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Androgens are not scribed for depression. Legally they're considered to be hard drugs. It will take you all of five minutes to get a script for oxy but getting a script for testosterone is very difficult indeed (or was. TRT is more of a thing these days). This is less a medical issue and more of a cultural one.
Testosterone has mood altering effects (as anyone that has had a male puberty can attest). Those effects can be positive but there is no guarantee thereof. This is something you can try without significant difficultly, you will see effects almost immediately, and you'll have a good idea whether it is a help or hinderance based on that.
You have your fall back position of retreat here, and very little to lose by experimenting with ways to break out of the behavioural loop you're stuck in. People alter their behaviour in response to your own. Therefore you can make iterative changes and observe the effects.
That's all I'm trying to get you to consider.
With all due respect, "learn how" is why I am here, it is in my very question.
Okay. Give me your strategy for making peace with your mother.
I'd do little more than write a role on a card (politician, corporate interest, activist, police, teacher, parent, student, etc.), and probably public and private motivations to prompt people beyond the obvious. Then you just let them at each other.
All this comes down to is putting people in situations of asymmetric power dynamics. Then it's just a matter of seeing how power corrupts.
Then when you had a play through or two and made sure nobody's completely traumatised^(1) or anything like that you have a debrief. That's when you disclose player's private motivations and then discuss the implications, both in game and in the real world. You say "If the role on this card corresponds to a real person or entity, who do you think it might be and why?".
You don't have to be abstract or speculate about actions and motivations when your students just did it right in front of you and to each other. When the player with a particular card roleplays organising a school strike and then in the debrief the private motivation is revealed as "You will be paid $10M by lobby group X if you can organise a school strike" you'll literally see the lightbulbs go on, and without ever having to actually name Ms. Thunberg at all.
The other aspect is that if you're going to criticise the motivations and actions of others then you better be ready to put your money where your mouth is. That means that the second half of the lesson has to involve doing something practical that is more effective for the environment than a school strike.
- That is a non-trivial risk of these kind of games involving defection and deceit. Everyone should think very carefully before they black pill anyone, let alone a bunch of minors.
Persuasion will most likely fail.
Learn how to deal with people unlike yourself without having to convert them to your beliefs or run away from them. The sooner you figure this out, the less avoidable suffering you'll have to endure.
Plausible solutions are middle grounds and / or moving out.
Here's a radical idea: if you don't like being at home, don't be at home.
Go out and get a job. That will get you some money, actual real world experience, and external perspectives that you currently lack.
If there was something I wish were taught in schools it would be more practical roleplaying. It would take all of an hour to give students turns as the various stakeholders in this scenario for them to gain an understanding of why a school strike is pointless, and what might work instead.
If you are male, androgens.
- Slight of hand:
If you're not bothered by injections and have appropriate technique then all you have to do is shoot saline in front of your mother.
- Operant conditioning:
Apply the gold standard of animal training. Reward positive behaviours, ignore negative ones.
The obvious problem with using OC on your relatives is that you typically have care for them. Micromanaging every interaction kills any hope of honesty or intimacy. They're just problems to be managed, not people you can actually share anything with.
- This situation is a test. It is not the last time you will be confronted with this kind of thing. If you favour science, then what do you think your logical course of action should be if prior courses have failed?
Pyrolysis and then burying the char as a soil amendment.
I always try using my code editor hotkeys while editing text in non-coding contexts
AutoHotKey or other remapping/scripting utility perhaps?
Even if you can't remap usefully within context at least you can stop it from doing something annoying.
The obvious problem is that everyone wants none of certain kinds of people. We have the statistics about elective abortions of foetuses with Down's Syndrome.
These things always start with the edge cases.
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- I take a lot of notes because my working memory is shot to pieces. These notes are often unintelligible after even a short amount of time. These kind of notes are ephemera.
- I take notes and I consolidate notes. Consolidation is what turns my notes into something worth keeping or discarding. More important things get more consideration which translates to more editing which results in more coherent notes. These are notes that are more likely to be typed up (a good example of that is my reference sheet for my financial information and accounts. Nobody wants to try to remember account numbers or the like. This is currently a simple open office document. Nothing fancy).
