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#1 thismoment

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Posted 12 June 2014 - 12:08 PM

When we have the conversation about weaning vs cold turkey, the issue of stress arises often. We know that cold turkey is usually more difficult-- the symptoms are more acute, more overt, and therefore likely more stressful.

 

Does stress affect the quality of the recovery from antidepressants? Is the brain healthier at the end of withdrawal if it endures less stress throughout the ordeal? I have selected a few articles that may help answer those questions.

 

http://www.psycholog...nd-connectivity

 

http://www.psycholog...blic-enemy-no-1

 

http://psychcentral....-mental-health/

 

http://health.howstu...n-the-brain.htm

 

If your leg is injured in an accident, you would seek the best recovery plan possible, to ensure that it heals properly. You would want to ensure that you are given the best opportunity to retrieve the maximum function in your leg. You wouldn’t choose to rush it.

 

We ought to give the injured/altered brain the same consideration when it comes to healing it following antidepressant use. The first thing we need to acknowledge is the fact that antidepressants alter the brain-- they physically change it. The symptoms we feel during discontinuation is a byproduct of the brain’s scrambling attempt at self-repair.

 

Your mind is all you are, all you ever were, and all you will ever be-- it’s all you have to offer to someone you love, and it’s all there is to love about any other human being.

 

If there is even a slim chance that reducing stress will aid in healing the mind, we have to go that route. We must put healing the brain on at least the same level as healing the leg. 


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Posted 12 June 2014 - 05:22 PM

Thismoment, these subjects should be required study in high school. If at a young enough age we can learn these truths we would be better armed to take on the world as adults. That first article you posted is outstanding. Well written but yet so everyone can understand. Each member of this website need to understand how our life experiences physically change our brain I think a lot of people don't really grasp the magnitude of that. It literally makes physical/chemical changes that change our character, personality and our perceptions of future realities. The third article is another good one although I wish it included info on how stress also changes the amygdala (part of the brain). Good reading folks.





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