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jerzwriter · 8 months

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Life has been lifing, Zoloft ain't doing what it's supposed to do, and this place (normally an escape) has been way too full of negativity and hate... personally, I need something to uplift me, and I hope this will help uplift others too.

Musical Seratonin

Reblog this with three of your go-to songs when you need cheering up. Songs that make it hard to be sad when they're playing. Pass it on to others; let's make the list long. If the response is good, I'll make/share a playlist.

I know we prob all have very different musical tastes - but that's just fine! Who knows what we could discover?

Here are three of mine:

... and going back to my roots!

Tagging some people I think may want to contribute (DO NOT feel obligated), but ANYONE can participate!

@annoyingmillenialnewbie @crazy-loca-blog @storyofmychoices @jamespotterthefirst @mydemonsdrivealimo @aallotarenunelma @angelasscribbles @inlocusmads @genevievemd @icecoffee90 @trappedinfanfiction @dr-colossal-pita @liaromancewriter @lucy-268 @potionsprefect @bex-la-get @starsarewithinme @brycesgirl

#music #positiivity #anti-depressants #reblog game #playlists #grouplove #bruno mars #marc anthony #Spotify

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thenib · 2 years

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Gemma Correll.

#gemma correll #big pharma #anti-depressants #depression

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justplainsimon · 1 month

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I've held off on making one of these since starting Anti-Depressants

so heres some Albums I've listened to...

Late Winter/Early Spring/Anti-Depressant Edition

#Winter #Spring #spring music #anti-depressants #topsters #kinda #gorillaz #saint pepsi #haircuts for men #casiopea #modest by default #la femme #the world we live in #monodrome #easy tempo #carole king #bob dylan #ween

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feckcops · 1 year

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Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis – Book Review

“In Sedated, Davies shows that the so-called mental health crisis stems from the assumption that mental illnesses arise within the ‘broken brain’ of an individual sufferer. This is the ‘biochemical model’ of mental illness. In contrast to what many of us assume, the idea that mental illnesses are caused by an imbalance of neurochemicals and can only be treated by using psychotropics like antidepressants, or mood stabilisers or antipsychotics, is a theory that has never been proven. Neither depression nor schizophrenia, neither anxiety nor bipolar disorder, have ever been observed in vivo. No one has ever been able to point to an MRI or CT scan and say, ‘Look! There it is!’

“According to Davies, this is because the biochemical model of mental illness is wrong. He argues that many diagnosed conditions (though in his book he sticks to the example of depression), are not down to malfunctioning grey matter, but are, instead, an understandable reaction to wider societal problems. In Sedated, Davies painstakingly debunks the individual, brain-based view of mental illness and explains why its apparently unquestioned acceptance by the general public as the only means of conceiving human distress should concern us. Not only does our taking this model for granted encourage the administration of potent drugs to those who don’t necessarily need them, it also results in the obfuscation of other plausible sources of hardship such as poverty, discrimination, loneliness, and environmental factors such as pollution. These are undoubtedly complex and more challenging to tackle than the comparably simple option of taking a pill every day. Pharmaceutical companies created the narrative of the broken brain to profit from them, and most governments of industrialised countries went along with it.

“This wider discussion about how business, economics, and politics shaped psychiatry and vice versa is central to the main thrust of Sedated. Through the course of the book, Davies plots developments in psychiatry against those in the UK’s social, political, and economic spheres in order to demonstrate how the neoliberal, uber self-reliant free-market nurtured by Margaret Thatcher’s government of the 1980s has shaped how we understand mental wellness and illness, as well as ourselves, right up to the present day: ‘By putting economic servitude before real individual health and flourishing, our priorities have become dramatically and dangerously misplaced, and more suffering, paradoxically, has been the unhappy result’. A key takeaway from this well-evidenced historical analysis is that the issues with our mental health system are deeply entrenched; simply throwing more money at the situation, by funding more facilities and professionals, will merely perpetuate the same ‘failing approach’.”

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bpod-bpod · 1 year

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Recognising Rewards

Responding appropriately to pleasant or unpleasant events, in scientific terms rewarding or aversive stimuli, is critical for our health. Neurons in a part of the brain called the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN), that produce the neurotransmitter serotonin, play a key role in signalling reward. Yet drugs boosting serotonin levels do not restore rewarding feelings in patients with depression, suggesting additional pathways are also involved. In mice, other serotonin-producing neurons, in the median raphe nucleus (MRN), appear to have opposite effects to the DRN: rewarding stimuli inhibit MRN neurons, and stimulating them triggers negative responses. To measure mouse perception, scientists monitored their behaviour and facial expressions; as shown here, mice move their tongue and ears when enjoying a sugar solution, but stimulating MRN neurons dampens this response, suggesting their perception of reward has changed. Understanding this interplay between serotonin pathways will be crucial to developing better treatments for disorders like depression.

