/mental/ - Mental Health, Illnesses and Disorders

What to do? :(

We are seeing the last days on earth.

Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You believe you are dumb to the point where you actually become dumb.

>>8118
Nice thing about neuroplasticity is that it works both ways.

>>8175
How so? Better thought patterns provide positive results?

>>8176
How would we even learn if this was not true?

>>8177
You mean when we're children? You've lost me. I don't see how it ties into depression rotting your brain.

>>8178
You never learned a thing as an adult?

You can change your habits. You can change your trains of thought. You can change your brain. It's not a complicated concept.

>>8179
And that fixes the depression damage? Because the way other people are saying, it persists even after you've stopped being depressed unless you take medication (or other things).

>>8108
SSRI's are like steroids.

>>8180
Yes, you can even fix the damage caused by benzos, the most dangerous ones.

>>8182
Steroids in what sense?

>>8183
"The effect of serotonin in elevating body steroids also gives reason for the “amphetamine effect” felt with the use of Prozac. Cortisol is an adrenalin hormone and adrenalins (epinephrines) are like the body’s own version of amphetamines. Adrenaline or epinephrine and amphetamine are chemically related so an increase in adrenalin is similar to a dose of amphetamine.

Prozac and the other SSRIs produce this effect by artificially increasing the level of serotonin which stimulates the adrenal glands to produce more adrenalin – the body’s glandular amphetamine.

Prozac or any SSRI should also logically produce the same mental and physical side effects associated with the use of steroids. The only difference is that the SSRI drugs accomplish this by artificially forcing or chemically increasing the body’s own steroid production. We should, therefore, expect the SSRI drugs to cause the same serious physical and psychiatric reactions caused by steroids and amphetamines.”"

>>8184
Uh, wat? I searched for this and didn't find a single reputable source.

And sorry, SSRIs will not cause liver/kidney stress, increased blood volume, increased protein synthesis etc. The comparison to steroids simply does not hold.

Mind you, cortisol is catabolic.

This is making me even more depressed

Wow, no wonder I've been having memory problems/problems with taking directions after I came off my anti-depressants. Oh well I still ace test, and I'm almost done with college with C's and 1 B.

Makes sense. I used to be pretty smart up until 3rd grade or so but now after being fucked up for half my life I can't even hold an argument or do anything clever in the strategy games I used to love.

Well that's just great.

Are you FUCKING kidding me?

OP should work for Buzzfeed and other clickbait sites.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150318074442.htm

>A new study illustrates the link between reduced working memory capacity and dysphoria, a significant and prolonged depressed mood related to clinical depression. Building on the knowledge that dysphoric individuals (DIs) and clinically depressed people maintain their attention on 'mood-congruent' information longer than people without depressed mood, researchers carried out three studies to test both working memory and processing speed.

>The researchers note: "Such deficits take a personal toll on these individuals with depressed mood and have societal consequences via loss of productivity and an increased rate of disability. It is likely that persistent thinking about affectively negative, mood congruent information … can impair real-world functioning for those with depressed mood."

>>8543
S-sorry