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Good morning, runners! Super cute guest host hbfs here again to fill in for supermanz. What's everyone up to today? I have class, am epic laundry/room excavation project, and practice, which is going to be some kind of taper-friendly light workout. We're getting ready for NCAA DIII Mideast Regionals on Saturday :) In lieu of a question today, I thought it'd be fun to play a game. So this is Two Truths and a Lie. In your comment, post two things that are true about you and one equally-credible looking lie (or two equally incredible truths and one lie). And then we'll guess which one's the lie :) Here are mine: 1. When I was 17, I played a munchkin in a community production of The Wizard of Oz. (TRUE!) 2. I once climbed through an open window of a locked building in order to skinny dip in a fountain. (ALSO TRUE. I've skinny dipped in more than one fountain, too.) 3. I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was 18 years old. (False! I was almost 18, though - it was November of my senior year.) Here's a few more sets of two more truths and a lie: 1. In high school, a lot of people knew me by the nickname "Barn" 2. I am addicted to coffee 3. I've kept the same running long since 3-12-2002 1. I'm left-handed 2. I read Gone With The Wind in less than four days 3. I have a phobia of escalators
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http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/b5media/ADozenSteps/~3/GQ7XdoDyIx4/ http://www.blisstree.com/?p=131688 Women who are diagnosed with clinical depression may have a higher risk of developing osteoporosis, say researchers in Israel.
 There has been a suspicion that there is a connection between depression and osteoporosis, but studies have been small. To address this, researchers from Hebrew University researchers looked at data from all studies analyzed them to see what they could find. The results of their meta-analysis were gathered from 23 studies, which studied 2,327 people with depression and 21,141 without depression.
According to this news release, Connection between depression and osteoporosis detailed by Hebrew University researchers, the connection is clear.
[D]epressed individuals have a substantially lower bone density than non-depressed people and that depression is associated with a markedly elevated activity of cells that breakdown bone (osteoclasts).
[The researchers] found that the association between depression and bone loss was stronger in women than men, especially young women before the end of their monthly period. This connection was especially strong in women with clinical depression diagnosed by a psychiatrist, but not in community studies, in which women subjectively identified themselves as being depressed using self-rating questionnaires.
Osteoporosis is a devastating disease. It affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men over 50, throughout the world.
The authors of the study say that women and men who are diagnosed as clinically depressed should be monitored for osteoporosis. What would be interesting would be to know if these people take antidepressants and if this may affect the development of osteoporosis.
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Post from: Blisstree
Depression and Osteoporosis Connection
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So. When I first moved to Vancouver from my crappy, closed minded city, I had kind of arrived on the false impression that maybe my anxiety wouldn't make a return here. Although I should have known that, having dealt with anxiety and depression since I was 13, and I am about to turn 22 next month, that simply moving to a "more open minded" area wouldn't eliminate the anxiety and depression forever. It was completely fine for the first few months, but I've completely unraveled again, and I don't have a clue what triggered it. Now all of a sudden, I'm suicidal every day again, and I can't get on the mass-transit system without having a mild heart attack over whether or not everyone in the vehicle is judging my soul to death. Its like I'm petrified to my seat every time. I mentioned it to my doctor today when I went in for my Spiro refill. Apparently now I'm a candidate for free counseling. I asked if I would still need to talk to a gender therapist for it to count towards hours clocked towards getting approved for SRS, and she said no. It'll all count towards everything I'm working for, I just need to be approved by a psychiatrist when I'm going for the actual SRS (which is covered by health care, bless their souls). Thankfully, there are several that can approve me here instead of just the one Alberta had. Which is marvelous, because to be frank, I'm not a big fan of a therapist telling me I can or can not make the decision for myself anyway at $200 an hour. I would like to applaud the health care system for actually caring about my well-being here. Calgary will bleed you dry for as much as they can get. In my opinion anyway. Its nice to know I really do have access to help and progress when I'm poor and isolated.
Although as much as I love the Three Bridges Clinic for all of these things, I do wish they'd stop sticking me with a different student doctor every time I go in. Just felt like sharing this. It's been a really hard couple of weeks. Maybe I need to just accept that I do need more trans oriented friends, because my cisgendered friends, accepting as they are, just don't seem to understand or connect with me on that level of my life. So that's probably a large part of the reason for my feeling of isolation and a breeding ground for feelings of not being wanted.
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