I’m looking at women for the first time in two months and thinking, damn I would **actually** like to fuck you. I hereby declare this episode of #anxiety and #depression over.

No anxiety? No problem, I got you. #comics #animalcomic #anxiety #bunnies #skink https://rooniecomics.com/comics/vicarious-anxiety/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=post&utm_content=rooniecomics

Middle-aged women often struggle with #anxiety, lack of energy, brain fog and other symptoms that can be indicators of #depression. Or these could just be signs of low #estrogen levels. Yet many doctors prescribe #antidepressants for women who are not actually depressed and who may benefit from other treatments. Says one:

"We, as doctors, have been understating the powerful effects of hormones on mental health and have been reaching too readily for antidepressants."

https://medium.com/wise-well/is-it-depression-or-is-it-the-menopause-4ea819340cf4

This refers to adult therapy - but is something to think about when diagnosing children/students as well!!!!!!!!!! Dr Judy Willis has been drawing educators' attention to the fact that the ed system often tries to get students diagnosed with #ADHD, #Anxiety disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional disorder and on and on when it's really the nervous systems' response of fight, flight or freeze to #classroom expectations unfit for humans.
#mentalhealth #education

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IRwGZBlZ4Ro&feature=shared #EdvinRyding about growing into prince Wilhelm in #YoungRoyals and growing into Linus in #Goosemother #Gasmaman before, reflecting on using his own experience with #anxiety when portraying real people. #arts #film This interview dates summer 2021, no clue why I didn’t see it before.

I really want to know which neurons are responsible for expectation that when I check my email, my inbox is somehow going to be full of emails telling me that I am bad at my job and people hate me. It's especially bad coming back to check work email after being gone for a couple of weeks.
#Anxiety #MentalHealth #ImposterSyndrome

I have to send the leaving-for-better-job announcement to my peers outside my direct team at work. I never know what to say. #thoughts? #job #tech #anxiety

Work anxiety kicking in again after several years. It's something really hard to control since that, just as the reasons for it, are out of my control.

Breathing, strapping myself for the ride, avoiding toxic gossiping and hoping for the best. 💜

#anxiety #work #workAnxiety #MentalHealth

Anxiety presenting a canvas.Acrylic on canvas.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kaHTCHzJkrg?feature=share
#anxietydisorders #anxiety #artist #art #canvas #acrylpainting

Pink News: ‘Anxiety and stress of biphobia affects my physical health’: Are bisexuals destined to be chronically ill? https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/bisexual-chronic-illness-mental-health-minority-stress-biphobia/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #mentalhealth #Lifestyle #Bisexual #Features #Identity #bisexual #anxiety #Health

What Does Anxiety Actually Do To Us? A Psychiatrist Explains How It Invades The Body
#anxiety #brain #health #psychology

https://flip.it/_eSBCZ

Ich habe es jetzt mit diversen Cremes und Öle probiert. Die einzige Salbe die hilft meinem exessiven Knibbeln an der Unterlippe Einhalt zu Gebieten, ist und bleibt Bepanthen Salbe. Ich habe auch die günstigere Variante aus dem DM probiert. Klappt nicht. #skin #skinpicking #anxiety

#MedicinalCannabis found to improve health-related quality of life

#ChronicPain #ChronicFatigue #Anxiety #Depression https://newatlas.com/medical/medicinal-cannabis-improve-health-related-quality-of-life/

Plastic Chemicals May Dumb Down Your Baby Boys: Pregnant women exposed to phthalates during their first trimester give birth to boys who suffer from neurodevelopmental problems. #phthalates #pregnancy #firsttrimester #boys #developmental #social #anxiety https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw8QkLpR3nX/

#Smartphone #ban is aimed to tackle rising levels of #anxiety from #SocialMedia exposure in #children

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-06-parents-school-officials-irish-town-bans-smartphones-children.html

Private, vetted email list for mental health professionals: https://www.clinicians-exchange.org
Open LEMMY instance for all mental health workers: https://lem.clinicians-exchange.org
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*TITLE: Photobiomodulation for Long COVID (Get Some Sun)
*https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lLDYNoIVLmk
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Okay all -- It's early days for figuring out how to help people with
Long COVID.

That said, a bit of promising research is starting to surface.

I'm taking the unusual step of emailing EVERYONE because at this point
many of you with anxiety and depression symptoms may have some Long
COVID (brain fog, sleep issues, the depression or anxiety itself!).

