Posts by Walter Myers4

I usually go for green tea in the morning, though I think drinking a liter and a half would probably kill me.😁You should seriously try this ginger and orange blend; it’s a total wake-up call for your system and really kicks your metabolism into gear—ginger is actually a staple in Ayurvedic medicine.

I honestly can't stand those fancy tea brands you see everywhere. Honestly, the local stuff we have here is way better than anything mass-produced.
And yeah, Drogerie has by far the best green tea. You can just grab it at Walmart.

I don't even know where to start with this nonsense. Seriously. It’s like people just wake up and decide to be completely irrational. I was sitting there yesterday, just trying to have a quiet cup of coffee, when I saw another one of these ridiculous takes floating around online. Honestly? It makes my blood boil. You can't even have a normal conversation anymore without someone coming at you with this absolute garbage. It’s exhausting. Just plain exhausting. kaže:
Oh man, what a total joke! Seriously? This is just ridiculous. 🙂 If I’d known ahead of time, I would've booked it! Seriously, what a massive waste of my time.
I mean, seriously? Just "yourself"? That’s it? That’s all you’ve got to say for yourself? Unbelievable. I swear, sometimes I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall. You can't just drop a two-word sentence like that and expect me to do all the heavy lifting in this conversation! It's exhausting. Honestly.

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Honestly, I don't give a damn when people try to value me just for being a woman👍

Olivia Martin6 said:So, basically, ever since a few days ago (specifically since Monday when I moved into my new apartment), I've been having this real hard time breathing

Don't you think it could just be stress from settling into a new place? 😉

Kyle Morris7 said:I totally get that, and honestly, that’s exactly what I’ve been trying to drive home in my posts. But here’s the thing—why is it that we always see one or two people getting dragged through the mud or thrown in jail (whether it's the courts, politicians, or the news media), while the crowd just gets a pass? It’s always some individual being labeled as the "face of evil" while the masses are treated like they were just "misled." If we actually wanted to fix things, we should be holding the whole group accountable instead of just picking off a few scapegoats.

But seriously, how on earth are you supposed to punish a whole crowd?

Kyle Morris7 said:I’m not getting involved in semantics. We're talking about mass pathology here, which falls under psychiatry. And look, if it isn't a mental pathology, then it's just pure evil—evil is just part of human nature, plain and simple, right along with every other way people act in a group.
But let’s circle back to my original point. I was actually waiting for someone to bring up selfishness—you know, that total lack of solidarity—as the reason why people worship criminals. A mob will cheer for a villain as long as things are going their way and they don't give a damn if someone else pays the price. From what I've seen in my own life, that's usually the real driver behind this "irrational" hero worship. When you talk to people about this stuff, most of them basically say, "Hey, as long as I'm good, I don't care about anyone else's problems." Honestly? I think that's how most people operate.
The problem is, psychiatry doesn't classify egoism as a pathology, though frankly, it really should be.

Someone already pointed out that the crowd follows a leader because he's the living embodiment of their own dark side—he's the physical manifestation of evil. He expresses everything they're too ashamed or too scared to say out loud, or everything their social norms won't let them touch. He calls for surrendering to those lowest instincts and sells it to the mob as some kind of twisted version of freedom... and so on and so forth.

Kyle Morris7 said:I’ve read quite a few pop psychology books—maybe ten or so—but that was like 10 or 15 years ago. If scientific findings are actually settled, then how come there are so many different psychiatric treatment methods out there? And half the time, they seem to totally contradict each other! How do you explain that?

Now you’re just mixing up theory and practice.
You started this whole thread about mass psychology, so let's try to actually stay on topic for once. 👍

Kyle Morris7 said:I’m not sure what you’re getting at. From what I can see, a lot of psychiatrists try to take an individual's psychopathology and just project it onto the entire collective, but I’m not buying it. It seems like whenever they hit a wall and can't explain something specific, they just slap a "societal" label on it to cover their tracks.

Look, it's not about whether you "accept" it or not. There are actual scientific findings that get tested in the real world until they become common knowledge.
That's exactly why I'm telling you: go actually read some literature first before you try to dive into the deep end of this problem. 👍

Kyle Morris7 said:I wouldn't call it some collective mindset. It’s just the natural hierarchy—survival of the fittest, plain and simple. That's just human nature, just like it is with animals. Sado-masochism is a different beast entirely; that implies someone actually gets off on inflicting or enduring pain, which is the mark of a psychopath, not a group mentality.

