How does the modern scientific method differ from the natural philosophy of the ancient Greeks?

Answer 1

I have an ongoing issue with my bladder or uninary track. The best way to describe it at first was that I was getting performance anxiety while having to urinate in a public restroom or leaving a urine sample while being filmed at my methadone clinic twice a week. I had no problem doing this for a long time, then all of a sudden around a year ago I would not be able to void my bladder no matter how long I wait or tried while I was in these situations. As much as it sucked, I managed it for about six months until it started happening at home. But it this case when everything seized up, there was no external factor that should have done this. The first time it happened I woke up in the middle of the night and could urinate. I stood there for 30 minutes and then had to call and ambulance and be catheterized in the hospital. The second time it happen in the late afternoon with the sample ending. To make a long story short this happened 8 times over three months! At which point I finally got an appointment to get a cystoscopy and see a Urologist. But, disappointingly the test came back completely clear... The only reason they could give me was that the muscles around the urinary track seize up due to anxiety or randomly and they put me on FlowMax to remedy this. It worked for about one month and then everything start happening again. And last night I was at the hospital again getting another catheter put in. This is honestly ruining my life and I can't keep managing this. The catheters are getting very painful, and the constant hospital visits are taking their toll.

I need help.

One thing to consider is that about six month prior to this starting. I was taken off my prescription of Clonazepam, which greatly helped reduce my anxiety. I remember though when I had to urine sample a few times in the past and my prescription had run out, this exact thing happened. Now I know the easy answer is just get a new prescription of that. But I moved to a new town and I dont have a psych here and the waiting list in Sudbury, Ontario is years long. Plus, recently laws are making those types of medications much harder to get prescribed. So, I don't think that is a realistic way to manage this.

Please if anyone has seen this or knows anything let me know.

Thank you.

Answer 2

The natural philosphy was mechanistic rather than vitalistic. Mechanistic believes that only natural forces govern living thing, whereas vitalistic believes the universe is at least partially governed by superpowers.