New research keeps contradicting #RFKJr's continuing torrent of bullshit. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/recent-studies-challenge-kennedys-claims-vaccines-tylenol-antidepressa-rcna259464

# vaccines #antidepressants #Tylenol

Back on my #antidepressants after I couldn't collect them for like, a week, because my work decided to make me work more than my contracted hours.

I need to be on them, not because I get sad, but because I get angry and easily frustrated.

War sends Russia into a spiral of antidepressants.

Sales of drugs to treat anxiety and other mental health issues have tripled since the pandemic, and grow every year.

In 2025, sales of antidepressants grew 36% compared to 2024.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260215-war-sends-russia-into-a-spiral-of-antidepressants?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Russia #Antidepressants #MentalHealth #Anxiety #WarInUkraine #Health

“What’s in a name?”

Antidepressant use is on the rise in the U.S.– and with it, the proliferation of new mood-management drug names. At the same time, the Tech Right’s fascination with The Lord of the Rings, has occasioned a flood of company and product names drawn from that fantasy series. It can be very confusing, as a new game from the folks at Vercel demonstrates. Can you tell if a name is an antidressant drug or a Tolkien character?

Find out here.

* Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II)

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As we navigate nomenclature, we might recall that it was on this date in 1941 that first injection of penicillin into a patient was administered by physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England.

In 1928, Alexander Fleming had discovered the anitbacterial properties of the Penicillium mold. But he had little luck convincing his medical colleagues of its value: penicillin was so difficult to isolate that its development as a drug seemed impossible. After Fletcher’s experiment and others– all of which showed promise, but “failed” when the doctors ran out of penicillin– Fleming used the hospital’s entire supply of penicillin to cure a patient of an infection of the nervous system (streptococcal meningitis) which would otherwise have been fatal. Having established medical efficacy, the doctors were able to convince labs in the U.K and the U.S. to pursue large-scale fermentation of the mold and refinments in its medical form. By June 1942, just enough US penicillin was available to treat ten patients. But with the U.S. entry into World War II, the War Production Board undertook to make penicillin available to fighting forces across the conflict. By June, 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced.

#Exercise is effective at reducing both depression and anxiety.

The benefits were comparable to, and in some cases better than, more widely prescribed mental health treatments, including #therapy and #antidepressants.

Exercising once or twice a week had an effect on #depression as exercising more frequently.

But for #anxiety, the best improvements in anxiety symptoms were when exercise was done consistently at a gentle pace.

https://theconversation.com/exercise-can-be-as-effective-as-medication-for-depression-and-anxiety-new-study-272243

#Exercise is effective at reducing both depression and anxiety.

The benefits were comparable to, and in some cases better than, more widely prescribed mental health treatments, including #therapy and #antidepressants.

Exercising once or twice a week had an effect on #depression as exercising more frequently.

But for #anxiety, the best improvements in anxiety symptoms were when exercise was done consistently at a gentle pace.

https://theconversation.com/exercise-can-be-as-effective-as-medication-for-depression-and-anxiety-new-study-272243