Look, we can't even have a real conversation here if we haven't defined our basic terms first. The whole issue you're digging into is massive, and honestly? You should probably go read a dozen books on mass psychology just to get a handle on the actual terminology and concepts before we keep going. 👍

Kyle Morris7 said:Which book is that from? I’ve gone through Frahm before, but I don't remember this one. A sado-masochistic German character? That doesn't make sense. Which part of the people is the sadist and which is the masochist?
Since we're talking about character—or honestly, more like national mindset—you could say there's a "master" mentality and a "servant" mentality. Nations that have spent centuries ruling over everyone else in their neck of the woods tend to have that master mindset. It's the exact opposite of the servant type, obviously.

I think he touched on that in 'Escape from Freedom.' But hey, don't quote me on it, I'm just skimming through his collected works here.😁

The whole sado-masochistic thing basically means there's this collective psychological loop where they feel the need to be bullied by a higher authority while simultaneously bullying someone even weaker than themselves.

So, you've got both sadism and masochism running at once. If you ask me, Frahm takes Freud's theories and stretches them way too thin when applying them to an entire society, but regardless, his ideas are pretty damn interesting to chew on.

nikakva said:http://www.susannealbers.de/04psycho-gruen-werk02.html

Found some stuff here by this Swiss psychoanalyst guy, Arno Grün. It’s all in German, though, and honestly? Way too long for me to sit here and translate everything for you guys.

It basically digs into identity—how you actually build one. It talks about authority and how we're taught to just obey, which is supposedly the only way to develop an identity through identifying with a parent or whatever authority figure is in charge. Then later, you go looking for a different authority to latch onto. It even touches on fighting against things the authority deems "bad"—basically being against parts of yourself because those traits threaten the fragile identity you've spent so much time building.

It's a bit twisted, and I can't really boil it down in just a couple of sentences, but it sounds pretty reasonable to me.

If I remember correctly, that sounds like Frahm's theory—the one where he talks about that whole sadistic-masochistic streak in the German character that supposedly stems from Protestant culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm

Kyle Morris7 said:I'm with you on this first part, but I think that only holds up during normal times when there isn't a massive conflict brewing. When things really go south, mass madness—or just pure evil—takes over. Whether it’s one single leader or a bunch of elites like you claim, it doesn't even matter. It always boils down to a tiny handful of people leading millions, and those millions follow because it suits them, not because they're some kind of brainwashed victims.

Of course it suits them.
I mean, look at how people act at concerts. You’ve got crowds flocking to see some half-literate, drugged-out rock star, and the second he yells, "Put your hands up!"—boom, everyone's hands are up. He shouts, "Everyone sing along!" and they all belt it out. Why do they do it? Because they want to.

Look, obviously, it's way better if they just act like total idiots at a concert instead of actually killing people.

Kyle Morris7 said:Why on earth do people think one single guy just hypnotizes the whole crowd? I totally disagree. Like I said before: the masses pick a leader who’s going to pull off whatever they’re greedy for. Whether that leader ends up being some legendary hero or the absolute villain responsible for everything depends entirely on whether he actually delivers what the people wanted. People love to point the finger at one guy just to save their own skins.

Look, I don't think it's that simple. Most of the time, a leader isn't even chosen by "the people"—they're picked by some more or less visible ruling elite who thinks they can use him to get what they want. And here's the kicker: that leader doesn't even have to be the smartest or most capable person in the country. Honestly, it's usually some marginal, ridiculous figure—someone easy to manipulate.
So, to make it short: the elite picks the leader and pulls his strings.
The leader is basically just an entertainer for the public; he’s just putting on the specific show they want to see.

Kyle Morris7 said:Look, the public doesn't want to be lied to, and honestly, I don't think they even feel cheated. It’s simpler than that: people just pick the leader who promises to give them exactly what they want and need.

Here's my take on it. The real issue with mob mentality is that rational thought just goes right out the window. People stop thinking and start acting purely on raw impulse. Think about it—being a decent, civilized human being requires constant effort. You have to fight against social pressure every single day just to stay "normal." That's exhausting! So, whenever they get the chance, crowds try to rebel against those cultural expectations and just let their darkest instincts take over. We see it everywhere—from mindless binge drinking and screaming at football games to much darker stuff like bullying or even genocide. It’s way easier for most people to deal with their own insecurities and feelings of helplessness by just drowning themselves in the power of a massive, mindless crowd.

Kyle Morris7 said:. But how else do you explain the collective madness of the Germans during WWII? It definitely wasn't because they were "behind." Back then, the Germans were one of the most advanced nations—culturally, traditionally, and economically.

