When I was freed from the terrible symptoms of my own prolonged mental illness, I was ravenous to find out exactly why. Why was it that what I had thought of as ‘mere’ vitamins and minerals had been so effective in relieving my anguish? Also, why was it that in my middle age after decades… Read More

The answer has long eluded scientists. agsandrew/Shutterstock.com Roger Beaty, Harvard University Creativity is often defined as the ability to come up with new and useful ideas. Like intelligence, it can be considered a trait that everyone – not just creative “geniuses” like Picasso and Steve Jobs – possesses in some capacity. It’s not just your… Read More

These outcomes are truly remarkable: improvement by dozens of points on the PANSS, significant weight loss, and better quality of life. There simply is no psychiatric medication available with the power to accomplish those results. I have certainly seen antipsychotic medications help people with bipolar and psychotic symptoms, and sometimes help dramatically. However, all antipsychotic… Read More

Even though I personally believe in the power of ketogenic diets to improve and even reverse many chronic illnesses, from diabetes to chronic fatigue to mood disorders, the diet does this by causing very real shifts in body chemistry that can have a major impact on medication dosages and side effects, especially during the first… Read More

More evidence of the beneficial effect of boosting antioxidants in the brain in order to help prevent and treat psychosis. Omega 3 oils cause an increase in glutathione which is the body’s own natural way of fighting oxidative stress, and also seem to improve neuron cell wall function. via Is There a Simple Way to… Read More

“The gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain,” William Styron wrote in what remains the most gripping account of living with depression. As time pools that gray drizzle into an ocean of anguish, we begin to lose sight of the other shore — but there is, always, an… Read More

Perhaps, following the trend noted in the previous paragraph, “disabilities” will give way to “challenges”. But one thing in their favor is they don’t lend themselves as readily to insults. I can’t quite imagine children taunting each other with “Look where yer goin’, ya challenge!” via The English Cowpath: The Euphemism Treadmill – replacing the… Read More

“It shows that women living in gender-equal countries have better cognitive test scores later in life than women living in gender-unequal societies. Moreover, in countries that became more gender-equal over time, women’s cognitive performance improved relative to men’s.” via Women Show Cognitive Advantage in Gender-Equal Countries | The Neuropsychotherapist One of my greatest inspirations, Bucky… Read More

“To our knowledge, this study is the first to demonstrate the modulation effect of moral reasoning level on human brain reward system activity. Findings from our study provide new insights into the potential neural basis and underlying psychological processing mechanism of individual differences in moral development. ” via High Moral Reasoning Associated with Increased Activity… Read More

“What you do with yourself, just the little things you do yourself, these are the things that count.” I had heard of Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller in my youth through the Fuller dome and later the carbon Bucky ball arrangement, but was vague on his details. It was only much later, 3 years or so ago,… Read More