Written by Emmanuelle Briolat

Image from work by Hiroyuki Kawai and Youcef Bouchekioua, and colleagues

Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto & Department of Neuropharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Nature Communications, December 2022

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#science #biomedicine #anti-depressants #ssri #serotonin #reward pathway #neuroscience #brain #neurons #depression #mental health

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eric-sadahire · 1 year

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Performing acts of kindness does at least as well as two commonly used therapeutic techniques in treating symptoms of depression and anxiety.

(10-week study finds Goth girl handing out flowers still conflicted with results)

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cutelilbubbles · 1 year

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Can you tell I was a bit of a “troubled” teen?

#Zoloft #sertraline #antidepressants #anti-depressants #suicide #suicidal thoughts #suicidal ideations #suicidal tendencies #depression #major depressive disorder #mental illness #mentally ill #art #drawing #illustration #collage #found my old art #found my own old art

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animanightmate · 2 years

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Meanwhile, on Twitter

“SSRIs” is trending because mainstream media outlets reported on a study into depression using misleading headlines. Here’s a glimmer of thoughtfulness among some of the conspiracy theories:

[Image description: A series of three tweets on 21st July 2022 by @GrumpyTheology (emo elder). Tweets text read: “telling people not to take SSRIs because depression is caused by capitalism is like telling people not to drink water during a heatwave because the heatwave is caused by climate change. There are lots of reasons for depression. Usually, "bad brain chemistry" is overly simplistic and doesn't get at root causes like trauma, social injustice, etc. BUT YOU CAN STILL TAKE SSRIS, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO LIFE ON HARD MODE, THERE IS NO TROPHY FOR IT. And SSRIs not working for you is not proof that there's some conspiracy hiding the fact that SSRIs don't work on anyone. The world does not revolve around you.” End image description.]

Source here.

(If you’re wondering why their name and handle are turning up green on my screenshots, it’s because I use a browser extension called Shinigami Eyes.)

#twitter #screenshot #image #image description #ssris #ssri #anti-depressants #medication #mental health #depression #capitalism #shinigami eyes #oc

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sableaire · 2 years

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From @ChristinePlumm on Twitter

#summer #heatwave #psa #anti-depressants #depression #medication #snri #srri #sertraline #citalopram #duloxetine #fluoxetin #mirtazipine

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hydraheads · 2 years

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pain, heartache but healing, need/wanting more in life

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youremyonlyhope · 4 days

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Zoloft and side effects

I know that Zoloft, aka Sertraline, infamously causes side effects in people that causes them to either gain weight or lose it. I also know that some people find that Zoloft gives them insomnia or makes it harder to sleep, while others find it makes them very sleepy. It's always been interesting to me that people can have opposite effects from the same medication. I want to see if there's any correlation between these two side effect categories.

Please answer if you gained or lost weight on Zoloft, and/or if it makes you sleepy or gives you insomnia/makes it harder to sleep.

For the purposes of this poll, I am just focusing on these two side effects categories. I know Zoloft has other side effects, but I want to see if these two specific side effect categories have a correlation or not.

Obviously, a tumblr poll is not a proper survey, and I am not a psychologist. I'm just someone who was lying in bed last night at 4am, wondering if my insomnia side effect connected to the weight gain/loss side effect. I'm sure that dosage size also impacts this, but that's an extra variable that I cannot account for in a poll. So just answer about the two side effect categories and if you had them.

Please reblog for a larger sample size.

#zoloft #sertraline #antidepressants #anti-depressants #depression #anxiety #ocd #(tagging ocd since that's why i take zoloft)#i may be opening a can of worms with this

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calltoamentor · 1 month

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Recovery Happens in Stages

Why does no one tell you that when you begin to move forward from your trauma, the triggers follow you? It feels like common sense, of course. Most of us in the recovery space know that just because you’re in a better place in your life, that doesn’t mean that your memories or nervous system have necessarily reached the same place in recovery. But there is also a part of us that can feel…conned,…

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#abuse recovery #Acceptance #Accepting Help #actions speak louder than words #Afraid to get better #Anti-Burnout #anti-depressants #Be honest with yourself #big life changes #Burnout recovery #Generational trauma #glimmer #Traumatic Response #triggers

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xmybipolarmindx · 1 month

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Photo by Megan te Boekhorst on Unsplash It is almost 4AM and I am still up and wide awake. I waited too long to take my nighttime meds to make me sleepy because my alarm is set for 7AM to get up and start the process of getting ready for work after my morning coffee. If I take my meds now, I might not wake up when my alarm goes off or I will be too groggy to be alert and function at work. To…

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kindalikerackham · 7 months

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ok we all hate JKR in this house, myself included, HOWEVER

(and stick with me, this is a personal post)

yesterday I felt the effects of my new anti-depressos like a hammer, like I had been sitting in a hot tub for 5 years, not noticing my flesh melting away bc it was so comfy, then yesterday I jumped into the snow, then back into the hot tub. a SMASHBANG of clarity. like I could see so much more of the world and myself

and for the first time in ages, I had the wherewithal to analyze shit, and felt the addictive draw of doing so all day

like, I used to have so much pride and identity in being a Ravenclaw, and it took me years and years and years to feel like it had stopped being a part of me.

