Comments for Ian Rand McKenzie

Comment on Darwinist Elementals by Derry O'Driscoll

Derry O'Driscoll — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:43:38 +0000

I used to play on Hardcore Darwinism my username was wheeliebin3000 I played on it for a few years between 2011-2014. Is this group still going?

Comment on 4 Reasons Schizophrenic Men Should Be Bodybuilders by objektivdigital

objektivdigital — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:21:39 +0000

In reply to Daniel farley. Thanks for sharing, Daniel. I hope you (continue to?) find success in your journey

Comment on 4 Reasons Schizophrenic Men Should Be Bodybuilders by Daniel farley

Daniel farley — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:27:23 +0000

Next week I will be seeking to be weened from the anti psychotic med ,clozaryl .i have been training steady for 20 years.i feel real well most of the time .after some research I found that there are too many adverse effects associated with clozaryl .mostly the state of my lungs .It may be rare but regret not pushing for change earlier ..my buddy told me to get involved in my health care .what take some thing that will make you sick

Comment on Is drinking urine better than having $1 trillion USD? by Catherine McKenzie

Catherine McKenzie — Sat, 06 May 2023 18:52:32 +0000

Interesting point of view, urine aside. Your points are valid!

Comment on Is drinking urine better than having $1 trillion USD? by Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:13:43 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with this. Especially the future generations of people with that kind of money. Heck, I’ve met entitled kids whose parents “only” have a 275k yearly income and they think they’re owed something.

Comment on A Joke Too [Derivative] To Be Funny #41 by Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:07:59 +0000

Bahahaha

Comment on A Joke Too [Arborist] To Be Funny #34 by Catherine McKenzie

Catherine McKenzie — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 03:20:49 +0000

Grooooooan

Comment on How Lifting (Again) Reduced Many of My Health Problems by Ian McKenzie

Ian McKenzie — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 18:08:58 +0000

In reply to Ben. Thanks on both accounts, Ben! There are definitely a zillion better coders out there than me, I just happen to do stuff that make some novel tricks visible to the end-user, haha. Lots of back-end type folks who do some pretty insane stuff that the user will never see. Invisible heroes! 🖖

Comment on How Lifting (Again) Reduced Many of My Health Problems by Ben

Ben — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 07:49:59 +0000

Interesting read mate. That decoded ‘you matter’ message on the other part of your website was pretty neat. You’ve clearly got some good coding/tech skills.

Looking forward to hearing how your continued success off AP goes. Your example gives hope to the rest of us.

Comment on That Same ‘Ol Card by Ian Rand McKenzie

Ian Rand McKenzie — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 22:14:38 +0000

I suppose this is a companion piece to ‘A joke too biblical to be funny’
https://ianrandmckenzie.com/2022/09/06/a-joke-too-biblical-to-be-funny-11/

Comment on Pristine Snow by Catherine McKenzie

Catherine McKenzie — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 03:06:04 +0000

Impressive. Love this one Ian.

Comment on How Schizo Meds Made Me A Soyboy by Ian McKenzie

Ian McKenzie — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 06:22:19 +0000

In reply to Ben. The main reason was that I had a lot of success with risperidone. But, as detailed in this post, was not ideal in the long-term. CBD was next up in the queue for me to try based on my research. If it didn't work, it's quite likely I may have tried Abilify/Aripiprazole. Thank you for expressing your gratitude for my blogging. Comments like yours justify my continued writings as they come up (as well as continued hosting of this site) ❤️

Comment on How Schizo Meds Made Me A Soyboy by Ben

Ben — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 02:47:01 +0000

In reply to Ian McKenzie.

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the reply. I’m recently diagnosed but haven’t had that much of an issue with negative symptoms. I weightlift as well.

You seemed to have tried a lot of medications, may I ask why you didn’t try aripiprazole (abilify)? Seems to be one of the best tolerated AP on the market.
Anyway, thanks for the reply and the blog. Interesting reading 👍

Comment on How Schizo Meds Made Me A Soyboy by Ian McKenzie

Ian McKenzie — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:26:48 +0000

In reply to Ben.

Hey Ben,

As far as negative symptoms go, weightlifting provides me a combination of overall better health which reduces negative symptoms, as well as a sort of ‘boost’ of testosterone that I found is extremely effective for negative symptoms.

That said, the research I based this learning on does say it doesn’t work for all men. Additionally, women were not in the study, so I don’t know if it works for women. Anyway, here are some links:
https://ianrandmckenzie.com/2021/02/17/schizophrenia-lack-of-motivation-how-to-beat-it/
https://ianrandmckenzie.com/2021/02/08/natural-schizophrenia-antipsychotic-weight-lifting/

Those links are a couple of entry points, but I recommend reading all of the schizophrenia related posts I made in January and February of 2021.

Cheers,

Ian

edit: There’s also this post that seems to be my most popular. I’ve done a lot of learning since I wrote it, though. At the time, it was my silver bullet against schizophrenia. I couldn’t fathom at the time that it was merely a baseline to be improved upon. Hah.
https://ianrandmckenzie.com/2018/05/17/four-reasons-schizophrenic-men-should-be-bodybuilders/

Comment on How Schizo Meds Made Me A Soyboy by Ben

Ben — Sun, 29 May 2022 11:06:01 +0000

Very interesting to read about your experiences with these different drugs. Glad you have found success with CBD oil and have moved off antipsychotics which can have some pretty rough side effects. Also, great to read about your weightlifting self help regime. What else have you found particularly helpful in dealing with negative symptoms? Maybe you could do a blog post about this. It would certainly help me.

Comment on How Schizo Meds Made Me A Soyboy by objektivdigital

objektivdigital — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 01:59:59 +0000

Hi. Sorry if the clickbait terminology is offputting. Many people who use the word soyboy are either young, rebellious, or under-educated – or a combination of all three. This was very much me at various points in my life. I am using language that reaches these people because I sure as fuck would probably be better off I read something like this earlier in my life.

This isn’t to say I have any regrets, but why not share what I know to give people a better starting point so that they don’t have to figure it out themselves as I did?

—Ian

Comment on The Annihilation of Humanity’s Social Structures by Ian McKenzie

Ian McKenzie — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 01:17:01 +0000

In reply to horus. Agreed! Unfortunately, I think a society lacking privacy would ultimately be abused. Much like communism probably works in theory, at the end of the day, even the best of us can be a piece of garbage and ruin it for everyone. Hah.

Comment on The Annihilation of Humanity’s Social Structures by horus

horus — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 06:30:49 +0000

This topic is like the apple in the genesis. I see the same thing with the evolution of trade and money, Before there was money, people only traded with people of trust or with a reliable reputation.
With the evolvement of money, you only have to trust in the worth of a currency. This was changing social rules and allowed aggregation of wealth, power and even trust.
A trustless society would be the perfect capitalistic storm. A society needs trust. Trust makes us human…

Comment on Performative Masculinity by Ian McKenzie

Ian McKenzie — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 05:34:26 +0000

Haha, thanks, friend. I think only younger people get it because my parents were pretty confused by it.

Comment on Performative Masculinity by noxkiam

noxkiam — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:41:49 +0000

10/10 very funny