Comments on: Quantified Self Utopia: What Would It Look Like? http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/10/26/quantified-self-utopia-what-would-it-look-like/ Personal Science, Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method Sun, 19 May 2013 01:52:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/10/26/quantified-self-utopia-what-would-it-look-like/#comment-1041232 Brian Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:17:36 +0000 http://blog.sethroberts.net/?p=7937#comment-1041232 QS offers many benefits, but one of the best benefits is avoiding mistreatment by medical professionals. Before QS, I was mostly a black box to myself and, consequently, medical and psychiatric professionals were often led to inappropriate treatments.

If you track most things and can summarize it neatly, you’ll no longer be subject to the inexplicable changes in sleep patterns, mood, energy, or weight that are the lynchpins of modern psychiatry. For example, this week the sun rises around 7:40 AM and the days are overcast. My mood and energy are noticeably lower. My sleep is disturbed because I started drinking coffee. Before QS, I was not sufficiently self-aware to reliably document these changes when talking to a doctor. So they’re going to look for a medical explanation instead of a simple one.

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