First Post!

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 Hi all!


    My name is J.T. Berard-Moore, I am an up-and-coming pharmacist to be going into my first year of pharmacy school come fall (as of august 2023). But that doesn't even scratch the surface. I am passionate about learning above all. I have my more nieche/ special interests associated with what I'm pursuing my degree after, that being psychopharmacology a specialty of pharmacy/ pharmacology as a whole, but a greater interest of really applying all that I'm able to grasp and understand. This hopefully entails a career in which I'm able to work directly with patients to help them understand themselves better and get proper treatment. In going through my own struggles with mental health and psychotropic treatment alike, I found a deep realization that I am far from powerless from not only understanding what's going on but how to help myself (along with a lovely support system of friends, family and professionals). This has involved really understanding myself, how MY mind works and how minds in general develop and learn to work. The brain has always been an absolutely fascinating organ that we can directly study and learn from but being separate from the conscious experience of having a mind. The brain is far different from the mind as the mind is far different from the brain but there is much to learn and understand of how they affect one another and the interdependent nature of the two. 

My goal in starting this blog is to keep a catalogue of the material I choose to learn and engage with. In being an active and passionate learner I try my best to learn information that I find practical in a sense and share with others who can benefit as well. As mentioned above this includes information pertaining to pharmacy/ psychiatry as well as mind/ psychology in addition to an interest in cannabis / endocannabinoid sciences as well. This blog is in many ways going to be a more formal journal of sorts. I do not wish to gain success or praise for this blog in fact quite the opposite, I'd like for no one to read it! However I would like to keep up with a source to record the material I am learning to have something tangible to have on my resume to show that I'm not all talk. I like to do things for myself and not rely on external sources of accolades or motivation as my drive. Perhaps I'll expand on the neuroscience on why it is beneficial to think and behave like this as it's not coming from nowhere. 

interdependent: a relationship or situation where two or more elements, entities, or systems rely on each other for mutual support, cooperation, or functioning. In an interdependent relationship, the actions or outcomes of one element directly impact or influence the others, and they are interconnected in a way that their well-being, success, or stability is intertwined.

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