• pancake@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Interestingly, malfunction of cortisol signaling has been very strongly linked to depression. High-dose corticosteroids can produce an array of mood effects, including depression and mania, as well as other psychiatric symptoms. Relatively recently, psychoactive steroids have been approved for postpartum depression.

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      4 months ago

      can you give a source? im not suspicious of what youre saying and id love to read up on this

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    I get it of course, but just for fun, can you explain it as if I’m too lazy to look up what that is?

    (I know serotonin is generally linked with happiness, but I don’t know the other thing)

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      It’s stress hormones you use to handle stress with becoming an emotional wreck. This includes physical stress like getting sick but also of course emotional stress.

      The effects of low cortisol are similar to a burnout and high cortisol makes you worry and restless on the low end and paranoid at the high end.

      Corticosteroids are synthetic versions of this and often use to treat infections and inflammation.