Sleeping with Technology Could Cost You Brain Cells and Dampen Your Mood
Name the last time you woke up to TV white noise. Cradling your cell phone? How about the last time you woke up spooning your laptop? If you’re like most, you probably didn’t have to think back past...
View ArticleAdderall Withdrawal: Seven Steps to Stop Symptoms
Adderall withdrawal can interfere with your ability to function in daily life. Common symptoms, last for approximately two weeks to three months, depending upon how high your Adderall dosage was, how...
View ArticleAdderall Dosage Affects Both Brains and Beauty – Your Brain on Stimulants
If celebs like George Clooney, Keith Richards, Lindsay Lohan and Naomi Campbell only knew the effect of Adderall dosage and stimulant use in general on both brains and beauty, they might have thought...
View ArticleSchizophrenia Treatment – Is Health Care Bureaucracy Hampering It? Shooters...
Rampage shooting and massacre killings used to be the news of the decade—think Columbine, circa 1999. Now, mass murders pepper evening news reports—Virginia Tech, the Pentagon Shooter, Pittsburgh Psych...
View ArticleBipolar Symptoms in Children: More than Misbehavior
Before the new millennium, bipolar disorder, formerly known as “manic depression” was believed by most psychiatrists to be a condition that only affected adults, with the onset of symptoms usually...
View ArticleSerotonin and Sleep: Finding Your Way to that Heavenly Slumber
It’s 3PM and as you find your eyelids sagging, dreams of cozy flannel sheets dance in your head. You fight off your drowsiness in lieu of crossing the “t”s and dotting the “i”s on your weekly report....
View ArticleZoloft, Weight Gain, and Reasons to Be Depressed About Your Antidepressant?
When taking Zoloft, weight gain is experienced by approximately 25% of people. All SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressants can cause weight gain. This little, or not-so-little,...
View ArticleVitamin D and Depression: Nature’s Cure for Your Blues
Clinical depression statistics reveal that one in every seven North Americans suffers from major depression. However, over half of us will experience mild depression symptoms at some point in our...
View ArticleProzac Withdrawal Symptoms – “Withdrawing From SSRI Antidepressants Kill...
Prozac withdrawal symptoms, and withdrawal from any antidepressant of the same class – selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) – by far the most prescribed group of pharmaceuticals for the...
View ArticleUndifferentiated Schizophrenia Symptoms: A Mental Mixed Bag
Psychiatrists are often eager to classify actions and emotions into one or more of the illness categories found in the “bible of psychiatry”, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...
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