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[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@culturehedonist well good luck, if my husband starts flirting around with women i will do the same in no time and he knows. luckily he avoided to much of that stress for us, since he seems to focus 100% of his attention on his work, me and our kids and male friends.

[rogue therapist ✨ @roguetherapist]

When “my parents were kind of mean sometimes” and “I saw my friends die before my eyes while also fearing for my own life” are both summarized by the same word, that word is meaningless.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@dmoonlives The other way around its the same ? I think its mostly men who get bored by having Sex with the same women over and over .

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@buttonslives many therapist are desperate for self validation in their role as a therapist. as soon as they dont feel appreacited, they choose the short path and start telling the client that they are a very good charakter and everyone around them is treating them not ok.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@JungianPeater i get the point but i dont think that anybody who reads this and is not rich by now, will get any richer by taking drugs.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@Pat_Stedman somehow this reminds me of the fact that women tend to loose a lot of weight when they become single. do we see the same kind of negative correlation here ?

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@dumbbitchzine This is dangerous to tell, since it would kil you.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@PTrubey @thisdudelikesAI I have adressed this issue a couple of Times in Psychologie classes. Many therapists do this, even talk the clients into a victim mentality .

[Phil Trubey @PTrubey]

@thisdudelikesAI Did I just read a critique of AI written by AI? There were a bunch of stylistic tells.

Be aware that many human therapists do something similar. They want to keep the weekly visits going ($), so they make sure not to push back too much.

Economic incentives rule everything.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@DrMarkRutland i am 43 and in the last weeks, some people i knew, suddenly died. Such a thing never happened before in my live.They were old, my parents generation . So i guess, 40+40 is eighty plus something, this at this age people start to die around you.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@Kaybirdsong7 @RijhwaniSheetal i thought the same thing: its sons: she probablyraised them to the attitide that women should cater in their direction and not the other way around.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@Tusk_4Real My Kids Situation is Like the one from your childhood. I want this for my Kids and i managed somehow to live in a social Environment that Supports this.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@buccocapital I had this. Made me cancel my subscription. For talking, deepseek is the only lmm that is still good.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@laplacian28 @denisyurchak i am older and i have never in my live heared of anyone in my country who had to pay sorruption money. but there are rumors some rich people do it with real estate or somethind like that. normal corruption - never .

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@denisyurchak I am austrian. i amnot shure about the clean safe story because we got many refugees during th elast years, but the story about the very very good nature bikeways and the swimable river are very true. withe the danube island we have a 2X 10 kilometer long beach in the city.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@m_goes_distance what are petides . it works like meth ?

[Dr. Josef @DrJosefWD]

If I was depressed in 2026, I wouldn't touch ketamine, TMS, or psychedelics.

I've been a psychiatrist for over a decade. I've prescribed these drugs to thousands of people.

Here's what I'd actually do instead.

The brain is not designed to be in a drug state indefinitely. Medications wear off. They turn on people. The patients I see come in saying "I feel flat. I have no joy. I have brain fog." They look everywhere for the cause. They never look at the drug.

Try the boring stuff first.

[amdra zartstrom @zartstrom]

@anishmoonka this brick hobby is actually very productive if you have a property. after 10 years you might have all kind of side bildings you ever wished for

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A recent study has demonstrated that continuous exposure to rose essential oil through inhalation can lead to measurable increases in gray matter volume in the human brain.

In this randomized controlled intervention, 50 healthy women participated: 28 in the experimental group applied rose essential oil to their clothing daily for one month, while 22 in the control group used plain water. Before and after the period, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess changes in brain structure. The results indicated a significant increase in gray matter volume (GMV) across the whole brain, with a particularly notable effect in the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)—a region involved in memory processing, self-referential thinking, and emotional regulation. No significant changes occurred in areas like the amygdala or orbitofrontal cortex.

The olfactory pathway likely explains this effect: aromatic compounds from the rose oil travel directly to the limbic system, providing sustained stimulation that may promote neuroplasticity and help counteract age-related brain atrophy. The authors suggest this could have implications for dementia prevention, as the PCC is among the regions affected early in conditions like Alzheimer's disease.

This appears to be the first evidence that prolonged scent inhalation can induce structural changes in the adult human brain.

[Kokubun, K., et al. (2024). Continuous inhalation of essential oil increases gray matter volume. Brain Research Bulletin, 208, 110896. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2024.110896]