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IEEE Spectrum: At-home brain stimulation for depression is just the start #tDCS dev…

FDA Approves tDCS for Depression Treatment
Could a simple headset be the future of depression treatment? Discover how tDCS is changing the game for mental health care.

US FDA approves first at-home device for depression
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-approves-first-at-home-device-depression-2025-12-11/

In einem Podcast gehört: MAGA-Anhänger haben grosses Mitleid mit den armen Menschen in Europa, deren Kontinent untergeht und die täglich um ihr Leben fürchten müssen, wegen der Einwanderung.
Liebe Amerikaner,
es gibt eine Post-Europe-Depression, aber ich habe noch nie von einer Nach-USA-Depression gehört.
Uns geht es gut. 🤗
Migranten sind auch ein grosser Schatz.
Haben wir von Euch gelernt.

USA-Podcast «Alles klar, Amerika?»: Wie geht es den Chlorhühnern in Georgia?
Wegen Donald Trumps Zollpolitik ist Pouletfleisch made in USA ein Politikum in der Schweiz. Zu Besuch in Gainesville, Georgia, wo täglich 14 Millionen Kilogramm Chicken produziert werden.

Having depression is kinda like being a shitty werewolf. When you feel okay, you have to remember the depression is still in there, and can try to jump out at any time. Even with meds. Even on my most medicated days, I can still feel the depression in there, clawing to come to the surface

denial ← current step
anger
bargaining
depression
acceptance
https://www.theverge.com/tech/876575/discord-age-verification-vast-majority-users-inference

PSA if you live in Europe & have any tendency to feel like shit in winter AND known counter strategies for feeling less like shit ... start employing them NOW.
(I tend to do ok in winter but I am still ramping up my anti-depression tool use, and I am seeing a bunch of friends look like they are entering their winter holes of misery, and am generally a fan of less misery in the world.)

Today in “If My Newscast Could Use Illustrative B-Roll From #HeatedRivalry “…
COULD THE MOST EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY BE EXERCISE?
(TAKE VO - EP 1 GYM BICYCLING SCENE)
THIS COMES FROM A NEW STUDY PUBLISHED IN THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE…

🫘 Caffeine blocks adenosine, the same pathway used by fast-acting depression treatments
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-caffeine-blocks-adenosine-pathway-fast.html

Caffeine blocks adenosine, the same pathway used by fast-acting depression treatments
Perhaps the most intriguing implication of recent breakthrough research lies in an unexpected connection: the most rigorous mechanistic dissection of rapid antidepressant action identifies adenosine as the critical mediator, yet adenosine receptors are the primary target of caffeine, the world's most widely consumed psychoactive substance.

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Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/nurse-depression
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

Another lovely post by Nicky Case @…:
https://blog.ncase.me/on-depression/

Vitamin D & Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
An accessible deep dive into the science (⏱️ 28 min read)

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- State-space kinetic Ising model reveals task-dependent entropy flow in sparsely active nonequilib...
Ken Ishihara, Hideaki Shimazaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15440 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/114057779012161849
- Mechanisms for anesthesia, unawareness, respiratory depression, memory replay and sleep: MHb > IP...
Karin Vadovi\v{c}ov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04454 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115167812677714466
- Meta-learning three-factor plasticity rules for structured credit assignment with sparse feedback
Dimitra Maoutsa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09366 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115699940165988688
- Prefrontal scaling of reward prediction error readout gates reinforcement-derived adaptive behavi...
Sang, Huang, Zhong, Wang, Yu, Li, Feng, Wang, Chai, Menon, Wang, Fang, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09761 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115700046994546552
- Proof of a perfect platonic representation hypothesis
Liu Ziyin, Isaac Chuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01098 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114788750477759162
toXiv_bot_toot

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Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/nurse-depression
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

Anyway I’m using the CD player during my regularly scheduled Ketamine treatment for depression. Please help yourself and help your loved ones with their mental health. ❤️
Rocco the service dog is here with me today. :)

More needed to be said.
#Bible

😇 Religion/spirituality may protect against depression among young adult online gamers
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-religionspirituality-depression-young-adult-online.html

Religion/spirituality may protect against depression among young adult online gamers
Internet use is part of daily life for many people in work, social interaction, entertainment, shopping, and many other activities. Many people engage in online gaming to facilitate social connection, though the activity can also contribute to other internet activities that could increase symptoms of internet addiction and depression.

