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N.B. This is a serious topic. Please stop spreading propaganda about acetaminophen being addictive or causing autism. Please read the study. The point of the study is not about acetaminophen. It is about social pain can hurt as much as physiological pain. Only people with trait of high level of forgiveness responded to acetaminophen. Acetaminophen will not work for you if you not a kind. forgiving person. No need to worry about acetaminophen if you have a weak trait. Kindness can be learned by not trolling

Social pain (psychache), such as ostracisation/rejection/bullying, can hurt as much as physical pain. Forgiveness and acetaminophen have interactive effects on experiences of social pain. Telling victims to just "let it go" is just like withholding pain medicines from patients recovering from surgery.

We need to tell the victims that psychological wounds are like physical wounds. They will heal but the healing processes can be long and painful. Psychological pain may come back in waves, and the scars may remain just like physical scars. If the psychological pain is unbearable, don't hesitant to seek mental health. "It's okay not to be okay." Don't be persuaded to think "it is all in the head." Psychological wounds are as real as physical wounds. Good luck.

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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (12 children)

the cause of my autism is also the cure, i see

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You get deep enough into any emotion and it will start overlapping physical neurotransmitter pathways.

Just ask anyone thats done research into schizoid personality disorder.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

"The part of the computer that does one thing is connected to the part of the computer that does another thing 🤯"

Except our brains can change their wiring.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

Old doctor joke: Patient: "Hey Doc, it hurts when I do this." Doc: "Quit doing that!" Same holds true of social pain. Trust yourself, stay true to yourself, avoid the pain sources, and 'find the others'.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I hit something a little different for my depressed attitudes and it works as good as a prescribed medication. Alpha GPC

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If alpha GPC (choline) works you might have methylation mutations impacting your folate metabolism. Have a look at methylfolate, b2 and methylcobalamin and maybe get your MTHFR, MTR, MTRR, COMT genes tested. The supplement trimethylglycine might do ya wonders too

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not doing any of that. Already don't have a full deck to play with, so they could just call it that and fee me to the poorhouse for the priviledge. Alpha gpc's main attraction is its cheap and easy to get

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Alpha GPC is literally the most expensive thing on that list, those are vitamins B2, B9 and B12. You'll probably benefit from egg yolk which contains the fat soluble version of alpha GPC (choline)

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There is also research that shows that acetaminophen is not a particularly effective pain reliever, or at least, that it is only an effective pain reliever for a subset of the population.

So I don't know how much this would prove.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Ibuprofen is the stuff of the gods.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 20 hours ago

its much weaker than the non-selective cox inhibitors, naproxen, ibuprofin or even aspirin. in managing fever and pain. its only useful in mild pain that isnt chronic and not severe pain.

[–] Beebabe@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Anecdotally it doesn’t work for me, exactly. It sort of makes me feel numb and slow. So sometimes I take it specifically to get that feeling. This happens even in small doses.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

More like proof paracetamol fucks up your brain, we already know it kills empathy

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

And according to America's Leading Experts™️, it causes autisim

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

So not that much unlike alcohol then

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -5 points 19 hours ago

Acetaminophen reduces fever, not pain

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