Medicine affects morality

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Interesting article:

full article here

It makes sense. A drug in your body will effect your entire body. Whose to say the mind is somehow exempt

Well,

Thanks to the many incompetent professionals in the mental health industry I had the opportunity to try some 20 medications since 1975. Wrong diagnosis leads to drugs, and who needs to do illegal drugs when you can do legal ones?????

Haldol
Cogentin
Mellaril
Thorazine
Lithium
Abilify
Xanex
Valium
Lexapro
Celexa
Prozac
Zoloft

Any many more. Like I said who needs to do drugs when doctors will put you on at least five of the above mentioned. Life gets interesting.......
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very interesting! i used to take propanolol and now i take a drug of the same class, bisprolol. they have some interesting effects, that's for sure.


you can find out your implicit racial bias here:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/d ... atest.html

mine:

i find that interesting as i didn't expect to show a bias at all. but my boyfriend is mixed race (white/Caribbean black), so it stands to reason that i would have good associations about darker skinned individuals.

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Mine came up with no preference.

ohhhhh you are more highly evolved than me!! !! or i mighta had my boyfriend on my mind . maybe both.

I was expecting it to come up with a preference for light skin, actually. I took one of those tests ten years ago (it wasn't as good) and it said I had a preference for light skin back then. Maybe I've evolved over 10 years.

as i described in another similar thread, when i was prescribed a beta blocker for my hypertension, a beneficial side effect was that i lost my free-floating anxiety, which had plagued me for decades. maybe rascism/xenophobia is a form of that anxiety?

Lol, weird.

I'm not denying that there is an indirect link.

But I hope to god the pharmaceutical companies don't start providing drugs to treat racism. I mean what is this world coming to.

better living through chemistry?

Does it only work for racism or does it help with other xenophobias like religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or sexism?

Wouldn't a drug like ecstasy also cure racism?

I mean, it promotes feels of love for humanity right?

I am being slightly sarcastic but slightly serious at the same time.

Medicine and drugs have direct effects on the brain, and when the brain is affected, all sorts of things may change in a person. But to make the leap that heart medicine has positive effects on racism is just so weird, it is hard not to question whether there is some alterior motive going on. I

I think medicine can certainly affect morality. I've been on Risperdal, which is risperidone, for seven years, and I only quit that poisonous trash a few months ago.
Before I started taking it, I felt somewhat emotionally attached to other people, and I actually cared about morality and equality.
Nowadays, I consider myself to be almost non-judgmental towards people with violent views, and I consider myself a very nasty racist at times.

On the 'race test', I have a 'strong automatic preference for European American compared to African American'.

I'm deeply shocked at my result as it said I had a preference for light skin! Anyone who knows me will confirm this is not me at all. In fact, I relish my own slight racial ambiguity and refuse to attempt to straighten my semi-afro curls.

I think what might have happened was that I was slower in the initial stages because I was still trying to get it right. By the last test, I was whizzing through them and that's where light skin and good were together. Maybe I need to try it again, now that I've practised.

i think black is beautiful. the majority of people in my life who've bothered to be nice to me, were black.

Drugs can profoundly alter people's entire personality. So can a different diet.