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  • Study: “Woke” attitudes linked to anxiety, depression, and a lack of happiness

    03/18/2024 12:56:43 PM PDT · by TexasKamaAina · 19 replies
    PsyPost ^ | 03/17/2024 | Eric W. Dolan
    A new psychological assessment has been developed to measure the endorsement of attitudes related to critical social justice. Findings from its application in a Finnish study reveal that stronger alignment with these so-called “woke” beliefs correlates with heightened instances of anxiety and depression...One of the central revelations of the study was that critical social justice attitudes are not as widespread in Finland as might be inferred from public and media discussions. Overall, the findings suggested a cautious reception towards critical social justice among the general population. This observation was particularly pronounced among male participants, who showed considerably lower agreement with...
  • How The Great Depression Sent Shockwaves Around The World | Impossible Peace

    03/14/2024 3:55:12 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 8 replies
    The cataclysmic disaster that was the great depression of 1929 would cause chaos around the world for the best part of a decade. The powerhouse that was the American economy was the saving grace of most of the world after WW1. This however, would also serve to be it's undoing. ..... Follow along using the transcript.
  • A brain pacemaker helped a woman with crippling depression. It may soon be available to more people

    03/06/2024 11:11:32 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 14 replies
    AP ^ | 2/21/24 | Laura Ungar
    NEW YORK (AP) — Emily Hollenbeck lived with a deep, recurring depression she likened to a black hole, where gravity felt so strong and her limbs so heavy she could barely move. She knew the illness could kill her. Both of her parents had taken their lives. She was willing to try something extreme: Having electrodes implanted in her brain as part of an experimental therapy. Researchers say the treatment —- called deep brain stimulation, or DBS — could eventually help many of the nearly 3 million Americans like her with depression that resists other treatments. It’s approved for conditions...
  • The US Silent Depression! Horrible Jobs Market, Soaring Debt, REAL Wages Down 4.4% Under Biden, Soaring Budget Deficits (And All Biden Can Talk About Is Funding Ukraine While Leaving Our Borders Wide Open To Invasion)

    02/22/2024 2:21:46 AM PST · by Kaiser8408a · 12 replies
    Confounded Interest ^ | 02/22/2024 | Anthony B. Sanders
    Silence is not golden. Particularly when it comes to a silent DEPRESSION. Talking is cheap, people follow like sheep. Particularly when are told by Biden, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and NY Times economic spinster Paul Krugman says its the best economy in decades. It isn’t. In fact, the US is in a silent depression. Typically, a recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. If we use 2 consecutive quarter of negative GDP growth, we are not in a recession. But …. Challenges include increasing part-time employment in recent months, declining household employment in three of the...
  • All Of The Elements Are In Place For An Economic Crisis Of Staggering Proportions

    02/18/2024 2:39:51 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 31 replies
    The Economic Collapse Blog ^ | 2/15/24 | Michael Snyder
    They were able to delay the U.S. economy’s day of reckoning, but they were not able to put it off indefinitely. During the pandemic, the Federal Reserve pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system and our politicians borrowed and spent trillions of dollars that we did not have. All of that money caused quite a bit of inflation, but it also created a “sugar rush” for the economy. In other words, economic conditions were substantially better than they would have been otherwise. Unfortunately, there will be a great price to be paid for such short-term thinking. From the federal...
  • Dogs can experience depression, too — here are signs to look for and how to help

    01/29/2024 4:14:55 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 32 replies
    New York Post ^ | Jan. 29, 2024
    Studies have shown a dog’s brain is similar to that of a human’s, and in the 1980s, Dr. Nicholas Dodman of the School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University discovered that dogs can experience the chemical and hormonal changes that bring about depression and anxiety in humans. Unfortunately, dogs can’t talk or communicate their inner feelings with their humans, so dog owners should be on the lookout for signs their four-legged friend is suffering from depression. How to tell if your dog is depressed Many symptoms of canine depression could also be linked to chronic pain and poor health, so...
  • Psychoactive drug ibogaine found to effectively treat traumatic brain injury in special operations military vets (From mild-to-moderate disability to none with ibogaine and magnesium)