Ein Symptom von #Depression ist Konzentrationsschwäche. Viele Betroffene berichten, dass sie kaum mehr als ein paar Seiten am Stück lesen können, ohne sich gedanklich vom Text zu entfernen. Das ging mir in den letzten Jahren auch so und Lesen war quälend. Ich bin sehr froh, dass ich mir das wieder zum Genuss erschließen konnte.

"Les chercheurs ont découvert qu'Š l'âge de 12 ans, le fait de posséder un smartphone par rapport Š ne pas en posséder était associé Š un risque accru de dépression, d'obésité et de manque de sommeil ( 31% de chances, 40% et 62%, respectivement)."
#santémentale

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Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/nurse-depression
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

My new year resolution is simple:
1. Working,
2. Sleeping,
3. Commuting with bycycle.
Well, sleeping and commuting with bycycle are seemingly very simple, but cycling is very life changing to me.
Anxiety and depression are coming now and then. But compared to before, my mental, social and physical health are top-notch now.
My depression and anxiety are at the lowest. And I insist to focus on bycycle and sleeping to make my life even more stable.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Tropical Depression:
🎵 Mštame el Recuerdo de Este Amargo Amor
#TropicalDepression
https://tropicaldepression1.bandcamp.com/track/m-tame-el-recuerdo-de-este-amargo-amor
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oOEJteQYjGRxCZgl5BmFw

https://mastodon.social/@fefe_interim/115598749855474597
From: @…

it's not burnout unless it's from the Brno region of Czechia. Otherwise it's just sparkling depression.

my pre-registered study on depression will ask volunteers to complete an online survey, and then filter out the answers from people who successfully completed the survey

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like autoplay and addictive feeds to show mental health warning labels for young users (Felix Day/WRGB)

Governor Hochul signs law for mental health warnings on addictive social media features
Governor Hochul has signed new legislation that will require social media platforms with certain addictive features to display warning labels alerting young use

Just finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

#WaPo layoffs looming as #Olympic coverage cancelled , Natalie Korach reported for #Status that "upwards of 100 newsroom layoffs" are "expected to hit the sports, metro and foreign teams hardest"
One unnamed edit…

Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

Sources: WaPo is laying off up to 300 employees, including over 100 staffers in the sports, metro, and foreign teams; the sports desk may be shuttered entirely (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos

Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/nurse-depression
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

Hard to argue with this.
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-screen-time-manchester-study-haidt/

Post Parting Depression (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p88#a260125p88

Trump Officials Plan To Drop Army's Preference For Blind Vendors
The decision was approved by Trump’s education secretary,
Linda McMahon,
the former professional wrestling CEO,
according to a notice.
The Education Department oversees what’s known as the "Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program",
which was created during the Great Depression to help integrate blind workers into the U.S. workforce due to discrimination.
An Education D…

Trump's Latest Target In His Anti-DEI Rampage: Blind Workers
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has apparently decided that giving blind entrepreneurs priority at Army dining halls "adversely affects" U.S. interests.

Looks like the Danakil Depression is trying to become a bay…
I’ve always wanted to live through a major geologic event. I missed the Zanclean Flood, the filling of the Black Sea, and the glacial outbreak of Lake Bonneville, but hopefully NatGeo or someone will get some cameras out to that Hell-on-Earth location. It could be really big…
(keep it to yourself if you just want to tell me it’s not happening. Do you think I don’t know?)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/nurse-depression
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

Good Morning #Canada
In 1882, Lieutenant-Governor Dewdney acquired land adjacent to the route of the future CPR line at a site known as Pile-of-Bones. He then announced that this featureless site, distinguished only by collections of bison bones, would be the new capital of the North West Territories in western Canada. Thus, Regina was born out of a national scandal and conflict of interest. It became the provincial capital when Saskatchewan officially joined Canada in 1905. The North West Mounted Police were headquartered in Regina, starting in 1885, and the city remains as a training centre for the RCMP. Regina survived a cyclone in 1916 and a great depression riot in 1935. Recently, they recovered from a marketing faux pas when they canceled their tourism slogan, "Regina: The City That Rhymes With Fun."
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://youtu.be/L8eHaVi1yfE?si=Oc2NsqG6tnB4Zqnn

