DEPRESSION:
a. Titans’ star WR A.J. Brown shares experience with depression. Powerful. And continues the encouraging trend of athletes opening up.
b. Good news! While still higher than it should be, first year medical residents report less depression now than 13 years ago.
c. Postnatal depression is common in new fathers. And undertreated.
d. WIRED: “Why you gravitate to puzzles when you’re depressed.” One person says, “it’s a little holiday from yourself.” 🙂
e. STUDY: Air pollution can cause changes to brain circuits that are involved with depression.
EATING DISORDERS:
a. A new book argues that treating anorexia should start with smart supplementation, not forcing a big plate of food down.
b. Some facts about eating disorders that might surprise you. One such: Men account for 25% of patients battling anorexia. Another: anorexia is the psychological disorder with the highest mortality rate. Over the course of a ten year period, 5.5% of patients with anorexia will pass away. Tragic.
c. “Orthorexia“. We’ll be hearing more and more about this. It’s taking “healthy” eating to such an extreme where it becomes an eating disorder that robs you of valuable essential nutrients. Certain personalities seem more predisposed to it, such as perfectionists and those with anxiety or OCD. Also, certain professions, such as athletes and dancers.
d. Hospitalizations for eating disorders doubled last year.
e. “Seven Ways To Cope with an Eating Disorder on Thanksgiving.”
ANXIETY:
a. Simone Biles talks battling anxiety and the tools she’s used to help.
b. STUDY: Children whose moms used cannabis during pregnancy were more likely to be anxious and hyperactive.
c. Helpful! Six Tips to Reduce Tension in neck and shoulders from anxiety. a) yoga b) neck stretches (they offer good examples) c) shoulder rolls d) warm compresses e) take a warm shower f) change position g) massages.
SCHIZOPHRENIA:
a. STUDY: “Color paintings useful in diagnosing and prognosticating schizophrenia.”
b. The relationship between dopamine and schizophrenia. It’s complicated and connected.
c. Signs of Schizophrenia in Teens. And it usually starts in the late teens for men, and late 20s to early 30s in women.
Verse: “Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.” — Colossians 2:13-14
“These days my life, it feels it has no purpose. But late at night the feelings swim to the surface. ‘Cause on the surface, the city lights shine. They’re calling at me, ‘Come and find your kind’.”
Still a terrific terrific record.
