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I have a degree...

Does the level of degree = the amount of sleep/cry redeemability?

[soloontherocks-moving-refol-blog]

my favorite side effect warning is for antidepressants

pros: you won’t want to kill yourself

cons: you might want to kill yourself

[notnights]

Back when I was in a psychiatric hospital, and was offered antidepressants, my mother had declined them due to that apparent side effect. So the staff actually explained about this effect antidepressants have, that give reason to that warning. When first taking antidepressants they raise up your energy first. So that you have the energy to do the tasks you might have avoided doing due to your depression. Because of this those who were already suicidal, now have the energy to go do so. Which is the ones this warning is given for. It’s not that a side effect of antidepressants magically makes you want to kill yourself, it’s the energy it gives those who were already struggling with suicidal issues, to actually attempt the act.

[butterscotchwm-deactivated20181]

Very informative…

[staying-happily-high]

Wow. I’m so glad you explained that. Now I understand

[its-thedinosaurman]

My high school choir/psych teacher actually told is about this. She also said if you have a suicidal friend who starts seeming like they might be getting better because they have more energy, that’s the time to be cautious because that’s when they may still be suicidal but they’ll actually have the energy to go through with it

[starlight-and-promises]

THIS. a thousand times THIS. I had it explained to me in my AP psychology class in high school. super fucking important.

[cheap-psychology]

Most antidepressants are SSRIs, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

They work basically by making sure the chemical Serotonin hangs around in the brain for longer, and basically increases the amount in the body.

Serotonin is good because it effects mood and social behavior, but also effects appetite, digestion, and sleep. But because the brain is complicated it doesn’t equally effect all these areas at once. 

Depression a mental and physical experience. And when an SSRI is first introduced, only certain aspects will improve until the individual’s dosage is just right.  aka a person can be sleeping, eating, and feeling better, while still being mentally depressed, and possibly suicidal. 

[mrattardio]

[idrils]

i see your ‘nowhere in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty was an egg’ and raise you ‘nowhere in the legendarium does tolkien say that elves have pointed ears’

[annabellioncourt]

Mary Shelley didn’t give the monster bolts.

Arthur Conan Doyle never put Holmes in a deer stalker (also “elementary my dear Watson” is never said in the books, and he doesn’t smoke a curved pipe)

There are boys at Beauxbatons and girls at Durmstrang schools

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the earliest essay on the big bang theory

[mindblownie]

#reality is an illusion

[jewish-kermit]

fuck this site I thought the tv show for the briefest of seconds and the shit machine in my skull thought “quoth the raven ‘Bazongo”

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Dracula could walk in the sunlight.

Uncle Ben was not originally the one who said “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility.” That was part of the narration at the end, when it noted that said expression was the lesson that Peter had learned with Uncle Ben’s death.

[cheap-psychology]

The Mandela Effect is the psychological phenomenon of collective mis-remembering facts or events.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Tips for Increasing your Willpower

1. No matter how long it takes, and how beaten down you are, refuse to give in, or to relinquish your dream. Just get up one more time and then decide to try again.

2. We all slip up, and encounter obstacles. Just determine to keep going, and to get on track again. It doesn’t mean it’s over. It’s all part of the course.

3. We all need support and encouragement in life – so eliminate the negative, or toxic, influences. You don’t need those people who are quick to criticise, and don’t really help you to move closer to your dream.

4. Surround yourself with people who are similar to you, who have the same ambitions, outlooks and points of view. They’ll help to spur you onwards, and provide support you need.

5. Be inspired by other people who overcame defeat … who built a life from nothing … or turned their life around. Learn from their perseverance, and their will to succeed.

6. Imagine how you’ll feel when you’ve reached the goal you’ve set. Try and picture what you’ll look like, and how your life will be.  

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[girlwhorpsalot]

I needed this.

[psych2go]

If you like these posts, check out @psych2go.

