Tag: depression

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Meditation can worsen mental health, even cause clinical psychiatric issues

I have always been ambivalent in regards to meditation, mostly due to its teachings that many perceived…

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The social fabric in Western countries may be unraveling

In one of Peat’s recent newsletters he mentioned that there is an epidemic of mental disease in…

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Prenatal stress ups serotonin, which causes autism and mental disease in offspring

Another good study, which not only corroborates the causative role of elevated serotonin in a number of…

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A third of Americans show signs of clinical anxiety, depression

The news about deteriorating health of the population just keep piling on. The latest one below shows…

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Ketamine cures depression by reducing serotonin, increasing dopamine

As many of my readers know, FDA recently approved the party drug ketamine (known as Special-K on…

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SSRI drugs, not depression, destroy empathy

Yet another medical myth gets busted today. A common dogma in psychiatry is that one of the…

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Drop in dopamine behind giving up

I would have much preferred if the authors of the study below investigated the level of serotonin…

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The government knows stress causes “learned helplessness” / depression

I have had discussions with numerous psychiatrists about the concept of “learned helplessness” (LH) and its relation…

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Serotonin causes anhedonia…and mental illness in general

As many of my readers know, anhedonia is one of the most pernicious symptoms of most mental…

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Chronic stress (adversity) lowers dopamine and causes mental illness

The evidence for the role of chronic stress in virtually every health condition doctors have a name…