Så er vi på færgen til Puttgarten, hvorfra vi skal videre til Berlin på en kort for-juleferie. Begge drenge var inviteret, men takkede nej, YngsteSŸn fordi han vil holde fest for sin HF-klasse (stort når man har kæmpet så længe med angst og depression!), og ÆldsteSŸn fordi han havde en mundtlig eksamen her i morges (og i Ÿvrigt har været så mega presset i det her semester pga. alt for meget arbejde som hjælpelærer ved siden af studierne).
Så vi er lettede og glade over at drengen har det …

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Holberg/115732569114519659
As someone who had to move back in with my parents in my mid-twenties due to severe depression/anxiety, I can't help but feel for Nick on this described evening.
I've never had drug/alcohol a…

Meta’s 2020 research project, Project Mercury,
measured the effect of ‘deactivating’ Facebook & Instagram
According to Meta docs obtained via discovery…
’people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness & social comparison’
https://

Been waiting for this one -- 'Blood Fire Deathgrind', the new Cadaveric Incubator/Depression split where they each do a Bathory cover. It's sick. Yet more Iron Corpse goodness 🔥
https://ironcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/blood-fire-deathgrind

Just finished "How I Made It to Eighteen" by Tracy White. It's a graphic novel with relatively simple art, but that ends up suiting the subject matter well: it's an autobiography focused on a stay in a mental hospital dealing with depression and bulimia.
It doesn't get as deep into mental hospital mechanics as I might have liked, instead focusing on the author's life, but in presenting both her own life, some flashbacks, and some perspectives from her friends, it's quite interesting. As is typical of real life, there's no neat resolutions to the various threads of interest because they're not imaginary plot lines constructed to wrap up neatly but instead are events that actually happened.
In any case as is par for autobiographical graphic novels, it was super interesting.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150

Like today’s ICE,
Depression-era INS agents indiscriminately rounded up Mexicans,
presuming they were here illegally.
In Los Angeles, they targeted parks, hospitals, and work sites in Mexican communities,
demanding proof of citizenship.
High-profile raids and media campaigns announcing impending roundups served as tools of intimidation,
creating widespread fear that led to “voluntary” deportation via free one-way train tickets to Mexico.
Entire famil…

Opinion | When deportation was called repatriation: The US once expelled 1.8 million people to Mexico
Like today, Americans in the 1930s were reeling from economic hard times. Leaders made Latinos scapegoats and deported immigrants and some US citizens.

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Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/nurse-depression
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

In der KiTa hängt eine Werbung für "Ergotherapie und Hypnose" für Menschen im Alter von 0-99. Hilft angeblich z.B. als Hirnleistungstraining oder auch bei Depression/Burnout.
Darauf ist auch ein Sticker: "Die Nr. 1 auf Instagram".
Ist das strafbar?
Ich denke eine Heilpraktikerzulassung hat die Praxis weil ja die Ergotherapie auch angeboten wird.
Ich habe recherchiert und gefunden: "Irreführende Heilversprechen". Ansonsten kommt noch Betrug und ggf. Körperverletzung in Frage?

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Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/nurse-depression
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/nurse-depression
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Nelly Kim Furtado born December 2, 1978 in Victoria British Columbia. Furtado is one of Canada's most successful recording artists having sold over 45 million records, including 35 million in album sales worldwide. She has been praised for her musical versatility and experimentation with genres. She has, at various times in her career, stepped back to deal with burnout and depression and then relaunched herself wih a new musical style. She has won countless awards and has a Star on Canada’s Walk of Fame. It has been an incredible journey from Victoria where she spent summers in her teenage years working as a chambermaid with her mother, brother and sister.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianArtist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly_Furtado

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Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/nurse-depression
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/nurse-depression
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

#Snowmageddon has forced me to enjoy more coffee, relax in my sunroom, and binge on some YouTube content. This got injected into my feed, and because I was born in 1956, it's absolutely accurate. OK... it's bullshit since every generation has endured tough times. I mean, my parents grew up in the depression and survived #WWII. But if you were born in this time period - 1950 to 1969 - use this as proof of your emotional and physical superiority. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need a nap.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Toughness
https://youtu.be/cJFWGg-LQhY?si=JWLsqaGffl-qkPat

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Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Coach Party:
🎵 Nurse Depression
#CoachParty
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnFYRez4P0r3xvnnleejq