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[votedami]

The thing I hate most about depression is that it tricks you into thinking you don’t have depression. It makes you think that nothing is wrong with you, that you just feel this way because you lack value as a person. Whether that’s in your relationships, your academics, or a view of yourself, it makes you think you aren’t good enough for any of that.

“It’s not the illness,” it says, “You feel this way because it’s who you are.”

[adhdedrn]

“Mental illness is like fighting a war where the enemy’s strategy is to convince you that the war isn’t actually happening.”

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[psychcomedy]

Knock or not to knock? That is the question.

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[psychcomedy]

Unfortunately, this is how the brain works …

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[mrscroquet]

[psychcomedy]

Can I look inside your head?

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

What is Emotional Abuse?

An emotionally abusive person may “dismiss your feelings and needs, expect you to perform humiliating or unpleasant tasks, manipulate you into feeling guilty for trivial things, belittle your outside support system or blame you for unfortunate circumstances in his or her life. Jealousy, possessiveness and mistrust characterize an emotionally abusive person”[1]. In summary, emotional abuse includes the following:

1. Acting as if a person has no value and worth; acting in ways that communicate that the person’s thoughts feelings and beliefs are stupid, don’t matter or should be ignored.

2. Calling the person names; putting them down; mocking, ridiculing, insulting or humiliating them, especially in public.

3. Controlling through fear and intimidation; coercing and terrorizing them; forcing them to witness violence or callousness; threatening to physically harm them, others they love, their animals or possessions; stalking them; threatening abandonment.

4. Isolating them from others, especially their friends and family; physically confining them; telling them how they should think, act, dress, what decisions they can make, who they can see and what they can do (limiting their freedom); controlling their financial affairs.

5. Using that person for your own advantage or gain; exploiting their rights; enticing or forcing another to behave in illegal ways (for example, selling drugs).

6. Stonewalling and ignoring another’s attempt to relate to and interact with them; deliberately emotionally detaching from a person in order to hurt them or “teach them a lesson”; refusing to communicate affection and warmth, or to meet their emotional and psychological needs.

[1] http://www.focushelps.ca/article/addictions-abuse/verbal-and-emotional-abuse/emotional-and-verbal-abuse?gclid=CNvZx7vP6rACFWQ0QgodTEvatg

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[cheap-psychology]

The average person can have up to six dreams a night.

The average person never remembers their dreams

[psych2go]

If you like these posts, check out @psych2go.

[cheap-psychology]

I heard the cursing thing only works if it's not something you do often.

Also oxytocin is a bonding neurotransmitter, released by mothers after child birth and biosex females after orgasm

[joshbyard]

Researchers Revisiting Milgram Experiment: Time Flies When You’re Not Following Orders

[Researchers] were especially interested in how subjects felt when they were under orders and whether that feeling translated into recognizable patterns in an EEG reading. 

[T]hey gave a group of subjects £20 each. “Agents” were given a device with three keys on it. One would deliver a shock to a “victim,” another would take a small amount of the £20 from a victim, and another would do nothing. 

A researcher would sometimes tell agents which keys to press and sometimes would let them choose. 

…When people intend to do something, they perceive the outcome as happening more quickly than when they do something unintentionally. In other words, if you kick a ball deliberately, it seems to fly through a window faster than if the kick was an accident. People acting under orders feel like they have less control over their actions, almost as if they are acting unintentionally—like that person who accidentally kicked the ball. 

The researchers surmised that people under orders might also experience time distortion. So each time an agent pressed a button, whether under orders or by free choice, the researchers asked the agent to tell them how long it was before the tone played. 

..The agents who were told to push the pain button thought the tone came later than the agents who chose to do it. 

The researchers write: Coercion increased the perceived interval between action and outcome, relative to a situation where participants freely chose to inflict the same harms. Interestingly, coercion also reduced the neural processing of the outcomes of one’s own action. Thus, people who obey orders may subjectively experience their actions as closer to passive movements than fully voluntary actions. …The experience is so profoundly different that our brains actually process it differently.

(via It’s actually easy to force people to be evil | Ars Technica)