r/science • u/Wagamaga • Oct 08 '24

Neuroscience Brain’s waste-clearance pathways revealed for the first time. Wastes include proteins such as amyloid and tau, which have been shown to form clumps and tangles in brain images of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/07/brains-waste-clearance-pathways-revealed-for-the-first-time
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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '24 edited Oct 08 '24

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u/croana Oct 08 '24

I'm a stay at home mum and even though I go to bed, I don't sleep more than roughly 1h30m at a time. I wake up, pee, go back to sleep. If I'm lucky, I can roll over and fall back asleep, but I still wake up fully each time. If I'm very unlucky, it takes hours to fall back asleep. It used to not be this bad, but since pregnancy, it's gone into overdrive and hasn't gotten better years after giving birth. I assume hormone changes made it worse. AuDHD also contributes, of course.

Just got an MRI done a few hours ago, actually, which is why your comment probably triggered my response. Referred because I have headaches nearly every day and migraines weekly.

Being a parent is a full time job, especially if you don't have the luxury of dropping your kid off at childcare all day while getting to live an adult life at work. Stay at home parents, especially women your grandmother's age, don't get a chance to "switch off" often. Not unless they're independently wealthy and can afford to pay someone to take care of their children and household without having to work to afford it.

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u/AccursedFishwife Oct 08 '24

Guess that means that mothers with careers have two "full time jobs", then.

Childcare and house cleaning are both minimum wage jobs. Don't compare the stress of a minimum wage job to a real career, it's not in the same universe. Your sleeping disorder and migranes are a separate health issue, get those taken care of and you'll find that being a housewife isn't stressful at all.

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u/MultiFazed Oct 08 '24

Don't compare the stress of a minimum wage job to a real career

What an incredibly ignorant thing to say.

I have a "real" career (I bristle at the condescention of saying that low-wage careers aren't "real", but because you almost certainly won't even consider the opinions of a someone who makes minimum wage, I have almost two decades in software development, and am currently in a senior role), and the minimum wage jobs I held when I was younger were far more stressful.