Center for Integrative Psychiatry
MARCH 8, 2025
In this blog, well explore how functional medicine helps with anxiety, including nutritional interventions, gut health , hormonal balance, and lifestyle modifications. Restoring Balance By addressing these imbalances, functional medicine aims to improve brain function, mood regulation, and overall well-being.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 30, 2024
Poor diet and nutrition have been linked to biological processes underpinning depression, such as inflammation. Just 20–40 minutes of aerobic exercise can improve an individual’s mood for several hours. Habitual consumption of processed foods was associated with a greater risk for depression and anxiety.
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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.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
I detail Mom’s full story in this blog post , and I relate both of our stories in my memoir Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery. No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. Mom continued to struggle to overcome depression until her death in 2002.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
In fact, he was known for treating some mood disorders with opiates—a practice my former doctor (who knew Dr. B) rejected because of the inherent dangers of opiate use. ” By way of explanation, she said mood swings are a normal part of the human experience and she felt that was becoming a lost concept in medicine.
The London Psychiatry Centre
MARCH 3, 2025
Your gut bacteria are key to the synthesis of important chemical messengers involved in regulating mood and behaviour (such as serotonin and dopamine). The microbiota in your gut can affect your mood, perceptions and emotions. But many people dont know that serotonin is about much more than mood!
Lawyers with Depression
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Shes a frequent contributor to the award-winning magazine, Psychotherapy Networker and she blogs on depression for the magazine Psychology Today. With poor self-care, poor nutrition, you may end up stimulating or starting that feeling of low energy, of low interest in the world around you. I work in Naperville, Illinois.
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