depression

"Depression is all in your head." I have lived 14 years in his world and many things disgust me in modern day society. However some stand out above the rest. Here is one of them : This is Nicole Arbour. She's a YouTuber with over 400K subscribers, even though she releases many controversial...

When I was a kid I watched The Snake Pit, featuring Olivia de Havilland as a raving loony who gets locked in a padded cell during the 1920s. We've come such a long way since then. A case has come to light of an autistic man who has not been convicted of crimes, but who has been held in a small...

Mental illness affects all of our lives. We all know someone who knows someone who is suffering from a mental illness. It affects my life personally. I've been thinking about this issue from both sides, which are as follows. On one hand, you could make a moral argument that if a person is...

I was reading over this article when I came across the first item on the list. (Several relevant links are embedded in the article itself.) I have noticed that whenever I take an OTC painkiller with anti-inflammatory properties, I feel a little better in terms of my mood. So I asked my...

This idea has been used to explain depression as well as anxiety for many years now. Many depression treatments, as I understand it, supposedly work by boosting serotonin levels. But is this idea that low serotonin causes depression and/or anxiety a scientific fact? If not, then what is it?

Does anyone here have experience taking 5htp? I have never taken anti-depressants but have started taking 240mg of 5htp every night, and it has made a world of difference to my moods (what I usually call stasis and permanent borderline melancholy) during the day. Although I have never tried...

http://www.mcmaster.ca/opr/html/opr/media/main/NewsReleases/Evidenceshowsthatanti-depressantslikelydomoreharmthangoodresearchersfind.htm QqCygE0jwgg The lead author is an evolutionary biologist. We're moving towards evolutionary psychiatry at a blistering pace, this is just more of it...

Here's the latest: http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/05/30/valkee-releases-scientific-evidence-to-show-proof Here's the new PDF: http://www.valkee.com/uk/Valkee_Poster_Presentation-Human_Brain_Photosensitiveness_May2011.pdf Does anyone know more about the conference? Here's their website...

A noteworthy article by Bruce Levine at Counterpunch (I am prohibited from posting a link because I am new here; just Google "levine depression counterpunch") discusses 5 myths about depression treatment and the role of belief, with interesting implications for critical thinkers. "Critical...

It seems that science has little to say about what is commonly called a "nervous breakdown". Science and psychiatry in particular have a lot to say about many other mental disorders that interfere with living, but the "nervous breakdown" isn't one of them, to my knowledge. Now the reason for...

Wouldn't shining a bright light so close to the eyes be potentially harmful? http://www.gizmag.com/go/1848/ or this http://www.vagabondish.com/led-glasses-promise-to-banish-jet-lag/ While I realize there is a "blue light hazard" when it comes to blue LEDs, wouldn't green LED glasses also be...

Yale Team Describes Secrets of 'Magic' Anti-Depressant I've heard a lot of anecdotal cases of people who swear by ketamine for its antidepressant qualities, it is interesting seeing it supported by research. Apparently a hospital in Perth are doing trials with ketamine lozenges for severe pain...

I have been dealing with depression for about 8 years now. It seems i have "phases" where i will be normal but then i will have what i call a "dark cloud over my head" where everything seems to be going wrong even though i know it isn't. Right now i have a 3 year old, a great job, i just got...

Didn't actually read the entire post by Cainkane1, (I skimmed it), but this part looked really interesting: Is there any medical benefit to silencing the part that separates self from the larger world? If so, how does one meditate effectively? I've read a few studies in psychology and...

My wife's doctor prescribed a new medication in response to her complaints that she lacked motivation. It was an adjunct to anti-depressant medication she was already on. The medication worked wonders. She suddenly had a lot more energy, and got a lot more things done during the day than she...

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&tab=s7&vid=2ebc54db-82ac-4356-b7c8-992297e85871&playlist=videoByTag:tag:edi_life:ns:Gallery:mk:us:vs:1&from=MSNHP&GT1=10645 I know, maybe the tittle could be read as another woo thing... but instead of running away or start the bashing ;) I have to tell...

OK, I'm going to be very careful how I phrase this. For the record: I'm not an anti-psychiatry kook, I don't harbour any unrealistic paranoia about "Big Pharma" and I also don't have any underlying mental or physical illness about which I'm in denial. Furthermore, I'm not trying to use the JREF...

Interesting results from this study: Cannabis: Potent Anti-depressant In Low Doses, Worsens Depression At High Doses but:

I'm curious about opinions on the latest article in Time about Mother Teresa. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html I'm not an expert, nor a fan, nor have I read Hitchens on the Missionary Position, but it struck a very personal chord with me. I was surprised to read...

Personally, throughout my life, god didn't really play much of a role. However, not until a few years ago, did I actually abandon the fear of "what-if" (god exists). Having this experience changes you. Some people (as the case was in this week's commentary) may get depressed due to loss of...

http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20021002-000009.html :eye-poppi So, a psychologist has concluded that the hormones in semen act as an antidepressant in women. Anyone here know anything about endocrinology? Is this even biologically plausible? My gut feeling is that there's a...

:mad: NO IT IS NOT A "MEDICAL PROBLEM!" Sorry AS I swear this is not aimed at you or anyone specifically and apologies to anyone up front offended. But this is exactly the kind of thing I was trying to caution against - ie the growing, disturbing and frankly grossly irresponsible mindset in...

From what I understand, the argument goes something like this: 1. Belief in god is a part of human nature 2. (scene missing) 3. Therefore, if you don't believe in god, you must be depressed From what I've been able to determine, 2 is supposed to be "If you are missing a part of human nature...

This is something that occurred to me a while back, i'd be interested in opinions.... When humans suffer a traumatic event there is generally an accepted coping mechanism cycle.... the Kübler-Ross Grief Cycle, lists the stages as below. Most are well understood, but for "bargaining" and...

Just read this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1755741,00.html Is it just me, or has the author gone for tabloid-like revelations? For example: … is swiftly followed by: Is 11 % overwhelming? What did make me laugh: Such articles do wind me up... How large was the sample...

What could be the evolutionary advantage of being able to suffer from depression? I'm not referring to clinical or severe depression, which would simply be an abnormal extension of 'normal' depression. I mean why would an organism feel a sense of loss or defeat to the extent that their normal...

I hate to seem like a whiner, but I have to take exception with Randi's light-hearted treatment of clinical depression in this week's commentary. This quote in particular bothered me: [/B] As someone who has been hospitalized for depression, and continues to battle it, the dismissal of this...

Another example of tje interaction between genes and drugs. http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3738894 CBL

A friend of mine recently had an episode where she fainted in her front yard. She says she has done this every once in a while, ever since she was a child. She has seen doctors abuot it, but they haven't been able to dtermine a cause. This time, when she saw her doctor, he asked her - and her...

See here a debate on the topic "Is Depression a Disease?" Interesting debate. http://www.szasz.com/isdepressionadiseasetranscript.pdf What do you think ?