What happens when someone is depressed

What Happens in the Brain When Someone Is Depressed??

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Depression involves the brain’s delicate chemistry — specifically, it involves chemicals called neurotransmitters. These chemicals help send messages between nerve cells in the brain. Certain neurotransmitters regulate mood, and if they run…

What happens to someone with depression?

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The course of depression is quite variable. Some people will experience only one significant depressive episode for which they receive treatment, and they may never have another episode. Other people may have recurrent bouts of depression t…

What happens if someone is depressed and takes a psychedelic? Mor…?

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If a person is situationally sad (negative feelings and thoughts in response to a real or perceived loss), that emotional wound will heal with passage of time and support from those around him/her. This is sadness, NOT depression. Clinical …

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What happens when someone who isn’t depressed takes an anti-depressant?

Q: I am not doing this, but I am just curious…just so everyone stops freaking out, I AM taking anti-depressants, but I really am depressed. I was just curious about what might happen…

A: Once, a few times… absolutely nothing. Ongoing you’d be messing with functioning neurotransmitter sites and may flood your head with what you don’t need. How long it’d take to become a real problem, dunno, but it sounds pretty stupid to me. I mean, it’s not like you will get happier.

Why do I laugh when something really depressing happens to someone?

Q: Let’s say a little old lady just got robbed for her purse.On the outside i’m laughing, on the inside i’m really worried.I really don’t know why this happens, and i’d like to figure it out.oh and i can’t hold it in most of the time.it just forces it’s way out in a split second, and before i realize it, i laughed.

A: Called emotional blunting. Your mind trys to protect your body from the harms of stress anxiety and other things. Same thing happened to me as i was getting the crap beat out of me by my abuser

What happens if someone is depressed and takes a psychedelic? More specifically shrooms?

Q: I’m assuming it would completely destroy their mind or help them realize happiness. But i’m not sure, and google isn’t helping much. Reply, please? Thanks. 🙂

A: If a person is situationally sad (negative feelings and thoughts in response to a real or perceived loss), that emotional wound will heal with passage of time and support from those around him/her. This is sadness, NOT depression. Clinical depression, which is a genetically based illness resulting from the slow release and/or re-uptake of neurotransmitters by cells in the brain. This chemical change results in the symptoms of clinical depression (or psychiatric depression), such as a sad low mood (whether or not anything in the personal life of the person adds to the sadness), loss of energy, hopelessness, low self-esteem, feelings of guilt, changes in appetite and sleep patterns from normal, suicidal thoughts and/or attempts, etc.Sorry to give you this lesson in psychiatry, but it’s important in regard to your question. If someone is NOT clinically depressed, but SITUATIONALLY upset and down, psychedelic drugs will act as they usually do on that person, since before their use of the drug their brain chemistry is normal. Psychedelic drugs in this scenario will temporarily alter brain function and chemistry, allowing the user to have a “trip”. These drugs do NOT always act the same or cause the same sensations, thoughts, feelings and actions. This is the dangerous part of using these types of drugs – they’re unpredictable in their effects. So, the situationally sad person will have the same, unpredictable experience using drugs as would anyone else.If the user IS clinically depressed and already have altered brain chemistry and function, the addition of an unpredictable and powerful hallucinogenic psychedelic drug could have extreme changes in both. Such users may experience psychosis (hallucinations and/or delusions), mania, an alternation of their already abnormal brain chemistry. However, since the effects of these drugs are unpredictable, no one can say for sure just what effects they may have on a clinically depressed person.The correct treatment for clinical depression is NOT the random use of unpredictable and dangerous mind-altering street drugs, NOR the misuse of prescription or OTC meds. The correct treatment for clinical depression is, first, a thorough examination and tests by a primary care giver physician to rule out non-psychiatric causes of the presenting symptoms. Once they are ruled out, then a referral to a specially trained psychiatrist is in order to evaluate for the need for medical treatment and/or counseling. Mixing an already malfunctioning brain chemistry with a mind-altering drug would most likely lead to disaster.