#depressant

[terrania]

here’s a story-based platformer venn diagram

this is used in an even grander venn diagram, which is located here: https://hoiye33.tumblr.com/post/684602986379542528/heres-a-huge-venn-diagram-post-with-all-my

[artykyn]

It's a common trope in stories to have That One Hyperactive Character who is "not allowed" to have caffeine. And maybe at some point for comedic effect that character is actually given caffeine and suddenly they go Super Mega Hyperactive Mode.

But in reality, hyperactivity in many cases is caused by the lack of stimulating brain chemicals. Which means that adequate stimulation, such as from caffeine, cures the hyperactivity, as opposed to making it worse. Most ADHD meds are stimulants, not depressants!

I want to see someone pull off a subverted trope. I want a super extremely hyperactive character to be given coffee, and everyone around them is expecting them to go Full Hyperactive Wild Mode but instead they Pass Out and have the best nap of their whole life.

[allymillersblog]

Before labor:

My health factors include: Depression and low iron

My planned delivery is a home birth.

My birth team includes only husband and midwife.

During labor:

Eat and drink during labor if my practitioner allows it

Be out of bed (walking around or sitting up) during labor

Labor in water

Have partner take photos or videos

Labor with an exercise ball, in-room shower or birthing tub

Use specific birthing positions (squat, all four, and standing, sitting on the toilet)

Medical interventions:

Leave membranes intact for as long as possible

Intermittent fetal monitoring

Doppler fetal monitoring only

Natural tearing only

Nipple stimulation

Pain relief:

Acupressure

Breathing exercises

Massage

Meditation

Birth:

Try to squat or use gravity

Use mirror to see baby crown

Have partner help catch baby

Allow partner to suction

Allow partner to cut umbilical cord

In case of a C-section:

To be conscious

Clear drapes be set up so I can watch as my baby emerges

One arm to be left free of cuffs, monitors and IVs so I can hold the baby

To breastfeed as soon as possible

Newborn care:

Hold the baby immediately after birth, allow baby time to creep from belly to breast

Breastfeed immediately

Keep the placenta to take home

Give my baby breast milk only

Offer my baby a pacifier

Give my baby vitamin K

Give my baby antibiotic eye treatment

Don't cut cord until it stops pulsing

[existence-of-nothing]

[psychacademic]

The irony is that alcohol is a depressant.

[thevisualartofmetal]

Artwork by Łukasz Myszkowski Antigama - Depressant (2017) Grind