ek9en wrote

Reply to comment by gravitywind1012 in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga

Trash journals gonna print trash. Fun fact - there have already been four papers published with ChatGPT as a coathor, and those are the ones that admit it.

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Commercial-Life-9998 t1_j8eivxh wrote

Reply to comment by FwibbFwibb in Training does not improve clinical psychology students’ mentalization abilities, study finds by lolfuys

In a way I think this goes back to how we social ppl as children. Little girls derive satisfaction from play by relationships and sharing feelings. Little boys derive satisfaction from doing and building. Or least this is the gendered play we channel children into. Girls and women’s play is to find out what is up with their girlfriends. It just doesn’t feel like anything was accomplished unless we have delved into one another’s lives. To stop at I-am-fine, feels like a big failure for women. When there is beaning-counting and number-of-widgets-made, men feel I-am-fine, to be completely acceptable. Once physicians had to earn RVUs, there was an earth quake of difference in how treatment of mental healthcare was performed.

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Mkwdr t1_j8eibmc wrote

Reply to comment by phred14 in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga

If of interest…

>Overall, vaccination was associated with reduced risks or odds of long-COVID,

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00354-6/fulltext

> A new study, published today in The BMJ, suggests that COVID-19 vaccines may significantly reduce the impact of pre-existing long COVID symptoms.

https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/covid-vaccine-long-covid

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CocktailChemist t1_j8ei0qg wrote

Reply to comment by SaltZookeepergame691 in Extracts from two common wildflowers, tall goldenrod and eagle fern blocked SARS_CoV_2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, from entering human cells. The findings could provide a new avenue to develop pharmaceutical treatments for COVID-19. by MistWeaver80

I’ll give them some wiggle room since it’s entirely possible that some minor but extremely active constituent is giving all the response (this has happened to me where I remade a compound that turned out to be inactive compared to previous preparations because it was too pure and didn’t have the active impurities of what had been made before), but it is useful to have that perspective about the potential limitations of what they’re seeing. Such are the challenges of natural product chemistry.

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QuestionableAI t1_j8eh4vy wrote

Reply to The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

Decades ago, I recall a paper that indicated that women were able to... in a crowd of faces, detect the angry and hostile/dangerous faces/people and the conclusion was, that it was a skill developed by women because angry/hostile/dangerous men were always a serious life threat to women.

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tsowmaymay t1_j8egm5x wrote

Reply to comment by teamweed420 in Cultivating a sense of perspective about pet loss can lead to post-traumatic growth after their death by chrisdh79

I'm at the very, very early stages of trying to work through this with a therapist. I spent this weekend trying to catch myself when I was being overly self-critical. When I did catch myself, I tried to practice self-compassion and I noticed that I'm having a lot of troubling believing myself/believing the uplifting and compassionate inner tone/inner dialogue. I felt like I was just trying to trick myself. Did you go through this too and if so, any tips to actually believing your compassionate inner voice?

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JurassicCotyledon t1_j8egfqt wrote

Reply to comment by swesley49 in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga

Do you have any data to suggest that these vaccines effectively reduce the rates of transmission? If so, by what rate?

Secondly, are you suggesting that zero people who would fully recovered covid without vaccination, will suffer a death caused by an adverse event caused by these vaccines?

Do you know how many healthy people you need to vaccinate in order to statistically prevent a single covid death?

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FwibbFwibb t1_j8egbnr wrote

Reply to comment by Commercial-Life-9998 in Training does not improve clinical psychology students’ mentalization abilities, study finds by lolfuys

I have been seeing therapists for over a decade. I have had three that were men and three that were women. In all cases, the men wouldn't try to dig in to anything at all. Just ask "how have you been?" and the like. I would sheepishly respond "ok I guess...", clearly there were things I was having difficulty bringing up... but that would end it. I was OK. Next patient.

Imagine treating a physical ailment the same way. Just taking a patient's word for whether or not they feel "good".

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PsychologicalLuck343 t1_j8egbgf wrote

Reply to Investigators assessed the risk of dementia using changes in alcohol consumption in nearly four million people in Korea and found that after about 7 years, dementia was 21% less likely in mild drinkers and 17% less likely in moderate drinkers. by Wagamaga

Sure would be good to know whether tha 20% of us who take 4x as long to clear alcohol from our bloodstream need to drink 75% less than the rest of you do to be considered moderate. For me that's 1/2 ounce of vodka (can't drink beer or wine).

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johndburger t1_j8efyt9 wrote

Reply to Men with prostate cancer who also had relatives affected by the disease – or by other cancers with an inherited element like breast, ovarian or bowel cancer – were up to a fifth less likely to die from prostate cancer or any cause compared with those with no family history of cancer by giuliomagnifico

In addition to just increased awareness if someone had a relative with prostate cancer, it’s becoming more common for such men to get tested for the BRCA gene variants. Most people associate these with breast cancer in women, but they also increase men’s risk of prostate cancer substantially, as much as 4X.

https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-brca-gene

Insurance will usually cover the test if you have a family history, and then your provider will schedule more frequent screenings, e.g. PSA tests.

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