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is it unreasonable to ask for a break when you live together?

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by PinkMobilePhone
I was going to say I've been looking at this thing for my daughter (who suffers from depression) but I haven't quite decided whether or not to get her one yet.
I wondered if it might be of any interest to you:
https://www.flowneuroscience.com/

I never tried that and never even heard of it, but only one thing bothers me about that "scientific" (promotional) website.
57% depression free... It is a pretty strong argument to make... how do they define depression, do they treat is as a symptom or as a diagnosis?
I suffered from depression as a symptom of ADHD (discovered it only much later in life). I can say that I am depression free for 20 years, not because I didn't have episodes of depression, but because they were not called depression anymore.
I doubt that a person with bi-polar disorder can go depression free even with treatment.

This statement alone makes me doubt the treatment. Is it hiding the symptom/masking it or really preventing it?!
What are the side effects? Chemical balance/imbalance cause hormonal issues, if the treatment changes the balance of chemicals in the brain it may be as well impact the hormonal balance. How is it works on other things... even the reproductive system....

Well I'm a strange person. I support alternative medicine and some not scientifically proven things, but very doubtful about scientific statements that look more like a promotion.

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by Kathy89
I never tried that and never even heard of it, but only one thing bothers me about that "scientific" (promotional) website.
57% depression free... It is a pretty strong argument to make... how do they define depression, do they treat is as a symptom or as a diagnosis?
I suffered from depression as a symptom of ADHD (discovered it only much later in life). I can say that I am depression free for 20 years, not because I didn't have episodes of depression, but because they were not called depression anymore.
I doubt that a person with bi-polar disorder can go depression free even with treatment.
This statement alone makes me doubt the treatment. Is it hiding the symptom/masking it or really preventing it?!
What are the side effects? Chemical balance/imbalance cause hormonal issues, if the treatment changes the balance of chemicals in the brain it may be as well impact the hormonal balance. How is it works on other things... even the reproductive system....
Well I'm a strange person. I support alternative medicine and some not scientifically proven things, but very doubtful about scientific statements that look more like a promotion.

it's probably placebo. but so is modern medicine - the psychiatric side of it that is. it's still stuck in the medieval age. the only **** that works is stuff like benzos. but antidepressants and mood stabilisers? that's mostly placebo. they don't make you feel better, they just numb you. a lot of mental illnesses are made up, too. sometimes people just have ****ed up personalities and that's a fact of life. sometimes mood swings are just part of them. took me a while to understand this, but now i do. which is why i recently asked to be removed from my clinic as a patient, and now i'm on a warpath with them because they won't delete my records, which are full of crap and misdiagnoses. i’ll probably end up suing.
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