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Nutrition and Mental Health: 10 Foods That Boost Your Mood

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The Connection Between Nutrition and Mental Health Your mental health and dietary choices share a powerful bond. Research shows that nutrition plays a crucial role in mental health , directly influencing brain chemistry, emotional well-being, and psychological resilience.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. Thus STAR*D could only document a get-well/stay-well rate at the end of a year of only 3%. What then is associated with depression and suicidality?

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“Get Over It”? A Response to Empower Parents to Repair Instead of Victim Blame

Mad in America

It cites the “alleged” refrigerator mother of the 1940s as well as the rejecting and overprotective mother “allegedly” causing mental illness from the 1950s-1970s. The overwhelming research and well-documented evidence about attachment can remove the insincere tone of “allegedly” from these statements.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Mad in America

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Of the 4,041 patients who entered the trial, only 108 had remitted and then stayed well and in the study to its one-year end, a documented stay-well rate of 3%.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

Mad in America

Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? I embraced mental health support for many years because I found that it made me healthier. When I did manage to taper off a bit, I felt an immediate improvement in my health.

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

Mad in America

Antidepressants, The New York Times informed its readers in 1990 , “work by restoring the balance of neurotransmitter activity in the brain, correcting an abnormal excess or inhibition of the electrochemical signals that control mood, thoughts, appetite, pain and other sensations.” psychiatrists.

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Day # 154: Insomnia - Treatment

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Secondary insomnia refers to difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep due to an underlying cause, such as a medical condition, mental health disorder, medications, or substance use. In contrast, primary insomnia refers to sleep disturbances that are not directly attributable to any underlying health condition.