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Life's U-Shaped Path of Happiness
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Life's U-Shaped Path of Happiness [podcast]
Engrish self-help manual explains how to "good bye" depression
If you ever wondered what Freud would sound like in "All Your Base"-speak... Hiroyuki Nishigaki has got you covered.
He's selling his opus on Amazon, but the full title no doubt has him bound for Oprah's Book Club:
How to Good-Bye Depression:
If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?
There's just... no more to add to that.
Feeling sad? Get moving!
Yale scientists have discovered that physical exercise enhances the activity of a gene called VGF, which has an antidepressant effect in mice.
Depression afflicts 16 percent of the U.S. population and carries an annual price tag of $83 billion. Pharmaceutical products currently used to treat depression help about 65 percent of patients but require anywhere from weeks to months to kick in.
Unlike common antidepressant drugs, VGF is already present in the brain, making it an attractive target for therapy, says senior author Ronald Duman, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine.
Paxil Tea
No, this was not photoshopped
Nothing brings a body down at the end of a hard day like a nice, hot cup of Paxil Tea. An SSRI like Prozac and Zoloft, it'll chase those blues away, and maybe even lift that veil of free-floating anxiety that's been trailing to you since adolesence like some kind of psychopathological version of Pig Pen's dust cloud.
When he wasn't coping with his own low self-esteeem, Charlie Brown dispensed advice to other troubled children
Marijuana is an antidepressant at low doses, and parents know when kids use it
Research just keeps knocking drug war myths down. This week, two different studies took on some of the warriors' sacred cows-- the idea that parents whose kids are using drugs are “in denial” about it and the notion that marijuana use always has negative effects on mental health.
The first study, published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, followed 75 families in which the substance use rates of teens were known, but the teens mostly weren’t in treatment for it. 86% accurately reported their teens’ alcohol and marijuana use. 72% were aware of their children’s use of other illegal drugs.
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