O_O WHAT? For serious? Naahhhhh.
How do you know?

I thought everybody knew

Threats of suicide, etc.

Are you guys talking about spaceman Bryce?

Yes, well I am anyway.

I read in a very respected poker book that gamblers tend to have lower serotonin levels than average.

Seems bizarre to foster a community where sharing thoughts/feelings/life stories is greatly encouraged while enforcing that policy. I'm hoping Mat has an expertise in dealing with this type of thing and it isn't purely out of convenience for "volunteer moderators" .

What do low serotonin levels have to do with anything?

I thought that is a large factor for depression? Please correct my mistake.

The latest theory is that elevated levels of serotonin are associated with depression, and when SSRIs raise serotonin levels, it's the brain compensating for this even higher serotonin level that provides the antidepressant effect, which is why it takes a few weeks for SSRIs to start working. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25625874

Also http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cn500096g

Interesting, thanks. Barry's book was released in 2005.

It's pretty sad how little we know about how the chemicals in the brain work.

a heady brew indeed

i just became aware of the spaceman thing. he was banned, but given my number and the number to a suicide hotline.

he didn't call me. i lifted the ban for now. we don't collect enough information on people to be able to notify authorities in cases like this.

if any of you know who he is and feel that someone should be contacted, please do so or let me know the info and I will.

Your comment is misleading.

It's not that "The latest theory is that elevated levels of serotonin are associated with depression"... this has been known for decades. It's just that, finally, more and more folks are waking up to the real truth.

The notion that serotonin is the happy chemical is a false and fraudulent theory launched and marketed by corporate medicine.

A sizable volume of sound research studies demonstrated that increasing serotonin and tryptophan either with drugs or supplements is linked to brain dysfunction, stress hormone release, cognitive deficits, inflammation, impaired blood circulation in the brain, hypertension, cancer, and other less than "happy" effects - http://www.supplements-and-health.co...e-effects.html

The "serotonin-happiness" mantra, just like the mechanistic simplistic "chemical imbalance" idea, are almost entirely all-too convenient inventions of the medical-pharma business, which allowed them to sell their highly profitable antidepressant drugs, such as SSRIs, while causing massive human destruction.

inb4 why was Rou Pake banned.

Me too. I hadn't seen his posts in the "safe space" thread in politics. I saw some weird possible threats toward El D in a H&F thread and then noticed he was banned.

Hope he gets some help.

Roe, please stop being misleading. I did not claim "The latest theory is that elevated levels of serotonin are associated with depression"; I said If you have a decades old source for the high serotonin and energy regulation hypothesis as the mechanism by which SSRIs can have an antidepressant effect, I retract this post and I apologize for being so misleading.

Nobody would ask that

Isla Fisher used to post in the "That's what she said" forum. She talked about it one day after a couple of glasses of wine. Then she disappeared.

WHY

WAS

I

NOT

TOLD

!@#!@#!!1

And that's just the tip of it.

Seems like a legitimate first post for someone who just stumbled across twoplustwo.

That was Ron howard’s Girlfriend/daughter

Hmm I didn't know the story about Sacha Baron Cohen making an account on this forum tbh

Didn't the Russians use 2p2 gimmick accounts to sabotage Gary Johnson's presidential campaign? Maybe that's just a rumor.