Depression Archives

Update: What’s Most Effective vs. Depression?

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

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, or 7.1% of the adult population, experienced at least one major depressive episode. The highest rates were reported among those

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Mental Health Under Trump

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

Mental Health in America Under Trump Research shows that stress levels are the highest in our memory — actually higher than any time since World War I. If you think of all the crises that have happened in that time period, we are actually in a worse state. We know that anxiety levels are 70

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The Real Cause of the Depression Epidemic

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

The Root Cause of Depression When I [Johann Hari] interviewed social scientists all over the world – from São Paulo to Sydney, from Los Angeles to London – I started to see an unexpected picture emerge. We all know that every human being has basic physical needs: for food, for water, for shelter, for clean

Posted in Depression, Mental Health antidepressant, depression, mental health, mental illness

Managing Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Warning for those on antidepressants

Posted on September 26, 2017 by admin

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 have been safely used for years McMaster University in Canada analysed the impact on nearly 380,000 people By Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent

Posted in Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Medication, Mental Health, Research, Suicide anti-depressants, depression, life span, mental illness, suicide

Pharmaceutical Use & The Sedated Society

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Emma Bragdon

‘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 medication, aka pharmaceutical, on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. When these figures are set

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Medication, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Research drugs, holistic health, mental health, pharmaceutical, pharmaceuticals, psychiatric, psychiatric medication, psychiatry, sedated

What’s the Harm in Taking an Antidepressant?

Posted on December 1, 2016 by admin

By Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM Side Effects are explained clearly in this article. We know that all drugs have side effects. That’s just part of the deal right? But is it really possible that an antidepressant can cause a sane person to act like a cold-blooded criminal? I imagined my audience would be wondering as much

Posted in Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Health, Medication, Mental Health, Research, Suicide anti-depressant, depression, mental health

Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Failing?

Posted on August 11, 2015 by admin

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 none of that Freudian bollocks, and plenty of scientific backing. So it was unsettling to learn, from a paper in the

Posted in Depression, Health, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Psychotherapy CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mental health, psychotherapy

Gut, Mood & Mental Health

Posted on July 31, 2015 by admin

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 distressing that has or may happen, which tends to create anxiety. Ninety percent of the neurotransmitter serotonin, (which is thought

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anti-Depressants, Anxiety, Depression, Diagnosis, Mental Health, Micronutrients, Nutrition, Psychiatry anti-anxiety, anti-depressants, micronutrients

Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

Posted on April 16, 2015 by admin 1 Comment

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, psychiatrists will only pay attention to effect. They will be impeded from divining the root causes and will never cure

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anxiety, Depression, Diagnosis, Drugs, Health, Integrative Mental Health, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Spiritual Healing, Spirituality healing, meditation, mental health, mental illness, schizophrenia, spiritual emergency, spirituality

How Meditation Helps Your Game

Posted on December 18, 2014 by admin

[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 work within the NHS, teaches his patients mindfulness meditation and leads retreats for other psychiatrists and mental health providers who

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