jimrandomh comments on I need a protocol for dangerous or disconcerting ideas. - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Eitan_Zohar 12 July 2015 01:58AM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 12 July 2015 04:56:09AM 0 points [-]

I have. It definitely isn't. It may have been exacerbated by biochemical causes, but it wasn't caused by them alone. (Sertraline did help me, just never as much as nullifying an existential problem.)

Sertraline has insomnia listed as a very common (>10%) side effect. If you're currently on it, this is a more parsimonious explanation for your difficulty sleeping than your philosophical beliefs about how sleeping interacts with subjective experience.

Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 12 July 2015 05:05:53AM 3 points [-]

I'm not on it. I don't have difficulty falling asleep, it's just traumatizing to get in bed.