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A commonly overlooked symptom of depression is anhedonia, the inability to feel joy or pleasure. The reason that it's easy to overlook is that it's easier to miss the absence of something that's not around all the time than it is to miss a symptom that causes active distress, such as feeling tired and miserable all the time.

Anhedonia is good at being a persistent undercurrent to your life. My aunt, who has major depressive disorder, related to me that she figured out that something was wrong when she looked at the daffodils she had planted blooming, and couldn't recognize the emotion that she felt when she looked at them. It had been long enough since she had felt happy that she lost the ability to recognize the emotion.

It's a particularly dangerous depressive symptom, because it robs you of the ability to feel those little spots of joy that keep a lot of people going, while not doing anything to impair your ability to function. If you don't know that this is a treatable symptom of depression, it's easy to assume that your ability to feel good is permanently broken, and decide to commit suicide because you don't want to live like that. It's not an irrational conclusion, but it is an uninformed one, and everyone deserves to have all the information when making a major decision.

This is what a lot of questionnaires are trying to look for when they ask about "loss of enjoyment". If you can't remember a loss of enjoyment because you can't remember enjoyment, then you probably have anhedonia. If you struggle to define how it is to feel "happy", "content", or "good", or how it feels when you feel those emotions, you probably have anhedonia. If you can't remember feeling any of those emotions for a week or more, you probably have anhedonia.

Symptoms commonly co-occurring with anhedonia are fatigue (often the cause), clear and thoughtful consideration of suicide, loss of desire to socialize or do activities that used to make you happy, and weight loss (due to lack of enjoyment of food).

This section is anecdotal. In what I have observed, anhedonia due to fatigue rarely responds well to depression treatment unless depression was causing the fatigue. If fatigue and anhedonia are co-occurring and are not both alleviated by depression treatment, consider other causes for the fatigue.

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Holy shit Uncle Iroh takes no prisoners when it comes to being an ally

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petition to change LGBT to DFTQ (Dykes Faggots Trannies and Queers, naturally)

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Often when trans women ask me when I'm performing next, and I tell them that it's a queer/trans event, they will tell me that they'd rather not go because they do not feel comfortable or safe in those spaces, that they have been dismissed or belittled at such events before. Even trans women who are dyke- or bisexual- identified often don't feel welcome or relevant in queer/trans spaces. And whenever a trans woman or ally points out aspects about the queer/ trans community that contribute to these feelings of irrelevancy and disrespect—such as the way our community coddles those who support trans-woman-exclusionist events or who make trans-misogynistic comments—we are described as being "divisive." This use of the word "divisive" is particularly telling, as it implies that "queer/trans" represents a uniform movement or community—a "oneness"—rather than an alliance where all voices are respected.

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl. Published 2007.

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LETS FUCKIGN GOOOOOOOO

after a 127 year hiatus the king is finally back!!!!!!

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Muppet Fact #1031

Robin was named after the bird because he was born on the first day of spring.

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The Muppets. Comic strip. Guy Gilchrist, Brad Gilchrist. August 18, 1983. (Pictured above).

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They have turned the Palestinians into actual Guinea pigs for the military industrial complex.

We will see the robots and miserable remote controlled dogs at the next big BLM protest on American soil soon enough.

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A horseshoe crab being a home to other sea creatures!

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Merry XMAS to all who celebrate! Unfortunately I've been thinking about Laika the space dog the past 3 days!

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daily painting - 03-15-2024 - two surgeons. oil on paper. if you would ever like to go insane over a painting, use a weird limited palette.

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Getting Through Life as a Crab

Crabs, like all animals, go through many stages of development on their inexorable journey toward death. At the beginning much like us mammals, crabs are pathetic, weak and squishy.

They’re unable with any real direction to control how they move about in the water, and the tremendous currents and whirling forces can send them swooshing into the farthest flung parts of the sea.

If they’re lucky enough to survive into adulthood and avoid the gaping maws of passing whales - then they can become large enough that their shells harden up and they grow so large that they are no longer suspended in the water column but sink to the seabed.

Of course there are plenty of dangers there too, and the life of a crab on the ocean floor is never easy - they must continually move between feeding and hiding, hiding and feeding for pretty much the rest of their life. There isn’t a great deal of chill in the life of these animals - but with luck and a fundamental change in human attitude toward the natural world, maybe they’ve got a chance.