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  • Study: “Woke” attitudes linked to anxiety, depression, and a lack of happiness

    03/18/2024 12:56:43 PM PDT · by TexasKamaAina · 19 replies
    PsyPost ^ | 03/17/2024 | Eric W. Dolan
    A new psychological assessment has been developed to measure the endorsement of attitudes related to critical social justice. Findings from its application in a Finnish study reveal that stronger alignment with these so-called “woke” beliefs correlates with heightened instances of anxiety and depression...One of the central revelations of the study was that critical social justice attitudes are not as widespread in Finland as might be inferred from public and media discussions. Overall, the findings suggested a cautious reception towards critical social justice among the general population. This observation was particularly pronounced among male participants, who showed considerably lower agreement with...
  • ‘Over the Top’: Biden Remark on Gaza Triggers Anxiety in Israel

    02/09/2024 9:14:26 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 15 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/09/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    President Joe Biden’s remark Thursday that Israel’s response to Hamas terror in Gaza has been “over the top” has caused widespread anxiety in Israel, as Israelis begin to suspect that Biden is no longer as supportive of their fight as he once was. Biden made the remark in a testy exchange with reporters during a press conference in which he responded to claims by Special Counsel Robert Hur that Biden’s memory was failing. (Hur declined to prosecute Biden for mishandling classified documents.) The U.S. media noted Biden’s statement because of the fact that the president — in the course of...
  • Our Man-Made Pandemic of Anxiety

    01/30/2024 6:38:21 AM PST · by Rev M. Bresciani · 17 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | January 30, 2024 | Rob Pue
    Worry. Anxiety. Depression. These disorders have reached pandemic proportions, afflicting people from all walks of life, worldwide. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, here in America, more than one in four adults (26%) suffer from depression or some form of major anxiety disorder, and 52% all adults take some type of anti-anxiety or anti-depression drug daily, and as more and more continue to face unprecedented challenges, the numbers are rising.
  • Psychoactive drug ibogaine found to effectively treat traumatic brain injury in special operations military vets (From mild-to-moderate disability to none with ibogaine and magnesium)

    01/07/2024 9:26:32 PM PST · by ConservativeMind · 5 replies
    For military veterans, many of the deepest wounds of war are invisible: Traumatic brain injuries resulting from head trauma or blast explosions. Now, researchers have discovered that the plant-based psychoactive drug ibogaine, when combined with magnesium to protect the heart, safely and effectively reduces PTSD, anxiety and depression and improves functioning in veterans with TBI. Ibogaine is found in the roots of the African shrub iboga. Since 1970, ibogaine has been designated as a Schedule I drug, preventing its use within the U.S. Before the treatment, researchers gauged the participants' levels of PTSD. Participants then traveled to a clinic in...
  • Science Fact: Leftists Have Smaller Amygdalas

    12/22/2023 6:39:46 PM PST · by davikkm · 18 replies
    This condition is associated with decreased threat-detection abilities and increased anxiety. I bet this doesn’t surprise you. “across the spectrum of anxiety disorders, as well as in other disorders that are often comorbid with anxiety, a relatively consistent pattern of reduced amygdala volume has been found”
  • Study looks at ties between anxiety and gut bacteria

    11/12/2023 12:17:48 PM PST · by ConservativeMind · 7 replies
    Interactions among microorganisms within the human gut may be associated with increased anxiety levels in people with depression, according to research. Using advanced bioinformatics tools like 16S rRNA gene sequencing, researchers analyzed stool samples from 178 patients with a current or past diagnosis of depression who are part of an ongoing Texas Resilience Against Depression (T-RAD) study. The analysis revealed three networks of gut microbial communities, one of which was correlated with anxiety. While the early findings raise the possibility that gut bacteria could affect anxiety levels, further validation is needed to confirm whether there is a relationship and how...
  • How psychedelic therapy may help with climate change anxiety

    11/03/2023 8:46:07 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 33 replies
    The Washington Post via MSN ^ | November 3, 2023 | by Emily Willow, MD
    As our weekly therapy session drew to a close, my patient, a young woman in her early 20s approaching college graduation, said that she had been feeling a lack of motivation, but that it felt different from her usual depressive symptoms. A worrisome climate change report had recently been published, and she felt paralyzed by uncertainty of what the world is going to look like. She asked, “How can I decide where I want to go? Will it even be safe to live in California when I’m older?” As a psychiatrist, I have noticed a growing trend among patients in...
  • This is why mental health experts are prescribing a handful of Sour Patch Kids or salty chips to combat anxiety and panic attacks

