Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The National Centre for PTSD attributes this to the fact that men are more likely to experience trauma, but women are more likely to develop PTSD, possibly due to higher emotional sensitivity and reactivity, which increases susceptibility to mood disorders. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. A 2010 study cited in the same article looked at cross-cultural and historical aspects of postnatal care and had this to say: “The postnatal period seems to be universally defined as 40 days.

Sleep and mental health 115

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

2, 3, 4 Lifestyle factors such as nutrition, exercise, and sleep exert epigenetic changes on DNA that influence how strongly or weakly ADHD genes are expressed. Levels of dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin also increase with exercise, thus improving focus, working memory, and mood to enable better learning. 2010 Jan;51(1):58-65.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But back in 2009-2010, the years of the first of three “suicide clusters” in Palo Alto, teen suicides across America were rarer. The suicides seemed to trigger a general darkening in the mood at the schools. The numbers today truly are staggering. That girl endured years of ECT after her brother’s death.

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