Couple of things. First, I’m sorry for your mental health struggles and your ban from a mental health community.
I think what you’ll find is that people get such a hard on for hatred of AI, that you’ll likely get posts banned and removed from other communities if people think you are using it. Is it fair? It’s besides the point, really. It’s just that unfortunately it’s not going to be very popular…fairness or not. As you’ve seen, even suspected AI use has the risk of people acting this way to you.
Next, neurotransmitters and the brain are a hell of a lot more complicated than they appear. Remember when everyone thought that major depressive disorder was simply a deficiency in serotonin? Well, modern evidence shows that that isn’t at all the case and it’s much more complicated than that. It doesn’t change the fact that SSRIs can be beneficial, but it changes our understanding as to how and why they may be.
ADHD is not simply a deficiency of dopamine and norepinephrine. Reducing it to that is highly inaccurate. If that were true, then drugs that increase both of these would be curative. But they aren’t. Symptoms are managed with ADHD drugs, but you’ll still struggle.
ADHD involves disturbances of dopamine and norepinephrine, but as to why and how that comes to be is another question. You can look at it as correlation versus causation. There is clearly an association there, but not necessarily a causative one.
Psychological disorders are no longer viewed as simple dediciencies in specific neurotransmitters. That is really not the case anymore with modern research. So in that regard I can see how someone would call an assertion with that as misinformation.
Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The only person who acted that way was the moderator who removed the message without bothering to read it. The many people who had replied before that had no issue. Since they had bothered to actually read the words instead of simply glancing at the fact that there were headers it would have been obvious it hadn’t been written by AI.
I never said they weren’t extremely complicated. I was attempting to provide a surface level explanation of how people with symptoms that don’t get listed as typical ADHD symptoms such as complete apathy can actually be showing an unusual symptom of ADHD that doesn’t get enough attention and is often misdiagnosed.
Of course the brain is extremely complicated. One of the reasons for taking the time to write the post was having ADHD repeatedly misdiagnosed as flavors of depression because the combination of Aphantasia and an intentional inner monologue meant my internal experience was unlike those of the people writing out what to look for and so I wouldn’t be using words that would make a mental health professional think of noise.
Both dopamine and norepinephrine operate on a U-curve where both too little and too much cause issues. As people have varying levels of availability of the two and many of the medications for the condition effect both to varying degrees it’s a balancing act.
I never claimed anything was the root cause of anything. I did not claim to be a magic wizard who is capable of fully analyzing and understanding the minutia of the many different chemical reactions taking place in every cell in the human mind or body at any given instant. In fact I pointed out that studying the available level of neurotransmitters where they need to be in order to be effective since a lot of those things can’t be tested on a living person.
I never said they are. A simple deficiency would be the body lacking a given thing, it would be a production issue. If that were the case no ADHD medication on the market would be effective, because none provide those neurotransmitters. The issue is a deficiency in the availability of the neurotransmitters. That could primarily come from either the neuron failing to release them rapidly enough, or the transporter removing them too quickly. The transporter is considered the most likely primary issue, though it’s very possible that multiple things play in to it in combination
Your statement about ‘altered neurotransmitters’ doesn’t make any sense. The neurotransmitters themselves are fine, and no ADHD medication attempts to alter them.
At the tail of that long response (which I appreciate) separated from anything else you say:
What assertion would that be?
And to your edit, once again that’s irrelevant. You’re more than capable of looking at the mod log. The mod removed the first post claiming I was using AI and saying I know better than doctors. Neither of those things are accurate. The mod removed the second post in banning me for “medical misinformation.” They did not attempt to say what they found to be misinformation, did not bother to respond to the message I had already sent them questioning the removal of the first post, and still have never bothered to reply.
Note that the post that they banned me for misinformation for was the second post, not the first. The entire body of the second post was questioning the act of removing a post they clearly hadn’t read in what the sidebar claims is a safe space to discuss mental health issues. That is what led to me being banned for “medical misinformation.”
It’s indefensible. It’s obvious what happened. They assumed a post was AI and deleted it without bothering to read it. I posted again questioning that and so they banned me. They didn’t want to put “respect muh authoritah” as the reason for permanently banning a user in the modlog, so they lied and wrote “medical misinformation.”