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25 Nov 2020, 1:37 pm
Ok.. yes, trigger events & life situations Can cause depression. But they’re far from the only causes.
Hell, there are plenty of celebrities with abundant fame, fortune, friends & family that have offed themselves. Having all of these things does not guarantee happiness.
Some other causes:
Neurotransmitter imbalances - like dopamine, serotonin, or norepinephrine deficiencies. These can be sorted via exercise, pharmaceuticals, meditation etc.
Vitamin/mineral deficiencies - especially vitamin D and magnesium & sulphur. Vitamin D affects dozens and dozens of bodily functions in a wide array of systems. It’s essential for happiness. Magnesium & sulphur help us detox food acids that can build up and cause depression/anxiety. There are probably other vitamins & minerals that need to be in balance to maintain a positive mood, too.
Food chemical sensitivities - as mentioned above; food acids, in particular Salicylate Acids. I discovered this in myself years ago and have shared here about it. Studies show that 70% of people on the autism spectrum are sensitive to salicylate acids - plants’ natural preservative & pesticide, which are boosted sky high in GMO fruits & veggies for those properties. I use epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) on my skin to absorb the minerals and excrete the excess acids via urination.
And another known cause of depression is brain malformations. People with an undersized hippocampus - a seahorse shaped region of the brain responsible for learning and memory - are prone to chronic depression. Before I discovered the salicylate acid sensitivity I had all but convinced myself that I must have been born with a below average sized hippocampus and would wonder if a brain scan would show me that to confirm it so I would Know why I was depressed seeing as I fit all the symptoms for so long. Now, I highly doubt it, seeing as the root cause of my lasting depression turned out to be biochemical in nature and I was able to successfully treat it via diet and supplements.
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03 Jan 2021, 2:09 pm
So people can only be depressed if they don't have friends or a romantic interest? And they can't possibly be happy if they don't, even if they're asexual and asocial. Cringe. 
Reality is the cause of of depression. Hearing people moan about not having a love interest gives me depression and all I feel is disgust and irritation. No empathy at all. I must really be a psychopath. Whatever.
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03 Jan 2021, 2:25 pm
Hell, there are plenty of celebrities with abundant fame, fortune, friends & family that have offed themselves. Having all of these things does not guarantee happiness.
Some other causes:
Neurotransmitter imbalances - like dopamine, serotonin, or norepinephrine deficiencies. These can be sorted via exercise, pharmaceuticals, meditation etc.
Vitamin/mineral deficiencies - especially vitamin D and magnesium & sulphur. Vitamin D affects dozens and dozens of bodily functions in a wide array of systems. It’s essential for happiness. Magnesium & sulphur help us detox food acids that can build up and cause depression/anxiety. There are probably other vitamins & minerals that need to be in balance to maintain a positive mood, too.
Food chemical sensitivities - as mentioned above; food acids, in particular Salicylate Acids. I discovered this in myself years ago and have shared here about it. Studies show that 70% of people on the autism spectrum are sensitive to salicylate acids - plants’ natural preservative & pesticide, which are boosted sky high in GMO fruits & veggies for those properties. I use epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) on my skin to absorb the minerals and excrete the excess acids via urination.
And another known cause of depression is brain malformations. People with an undersized hippocampus - a seahorse shaped region of the brain responsible for learning and memory - are prone to chronic depression. Before I discovered the salicylate acid sensitivity I had all but convinced myself that I must have been born with a below average sized hippocampus and would wonder if a brain scan would show me that to confirm it so I would Know why I was depressed seeing as I fit all the symptoms for so long. Now, I highly doubt it, seeing as the root cause of my lasting depression turned out to be biochemical in nature and I was able to successfully treat it via diet and supplements.
I think this is very backwards. Since depression is so strongly related to being neurodiverse, it can be shown that ALL neurodiverse traits (and neurodiverse brain wirings & "imbalances") "cause depression". However, correlation is not causation (elementary issue), and there is a need for a lot more than correlation to prove the link between depression and a trait.
So, to weed out the real causes, there is a need to establish causative routes and then show that these are stronger than alternative routes and the "background" connection between depression and neurodiversity. I worked on this last autumn, but gave up (at least temporarily). Even with a very large dataset, it's extremely complicated to prove these links.
It’s been MY personal experience that so much of neurodiversity is in the gut/enteric nervous system & that common food chemical sensitivities are to blame for depression and anxiety; and in turn that altering the gut microbiome via diet/natural medicine, as well as healing the intestinal lining to reduce chemical sensitivities, can make a dramatic improvement in mood/depression/anxiety etc.
IMO that’s the neurodiverse commonality.
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03 Jan 2021, 2:43 pm
Reality is the cause of of depression. Hearing people moan about not having a love interest gives me depression and all I feel is disgust and irritation. No empathy at all. I must really be a psychopath. Whatever.
It's almost as if there were multiple different characters/types thrown on the bandwagon of ASD. There's the hyper-empathic type and then there's the non-empathic type, for example.
I for example get super-stressed/anxious and physically disturbed when something's not right emotionally with a person I care for.
03 Jan 2021, 3:14 pm
03 Jan 2021, 3:22 pm
Reality is the cause of of depression. Hearing people moan about not having a love interest gives me depression and all I feel is disgust and irritation. No empathy at all. I must really be a psychopath. Whatever.
Reality is complex in this regard. Most of it also is relative. Some people are content with small things, like identifying as asexual and then being able to completely ignore sexual relationships. Even relationship happiness is relative. Some people claim to be content with ANY sort of relationship, and think all their problems would be solved, while other might have experience from different types of relationships and then prefer certain types (like those based on being soul mates) over others.
However, many typical people claim that they must have certain social engagements, friends (and even status) to be happy. It's reasoned that evolution made us this way and that the reason is that in the evolutionary past people needed to be social cooperators, needed friends and partners to successfully reproduce. However, since the evolutionary past of NDs is very different, it's not the same things that make us happy as typical people.
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03 Jan 2021, 4:34 pm
IMO that’s the neurodiverse commonality.
Words is not enough. You need to prove your "commonality".
I don't dispute that food & chemical sensitivies plays a role in the severity of autism, but it certainly is not the main player. This only affects a minority of NDs, and even after they have been treated / removed the sensitivites, they still don't end up as anything similar to NTs. And most importantly, it doesn't change their preferences a bit.
How tf are commonalities supposed to be communicated if not by words?
Go read the words in recent autism studies: 70% of people on the autism spectrum are sensitive to salicylate acids. (plants’ natural pesticide & preservative, boosted sky high in gmo foods) And the root cause of said sensitivity is perforated leaky intestines (leaky gut) caused by intestinal dysbiosis/fungal infections etc. Science, math/stats, words.. unless you prefer sign language? I can finger spell it out for you - but they’re still words.Cite your sources. Which studies say that dealing with/treating chemical sensitivities in autistics doesn’t improve their functioning? Are they the same studies that don’t acknowledge 70% as the majority vs a minority of cases?
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