I want there to be a good filing/structural solution for notes but I find that largely gets in the way because there's no clear paradigm to follow. Most of my stuff ends up in a commonplace book format for that reason. - A good example of non-note note taking for me is pintrest. Note taking software is notoriously horrible at dealing with media. It doesn't have any good reason for being terrible at that, and it seems like a logical point of competition with paper solutions.
- Scans go straight from my android phone's camera to my google drive or google photos, depending on use case.
I will email notes to myself if I have to but I've deprecated that method.
Every single wiki/note/knowledge management system you can think of I've used or still use. OneNote is a current dumping ground, notion if I can be bothered cleaning up the notes.
My quick typed notes on PC are usually done in Notepad++. This is another one of those it just works solutions.
I am basically paperless, which is something I didn't think would happen. That being said, having the devices to do it and having an ideal process are two very different things.
I have my (android) phone which I can use to access data. A phone is a bad device for anything but photos/scanning and reading notes, editing is too much of a pain. Lots of problems that should be solved aren't solved (interoperability is a sore point everywhere), and for no good reason that I can see other than nobody has bothered to address it.
Tip: sharing something to google tasks is a very quick and easy way to sync data between android and pc without any grief. It just works.
I use a Boox Note, which is an android tablet with an e-ink screen and a wacom digitiser. Aftermarket Staedtler Norris digital stylus. Only the built in notetaking app supports fast refresh, and that's what you need for notetaking to work on e-ink. The api to implement fast refresh exists, as far as I know nobody has ever used it on public software. This device is a solid note taking experience. E-ink draws next to no current so the uptime is weeks. Syncing is mostly a non-issue (all these things have their own quirks. Provided you want to do things the way the vendors want you'll have no issues. I never seem to want to do things the way vendors do, so I always end up in the weeds at some point). This was my primary note taking device for several years, and I still use it depending on the situation.
I recently bought an iPad Air for the drawing and note taking (mainly because I wanted colour and you can't get that with e-ink yet). The iOS ecosystem and I do not see eye to eye all the time, neither do I with various software within that ecosystem. Interoperability between ios, android, and pc can be annoying. The apple pencil isn't perfect but it is way better than most vendor offerings you typically get. I don't know how I feel about the optional handwriting input at the system level. Yes it works but it has some quirks. The pencil can also be a bit twitchy with double tap switching. Note taking software is a sticking point at present. Notes are mostly in GoodNotes, separated into books (which is pretty much the same as what I'm used to on the Boox). Apple notes is more of a scanner IMO. I want to love Concepts but I hate it - the idea is sound but the drawing and writing feel is all wrong. Syncing for all software is garbage (which is part of the interop issues).
Tip: custom templates for note taking software will make your life better. In the past I've made paper forms that I've printed out to use back when that was difficult to do on pc. Making the digital equivalent of a custom form for capturing certain types of data is every bit as useful. A good example of that on my current devices are fashion design bodyforms - you don't care about the pose and you don't want to waste time on a task that never changes. Note taking is a data collection issue, optimise for whatever you collect a lot of.
I am constantly looking for my Holy Grail of software that will magically solve all my note taking problems. I am always teetering on the edge of actually programming my own software, more out of the spirit of Fine then! I'll do it myself! than any sort of actual interest in the area. Digital should be more than paper (because we already have paper) and there are a number of obvious (eg. why can't I treat my ios or android as a printer from other devices? It is a display device) and less obvious ways (eg. if a device can perform OCR in real time and predictive text is a solved problem then why can't we have handwriting completion? Macro expansion would be even easier than that) that digital could easily have more value than simply aping paper. - My working memory is garbage, so that's the first use case. If I can't see things, they don't exist. If I don't write things down then they'll probably be forgotten within minutes. Notes are a way to be able to pause and resume tasks that my brain can't do anymore.
Consolidating notes is part of understanding the material. It's basically explaining it to myself in the future. I find this to be particularly useful when it comes to obscure tech support issues. Plenty of things in that realm make you think I never want to do that again and then document it so you don't have to.
It's all reference material, it's all about outboarding memory and creating external indices. The day I can get a production ready neuroprosthetic hippocampus that outperforms what I have to hand then all my note taking is going into the garbage.
I have no evidence for it but I think that handwriting may have particular effects on learning and retention that typing might not.
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