I don't see why this belongs in Mental Health. Where I Live patients go to their GP's who then either decides to send people to a "regular" doctor for bloodtest and so forth, or establishes a possible mental condition and you are send to a psychiatrist/psychologist.
The brain is physical in nature, and lyme is far from the only disease to exhibit neurological symptoms. A psychiatrist will be biased towards treating as if the root is mental and not physical/viral in nature. Not to mention, they don't have direct access in many cases to do the required tests themselves.
I agree. Even top producers plug their ableton track into a nice console after it's done, and directly feed it back again in the laptop, purely for the on-board eq/compression or subjective type off distortion that gets added.
One can argue offcourse if it's over the top, but let's be honest, most producers only use 5% off any vst in their lifetime and some don't even venture away from stock presets. For most producers that one sound out off thousand redundant ones is enough.
I think engineer-types like us (meaning all of Hacker News) have a completely understandable knee-jerk reaction against anything "audiophile" that involves anything less than cold, hard numbers.
And actually, most of the time, that knee-jerk reaction is correct. Snake-oil audio cables, "high-def audio" for end users, etc etc etc... there is so much that should be repeatedly and forcefully rejected.
In loads of cases questionable deaths haven't been investigated on how they died. Meaning: lots of murders aren't being reported/seen as murder. Unfortunately do not have an article/reference for this, despite trying to find it.
Murder isn't the same as questionable deaths?!? I don't think that has changed. I said that in not enough cases they're checking if someone has been murdered or not. As such, you cannot trust that murder has gone down. This has been reported by Dutch news within the last 12 months I already mentioned I couldn't find that report via Google.
This is exactly the same as the crime rate. Less reported figures doesn't mean crime rate has gone down. For that one I gave elsewhere their own investigation which shows that crime rate went up.
Murder is usually the one crime stat that can't be fudged - the saying in public policy circles is "you can't hide a body". You can downgrade an assault to a public order disturbance, you can just fail to log thefts, but when someone dies it gets into too many databases to remove from the stats.
Most murders are not of the sort where it's unclear if it was murder at all. Someone's stabbed, beaten, shot, etc.
> Murder is usually the one crime stat that can't be fudged
Homicides generally, maybe, are harder to fudge (especially homicides + suicides as a single group) but breaking down into specific crimes (and non-crimes; not all homicide is criminal) certainly can be fudged.
"A confidential report by the police and public prosecution office states that official figures do not reflect the real volume of crime in the Netherlands,"
That's true everywhere. Nowhere solves 100% of its criminal cases. You must watch too many police procedural TV shows if you think the cops just march out of the office and catch the bad guy by the end of every episode. Lots of times victims don't cooperate with police, it's unclear what really happened, police can't find the perpetrator, the prosecutor decides there isn't enough evidence to pursue a trial, there's corruption involved, the perpetrator has significant financial resources to fight the case, or ultimately the judge or jury thinks the evidence is insufficient. Or most tragically, someone does get convicted and it's the wrong person! The perpetrator is still out there and an innocent person is unjustly punished.
While through many ways mind and body (physicality) are viewed as 2 entities they are one. Relaxing your body relaxes your mind. To take it further, physical exercise also makes you think better. It creates all kind off cocktails. Things like staying motivated with an idea, having energy, and not set back by feelings of failure. I also went through depression, and when I got to a better state off mind after therapy I was faster, sharper, more focused and more perceptive. It all needs to balance well together. Like a computer your as good as the weakest link.
The brain is physical in nature, and lyme is far from the only disease to exhibit neurological symptoms. A psychiatrist will be biased towards treating as if the root is mental and not physical/viral in nature. Not to mention, they don't have direct access in many cases to do the required tests themselves.