Tag: depression
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
SSRI drugs, not depression, destroy empathy
Yet another medical myth gets busted today. A common dogma in psychiatry is that one of the…
Drop in dopamine behind giving up
I would have much preferred if the authors of the study below investigated the level of serotonin…
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…
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…
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…