AllanfromWales1

AllanfromWales1 t1_iy2z70n wrote

Reply to TIFU: I may have given myself tinnitus (ringing in ear) by AweProfit

Loud music. That's how you got your tinnitus. Same as most of the rest of us with tinnitus. Your experience when high simply brought it to your attention. With me, it was meditation which really got me to understand how bad it was - when I relaxed into a meditative state with no external influences, the internal noise from the tinnitus was frighteningly loud. And it's only got worse over the years. Help? Sadly the best advice is to find ways to get used to it. It'll be there, at varying levels, for the rest of your life. (Source: now 67. Used to turn my headphones up too high when I was young.)

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AllanfromWales1 t1_iy0moev wrote

Reply to comment by paf10 in Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health, new study shows. For every reported type of abuse experienced in childhood, a participant's risk for PTSD increased 47%. Each cumulative trauma also increased one's risk for making a suicide attempt by 33%. by Wagamaga

You seem to be implying that personality is purely environmentally conditioned. This would imply there is no genetic element to it. I doubt that, I think both play a part.

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ixz4qpc wrote

Reply to comment by jenkinsleroi in Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health, new study shows. For every reported type of abuse experienced in childhood, a participant's risk for PTSD increased 47%. Each cumulative trauma also increased one's risk for making a suicide attempt by 33%. by Wagamaga

I don't have a problem with the idea that trauma and PTSD are connected - that's a truism. I just feel that to quote numbers in the way this article does is slightly questionable.

Obviously trauma affects personality development, but I think it's folly to suggest that pre-existing personality doesn't influence the extent to which a given event will traumatise a person.

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ixyy7ct wrote

Reply to comment by OrcRampant in Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health, new study shows. For every reported type of abuse experienced in childhood, a participant's risk for PTSD increased 47%. Each cumulative trauma also increased one's risk for making a suicide attempt by 33%. by Wagamaga

> That’s why these questions are asked in several ways and with different wording.

Not in the test I was looking at. They looked for different effects, but didn't repeat questions with different formulations to try to pick up issues which might have been passed over.

Yes, my concern is that normalised trauma may introduce a bias in the results. In particular, that the sort of people/families that may normalise trauma may well be the sort of people/families who would not identify PTSD and hence it would not be detected. This would appear in the records as people without detected trauma having a lower incidence rate of detected PTSD, as such introducing a bias in the results.

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ixyw72x wrote

Reply to comment by OrcRampant in Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health, new study shows. For every reported type of abuse experienced in childhood, a participant's risk for PTSD increased 47%. Each cumulative trauma also increased one's risk for making a suicide attempt by 33%. by Wagamaga

OP's study, though, is based on answers to the ACE test, not on assessing participants' cortisol levels.

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ixyua8p wrote

Reply to comment by OrcRampant in Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health, new study shows. For every reported type of abuse experienced in childhood, a participant's risk for PTSD increased 47%. Each cumulative trauma also increased one's risk for making a suicide attempt by 33%. by Wagamaga

So when asked a question from the ACE test such as:
> Did you often or very often feel that … a) No one in your family loved you or thought you were important or special?

.. the response will be objective and not affected by the personality of the person answering?

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ixyq68y wrote

Reply to comment by Kickin_chickn in Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health, new study shows. For every reported type of abuse experienced in childhood, a participant's risk for PTSD increased 47%. Each cumulative trauma also increased one's risk for making a suicide attempt by 33%. by Wagamaga

There are certainly questions here for which the answer is subjective rather than objective and will be influenced by the personality of the participant.

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ixynnqi wrote

Reply to comment by Kickin_chickn in Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health, new study shows. For every reported type of abuse experienced in childhood, a participant's risk for PTSD increased 47%. Each cumulative trauma also increased one's risk for making a suicide attempt by 33%. by Wagamaga

I think what I'm saying is that the personality of the participant will at least in part determine whether they interpret a particular incident as adverse, and will also be a factor in whether they suffer from PTSD as a result. So it's not entirely the actual incident which is the issue, but also the response to the incident.

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ixylsv5 wrote

Reply to Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health, new study shows. For every reported type of abuse experienced in childhood, a participant's risk for PTSD increased 47%. Each cumulative trauma also increased one's risk for making a suicide attempt by 33%. by Wagamaga

Could it be that the people who don't report traumatic events which happen to them also don't get diagnosed with PTSD even if they suffer from it?

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ixfbjmq wrote

Reply to comment by Awkward_moments in Large parts of Europe are warming twice as fast as the planet on average. As a consequence of human emissions of greenhouse gases, the climate across the continent has also become drier, particularly in southern Europe, leading to worse heat waves and an increased risk of fires. by MistWeaver80

Nah, it's the lush green hills that make the place so beautiful. Parched landscapes do nothing for me.

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ixd0pm3 wrote

Reply to Large parts of Europe are warming twice as fast as the planet on average. As a consequence of human emissions of greenhouse gases, the climate across the continent has also become drier, particularly in southern Europe, leading to worse heat waves and an increased risk of fires. by MistWeaver80

..and other parts, like the west coast of Wales where I live, aren't. Confirms what I suspected, that we've been lucky enough to avoid the worst of it, though obviously that will change dramatically if the Gulf Stream gets diverted.

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ix7jp2u wrote

Reply to A 20 mph speed limit intervention implemented at city centre scale had little impact on short- or long-term outcomes for road traffic collisions, casualties and speed. by _DeanRiding

We have such a scheme in the town I live in, and as the paper says it has made minimal difference to speeds or to accident rates. However, I suspect three years is too short a time to draw definitive conclusions. Many people who drive around town just do what they always did without consideration of speed limits. There is (anecdotal) evidence, though, that newcomers to the area and/or new drivers are driving more slowly, and as their numbers increase over the years things may get better.

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AllanfromWales1 t1_ix3bu3w wrote

Reply to Honey improves key measures of cardiometabolic health, including blood sugar and cholesterol levels -; especially if the honey is raw and from a single floral source. Honey is a complex composition of common and rare sugars, proteins, organic acids and other bioactive compounds by Wagamaga

21 authors!

Note that the only statistically significant result was the increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. All the others quoted were "low certainty of evidence". Surprised that got through peer review.

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AllanfromWales1 t1_iwp9lkp wrote

Reply to How Safe Is Ayahuasca? Large-Scale Study of Over 10,000 People Explores by molrose96

I remain to be convinced that voluntary participation in a self-reporting survey is the best way to obtain data on the frequency of side effects of a recreational drug. Those for whom the effects were positive are more likely to volunteer for such a survey than those for whom they were not. They are also more likely to emphasise the positive effects if they have bought into the culture around Ayahuasca.

> “These results are consistent with previous studies, with regular users reporting that most adverse physical effects seem to not be serious and do not compromise health,” Perkins and colleagues explain.

Could this be because those who have serious adverse effects don't become regular users?

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AllanfromWales1 t1_iwhlahk wrote

Reply to Research shows land that often lies fallow or is poor in soil quality — across the United States would provide enough biomass feedstock to meet the liquid fuel demands of the U.S. aviation sector fully from biofuels, an amount expected to reach 30 billion gallons per year by 2040. by Wagamaga

Yay! Nowhere for wildlife to live once all the fallow land is turned to biofuel production. Get rid of those pesky wild animals so we can all fly more.

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