it’s not even necessarily about whether or not it really is beneficial for depressed people to exercise, the discussion is not about whether exercise and cleaning and calling your friends helps. it’s about whether that advice helps.
“if you drink more water, it will help with your brain fog” is usually pretty unhelpful. or “get up and exercise, your mood will lift.” it makes me feel like 1) you think i don’t know the first damn thing about the human body, 2) there is no hope for treatment that helps me recover, and 3) i am totally alone in this because people just do not know the difference between a bad mood and a disease, and i should not tell them if i get breast cancer because they will simply hand me some sunscreen.
your starting point needs to be, “ok, all the usual ways don’t work. just feeling thirsty doesn’t work to remind them to drink. the situation by its very nature is one where the conventional advice and the things that work for my brain DO NOT WORK FOR THAT PERSON.” that’s the only way you’ll be able to give relevant advice.
“drinking water can help with brain fog”
vs.
“a big bright water bottle might solve some problems related to forgetting to drink. for one thing, the water won’t get gross sitting out and open, because of the water bottle’s lid – you can feel safe drinking from it the next day. plus, it can’t be spilled as easily, so if you’re stuck in bed or on a couch, you can keep it there with you. that way you can keep a larger amount of water nearby than would be practical in a glass, and you don’t have to remember to get up so many times to get water. if you get one that you think is really cool, you might want to drink from it more often, too.”
THAT is what i think “we can’t all be neurotypical, karen” means.
You mean like how when I was doing special ed advocacy for middle schoolers with ADHD and they started the goddamn color coded folders shit again and I cut them off with “NO. ONE folder. One big one, with dividers if it makes you feel better.”
There is nothing I hate more as an ADHDer than organizational tips from the super-organized. Most of those just provide more distraction and more things to feel like a failure about.
I hate doing this but I could really use some help.
Back in January my boyfriend, Tristan, was burned in a cooking fire. His hand had to be skin grafted and even 4 months later he still gets occasional pain and he can’t feel the top of his hand. On top of having a nasty scar that he covers up with a glove because he is embarrassed of it, we are now over $10,000 in debt. We have no other place to turn, we certainly can’t afford $10,000 by ourselves, since we are both in school and we just moved out together 1 week after this happened. We would really appreciate any donation (really, any amount at all), or if you can’t donate please at least share this. Thank you so much. http://www.gofundme.com/help-tristan-with-his-skin-graft
I just had a nightmare that I was two hours late for school and my dad was yelling at me about it. I woke up in a panic and remembered “Oh wait, it’s Saturday.” And laid back down, feeling the panic dissolve.
Then…ten seconds later.
“I’m 31.”
The lasting psychological effects of school are very prominent
Speaking at the British Science Festival, which is taking place in Swansea, she said: “There is no such thing as a male or female brain.
“There is no one aspect of the brain even which if a scientist looked at it they could tell whether it came from a man or a woman.
“We shouldn’t be talking about sex differences in the brain. The brain is a mosaic and every brain is different for every individual.
“Using our neuroscience resources to measure differences is actually a waste of time. It’s more interesting to see what makes individual brains different.”
Prof Rippon believes that studies claiming differences between males and females are due to cultural and environmental factors.
She said that women become “wired” for multi-tasking not because of anything innate, but because that is what society expects of them.
And Prof Rippon said that the segregation between girls and boys even occurs from a young age – with them being given different toys to play with and different books to read – and that could change the way in which their brains develop.
She told an audience at Swansea University that boys’ toys can often be more training-based while girls’ toys are more nurturing.
“I’d say to the scientific community, can we please stop talking about sex? Stop dividing your data into two categories, you are losing so much information,” Prof Rippon said.
“Not only are we feeding the ‘neuro-trash’ industry misunderstanding about what we do, but we are also feeding the inner wimp of people out there who believe that they can or can’t do something based on whether they are male or female.”
always reblog this
The timing of the high intensity marketing of fairy princess femininity and the extreme segregation of boy and girl toy lines was no coincidence. Susan Faludi wrote about it in a book called “Backlash”.
That’s been my thought since I started reading cross cultural examination of masculinity and femininity. There’s too much variability in actual behavior for there to be any innate neurological difference, besides what comes from growing up as part of a culture. All of the neurological work that claims to see innate difference between male and female brains seems to work on the assumption that because they’re seeing something physical, they’re seeing something permanent and innate, which is like seeing a wooden house and assuming that it grew out of the ground that way.
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