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DonatellaInCali

@RainofTerra

Matthew's parents were at the Cleveland International Film Festival for the anniversary of the documentary that premiered at the film festival

I wanted to go and meet them, but I want allowed to go because of my severe #ptsd. My wife did meet them, and she told them my story. She said they were extremely nice, listened to her, and both hugged her

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Psychedelic Institute

link.springer.com/article/10.1 Impact of Medical Comorbidities on Ketamine and Esketamine Treatment Effectiveness for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression: A Clinical Outcomes Analysis from the VA San Diego Healthcare System (Zhang, et al, 2025) #ketamine found effective for #depression and #ptsd and safe to administer repeatedly even for those with traumatic brain injuries and obstructive sleep apnea #mentalhealth #ketaminetherapy #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychedelictherapy #ketaminesafety

SpringerLinkImpact of Medical Comorbidities on Ketamine and Esketamine Treatment Effectiveness for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression: A Clinical Outcomes Analysis from the VA San Diego Healthcare System - CNS DrugsBackground Ketamine and esketamine are increasingly used to manage treatment-resistant depression and have also been shown to reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Little is known about how common comorbidities in the veteran population, such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) or obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), may influence ketamine and esketamine treatment outcomes. Methods In this retrospective study, we analyzed clinical outcomes from Veterans Affairs (VA) San Diego Healthcare System’s ketamine program to assess the relationship between ketamine or esketamine treatment and changes in depression and PTSD symptoms, while also examining how common medical comorbidities influence treatment outcomes. We specifically examined whether a patient’s history of TBI or OSA would affect ketamine or esketamine treatment outcomes. Linear mixed-effects models were used to examine how TBI and OSA history interacted with ketamine/esketamine treatment to change PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores. Results This study included 119 veterans who received eight sessions of ketamine or esketamine treatment at the San Diego VA Medical Center. Using linear effects modeling, we found that repeated ketamine or esketamine sessions were significantly correlated with reductions in both depression (p < 0.005) and PTSD (p < 0.05) symptom scores. However, in veterans with comorbid TBI (n = 38) and severe OSA (n = 9), depression symptoms did not improve over the course of ketamine or esketamine treatment, suggesting this subgroup may require alternative treatments or OSA treatment prior to starting ketamine or esketamine treatment. Conclusions Ketamine and esketamine treatment did not improve symptoms of depression in veterans with comorbid TBI and severe OSA. Thus, our findings generally support ketamine and esketamine as effective interventions for depression and PTSD, while emphasizing the consideration of comorbidities such as OSA and TBI.
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Wild Sown

‘I didn’t eat or sleep’: a Meta moderator on his breakdown after seeing beheadings and child abuse

Solomon says the scale and depravity of what he was exposed to was far darker than he had ever imagined

Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators

#meta #workersrights #workerExpoitation #extremism #laborrights #africa #contentmoderation #ptsd #mentalhealth

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · ‘I didn’t eat or sleep’: a Meta moderator on his breakdown after seeing beheadings and child abuseBy Rachel Hall
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Firestorm Books

At the end of last year, while reading Rebecca Solnit's "A Paradise Built in Hell," many of us encountered the idea of "post-traumatic growth"—a sort of inverse PTSD, where individuals experience increased resilience, strengthened relationships, and personal empowerment as a result of a traumatic event. Excited by this phenomenon (and our own brush with it), a member of our reading group has worked with a friend in clinical psychology to facilitate a presentation and deeper conversation about the power of community in uncertain times.

Please join us on Tuesday at 6:30pm for an in-person discussion and workshop that draws on academic research and our own experiences as disaster survivors to explore the idea of post-traumatic growth!

More information can be found at firestorm.coop/events/3381-tog

#PostTraumaticGrowth #PTSD #HurricaneHelene #MutualAid #MutualAidDisasterRelief #WeKeepUsSafe #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

A promotional graphic for Together We Rise, an in-person event at Firestorm Books on April 29th at 6:30pm. The image features the headshots of two presenters, Morgan Penberthy and Gillian Kerner, over a photo of dandelions emerging from broken cement.
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Strange Seawolf 🕒 CET