    09/26/2023 10:40:00 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 13 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 5/7/23 | Emily Ioshu
    The next time you're in a high-stress situation and feel a wave of panic coming over you, eat an extremely sour candy. The intense taste acts as a distraction. It activates the parasympathetic nervous system, a part of the brain that puts the brakes on an anxiety attack. A TikTok trend that has amassed more than 23.7 million views is making waves for testing out this theory.
  • COVID-19 raises anxiety at start of new school year

    09/05/2023 8:37:10 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 17 replies
    The Hill ^ | 09/05/2023 | LEXI LONAS AND JOSEPH CHOI
    COVID-19 cases are on the rise and raising anxiety around the possibility that schools could implement mask mandates or close down again. Surges of COVID-19 cases in Texas and Kentucky have caused three school districts to briefly suspend in-person classes. But few schools have taken those steps so far, and superintendents contend that without national guidance, it is highly unlikely we’ll see a return of mass closures or mask mandates. In the post-emergency era of COVID-19, schools no longer have the comprehensive surveillance data that was readily available during the pandemic, though some local data remains available to inform their...
  • Climate anxiety on the rise as heat, disasters provoke fear

    08/30/2023 5:22:51 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 29 replies
    The Hill ^ | 08/30/2023 | Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech
    Britt Wray’s fears about a warming planet came to a head in 2017 when she and her partner first talked about having a baby. Wray worked as a science communicator at the time and was bombarded with scientific reports on climate change “day in and day out,” as well as reading several bombshell articles on the subject that came out that year. “It was really this question of do I sit with the uncertainty of how bad this all might get and how nations will respond and powerholders will potentially act responsibly at some point,” said Wray, who now works...
  • Discipled into Fear

    07/27/2023 7:58:59 PM PDT · by DeweyCA · 1 replies
    Salvo ^ | 7-24-23 | John D. Martin
    m a recovered phobic. Not from any of the politically trendy, culture war-specific “phobias” intended to demonize libertarians, conservatives, and other reasonably sane people, but a real one. Acrophobia. It`s why I’m so short. If I’d grown to be much taller than I am (not), it would have been impossible for me to stand up without having a panic attack. At least any time before I was 17. I had an irrational, unjustifiable fear of harm from a real threat: the possibility of falling from any height above about five feet. But that fear was not at all justified by...
  • Young-onset Alzheimer’s can be diagnosed from as early as 30 – here’s what to look out for

    07/15/2023 7:19:15 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 19 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 16 Jul 2023 | Mark Dallas
    What are the first signs of young-onset Alzheimer’s disease? It isn't memory loss and mistaking the symptoms can put people off seeking medical help, says a University of Reading neuroscientist. Alzheimer’s disease is often thought of as a condition that only affects the elderly. But around 3.9 million people worldwide aged 30 to 64 live with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease - a form of dementia in which symptoms appear before the age of 65. English journalist and broadcaster Fiona Phillips, 62, recently revealed that she’d been diagnosed with it. In the interview, Phillips shared that the main symptoms she had experienced...
  • People Are Turning to Spirits Of Divination In Greater Numbers

    05/29/2023 1:57:11 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 24 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 5/3/23 | James Lasher
    A mother of three is making international headlines for her ‘ability’ to communicate with the dead relatives of her now-famous clientele.Chloe Smith, 25, claims to be able to see angels and talk to the spirits of the dead.
  • U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

    05/20/2023 2:17:46 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 24 replies
    News.gallup ^ | 5/17/23 | Dan Witters
    The percentage of U.S. adults who report having been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime has reached 29.0%, nearly 10 percentage points higher than in 2015. The percentage of Americans who currently have or are being treated for depression has also increased, to 17.8%, up about seven points over the same period. Both rates are the highest recorded by Gallup since it began measuring depression using the current form of data collection in 2015. The most recent results, obtained Feb. 21-28, 2023, are based on 5,167 U.S. adults surveyed by web as part of the Gallup Panel,...
  • Kathy Griffin posts TikTok saying she has ‘complex PTSD’

