Antidepressant Meds

In recent years, discussions around the impact of climate change on mental health have tended to focus on climate anxiety.

This distress regarding the future of the Earth and humanity in the face of global warming is, however, far from the full picture.

Research is helping to build a better understanding of the damage that climate change, particularly extreme heat, can cause to mental health.

The latest assessment report on climate impacts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded with very high confidence that rising global temperatures have “adversely affected” mental health in regions around the world.

Research indicates that heatwaves can trigger increases in both the hospitalisation of people with mental-health challenges and emergency psychiatric visits. People with pre-existing mental-health problems also have an increased risk of dying during periods of high temperatures.

In addition, suicide rates have been shown to increase in higher temperatures and are expected to rise in a warmer world – although the links with climate change are complex and compounded by other factors.

Despite these research findings, significant gaps remain in understanding the biological, psychological, social and environmental interactions between mental health and heat.

And policymakers have a huge amount of ground to make up, with mental health barely featuring in climate-related policies and commitments around the world.

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A small new study shows reactions in the brain in people who were given psilocybin in a controlled setting.

The scans, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, offer a rare glimpse into the wild neural storm associated with mind-altering drugs. Researchers say they could provide a potential road map for understanding how psychedelic compounds like psilocybin, LSD and MDMA can lead to lasting relief from depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders.

“Psilocybin, in contrast to any other drug we’ve tested, has this massive effect on the whole brain that was pretty unexpected,” said Dr. Nico Dosenbach, a professor of neurology at Washington University and a senior author of the study. “It was quite shocking when we saw the effect size.”

Dr. Jan Ramaekers, a professor of psychopharmacology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands who was not involved in the study, said...“Treatments with psilocybin, even though they are effective, don’t last forever,” he said. “At some point, they need to be done again.”

Had a nightmare so bad and so vivid it took me an hour to recover.

I guess next time I'll listen to something happier or something idk.

I started taking fluoxetine yesterday, and now I feel awful. I was wondering if anyone had tips in order to reduce stomach aches, or any tips in general in order to get through the beginning.

I would also like to hide the fact that I'm taking some for personal reasons. Any tips for that aswell?

Thanks in advance!

I want to switch up Zoloft for another ssri, but they often dulls myself in a way I can't act spontaneously and become more like unintrested which Zoloft is free of. I tend to associate this phenomena with Zoloft's weak activity as a dopamine reuptake inhibitor. And since wellbutrin is illegal in my state, I can't have it (as well as adderall, ritalin)

What I do have are atomoxetine, phenylpiracetam

Many people out there suggest doing CBT while taking antidepressants, but I don't see what problems CBT could potentially cure for me. Anxiety? Fixed by drugs (or should be fixed), Depression? Fixed by drugs, and so on. If my drugs fails at fixing problems, there's a good chance that drug dose should be adjusted or I need other drugs that's simple. What's the relevance of cbt here?

Has someone got success stories with this transition?

The first year on Zoloft went good, I felt no extreme lows, didn't cried once. What I can't say about the next year. I won't say much, but felt like a crying mess at times. Although I had some conflicts in college, and was totally unsatisfied with the way I was living, I tend to think it had not as much to do with the reality of the situation as with the drug wearing off.

What's interesting is that despite the apparently disastrous mood I've had lately, Zoloft has still done a good job of removing my shyness and social awkwardness.

Some new research out of Amsterdam finds that running regularly with a group achieves the same anti-depressant effect as anti-depressant medication.

The catch: they study is inconclusive about solo running (perhaps not even studied). You must run in a group to get some certainty of the effects and you can’t slack off.

I looked up a few papers and tables and found different perspectives. Generally, citalopram is allowed in the range of 20-40 mg, and zoloft 50-200. In one table, it was stated that the starting dose of citalopram is 20 and zoloft is 50, which is quite logical. From that, I can infer that 100 zoloft is 20+20 = 40 mg of citalopram, but it looks quite doubtful because 40 is the max dosage.

Furthermore, I found one study in which citalopram and zoloft were compared in the ranges of 20-40 and 50-100 respectively. In another study, they were 20-40 and 50-150. I’m still a bit confused. I took 40 mg for a couple of days and it didn’t strike me with a surge of apathy, but I felt it definitely more potent than just 100 mg of zoloft.