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Yesssss

Thank you. 

Six, I love you, but someone is going to use this post to tell someone to “get over their depression” and to just “think happy/think the sadness away” as if depression is some self-inflicted booboo.

PS: It’s not that antidepressants are completely usless, they work miraculously for some people- but that’s the problem it’s only some people. For others it can have awful side effects and not help at all. It tells us that through these pills we’re not really getting to the heart of the issue. There’s more to the intial problem then changing the concentration of one or two chemicals.

I actually learned about this in my Psych 101 college course. There’s different approaches to mental health, some focus on the chemicals and medical and others on behavior or life experiences. What modern experts have found is that a combination of therapy (talk, CBT, etc), lifestyle changes, plus medications is most effective. Some people may never be able to fully be off medications because their brain chemistry is severely imbalanced and that’s fine. Others need it to help cope while therapy and lifestyle changes start to take hold. And then some people can just use therapy and no medications. Your brain chemicals can also fluctuate so dopamine may be your issue for a while then over time serotonin is the issue (as an oversimplified example). This is why it’s important to check in with a doctor regularly. Much like having to fine tune treatment for things such as diabetes or asthma, mental healthcare is highly specific and changes over time.

Hey! We medical folks have noticed this and have been scrambling to get something called Comparative Effectiveness Research accomplished. Instead of just being a study with x amount of evidence that drug A works, it looks at multiple therapy courses and their relative efficacy to one another, and even examines the individual patient factors (race, age, sex, other illnesses, etc etc) that contribute to hopefully guide you and your doctor to the therapy that I'll work best for you! It'd a growing field and we need more people to volunteer their info research as well as more people to become researchers. We also need more hospitals to adopt more modern computer systems to facilitate data creation, capture, and analysis. You can contribute to that last one by paying attention to legislative matters pertaining to healthcare (look up HITECH for an example, as well as meaningful use). Medicine has only really pushed for scientific basis in the last hundred years. The push for scientific (rather than anecdotal) evidence in medicine was really initiated and made standard in the 1980s. We have a shit load of work to do but we need help. Love, A nurse

nostalgia is a liar. nothing was ever as good as you remember it to be. there’s a reason you don’t talk to that person anymore, there’s a reason you’re not part of each other’s lives. don’t trust nostalgia. grieve. reflect. move on.

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Omggggg

These photos are amazing.

the coziest’ of them all