Notes tagged with "mental-health": Nonlinear Function

12 notes tagged with "mental-health"

bupropion

Antidepressent that acts as a [ norepinephrine ]-[ dopamine ] reuptake inhibitor. In the class of substituted [ phenethylamine ]s and (more…

Tagged with: #mental-health#neuroscience

depression

Depression is the worst thing . Why? Ultimately we care about global utility. Depression is literally the state of finding it difficult or…

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dukkha

In Pāli, dukkha refers to the unsatisfactory parts of existence. Literally it refers to a wheel in which the axel hole is not centered…

Tagged with: #buddhism#mental-health

grad student depression

A recent survey found that ??% of Berkeley grad students suffer from depression. This should be shocking and dismaying. Yet no one seems…

Tagged with: #academia#mental-health

grief is depression

When someone we love dies, a sense of possibility leaves the world. Our grief is usually proportional to how much we cared about them…

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it's hard not to learn from experience

It can be very hard to hold onto a positive self-image and an [ optimism|optimistic ] worldview, even if you intellectually 'know' these to…

Tagged with: #personal#growing-up#mental-health#modeling

living on autopilot

Some things are genuinely hard to do. But many others I don't do just out of laziness, or maybe lack of [ agency ]. I know that they're…

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most people don't care

This is one of the big problems with the world. Not the only one, and not the only way to look at it. But it's everywhere. status : a…

Tagged with: #how-to-think#mental-health

small steps

It's not a terrible summation of [ depression ] that it starts from seeing no way to achieve your goals. Sometimes that's because it's…

Tagged with: #mental-health#how-to-think#life-advice

suffering

Tagged with: #mental-health#morality#buddhism

therapy

Tagged with: #psychology#mental-health

theory of the case

Several ideas here: When I try to tell a story about what I'd like to change about my life, at a high level, I can come at it from different…

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