13% of Americans over age 12 are on #antidepressants, of which white women over age 45 represent 58%.
And yet, the scientific literature is sufficiently clear about the causes of #depression and how antidepressants don’t work in most cases. We’ve willingly decided to build… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… pic.twitter.com/eDOM6kzZSR
“#America is a kind, generous place… if you have money. It’s a rapacious, violent place if you don’t have #money.
To be wealthy in America is to be loved. People find you interesting, they want to know you. You have a broader selection of mates.
I think about money a lot. I did nothing but pretty much #work for 20 years. I don’t remember much else but work. It cost me my hair. It cost me my first #marriage. And it was worth it.”
— Scott Galloway.
How bleak of a life, how shallow of a #civilization? And generation after generation built it, knowingly, on purpose. But worry not, Scott believes #depression can be solved with antidepressants.
If you have the money. More pills, more money, more work, more pills, more…
Researchers from Michigan State University and MIT created a comprehensive model of #depression that shows how the major drivers of the illness intersect. pic.twitter.com/RNWbPVGf1r
This is how #depression, #anxiety and ensuing drug #addiction may look like on the outside. pic.twitter.com/K51MdV0mJe
If you think in terms of “I’m a bad girl / boy”, you’ll get into trouble quickly (stunted #career, inability to predict people and events, #depression)
Be more specific.
“I can’t control my anger” and “I’m too lazy to learn” — allow you to focus on specific areas to improve. 😉
Injection of #ketamine restores decreased dopamine neuron population activity, as well as synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus-accumbens pathway.
Low dose of ketamine exhibits fast-acting sustained antidepressant action in treatment-resist #depression
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Entropic theory of #conscious states by @RobinCarhartHar includes #psychosis, #sleep, #meditation, #LSD, #depression: pic.twitter.com/WCjfpECBeV
Grant reviewers reject proposals to study processes common to #depression, #schizophrenia, psychosis because they cut across DSM categories!
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