I think my depression has been suppressing so much of my enjoyment for life, that it had alienated myself from doing things I love. but bayBEE I'm crossing my fingers that this sticks around!

disclaimer: I won't ever be endorsing the shitstain of JKR or the HP books' many problematic elements, or the house system being meaningless in terms of sorting most folks, but the for me, this felt like the best, most concise personality sorting to use, especially bc of my past with it. MBTI is too unwieldy, basic astrology doesn't make sense for it, and other pop culture categories are just less ubiquitous

#jkr ment #harry potter ment #cw jkr #mental health #anti-depressants #SSRIs

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mental-health-advice · 1 year

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Manor suicide and overdose warning

I keep falling lower and lower, in a especially deep moment I looked up whether my current and previous anti depressants could kill me in overdose.

I think that was a bad idea as I now live with the knowledge that if I am in that severe low I could take them all at once fully aware of the effects

I still know I wont ever function in the real world, a conflict with my grandmother proved that today once again. So it got extremely tempting because, well, if I cant function I might as well avoid causing any more issues for my family long term yk . Plus for myself too.

If my grandparents die I might need to go back to my abuser and deal with her. The only thing that would prevent me there is not wanting one of my siblings to find my body. But if they weren't home and only our mother would be,,,

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Is it bad or evil of me that if I die, be it sui, an accident or health/natural cause, I'd want my mother to be the one to find me? After everything she put me through and the amount of abuse i faced from here that she still won't acknowledge-

Ik I wouldnt be able to see her reaction, see the look on her face. But imagining it gives me some sort of closure and a part of me wishes for that to be reality. She never deserved to become a mother, she's an abuser just like hers was. So the knowledge I have full control over taking her oldest (me) away, this time forever, is extremely dangerous to me.

She claims to put her kids about all else, yet abused her kid.

I remember her threatening to kill me, me in a panic texting my friends as I genuinely thought I'd die that day. Months later it came up - she gaslight me over it, her ex who used to live with us backed her up even tho he was in the room.

I had to scroll back months of chat history to find it to know I didn't make it up.

God I desperately want her to actually fucking realize what she did wrong instead of playing victim.

My only reason to stay alive are 3 or 4 of my 6 siblings, a couple of friends who all live abroad and cant come help me. Idk what to do anymore -☆ (anon)

Hey there,

Doing research on your current and past anti-depressants wasn’t really the best idea but I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t done it myself so I am sure others have too at one time or another so feel don’t be too hard on yourself.

Before you feel really low and really think about taking them all in a way to try and commit suicide, could you maybe separate the meds and put them in different hiding places. And so then when you feel those urges and really want to take them all, you actively have to try and find and get them all which may help you to get some clarity in your mind and really think if you want to go through with it or not.

Unfortunately, I, or anyone, really can’t stop you from taking your own life, but remember of those siblings you don’t want to hurt or your good friends who live abroad. Actually one thing I do with my friends who live abroad is sending letters back and forth with them in the mail or parcels of things (even if it’s something small), it can be so exciting to get something in the mail from someone from a whole different country so maybe this is something you could try if you haven’t already!

In regards to if you do die and wanting for your Mum to find you, I don’t think that this makes you bad or evil. Whilst I do not know what abuse you may have endured by your Mum, I’m sure everyone at some stage has thought about this and who they would like to find them.

I think though that if your Mum was to find you that she would be in shock and very sad. No matter what kind of relationship (good or bad) you have had with someone, it’s never nice to find someone dead and not being able to do anything about it. It can be quite scary and really confronting and although your reasoning behind this may sound rational right now, I can guarantee that no one deserves to find someone who has died whether it was via suicide, an accident or other natural causes. I am not in any way tyring to make you feel bad or guilty about this and wanting your Mum to find your body, but it is something to think about and keep in mind.

In regards to not feeling as though you can function in the real world, aren’t you functioning somewhat already? I am not saying that it’s easy, but you have already come so far so perhaps instead of looking too far in the future you can instead just try to take things day by day? Just a thought.

I really hope that this has helped a bit and please do let us know if we can help to support you in any other way!

I’m thinking of you and hope that you are going OK!

Take care,

Lauren

#mha-lauren #advice #advice blog #mental health advice #☆ (anon)#anti-depressants #suicide #siblings #friends abroad #Mum #abuse

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tom4jc · 1 year

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Job 17:15 Is Depression Setting In?

Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it? Job 17:15 The percentage of people who are going through depression is very high. Many people are taking anti-depressant drugs to help them deal with their depression. The levels of depression that people are going through are usually due to extreme levels of trouble in their lives and that they have lost all hope. Most do not see a way out…

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#anti-depressants #dealing with trouble #Depression #Difficulties #Eternal Life #Hope #hope in Jesus #Job 17:15 #No Hope #seeking hope

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