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    Just going with a feeling here...there are diseases or rather symptoms, in this case depression that may be due to various causes,

    Stress likely promotes neural inflammation, an illness that causes neural inflammation may express symptoms such as depression.

    Treating the inflammation or cause of (virus etc) might help in the latter but perhaps not for stress induce depression.

    Actually just thinking about it , inflammation is a symptom. so treating it might relieve depression but not cure it. The cure would require understanding the origin/reason for the inflammation ie stress, virus or whatever.

    A bit beyond a 3 minute gp visit.

    Seems to be the theme of our age, not to address the root cause, but circumnavigate for a quick fix, like cutting the top of the weeds & leaving the roots.

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    Can someone please help me get my head around this?

    So.. does this necessarily mean that SSRIs are counterproductive, or could providing this "obstacle" actually work as a trigger to help their brain's "mechanism of recovery"? Because my understanding of current theories of chronic depression included the idea that yes, acute depression is a natural response to stress, but sometimes the brain gets stuck in that mode, that its "recovery mechanism" just doesn't work for whatever reason. I'm just wondering if (assuming the rest of his theory is right) short-term AD use for chronic depression could still be a good thing, providing that trigger, but not continuing for long enough to become dependant and suffer withdrawals when they stop.

    It would be interesting to see if anyone had done studies using some kind of "challenge" regime of SSRIs, where they were only prescribed for <2wk periods with long breaks in between... Would the patients be doing better or worse than those who had daily doses?

    I'm not sure if I can really help, I tend to be a real sceptic where big money is concerned, Big pham is like oil corp & all the others - all about profit, A CEO would soon be ejected or a corp. soon disposed if profit wasn't 1st & foremost. Hence billions spent by these interest lobbying Govt, (mostly usa, as they dictate to the rest of us) = a messed up world. Its kinda sad when peeps buy into status quo, there is always so much manipulation going on to serve some agenda, that's generally not in your interest. Quick fix pills for example.

    Personally I agree with you re stress. So maybe its the stress that should be addressed, if possible remove stress from the life of the depressed person. Stress can be all kinds of things...self stress from self disappointment, Stress from over commitment, like family & work obligations. Stress from a weaken physical body due to health or natural ageing.

    The problem is we can have a hard time escaping from stress. Like from work, we are obliged to work 40+ hours per week, but maybe we can only handle 14 hr's, not much opportunity there, who's paying all the debts etc?So the pop is drugged up with anti-depressants...that generally will get you back to work for better or worse.

    So sometimes perhaps more often than not there is no real cure for depression, because your life's environment entraps you in a stress cycle. Therefore accept your disability & manage the stress, not always easy.

    I feel there are those who get depressed & then there are those in denial. I think the best treatment may be to stop what ever your doing...take some time out & self indulge. Of course if its because your lover just left you, thats another story.

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    The san p mother x cereus....are getting really gold...hope they keep this colour, but it may mean I guess that they might not survive on their own roots

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    Getting the hang of grafting these tiny sprouts.

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  10. Posted · Edited by Dreamwalker.

    as I say "I don't really hold a view either way, & make no recommendations, as I wrote its a tough call"

    You are on the other hand apparently well informed

    ....at the risk of being pulled into a discussion, (chomped up & spat out) of which I know very little.....

    there does seem to be an association between inflammation & autism, & other perceived neuropsychiatric diseases,,,,seemingly from conception (mothers environment) to death.

    So do you consider that there has been no historical increase in the rate of perceived neuropsychiatric diseases, such as autism?

    What I find of concern is an increasing trend towards the idea & implementation of compulsory vaccination. At a glance it seems like a great idea ...remove pathogenic virus's bacterium etc from the population.

    But that seems to me to be a Pandora's box, due to the sheer complexity of body & cellular function. Many of these factors drive evolution.....It feels like comparing permacultural with monoculture.

    How vaccines change the way we think about disease

    Anti-vaccine mothers discuss their thinking amid backlash
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  12. Posted · Edited by Dreamwalker.

    THERE IS NO VALIDATED SCIENTIFIC LINK BETWEN VACCINATION AND ASD.... Do some proper fucking research. If you are a parent who chose NOT to vaccinate your child, please, stop reproducing.

