DEPRESSION:
a. Study: Early-bedders and early-risers have a lower risk of developing depression.
b. About 30% of adults with major depression have “treatment resistance depression.” Here’s how Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation might help.
c. Study: Woah, depression rates among pregnant millennials are 51% higher than for previous generation.
d. 13 Common Words and Phrases that Might Signal Depression.
e. Study: People with anxiety are more likely to have diarrhea, people with depression, constipation.
f. Warning signs that your child might be depressed.
g. We’ve been hearing a lot about the potential promise of ketamine for depression — two new U.S. patents will “help deliver ketamine-like antidepressant effects.”
h. 32% or more of entrepreneurs battle depression. Here are some tips for founders.
i. Queer Eye’s Jonathan talks about “6 months of psychotic depression” after quitting his antidepressants cold turkey.
j. This has been dogging Singulair for awhile — but now even more so. New warnings that the popular asthma/hay fever medicine can provoke psychotic episodes and depression.
ANXIETY:
a. Fast Company: “Four Ways to Make Anxiety Work for You.”
b. Psychology Today: “7 ways to cope with anxiety about your teen.”
c. Ariana Grande talks about having “wild dizzy spells,” breathing difficulties and extreme physical anxiety in the months following the Manchester bombing.
OTHER MENTAL BATTLES:
a. Study: Disrupted stress responses impact the brain and body of people with schizophrenia in a different way than healthy individuals. One mechanism? In healthy folks, both dopamine and cortisol levels rise in response to stress. That simply doesn’t happy to those with schizophrenia.
b. Study: Preventative treatment for schizophrenia?
c. WHO recognizes “compulsive sexual behavior” as a mental disorder.
CHRISTIAN READS:
a. John Piper: “Does God want me to be holy or happy?”
b. Sam Rood at the Gospel Coalition: “Why Westerners Need Rabbi Jesus.”
VERSE:
“The Lord helps the fallen and lifts those bent beneath their loads.” – Psalm 154:14
SONG:
One of my favorite writers, Neil Hannon with a very Noel Coward-ish ditty, “Funny Peculiar.”
