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   Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 13:03:42 JST Estelle Platini

   I'm already absent,
   From my body, from my head

   My eyes are half closed and they don't open anymore.
   I cry like a stream that must
   necessarily sink

   I'm...
   A small hard shell
   That breaks slowly
   What was inside is gone.

   #poem #SilentSunday #QuietSunday #depression

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     Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 13:03:41 JST Estelle Platini

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     Studies in non-depressed subjects have shown that we are collectively biased in our #beliefs.
     We are much more sensitive to positive than negative information when we adjust our personal beliefs. This bias in updating beliefs tends to favour positive beliefs about our own skills, our own experiences. As a result, we tend to believe that we are better drivers, better lovers, better at sports than the reality of our performance. This bias is present in all civilizations, although it varies according to the groups considered. We know that men tend to have a stronger positive bias than women. The positive bias is also stronger among descendants of settlers compared to Japanese.
     It could still be, fundamentally, an effective way to finally protect ourselves from the misfortunes of the world. If we were realistically aware of the dangers of the world around us at all times, then our #mentalHealth would probably be much more fragile. We would be constantly anxious.
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     #bias

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     Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 13:03:41 JST Estelle Platini

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     This protective mechanism for our mental health disappears when we suffer from depression. Tali Sharot's team, and later Tobias Kube and Winfried Rief's team, showed that depression reduces the ability to refresh these beliefs after positive information. This loss of the positive may even have led some psychiatrists to say that there was a form of depressive realism, in the sense that depression offered an uncompromising view of the world.
     It is not known whether this depressive pseudo-realism is related to increased attention to negative stimuli or to greater porosity of beliefs to such unfavourable information.
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     @psychology 🧶

     #selfDepreciation #wellness #knowledge #science #psychology #neuroscience #brain #suicidal #suicide #depression #rumination #confidence #bias #beliefs #mentalHealth #TaliSharot #positive #phenomenology #SilentSunday

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     Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 13:03:41 JST Estelle Platini

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     In pharmacology, an #antidepressant refers to a fairly diverse set of molecules that do not have the same modes of action, the same therapeutic effects or the same undesirable effects.

     A common goal: to target monoamines, neuromodulators

     Generally speaking, these are molecules that target what are called #neurotransmitters, including serotonin, noradrenaline or dopamine. When a neurotransmitter attaches to receptors in one neuron, it transmits an electrical message that can be transmitted to another neuron. It's kind of like a relay race. There are over 20 different types of synapses, each of which conveys specific messages and are involved in this brain activity differently."

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     #cognition #SilentSunday #wellness #medicine #antidepressants #health #medicines #science #psychology #neurosciences #brain #suicidal #suicide #depression #mood #confidence #bias #beliefs #selfDepreciation #mentalHealth

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     Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 13:03:42 JST Estelle Platini

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     Our nervous system is wired to generate meaning from a stream of discontinuous, uncertain, sometimes ambiguous information. To do this, our brain uses probabilistic #beliefs that allow it to filter out its sensory information, but that are deeply disturbed in depression.

     If we suffer from depression, we are constantly plagued by dark thoughts. We may tend to believe that we are worthless, that we have made terrible mistakes, that our loved ones reject us, or that our condition is a burden on their shoulders from which we must release them.

     These beliefs are also at the heart of repetitive, circular mental content. These ruminations gradually lock us into a smaller and smaller space. They are self-reinforcing, feeding increasingly negative beliefs, invading the entire spectrum of our minds.
     These depressive beliefs are critical because they are often associated with the worsening of the disorder and the risk of suicide

     #depreciation #psychology #neuroscience