@willelm
Hi and great question!
While my characters have to deal with things like #PTSD and depression at the same time the story happens. So, their mental problems are there, but the story focuses not (only) on them. Of course, Galahad's PTSD will make a lot of things terribly complicated. Often he can't do what you usually would expect a captain to do and others need to take charge because of that. And it spills over in all areas of his very being, into his relationships, for example. But at the same time it isn't a story about how to live with PTSD. It is a story about finding out what happened on the ship and about bringing the crew into safety. And it also has a romantic sub-plot.
What I am trying to do is crafting a halfway realistic picture of what happens in a situation like this. If things wouldn't happen, then, sure, the characters dealing with their mental health problems could go to therapy and find a job better suited to their needs. But they can't, because life is happening. And that is what happens in real life often enough as well, right?
In what way not sad... I think for me it is important that mental health problems inherently aren't sad or problematic, they just ARE. Depression isn't healed with a "smile more" or doing fun things. Focusing on how sad this all is doesn't solve it just as well. So, my characters just deal with their impairments and there are enough passages that are situationally funny because we all need that, too.
#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD

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Arcadiagt5

In the middle of all the fluff, #ILeftMyARankParty just did a bit on #PTSD, what can trigger it, and the value of TALKING about it to your friends and comrades. It’s not much, but it very much was NOT judgmental and all about support, so I’m giving this episode a point for that - that’s something you only very rarely see touched on in anime AT ALL, let alone this well

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MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:

🚨 #MICHIGAN: 🚨 🚨 #ALERT 🚨 🚨

FBI fascists and local oinkers 🐷 raided the homes of #UniversityOfMichigan #PalestinianRightsActvists in #AnnArbor, #Ipsilante, and Canton on Wednesday.

The targets of the raids participated in campus nonviolent #antiwar protests.

Disgrace to the #queer community :pride: , traitor to humanity and #zionazi, Attorney General #DanaNessel, claims they're part of a 'vandalism investigation' 🤨 (#wtf?)

The CouncilOnAmericanIslamicRelations #CAIR : 'Peaceful dissent is NOT a crime'

No search warrant was provided. Trigger warning for #PTSD victims of police violence. Please take care ☮️ .

youtube.com/shorts/p4hbf4KPLpk (video provided by the #TAHRIRCoalition and #DemocracyNow)

(SOURCE for story: DemocracyNow)

#ProtestIsNOTACrime #FreeFreePalestine 🇵🇸

YouTubeFBI and local police raid pro-Palestine activists' homes in MichiganBy Democracy Now!
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anubis2814
#autism #dating #actuallyautisic #trauma #PTSD #CPTSD
One of the things that I have learned over time, is that often you will go into a long term #relationship with sort of an agreement or contract of assumptions about the relationship. Or maybe that's just me because I'm on the spectrum.
However at some point, often quite a few years in, especially if your partner has #trauma issues, something will make it impossible to keep the contract/agreement intact. These are often CORE parts of your agreement and incredibly important to you. This can do one of two things. Destroy the relationship because they broke the contract, or you can work together and with yourself to adjust. What no one ever tells you when they say "relationships require work".
Communication is essential, something I've worked hard at and rarely had issues with over relationships, but with trauma it really does involve work and accepting a reality you never actually signed up for. In sickness and in health.
On the spectrum its very easy to be offended and hurt by this breach of trust. However Love is more than an emotion, it is a promise and at a certain point, if its a choice between the contract or love, especially if they are putting effort into it but just can't. Discovering if they are often requiring communication and probing questions to discover their level of effort if depression and dissociation are involved. It may appear to you that they aren't putting any effort in when they are working so hard just to live with depression, anxiety or trauma. Effort, not outcome is what should define a relationship. Equal effort from all.
Love is also a contract and a promise to work hard to make the relationship work. How much of each contract outweighs the other depends on you. Do you sacrifice something very important for the sake of love, or feel betrayed and burn the love promise in the process.
All I know at this point is that no matter the relationship if I was to burn down the love contract, then try with someone else, this same thing would happen in a unique and likely just as painful way. So if you can salvage it and work together on in. You never signed up for this but that was a blank check written in the love promise. You work at it and don't give up. Verify especially from a therapist that they aren't abusing you in some way psychologically, (and physical abuse is right out) but don't assume your next relationship wont hurt just as much later when this "contract breech" happens again.
You are the only thing you can change, not them, its up to you to decide if your bond or their contract agreement is more important to you.
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Calishat

#covid #VideoGames #Tetris #PTSD #MentalHealth

"A recent study found that an imagery-competing task intervention reduced the frequency of intrusive memories in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention involved recalling an intrusive memory and then playing Tetris for 20 minutes. The study was published in BMC Medicine."

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PsyPost · A 20-minute game of Tetris reduced traumatic memories in pandemic frontline workersBy Vladimir Hedrih
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