Taking Anti-Depressants during Pregnancy

Overview: This blogpost is about the effects of taking SSRIS during pregnancy. SSRIs are anti-depressants. It provides information on the potential birth defects and disorders taking anti-depressants while pregnant can cause. It is most commonly linked with autism but more research is needed.

Vaccinations: Harmful?

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Do vaccinations do more harm then good? This question is on many parents minds when they are thinking of getting their kids vaccinations. Most of the medical evidence displays that there is not much harm in getting vaccinations. But on the flip side there are doctors and scientists that say that getting a vaccine could harm people's lives. Vaccine are injection that help people's bodies fight of illnesses that could arise. In the injection, there is a disease germ that gets placed in your body. The germ is usually either dead or weak so it doesn't really harm you. But doctors put this small disease germ in your body so that your body can make antibodies that attacks the disease germ and dissects it. Then your body knows and remembers how to fight of a disease germ, in case another real disease germ came into your body. Many people don't have second thoughts of getting vaccinations, but in some occurrences the vaccinations have turned to give people deadly diseases. Most of the time vaccines help the person getting the vaccine, and everyone around them.

Dissociative Identity Disorder: How it Physically Changes the Brain

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Dissociative identity disorder, previously known as multiple personality disorder, is a mental disorder where a person splits into multiple identities, usually to cope with a great loss or abuse. The person will separate themselves from the traumatic memories to survive, causing their brain to split into multiple personalities to allow for their primary identity to repress the damaging flashbacks. The disorder causes the areas in the brain called the hippocampus, which controls memory and emotions, and the Amygdala, which controls emotional reactions and memory, to shrink. Cerebral blood flow, the blood flow to the brain, is often less in patients with DID. This lack of blood flow to the areas of the brain controlling emotions, memories, and decision making are often another factor to the cause of dissociative identity disorder. When people switch personalities there can be physical changes in the different personalities, including a change in eye sight or a change in the language they speak. Different personalities also can have different genders, ages, names, personal history, or habits.