I've had a pretty good day. One of the games I regularly play has a gacha system involved (it's basically gambling lol. You use a in-game currency to "pull" on banners for new characters or weapons. Imagine a just a big bowl with 100 marbles. 89 are blue 10 are purple, and 1 is gold -- every time I pull out a marble, I have better odds at getting that gold one, because there are less marbles to pull from.... while this is a way to visualize how it works, it's a bit more complicated because there are "guarantees" in place and things... it's complicated, just understand it's exciting to get a gold level character or weapon, they are also limited to a few weeks before changing, so they become unavailable afterwards until they rerun that character or weapon, so FOMO is in place too!) -- I got REALLY lucky and got 4 golds with enough pulls to guarantee 1.5 golds. It made me really excited. So, there's that :P

Also, I did some more psychopharmacology studying. Just refresher stuff I already learned but I enjoy synthesizing information learned into practicality. For example, Why is it you can't take a MAOI with, say, an SSRI? It's readily apparent when you understand what those drugs do, and how the brain works. Basically neurotransmitters (especially monoamine ones like serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine) are key ways nerve cells communicate, they release these chemicals in a gap between nerve cells calls a synapse, and they activate the next nerve by attaching to it on a receptor. As long as its in the synapse, it's gonna be doing that. There are two ways your body gets it out of the synapse, by reuptake (literally it goes back into the original nerve cell), or by monoamine oxidase (MAO), which is an enzyme that breaks it down so it won't work on the receptors.

SSRI = Selective Serotonin Reuptake INHIBITOR. and MAOI = Monamine Oxidase INHIBITOR.

See where I'm going? The two ways your body stops the activation of these nerves is through those two means, if we inhibit BOTH -- wayyyyyy too much of those chemicals will be present and cause lots of issues.

sorry, end of rant -- just find that stuff sooo interesting.




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I also decided I should start journaling again. It's always been helpful but I pick it up and leave it way too much. Any ideas for journal prompts or websites that produce them? Thanks in advance!

Well, I guess that's it. Have a good night.