Depression Links

[amilyn]

These are very interesting.

Childhood abuse 'speeds up body's ageing process'. Physical or emotional abuse during childhood could speed up the body's ageing process, US research suggests. A team from Brown University focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes that keep a cell's DNA stable but shorten with age. They found the

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[partly]

Interesting links. As someone who lives with a person with depression, I fight all the time to stay focused and happy because I know that it helps him fight his depression. It's nice to know that my militantly optimistic style does help others. It's damn hard work, though.

Your 'Social Medicine" link echoes a program that I work with up here called "Social Norms". The idea behind the Social Norms program is to influence better health choices in young adults (drinking, smoking, drug use) by showing statistically that most youth DO NOT participate in the behavior and actually consider the behavior to be inappropriate. Merrill Social Norms is the website for the work. We're meeting to work on marketing ideas for the upcoming school year.

Sometimes it's good to be ahead of the curve.

[celli]

Wow, those are some amazing links.

[amilyn]

And some of them are problematic in ways (see below) and some are not at all surprising (the rapid aging following abuse). Like I said to annlarimer, I got to these at all by following link-hopscotch after looking at the article about Eric Millegan.

[annlarimer]

I am very wary of any medical/science articles in HuffPo.

[amilyn]

Are they usually rubbish? I thought these were interesting...though I suspect that the one guy is all actually much more anti-meds than he comes across at first. He tries, in the one article, to present himself as being "meds should be PART of the treatment for mental illness along with therapy and social skills and coping skills, etc." As I looked more at his book, it looks like he believes that meds are entirely a placebo and all a crock, which makes HIM a crock

[annlarimer]

HuffPo is home to dodgy science and medical quackery. Anti-vaccination loons, alternate medicine, celebs posing as experts (Jim Carrey? Seriously?), dodgy studies, etc. Don't trust anything you read there without a lot of backup research.

[amilyn]

Good to know. Thank you.