My Lexapro is working and it... works. Which I'm finding is actually😔
My biggest coping mechanism for #autism is (what I am now finding out is) an unusually good memory. So, while the autism makes me very aware of everything I am doing (and what others do), I can remember every related interaction and prepare different reactions.
The obsession over reacting properly means I can recall, almost verbatim, everything that happens.
The Lexapro is intended to stop exhausting me and destroying my #MentalHealth. And it works.
But now I can't think properly. I can't remember every interaction, every word, every thought. I can't plan out how others will react, how I can respond appropriately.
I'm getting surprised by interactions and forgetting things. And while my wife tells me this is how normal people think and remember, this feels intolerable. Like my brain is broken.
Ayurveda and the Lucrative Business of Pseudo-Medicines in India
Patanjali offers medicines for all possible diseases. The company is worth at least 6 billion euros. But for many scientists, this empire is built on deception.
'Go back': Indian students face anger in Ukraine as war drags on
They are increasingly facing the anger of sections of the local population who see India as supporting Russia in the war. "As per National Medical Council guidelines, students who are studying abroad after December 2021 cannot transfer to any other university. This is why I and many other students had to come back here," said a student from Madhya Pradesh.
Researchers discovered a connection between elevated white blood cells in the saliva of healthy young adults and an early cardiovascular disease warning sign. What if detecting early indicators of cardiovascular disease was as simple as analyzing a saliva sample? Researchers believe they've discove
Althea Medical looking to prevent number one cause of preventable hospital death
The company has raised a total of $1.5 million for its solution to treat pulmonary embolism, a condition where a blood clot blocks the pulmonary arteries
After all, nearly 20 years ago, researchers reported that type O blood was associated with a lower risk of the original SARS. In addition, other studies had linked type O blood to a higher risk of infection by cholera, norovirus, and Helicobacter pylori.
“It’s probably why we still have ABO blood groups in the population,” with each of them having an advantage, depending on the disease, Sean Stowell, MD, a transfusion specialist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard University in Boston, explained in an interview.
Perhaps not surprisingly, given the earlier SARS observations, Stowell said that most studies of the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 and blood group have found that, all other things being equal, people with type A were more likely to become infected than people with type O. Although some studies have found no relationship between blood type and COVID-19 risk, none has linked type O to a higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Is the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens risky and overhyped?
'As the medicinal use of psychedelics gains mainstream attention, fears remain over their effect on mental health and the need for safe administration'
The managerial culture that allowed Nurse Letby to go on a killing spree for so long is not an exception. It is the norm; systemic to the NHS. I don't know what kind of reform is needed to root out this culture, but it hurts staff, minorities especially. If anyone tries to raise concerns for whatever reason, management dismisses them, bullies them into submission before packing them off to the GMC for a career disrupting tribunal. #nhs#healthcare#uk#medicine
Researchers have mapped how clusters of nerve cells in the brain connect to regulate wakefulness, which could open doors to new treatments for people in comas
Prior Authorization a tool to “delay and deny care”
"In the meantime, the patients aren’t getting treated, and we know that a significant portion of those patients give up. So their diabetes, their depression, their hypertension, or whatever it is just gets worse.”
Everyone gave Alan Grayson shit, but he was right about private healthcare.
"Wednesday’s breakthrough began with the transfer of a #PigKidney into the body of Maurice “Mo” Miller, a man who had died suddenly at the age of 57 and whose body was donated to science by his family... The pig kidney had been genetically modified to omit a gene that produces biomolecules that human #ImmuneSystems attack and reject." #OrganTransplants
Simple Mouth Rinse Could Reveal the Earliest Warning Signs of Heart Disease (scitechdaily.com)
Researchers discovered a connection between elevated white blood cells in the saliva of healthy young adults and an early cardiovascular disease warning sign. What if detecting early indicators of cardiovascular disease was as simple as analyzing a saliva sample? Researchers believe they've discove
Hearing Aids May Lower Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia (www.scientificamerican.com)
As few as 15 percent of people who would benefit from hearing aids use them
Consciousness traced to specific clusters of nerve cells in the brain (archive.is)
Researchers have mapped how clusters of nerve cells in the brain connect to regulate wakefulness, which could open doors to new treatments for people in comas