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29/11/2025

Important information!

🧠 New Research Is Rewriting What We Know About Depression

For decades, we’ve heard that depression stems from a “chemical imbalance” — low serotonin or other neurotransmitter issues. But emerging brain-imaging research is challenging that view.

A study from Weill Cornell Medicine shows that in many people with depression, it’s not just about “chemicals,” but rather how parts of the brain are wired. Researchers found that a brain network — the salience network — tends to be significantly larger in depressed individuals compared to those without depression. This suggests that altered brain circuitry and connectivity may underlie depression more than chemical levels do. 

Moreover, a 2025 study from McGill University identified specific brain-cell types (neurons and microglia) that behave differently in people with depression — showing altered gene activity and inflammation pathways. This lends weight to the idea that depression involves real, structural and cellular changes in the brain. 

What this means: Depression may be far more complex than a simple “chemical imbalance.” Understanding it as a condition rooted in brain wiring and structure opens the door to new, more targeted treatments — beyond only medication, perhaps involving therapies that reshape brain networks or target cellular pathways.

💡 Hope for the future: With better science, we may see new treatments — tailored to individual brain patterns — that treat depression more effectively and holistically.

📚 Source: Weill Cornell Medicine (2024) & McGill University (2025)

16/11/2025

The reason AI will never be an adequate substitute for a good therapist.

What is hurt relationally must heal relationally. Resonance and soothing coregulation is where the magic of healing restores ❤️‍🩹✨

The wound is one thing; the feeling of abandonment that followed your ask for help is another — and you deserve to heal from both. ❤️‍🩹 🖋️

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Gold

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This woman's mind! Such a vital validation so many need to hear right now in a world so quick with toxic positivity. You make sense 🙌

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01/10/2025

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30/09/2025

Here's to character & heart ✨

Diana Rigg never played by the rules. In the 1960s, while starring as Emma Peel in The Avengers, she discovered she was earning less than the cameraman. Outraged, she leaked the story to the press herself. Overnight, she was branded “difficult” and “ungrateful” by studios and columnists. Rigg, however, wore the label like armor. “If fighting for fairness makes me difficult,” she told friends, “then difficult I shall be.” At a time when actresses were expected to stay silent, she turned inequality into a public scandal.

Her defiance was more than headlines. Rigg shaped Emma Peel into one of television’s most iconic heroines. Refusing to be reduced to eye candy in leather catsuits, she trained in judo, choreographed her own fight scenes, and wielded wit sharper than any punch. Fans adored her intelligence and strength, even if she herself loathed being turned into a pin-up. “I’m not a toy,” she once said simply. “I’m an actress.”

That refusal to fade into the background carried through her career. Decades later, on Game of Thrones, surrounded by actors half her age, Rigg stole the show as Olenna Tyrell. With one line — “Tell Cersei. It was me.” — she created a moment of pure television history. Elegant, ruthless, unforgettable.

Yet behind the steel, colleagues spoke of her kindness. She slipped chocolates to crew members, wrote notes to stagehands, and encouraged nervous newcomers. “Don’t apologize for being brilliant,” she once whispered during rehearsal.

Diana Rigg wasn’t just a star. She was a force — rebellious, witty, and unforgettable.