Reading for fun or uni?
Reading for fun or uni?
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Both. Reading Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo but also getting my folders up to date to consolidate my learning ready for my final year. Currently writing notes on antidepressants.
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Are you enjoying it though?
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Uni or reading? The uni stuff I'm working on at the moment is fascinating. And probably safer considering I managed to cut myself with a pair of secateurs when attempting to tidy up a bush in the back garden. Leigh Bardugo is a wonderful author, love her work.
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Not read any of hers....
I'm so glad you're loving your uni work.
Oh no! Hope that your injury isn't bad!
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It's just a small cut but it hurts when you use hand sanitiser! My current work is based on treatment for anxiety and depression. There's an explanation about why antidepressants take so long to kick in too so it's helping me to understand myself too
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That does sound interesting!
Hand sanitiser is a bugger in cuts!
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Ooo why’s that?
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Antidepressants raise the neurotransmitter levels very quickly (serotonin/noradrenalin) but therapeutic effect is seen a lot later than the pharmacological effect. The theory is that stress damages the neurons in the brain. The body reacts to a perceived threat and increases levels of stress hormones, if these levels return to baseline levels quickly there isn't an issue but if they stay high for long periods then it starts damaging neurons, and even causing them to die off, which would also explain why the hippocampus of patients of depression is often seem to be smaller than those without. So depression and anxiety causes the body to react as if it's under stress. Now there is another chemical acting in the brain and this chemical stimulates the neurons and can promote neuron growth. Levels of this chemical are low in patients with major depression. In studies on rats, scientists have found that serotonin increases the production of this chemical and this gradually stimulates the renewal of neurons and neuron pathways.
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OldMike (14-07-20)
That's really interesting!
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