LSD-Like Molecules Counter Depression Without the Trip

Scientists have designed compounds that hit the same key receptor that LSD activates without causing hallucinations.  A single dose produced powerful antidepressant and antianxiety effects in mice that lasted up to two weeks...

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( I WAS AN SSRI ZOMBIE )

Well, listen.  I am seeing several people on LJ going into depressions they cannot pull out of.  I hate to say that I may have contributed to a small degree of these great depressions, by posting all about, oh, the end of the world, and my experiences with crazy people, and my endless diary of my persistent and pointless illness.  Give us this day ( Read more... )

Here's an uplifting song delivered by the great spirit wind, lantairvlea. I know there must be one or two people out there in my bizarre 600 visitors today who could find this video helpful...

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Do you know how I change my mind?! I go back to sleep...

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LGBT mental health: 'Being the butt of gay jokes made me ill'

A new report from Stonewall claims 52% of LGBT people in the UK have suffered with depression.

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If you are concerned about anxiety, depression, sleep loss, diet, self-help, and related issues, you may return to my earlier, mega-link post, " Replacing Anxiety & Depression w/ a Healthy Mind & Body!". Also:

Two relevant psychology tags: DEPRESSION and HAPPINESS.

Two relevant health tags: ANXIETY and DEPRESSION.

( Here are a few more links to help you or a friend get happy... )

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"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our journey."
- Wendell BerryYour body is a temple - and so is the temple between your temples. The mind and body are not separate: Each depends on the other to cycle a loop of health - or of illness. To clean ( Read more... )