    01/07/2024 9:26:32 PM PST · by ConservativeMind · 5 replies
    For military veterans, many of the deepest wounds of war are invisible: Traumatic brain injuries resulting from head trauma or blast explosions. Now, researchers have discovered that the plant-based psychoactive drug ibogaine, when combined with magnesium to protect the heart, safely and effectively reduces PTSD, anxiety and depression and improves functioning in veterans with TBI. Ibogaine is found in the roots of the African shrub iboga. Since 1970, ibogaine has been designated as a Schedule I drug, preventing its use within the U.S. Before the treatment, researchers gauged the participants' levels of PTSD. Participants then traveled to a clinic in...
  • 27 Frugal Tips From The Great Depression To Leverage Today

    12/28/2023 1:15:18 PM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 98 replies
    Clever Girl Finance Blog ^ | December 13, 2023 | Meredith Shubel
    Everyone always has new hacks and tips on how to save money. But it isn’t necessary to reinvent the wheel to change your financial situation. Instead, you can look to the frugal living tips from the Great Depression that a lot of our grandparents used. The Great Depression from 1929 to 1939, was the gravest economic downtown in U.S. history. The stock market crashed; the unemployment rate reached new heights; and industrial production was severely impacted. During the Depression, everyone had to learn how to scrimp and save and there’s a lot we can learn from that era today. Even...
  • America is In a Silent Depression

    12/22/2023 1:22:05 PM PST · by PK1991 · 29 replies
    Forbes ^ | 5 September 2023 | Jack Kelly
    On TikTok, this zeitgeist is called the "Silent Depression," comparing the current times to the era of the Great Depression. In the height of depression in the 1930s average income was $3,900 and today it is $56,000. The cost of a home was $3900 (3x income) in 1930 today average home costs $426,000 (8x income). The cost of a car was $600 (45% of income) today an average car costs 48,000 (85% of income). In 130 rent was $216 per year (16% of income) today average rent is $24,000 per year (42% of income).
  • Prague gunman David Kozak shared mass shooting fantasies online

    12/21/2023 6:53:47 PM PST · by 11th_VA · 6 replies
    To the outside world, he was an introverted loner, but online the Prague University gunman was not shy about sharing his sick fantasies to kill. David Kozak used online platform Telegram to muse on massacres and mass murder, while also boasting of his plans to carry out a school shooting, according to Czech media. He said his Telegram channel would be a “diary” of his life “before the shooting”. “I want to do school shooting and possibly suicide,” the 24-year-old wrote in one chilling post, before adding: “I always wanted to kill. I thought I would become a maniac in...
  • Manchin: We’d Be in ‘a Recession, if Not a Deep Depression’ if Biden, Dems Got Their Way on BBB

    11/16/2023 5:46:08 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/16/2023 | IAN HANCHETT
    During an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) argued that if the Build Back Better legislation President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats pushed had passed the way it was “it would have basically thrown us into a recession, if not a deep depression.” “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker asked, “Let’s talk about some of the legislation that you and the President and the Congress passed. The Inflation Reduction Act, the bipartisan infrastructure law, CHIPS, the gun safety law, do you feel…like you have a role in helping the President talk about some of this bipartisan...
  • Study looks at ties between anxiety and gut bacteria

    11/12/2023 12:17:48 PM PST · by ConservativeMind · 7 replies
    Interactions among microorganisms within the human gut may be associated with increased anxiety levels in people with depression, according to research. Using advanced bioinformatics tools like 16S rRNA gene sequencing, researchers analyzed stool samples from 178 patients with a current or past diagnosis of depression who are part of an ongoing Texas Resilience Against Depression (T-RAD) study. The analysis revealed three networks of gut microbial communities, one of which was correlated with anxiety. While the early findings raise the possibility that gut bacteria could affect anxiety levels, further validation is needed to confirm whether there is a relationship and how...
  • Ketamine Can Rapidly Reduce Symptoms of PTSD and Depression, New Study Finds

    11/08/2023 11:37:34 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | Wed, November 8, 2023 | C. Michael White
    The drug ketamine can reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and symptoms of depression in patients as early as a day after injection. That is the key finding of my team’s new meta-analysis, just published in the journal Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Ketamine is an anesthetic that is sometimes used as a substance of abuse but is increasingly being explored as a treatment for a range of mental health conditions. We analyzed six randomized controlled trials representing 259 patients with moderate to severe PTSD. In all trials, about half were injected with ketamine. The rest received either salt...
  • How psychedelic therapy may help with climate change anxiety

