depression

Update: What’s Most Effective vs. Depression?

Early in the pandemic depression tripled, from 8.5% just before to 27.8%, then skyrocketed to 32.8% in 2021.  For Perspective…   Depression Rates Soar In the U.S. in 2017, an estimated 17.3 million American adults,
Managing Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Warning for those on antidepressants

Antidepressants raise the risk of an early death by 33%, controversial study finds The drugs do more harm than good, researchers say, and their use should be cut  Psychiatrists disputed this and argued that they
psychiatric-drugs-for-treatment

Pharmaceutical Use & The Sedated Society

‘The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Prescribing Epidemic‘ (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) Pharmaceutical Use in the UK Over 15% of the UK and 20% of the US adult population take a psychiatric
cognitive behavioral therapy exercises

Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Failing?

Researchers have found that CBT is roughly half as effective in treating depression as it used to be. Everybody loves cognitive behavioral therapy  It’s the no-nonsense, quick and relatively cheap approach to mental suffering – with
gut health and mental health

Gut, Mood & Mental Health

Beneficial bacteria may serve the same role as antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs. In one study,  people who took a multi-strain probiotic for at least four weeks reported a lessening of rumination—recurring, persistent thoughts about something
Spiritism and Mental Health

Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

  Spiritist psychiatric care is described below…and it’s leading us into new territory that might improve our own healthcare system! Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil  “If the spirit is not acknowledged as existing and real,
Russell Razzaque, MD

How Meditation Helps Your Game

[vimeo id=”101977836″] Fortunately, it’s becoming increasingly more acceptable for a medical doctor or psychiatrist to teach about spirituality while he or she is active in private practice.  Russell Razzaque, a psychiatrist based in London who