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clairesweirdstuff: tfsplash: dreamingdarkly: roachpatrol: roachpatrol: vastderp: information-redacted: carlvegandude: Suggested ReadingNatural Prozac: Learning to Release Your Body’s Own Anti-Depressants by Joel C. Robertson ShopVegan You heard it here folks, now you can not only want to die, but with added protein! seriouspost but i hope the people who push this stuff are ok with the suicides they are indirectly encouraging oh my god if there was some natural plant-based compound besides nicotine that could do that or even significantly mitigate the effects of your serotonin, dopamine, or norepinephrine imbalance, you fucking bet centuries of depressives would have fucking found it. if it was as cheap and accessible as goddamn cashews then i am pretty sure a lot less people would have fucking died of drug addiction. they would have died of eating so many cashews they exploded. when you feel fucking miserable all the goddamn time you tend to notice really fucking quick any action or compound that lessens that feeling even a little, even for a moment. cashews. my fucking god. okay i’m going to say this straight out: orgasms, when you are depressed, sure do make you feel a little better for a little while. and yet i do not see a single one of these Just Solve Your Dire Chemical Imbalance In A Natural Way bastards recommending frantic masturbation to anyone. I’ll ask without sarcasm. Does masturbation actually work for this purpose? I know a lot of depressed masturbators. And since sex (for me anyway) feels a whole lot more satisfying with another person involved, I guess I assumed masturbation didn’t have quite the same chemical effects on the brain that sex did. (and I don’t mean like, intercourse. I just mean sexual activity with a partner. The same way watching tv or talking to a mirror doesn’t really fill that need for social interaction like actually speaking to another person. I figured our brains could tell the difference)This is all anecdotal and highly un-scientific though, so I ask if anyone has evidence that I am wrong about this? (or right I suppose) Personally, physical activity is my go to antidepressant (as long as I can actually get my depressed ass out of bed), so I can see the correlation between sex and depression relief.Orgasms on their own don’t do a whole lot in the long term. It’s a very very short lived reprieve from the grey fog. So, I’m not a doctor, but I’m sure I’ve read and heard in classes that sex releases hormones like oxytocin. It was less clear, but I’d imagine some of those aren’t released during masturbation. But also, I’ve definitely seen short term mood improvements from orgasms, so something good is happening there.My go-to antidepressant though is escitalopram, which makes it harder to orgasm so… Bit of a trade off, lol Hey! Escitalopram buddies!Also not a doctor. I’ve seen some research regarding how your diet triggers your autonomic nervous system and how that affects depression/anxiety. Being stuck in sympathetic activity is what leads to the anxiety/depression cycle. I also know from a brilliantly-made reddit acronym PENIS (Parasympathetic = erection, Nutting Is Sympathetic), that male orgasms have a similar toggle switch with the autonomic nervous system. So I’d reckon that’s where the brief mood improvements come from.I dunno. It’s what I choose to believe! Lol. -- source link