That last part of yours just doesn't hold water.
Look, Germany was basically a broken state for an entire century leading up to WWII. They were getting hammered politically, losing wars, dealing with crushing economic sanctions, having foreign solutions shoved down their throats, losing territory, and watching their economic dominance in Europe evaporate. When you face that kind of long-term failure in every single sector, people start looking for a way to compensate. And honestly? That whole idea about German cultural superiority is a total myth. Sure, Germany had geniuses in art, literature, and philosophy, but the average German was just as clueless and backwards as anyone else. You had this massive, uneducated, deaf-and-blind mob on one side, a handful of intellectuals trying to revive some old-school "superman" myth through books and history on the other, and then the industrialists who just wanted a leader to kickstart a new era of global conquest and colonies. Unfortunately, out of that mess, the guy who rose to lead them was nothing more than a mentally unstable wreck.

Kyle Morris7 said:Is there even one actual psychologist or psychiatrist on this forum who can weigh in on this? Or are we all just total amateurs playing pretend doctor here?

Since when did you decide they're the only ones qualified to talk about moral dilemmas?

Nikol said:feeling worthless

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mistyhound2 said:Diclofenac and other NSAIDs work great for period cramps because they block prostaglandin synthesis—those things responsible for uterine muscle contractions and all that pain. Look, I haven't heard of anyone having a heart attack from using Voltaren or any other NSAID. Honestly, I don't buy half the stuff people post online; I trust what I see happening right in front of me every single day. So yeah, keep drinking it up.

they're just 😁

Jessica Cook64 said:I mostly know that stuff as a remedy for arthritis. 😕 My grandma takes it once in a while when her back starts acting up. I’ve had people suggest it for period cramps before, too, but honestly? Total waste of time for me—it doesn't touch the pain at all.

Look, I was super skeptical about using it myself at first.
I used to just pop Excedrin for everything, especially whenever my head was pounding or my period hit.
Then, after some lady on a forum suggested I try Voltaren, man, what a game changer.
Not only does it kill the pain pretty fast (seriously, take it the second you feel those cramps starting), but it actually stops the spasms and—most importantly—really helps cut down the heavy bleeding.
It's my absolute go-to. I just take it twice a day for the first two days and I'm good. Meanwhile, that whole mess of ibuprofen, Tylenol, Advil, Aspirin, and every other painkiller out there? They barely touch the pain and just end up irritating my stomach.
Voltaren is strong, and yeah, it hits you hard, but damn, it actually works.

Bradley Fisher20 said:For those of you who actually want to know what's going on:

I can’t even deal with how much junk is out there regarding NSAIDs. Seriously, if you think you can just pop a few pills whenever your back acts up without knowing what they're actually doing to your system, you're asking for trouble. I learned that the hard way last summer when I tried to self-medicate a pulled muscle using whatever was in the cabinet, and let me tell you, my stomach felt like I’d swallowed a bag of hot coals. The science behind this stuff is heavy, but people treat it like candy. You've got your Diclofenac, your Voltaren, your Naproxen—these aren't just "painkillers." They are powerful chemicals that mess with your enzymes. Specifically, they go after COX-1 and COX-2. It sounds complicated, but basically, they block the signals that tell your body to feel pain, while also stripping away the protective lining of your stomach. That’s why people end up with ulcers! I've seen it happen to friends, too. It’s all about the balance, which most people completely ignore. Some drugs hit one enzyme more than the other, some hit both, and depending on which one you pick, you might be saving your stomach but absolutely wrecking your kidneys. It’s a gamble. Every time I see someone at the drugstore grabbing a massive bottle of Naproxen thinking they’re being smart, I just want to shake them. Read the labels. Understand the mechanism. Don't just blindly swallow whatever the most popular brand is. It’s your body, for crying out loud. Stop treating it like an afterthought.

Thanks, you're a lifesaver! 😁

I’m sick of people acting like there’s only one way to deal with this pain. Seriously. You’ve got Diclofenac, you’ve got Voltaren, then you’ve got Naproxen... and don't even get me started on that Naproxen duo everyone keeps buzzing about. It’s all right there! Why is everyone making it so complicated? Just take what works and move on. I've tried half these stuff already and honestly, some days it feels like I'm just spinning my wheels. It's exhausting.
That’s exactly what we need. 🙏 🙏

And another thing that’s just as important:

So many NSAIDs come in suppository form now. It’s not just some weird gimmick, either—it’s actually smart. By going this route, you're cutting down on all those nasty stomach issues, and you're doing a massive favor for your liver by protecting it from the usual side effects. Plus, the whole thing works better and lasts longer. Honestly, why would anyone stick to the old way if this works?