    11/03/2023 8:46:07 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 33 replies
    The Washington Post via MSN ^ | November 3, 2023 | by Emily Willow, MD
    As our weekly therapy session drew to a close, my patient, a young woman in her early 20s approaching college graduation, said that she had been feeling a lack of motivation, but that it felt different from her usual depressive symptoms. A worrisome climate change report had recently been published, and she felt paralyzed by uncertainty of what the world is going to look like. She asked, “How can I decide where I want to go? Will it even be safe to live in California when I’m older?” As a psychiatrist, I have noticed a growing trend among patients in...
  • Humans having sex with a now-extinct species 60,000 years ago could be why you suffer from mental health issues, study claims

    11/03/2023 2:55:21 AM PDT · by dennisw · 64 replies
    DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 2 November 2023 | STACY LIBERATORE
    A gene from Denisovans makes people predisposed to mental health issues The gene was passed down to humans about 60,000 years ago in Asia Humans having sex with a now-extinct subspecies they met in Asia some 60,000 years ago could be the reason you have depression, a new study has claimed. Researchers discovered a gene variant linked to the crossbreeding of humans and Denisovans which they believe affects our mood. Those with the variant have lower levels of zinc in the body - a nutrient which studies increasingly show is associated with mood and happiness. Scientists said SLC30A9 is the...
  • Man ‘upset’ over coronavirus shoots girlfriend, then kills himself

    04/01/2020 4:05:33 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 63 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 1, 2020 | Yaron Steinbuch
    A Pennsylvania man who was distraught about the coronavirus pandemic and losing his job told his girlfriend, “I already talked to God and I have to do this” — then shot her in the back as she fled and killed himself, according to a report.
  • The Tiny Pill Fueling Syria's War and Turning Fighters Into Superhuman Soldiers

    11/19/2015 3:38:04 PM PST · by conservativejoy · 52 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 11/19/2015 | Peter Holley
    As The Post's Liz Sly recently noted, the war in Syria has become a tangled web of conflict dominated by "al Qaeda veterans, hardened Iraqi insurgents, Arab jihadist ideologues and Western volunteers." On the surface, those competing actors are fueled by an overlapping mixture of ideologies and political agendas. Just below it, experts suspect, they're powered by something else: Captagon. A tiny, highly addictive pill produced in Syria and widely available across the Middle East, its illegal sale funnels hundreds of millions of dollars back into the war torn country's black market economy each year, likely giving militias access to...
  • Dow drops more than 400 points as Treasury yields spike on job openings surge

    10/03/2023 9:41:23 AM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 47 replies
    Channel 3000/CNN ^ | October 3, 2023 | CNN Staff
    The Dow fell more than 400 points Tuesday morning, turning negative for the year, as US Treasury yields surged to their highest levels in over a decade. The Dow fell 427 points, or 1.3%. The benchmark S&P 500 declined 1.5% and the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.8%, extending the late summer selloff in stocks. Stocks have marched higher for most of this year, as artificial intelligence excitement took hold on Wall Street and powered tech stocks to stratospheric heights. But that rally petered out in August, as strong economic data had investors worried that a resilient economy and piping hot labor...
  • Study suggests single dose of psilocybin safe and effective as treatment for major depressive disorder

    09/05/2023 3:02:08 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 28 replies
    Medical Xpress / JAMA ^ | Sept. 4, 2023 | Justin Jackson / Charles L. Raison et al / Rachel Yehuda et al
    A collaboration between researchers has looked into the efficacy and safety of psilocybin in patients with major depressive disorder. In a paper, the team finds a rapid onset of antidepressant effects, sustained reduction in depressive symptoms, and improvement in psychosocial functioning associated with a single 25mg dose of psilocybin administered with psychological support in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial was conducted at 11 research sites in the US between December 2019 and June 2022. It involved 104 adults diagnosed with MDD with moderate or greater symptom severity. Participants received either a single...
  • Did I Do My Nephew a Favor by Deleting CNN from my Streaming Lineup.

    08/29/2023 1:02:57 PM PDT · by Vigilanteman · 30 replies
    29 August 2023 | Me
    My 13 year old nephew has come to live with me, I am a widower and my brother's wife (his mother) is seriously ill and hospitalized. There is all kinds of crap I need to overcome to get him enrolled in the local public school and I am not sure it is in his best interests anyway. So I will be retiring at the end of the week and giving him the attention of one of the best instructors on the planet-- me.He asked me why I despised CNN and I told them their fear pornography was worse than standard...