Evolve Health Bend

If today is a challenging day for you, know that you're not alone. ⁠
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Start small... what is one thing you're grateful for?⁠
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At Evolve, we are grateful to be a part of increasing access to mental health care in Central Oregon and beyond.

If you're taking time off over the Thanksgiving holiday and need a quick yet powerful read, check out The Four Agreements written by Miguel Ruiz and recommended by Maryellen, a nurse practitioner here at Evolve Health in Bend. ⁠
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Miguel shares these four simple principals to live by:⁠
1. Be impeccable with your word⁠
2. Don't take anything personally⁠
3. Don't make assumptions⁠
4. Always do your best⁠
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Many wonder how ketamine differs from the traditional antidepressants available to manage treatment resistant depression.⁠
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Ron Dunman, psychiatrist and neurobiologist of Yale University says that depression is associated with a loss of synaptic connections between nerve cells. "A healthy neuron looks like a tree in spring...with lots of branches and leaves extending toward synaptic connections with other neurons. What happens in depression is there's a shriveling of these branches and these leaves and it looks like a tree in winter." ⁠
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After studying rat neurons before and after ketamine treatment, scientists have seen those neurons return to looking like a tree in spring, indicating that ketamine works by encouraging synaptic connections. 🎇
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