Kristina2023Psych

 There's three levels of post partum feelings 1. Baby blues     -being doubtful about ability as a mother     - anxiety without apparent triggers     - overwhelmed by baby's needs     - concern about relationship with partner     - uncomfortable in own body 2. Post partum depression     -intense feelings of  sadness     - desire to withdraw     - feeling detached from baby     - worrying you might hurt your baby     - worrying someone else might hurt your baby     - guilt and shame     - physical aches and pains     - recurrent suicidal thoughts 3. Post partum psychosis     - all of the post partum depression symptoms as well as:     -  hallucinations     - delusions     - episodes of mania and depression     - paranoia     - refusal to eat or sleep Post partum psychosis affects up to ...

 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0107541 Apparently, a decline in your sense of smell correlates to death within 5 years in older adults. They suggest this is because a loss in your "smelling cells" marks a decline in all your more refined cells. And guess what? Those are in your nervous system and things associated with it. It makes sense when you think about it like that, but it's startling to see. In the chart below anosmia (loss of smell) and hyposmia (reduced ability to smell) are higher morality risk factors than COPD! And cancer! Also here is my score for the color challenge test :-)    

 Frontal lobe Norepinephrine In (a) Dark World where everyone was the same, people where too tired and rageful to care. Everyone was aggressive, and nobody used any of that aggression for good. Until.....bam bam bam....somebody came along to beat people into shape. Sometimes they made people so anxious they would never leave their house again. But mostly, Flipside looked at the good aspects of anxiety and personality. She encouraged the people of Dark World to think about what makes them different, and accept that these differences are mostly beneficial. She loaded them up with a versatile idea called Nore. Nore is the concept of being fearful: of an increased heart beat. People were fearful of being fearful until they realized fear is what drives them. They were scared of not having a good day, so they got up and made a nice breakfast. They were scared of having a bad job, so they kept looking for one they found. And the best part was that Nore worked differently with everyon...

    -  I was born during a cold spring in Skopje, Macedonia     -  I skipped the crawling stage and started walking around a year old     - My first word was grandpa around 15 months     And that pretty much sums everything up. I've been told I have the personality of somebody born in a cold spring, whatever that means. Macedonia is a ways away, so I'm always missing home. Just like crawling, I tend to miss steps and try to jump the gun. Sometimes it works (I can walk fairly well), sometimes it doesn't. I'm very close with my grandpa, closer with him than my mom. I'm sure this lack of maternal closeness and my grandpa being my main father figure has some causation for why I've turned out the way I am.      - Graduating this may; grandparents flying in for it :)     - Majoring in..........drum roll please.........                         Psychol...