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Mental Health is Everyone’s Business

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Compassion Needed Coping with mental illness is one of the biggest challenges of our age. The Mental Health Foundation says that one in four adults and one in ten children are likely to have a mental health problem in any year, and the economic cost to the UK is estimated at an annual 70 to 100 billion

Rising Rates of Suicide

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Suicide Rates Rising: When Do We Acknowledge That Something Isn’t Working?! Regardless of race, gender, age, or ethnicity, people across the United States are increasingly choosing death as the only way out. More people take their lives than die from opioid overdoses — only with suicide, there are no drug dealers to blame or people

Posted in Mental Illness, Suicide mental health, mental illness, suicide, suicide prevention, treatment for suicidal thoughts

Medical Cannabis Superior to Opioids for Chronic Pain, Study Finds

Posted on June 11, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Medical cannabis–a prescription for the opioid crisis?: “The Opioid Crisis is taking the lives of about 115 Americans each day, and approximately 40,000 each year. Yet, it’s not the abuse of street drugs that’s the primary driver behind this disaster. According to the NIH, “In the late 1990’s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Medical marijuana alternatives to meds, alternatives to opioids, chronic pain, coping with cancer, medical cannabis, medical marijuana, mental health, opioid epidemic, PTSD, wellness

what are the benefits of taking probiotics

Probiotics Helpful in Bipolar Disorder

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

RESEARCH UPDATE Probiotics lowered the rate of rehospitalization after a manic episode, according to a small controlled trial released this month.1 This marks the first clinical trial of probiotics in bipolar disorder, and it builds on previous research that has found promise for these “healthy bacteria” in depression, anxiety, cognition, and autism.2-5 Led by Dr. Faith Dickerson at

Posted in Micronutrients bipolar, mental health, mind-gut connection, probiotics

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

The State of Mental Health in America

Posted on December 31, 2016 by admin

Mental Health USA: How Are We Doing? Mental Health USA Facts, Stats, and Data: Key Findings (2016) 1 in 5 Adults have a mental health condition.That’s over 40 million Americans; more than the populations of New York and Florida combined. Youth mental health USA is worsening. Rates of youth depression increased from 8.5% in 2011 to 11.1% in 2014.

Posted in Mental Health depression, health reform, mental health, mental health in america, statistics mental health USA, suicide

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

The Epidemic of Drug Overdoses in the USA: Ibogaine Can Help If We Allow It

Posted on July 14, 2016 by admin

“From 2000 to 2014 nearly half a million persons in the United States have died from drug overdoses. In 2014, there were approximately one and a half times more drug overdose deaths in the United States than deaths from motor vehicle crashes. Opioids, primarily prescription pain relievers and heroin, are the main drugs associated with

Posted in Addiction, Health, Ibogaine, Mental Health addiction, ibogaine, 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

Define Mental Health

Posted on July 6, 2015 by admin

(Excerpted from World Psychiatry, June, 2015) The concept that mental health is not merely the absence of mental illness [1, 2] was unanimously endorsed, while the equivalence between mental health and well-being/ functioning was not, and a definition leaving room for a variety of emotional states and for “imperfect functioning” was drafted. The proposed definition is

Posted in Diagnosis, Health, Mental Health mental health, mental illness, well-being