A good write-up about what Long COVID is can be found here.  Yes, you
can had a trivial case of COVID-19 and still get Long COVID symptoms for
days, weeks, months, or years.  Some cases of it are somewhat "mild":
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/index.html

*The bottom-line of the video is right at the end.  For long COVID:
-- Get outside one hour per day.
-- May cover up if sensitive to sun (near UV rays will get through
clothing anyway)
-- Best if in nature (surrounded by green)
-- Do not look directly at sun (duh)
-- May wear a hat (near UV rays will get through clothing anyway)
-- Sitting in a sunny window no longer good enough (most glass now has
to be certified to block the rays we want)

He also promises to talk about how intermittent fasting may help in a
future video.
*
Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at
https://www.medcram.com/
He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical
Care, and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of
California, Riverside School of Medicine.  He is also an ER doctor.

Before the pandemic, MedCram mainly seemed to be training for doctors to
pass exams.  Since the start of COVID, Dr. Seheult has done occasional
more accessible videos for the general public on COVID-related topics.

To actually understand why something this simple may help -- and listen
to some research, please watch:

*Photobiomodulation for Long COVID (Get Some Sun)**
*https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lLDYNoIVLmk
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*Show Notes and Research Links:**
*
(This video was recorded on August 27th, 2023)

LINKS / REFERENCES:

The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research — with little to
show for it (STAT) |
https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/20/long-covid-nih-billion/

Debunking the False Claim That COVID Death Counts Are Inflated
(Scientific American) |
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debunking-the-false-claim-that-covid-death-counts-are-inflated1/

Associations of Outdoor Temperature, Bright Sunlight, and
Cardiometabolic Traits in Two European Population-Based Cohorts (JCEM) |
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/104/7/2903/5315432?login=false

Photobiomodulation Improves Serum Cytokine Response in Mild to Moderate
COVID-19: The First Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Pilot
Study (Frontiers) |
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9304695/pdf/fimmu-13-929837.pdf

A case of COVID-encephalopathy imaged with fMRI and treated with near
infrared light (Brain Stimulation) |
https://www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1935-861X(21)00235-7/fulltext

Use of either transcranial or whole-body photobiomodulation treatments
improves COVID-19 brain fog (Journal of Biophotonics) |
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jbio.202200391

Light spectrum in nanometer (ResearchGate) |
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Fig-3-Penetration-depth-of-light-into-tissue-according-to-its-wavelength_fig3_282040732

Melatonin and the Optics of the Human Body (Melatonin Research) |
https://www.melatonin-research.net/index.php/MR/article/view/19

Ultraviolet A radiation and COVID-19 deaths in the USAwith replication
studies in England and Italy (BJD) |
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjd.20093

Sunlight: Optimize Health and Immunity (MedCram) |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YV_iKnzDRg&t=0s

The Case for Sunlight in COVID 19 Patients: Oxidative Stress (MedCram) |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zzo4SJopcY&t=0s

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I'm fascinated by scams and fraud, and the lies people tell to sell a service or product. This article on anti-anxiety patches is fascinating.
Hardcore science’ or ‘just a sticker’ – do anti-anxiety patches actually work?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/07/nucalm-anti-anxiety-calming-discs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#anxiety #NuCalm #AntiAnxietyPatch #Goop #fraud #scam

A psychiatrist and neuroscientist and author of the book “Afraid” explains how #fear works in the #brain and the body and what too much #anxiety does to the body. It’s a really detailed yet readable deep dive into a topic that’s usually dismissed briefly as the “fight or flight” response. Insights like:

"As digestion is the last priority during a fight-or-flight situation, sympathetic activation slows down your gut and reduces blood flow to your stomach."

https://medium.com/wise-well/if-anxiety-is-in-my-brain-why-is-my-heart-pounding-71ca4c3b39c4

Many Autistic and other disabled people like/need to have lots of information when visiting somewhere for the first time

I always check Street View* before going anywhere I haven’t been – and if there are interior photographs, so much the better

So it’s really nice to read about a train operator, Newcastle-based Lumo, offering online 3D tours of their trains: https://www.lumo.co.uk/who-we-are/virtual-tour 💜

Not sure what happened to the end coach though! 😳

* Look Around and Streetside View are alternatives!

#accessibility #ActuallyAutistic #disabled #neurodivergent #anxiety #rail #railway #lumo

The increase in alcohol and illicit substance abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic was related to increased depression, anxiety, and household disruption, particularly among teens. #NICHDImpact #Alcohol #Anxiety #COVID19 #Depression #Teens
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34938846