    LOL

    vaccinations and autism

    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15287394.2011.573736

    as per request..10 sec search..I get your a mother, but that doesn't excuse rudeness.

    I'm constantly reading research news relating to autism, mainly because there is considerable research funds available for its research, Unquestionably it can be linked to all kinds of environmental influences. Which is probably why vaccines can tip the scales. We are not clones & so all bodies have variance/thresholds to environmental influences, & our bodies react accordingly.

    You could use http://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar

    you will find research both in support of your view & research proving the opposite..............makes you wonder...........

    I don't really hold a view either way, & make know recommendations, as I wrote its a tough call....nor am I here to judge your parenting. Though your fascist breeding beliefs are offensive.

    I was just adding my experiences to the discussion. Your not 1 of those meat clever types are you?

    http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/searching-for-answers/vaccines-autism

    discusses it..pros cons...but in lay terms and a tendency towards your beliefs...........

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  15. Posted · Edited by Dreamwalker.

    I'm still new to grafting....very addictive....

    I was hoping there would be a lot of opinions about when/where to cut.

    I've read slicing the top off button grafts, causes massive pupping. But found nothing re columns.

    Anyhow came home this morning to see my J3 open pollen (~410mm high, 10 months old, seedlings are 50 - 100mm high) had fallen, odd its inside...no wind....luckily no damage.....just gotta get the nerve to slice a column scion above a few areoles, & see if the remaining scion pups.

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    while I'm here.....Yowie x super pedro

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    (thanks to a nomadic member for these awesome seedlings)

    To cut or not to cut.th.......

    Today counted 5 areoles on the remaining scion...........

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    Having grown true geometrizans for some years and cochal to a lesser degree and also seedlings that appeared to be geometrizans at first, but might well be geometrizans X cochal, I am begining to see how they are quite similar...

    Just a bit off topic...but the geometrizans you grew from seed.....I've grown a few as well, & wondering how many years they take before they flower?

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    It's good to have an opinion...........

    bummer about your spleen........do you notice it not being there?

    link between vaccinations and ASD...without searching, I recall the whistle blower...gp I think....liked most whistle blowers was grilled........his career down the gergler........I'd hate to be a parent....tough choices....

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  18. Posted · Edited by Dreamwalker.

    I was wondering if smashing up a bit of concrete to fine dust and using that may work or if it needs to be cement.....

    Got a pod on a cereus that I pollinated with yowie without cement dust, all the flowers I didn't pollinate have died and gone, the flower I pollinated with yowie has a fat pod that's getting fatter.....maybe it got pollinated by a moth or bat that was at another Cerus that night?

    Nice flowers Upside. :)

    I have my cereus inside & successfully x them with san p........unlike the opposite x, the cereus mother x seedlings are vigorous...mine are only a month or 2 old, I grafted a few a week or so ago...they look very cereus like...but red.

    I suspect smashing concrete won't work...I'm not sure what it is about cement that encourages pollen uptake, I suspect it could be a pH thing. cement is highly alkaline, (Sodium bicarbonate, baking soda is mildly alkaline, may be better than nothing)

    I experimented with x-ing of cliestocactus, using cement & not using it...both produced fertile seed...but the non cement fruit had very few weak seeds...whereas the cement fruit was full & vigorous.

    Upside...you don't need much...I use a goose feather shoved under a cement bag...can't even see the cement on it...too much might dry the stigma up...take a little baggy with some cotton wool to the local building supply depot...rub it discretely over some cement bags...that would give you heaps :)

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    Opened this morning. So I (hopefully) impregnated her with the Cereus pollen I collected the other week.

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    Bitten with the pollinating bug,, I also gave a button some cereus pollen. No idea if it will work tho.

    Are you giving the stigma a light dusting of cement after pollination?

    really interesting stuff x-ing

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    a bit off topic...but I think the thing with vaccines is a mixed bag....they have saved millions of lives...they have been used covertly to disguise various agenda's ...they have caused deaths..such as the recent Columbia incident where a # of school girls were killed due to vaccination...there is likely problems to using multiple vaccines as 1 off shots in infants linked to a % of children developing autism, & a lot more. Its not all bad ...but there are huge holes in our limited understanding....personally I stay well clear of them ...

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