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@sklaing @vegos Your immune system gets into rythymns as well. This is essentially how tolerance to both drugs and alcohol works. It doesn't make it less harmful, but if you are frequently having certain things in your body, your body gets "used" to dealing with it, whereas if you experience certain things infrequently, it is less "used" to it.
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@sklaing @vegos Its (sadly) why pain medications are often so ineffective for me >.>
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@sklaing Someone should have told my hormones that when I was younger lol, my liver might like me more.
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@sklaing (But the fact that my depression was apparently linked to hormone deficiency and they put me on estrogen to help regulate it does actually lend that some credence)
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@sklaing I wouldn't say it made it go away but I don't go randomly trying to kill myself because of depression anymore which I'm sure at least ONE person isn't disappointed by.
Psychiatry is in many ways the science of body chemistry.
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@sklaing The body's a complex machine with a lot of "moving parts" and in my case pretty much all of them malfunction in at least some small way, so I've always been a doctors favourite patient or their most hated, depending on how much they like their job, heh. BTW, I haven't forgotten about the promise to look into the immigration stuff for you, I have to go in n…
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@vegos A lot of the chemicals we use every day or are present in everyday objects are things we don't understand the risks for, really, which is callous at best. It's one thing to understand the risk and mitigate or nullify it, its another to try to suppress the understanding of that risk, and there is a strong industry lobby that wants us to just bury our heads in…
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