Guest post by Kristen Wells; Image Credit: Unsplash When you think of mental health, specifically its treatment, do you immediately think of psychotropic medication? You’re not alone. Medication is the most prevalent approach for treating mental health disorders, but that doesn’t mean that we’re getting better from it. In fact, [...]
Image Source; This article was originally published at iveeapp.com. How Supplements Boost Energy Balancing life should be as simple as getting enough sleep, eating a healthy (in-moderation) diet, exercising regularly, and relaxing. In a perfect world, this is easy to accomplish but it isn’t always that simple. Life has plenty [...]
Image by Dariusz Sankowski from Pixabay The news has been pretty upsetting lately, hasn’t it? No matter what you believe on all the highly politically charged issues that have come up over the last weeks and months, emotionally, we’re all responding the same way: with anxiety, fear, anger, and hopelessness. It doesn’t have [...]
Guest Post by Dr Mariah Mosley; Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay I am not going to address whether or not ‘social distancing’ will be effective if we don’t do it for the full 18 months1 as some models are claiming, or if it is even truly as effective as they had been previously [...]
Guest Post by Dr Mariah Mosley Why your health may be severely suffering during the COVID19 outbreak, even if you are not exposed: The scariest part of this pandemic This isn’t going to be an article trying to convince you the COVID-19 virus isn’t something to worry about, because right [...]
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a variant of major depressive disorder that occurs during darker winter months when the days grow shorter. It’s fortunately far less common in sunny AZ. But it still does occur. This may be in part because, despite the sunshine, Vitamin D deficiency is still common [...]
We know that there’s a huge connection between the gut and the brain—so much so that it’s got its own term: the gut-brain axis. We’ve also known for awhile that there is a definite relationship between the gut and mood regulation. Serotonin is the “happy” neurotransmitter best known for its [...]
From a neurotransmitter standpoint, there are several different types of anxiety. I wrote here about the high dopamine/low serotonin variety, largely characterized by obsession and overthinking. High levels of adrenaline (norepinephrine and epinephrine) fit here too, since too much dopamine will spill over into high levels of norepinephrine and epinephrine [...]
The bulk of the evidence is against the use of psychotropic medications for anxiety and depression. Studies show that in many cases, effects of SSRIs and benzodiazepines are no better than placebo for mild to moderate depression--indeed, some studies showed that SSRIs were less than half as effective as placebo! It also [...]
There’s a lot of overlap between Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) as techniques for psychotherapy—so much so that it can be difficult to tease apart the differences between them. Let’s first define each, and then compare and contrast. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) CBT is the older of [...]