    04/23/2023 8:08:58 AM PDT · by PROCON · 71 replies
    newyorkdailynews ^ | April 23, 2023 | EVAN ROSEN
    Kathy Griffin shared in a TikTok post that she has recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and that she sometimes vomits from her anxiety.The 62-year-old comedian implied that the condition stemmed from her public falling-out after she posted a picture of then-President Donald Trump’s fake severed head in 2017.“You can laugh or whatever, but I’ve been diagnosed with complex PTSD, and it’s called an extreme case,” she said in the video posted Tuesday.“If any of you know my story, you’ll understand that this really started for me about 5 1/2 years ago. Wink,” Griffin continued, referencing the 2017 incident.In...
  • A couple took an electric car on a 1,500 mile road trip. They had to stop 12 times and forgo heat due to their range anxiety.

    02/15/2023 1:35:02 AM PST · by Libloather · 64 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 2/14/23 | Grace Kay
    Taking an electric car on a road trip can be a stressful experience - at least according to a couple who took their Kia EV6 on a cross-country trip from Michigan to Florida. Axios reporter Joann Muller said her husband took the electric car on a 1,500 mile road trip - she joined him part-way through - to see if the US is truly ready for mass EV adoption. While electric cars are becoming more prevalent, charging infrastructure isn't quite what it should be, Muller wrote. "We were constantly thinking about where to charge next," Muller wrote of her experience...
  • A mysterious brain network may underlie many psychiatric disorders

    01/17/2023 12:32:24 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 16 replies
    Live Science ^ | Nicoletta Lanese
    Scientists have uncovered a mysterious network of brain connections that is linked to ... schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, OCD and anxiety — that share this underlying circuitry... Some "nodes" in the circuit have been linked to psychiatric disorders in the past, while others...are instead linked to key aspects of cognitive function, like selective attention and sensory processing... The team pinpointed brain regions where gray matter had atrophied, or shrunk, in the context of psychiatric disorders. [T]he disorders still had something in common: the tangled network of wires that runs between all these pockets of atrophy in the brain. The...
  • Marijuana use is becoming a new normal among young adults

    10/18/2022 8:12:30 AM PDT · by fwdude · 185 replies
    The Hill ^ | Oct. 18, 2022 | Daniel de Visé
    Cannabis users soon may be a majority among young adults in the District of Columbia and several pot-friendly states, a trend that points to a potential future of destigmatized marijuana across much of the nation. More than two-fifths of young men and women nationwide now use cannabis at least on occasion, according to federal data, a quotient that has risen steadily in a decade of relentless legalization. Much of the trend is driven by young women, who have all but closed a decades-long gender gap in marijuana use.
  • ‘A Lot Fell Into Place’: The Adults Who Discovered They Were Autistic—After Their Child Was Diagnosed

    08/27/2022 5:48:58 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 46 replies
    Pocket ^ | December 16, 2021 | Joanna Moorhead, The Guardian
    When John Purnell’s 10-year-old son was diagnosed as autistic, he knew exactly how to respond. “I’ve always been fascinated by research, by detail, by finding out everything there is to find out about something,” he says. “So I did a really deep dive.” As he pored over academic papers and delved into medical science – including how many autistic people have a propensity and appetite for copious research – an unexpected realisation crept into his mind. “I was reading about the traits of an autistic person, the difficulties they often have in social situations, the need for order and planning:...
  • "Do Not Be Anxious about Your Life" (Sermon on Luke 12:22-34)

    08/06/2022 11:05:09 AM PDT · by Charles Henrickson · 8 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | August 7, 2022 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “Do Not Be Anxious about Your Life” (Luke 12:22-34) In the Holy Gospel for today, Jesus says, “Do not be anxious about your life.” Really, Jesus? Are you kidding me? “Do not be anxious”?? How can you say that? I mean, look at my life. There’s so much to be anxious about! Take my personal finances, for instance. Since January 1, year-to-date, in just seven months my individual retirement accounts are down almost $9,000. And this, for an individual approaching retirement! In these past seven months, I’ve had to buy a new phone and a new used car. During this...