Sophie lives in BK, works, writes, plays music, puts on shows and uses twitter.
A few blogs I run or help run:
flavorpill.tumblr.com
thepermanentwave.tumblr.com
sadjams.tumblr.com
spiralringnotebook.tumblr.com
pseudoprofoundelectronicartists.tumblr.com
silentdraperunners.tumblr.com
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Okkervil River - Maine Island Lovers
Lately I haven’t been able to get very attached to music. I think it’s because I haven’t been having the best time. In the last few months, whenever I really start getting into something, it quickly becomes too associated with what I’m going through right now and I don’t want to listen to it anymore. Even the breathtakingly beautiful Julianna Barwick album, which became a favorite security blanket of mine in a month of sadness and insomnia, is now hard for me to listen to. Those problems haven’t gone away, and so I cycle through artists without staking any real claim in them. As they take hold of me they inevitably become identified with one bad night or one hard day, and that’s what I think of when I hear them later. I hope that in the future, when I’m through this period, I’ll be able to get into all this stuff again, without anxiety.
The other night, when I was pretty deep into my depression, I found the only thing I could really bring myself to listen to was early Okkervil River. Will Sheff’s voice is so eternally soaked in melancholy, his lyrics so brutally emotional and honest. In the moments I feel worst I can relate to him the best. Somehow, despite this, he’s remained one of my favorite artists (maybe because not everything of his falls into this category, see, “Unless It’s Kicks”). There are other times I’ll try to incite feelings of sadness with music like his – wallowing is a hobby of mine. But there is a vast difference between willingly egging on your emotions for entertainment and feeling unable to escape from them. The other night, Will Sheff and his voice weren’t a magical ladder for escape to above, but listening to him, I believed he’d at least come down here and meet me.
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“Depression can be described as a particularly restrictive state of mind,” Carhart-Harris told Shots. “People are stuck on how terrible they are. This seems to suggest that people can have a lifting of that negative thinking under psychedelics.”
In the second study, 30 volunteers lay in an MRI machine while tripping for science. The brain scans showed less activity in areas of the brain that may act as connectors, or hubs. One of those areas, the posterior cingulate cortex, is thought to figure in consciousness and ego. It’s also hyperactive in people with depression.
The researchers hadn’t expected to find less brain activity with psilocybin. The thought has always been that psychedelic flights of fancy are the result of an overactive brain. The results were published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
—From NPR.
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Delgado also makes this argument. In the 1990s he carried out a study that showed that if you take a normal person and deplete them of serotonin, they will not become depressed. He says he feels this demonstrates that low serotonin doesn’t cause depression.
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Excerpts from anonymous or anonymised comments I got while working on today’s Pitchfork piece. If you made one of them and want it credited or removed, tell me and I’ll do either ASAP.
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Ok I get fucking annoyed at people for eviscerating every fucking piece of everything on the internet because I think at a point it is actually working against your supposed goals of attaining equality and ensuring that people get to live their lives in relative happiness no matter what challenges they face. But I gotta say, this kinda stigmatizes mental disorder in a way that bothers me. Or something. Honestly, it’s one of those things that people post because they perceive it as “meaningful” in some way, though it really is quite meaningless. That bothers me more than most “offensive” things.
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