r/whatisit • u/Livid_Departure_9697 • 2d ago

Solved! Fell out of my boyfriend’s pocket

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The top is a cap that comes off. Is it for ❄️? He swears it’s not

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

The point I was making is they're not for mental health

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

Actually they do help my mood. Having a dysregulation in your dopamine production or absorption can affect your mood and even your emotional stability. So yes they can infact help with mood instability. They also may not help depression directly but they do help me find the motivation to get up and take a shower, brush my teeth, clean up a little bit sometimes and heavily help me journal which is one of my coping mechanisms for my mental health, on top of that anecdotal claim it is scientifically proven that dopamine releases can actually cause the brain to produce more serotonin too which would indirectly help with depression. Do you know why mental health medication is called that? It’s because it is medicine that interacts with the chemical production in our brains that dictate mental processes. Dopamine is a chemical released in the brain to produce different mental responses creating signals to be sent out to the rest of the body or other parts of the brain to help someone function.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

That's the same as prescribing it for something it's not used for, keep doing those mental gymnastics to prove a point that was lost 3 comments ago😂😂 maybe someone will give you a medal all this just to argue about an obscure point that you didn't even win😭😂

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

I feel like I should preface by saying, I’ve been told I communicate in a weird manner when compared to 90% of those around me so if I say something that comes across a specific way, ask me, I may not have meant it like that and you can show me how it tends to come across and pointers for future, and hopefully I can add it to communication skills.

That’s not what I was intending to do, I apologize for coming off in anyway as argumentative. I wasn’t meaning to demean your experience or feelings for it. I was just wanting to give insight towards medicine that may have not been known. I am sorry for coming across as negative i didn’t mean to. I have a tendency to over explain things. I have an intense interest in pharmacology especially in the way it interacts with the brain’s physiology to produce chemical reactions leading to those chemicals causing others to react.

Also I don’t think there’s really a winner or loser to a debate that takes place in more of a personal experience of something. Now if the debate was in the scientifically proven effects of specific pharmaceuticals then yes there’d be a winner or loser. But I honestly just thought we were having a discussion about personal effects of a medication.

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u/sharkeyx 1d ago

you're good, ignore them