Landmark study links pesticides to high depression rates

Landmark study links pesticides to high depression rates

Globally, one person dies by suicide roughly every 40 seconds. Around the world, over one million people commit suicide each year – an increase of 60 percent over the last four and a half decades. Incredibly, farmers have one of the highest rates of self-inflicted death

Studies find new links between sleep duration and depression

Studies find new links between sleep duration and depression

A genetic study of adult twins and a community-based study of adolescents both report novel links between sleep duration and depression. The studies are published in the February 1 issue of the journal Sleep.

"Healthy sleep is a necessity for physical,

Confessions of a renegade psychiatrist

Confessions of a renegade psychiatrist

I felt this sensation in the pit of my stomach – it was a combination of sympathy and anger – listening to Annie tell me, through tears, about her postpartum journey into the world of psychiatry. 

Three separate psychiatrists dismissed me when I

Ten-year study establishes link between bad relationships and depression

Ten-year study establishes link between bad relationships and depression

If you buy into the medical propaganda that depression is the result of a chemical imbalance, then you've bought into just that – propaganda. We've yet to see the evidence of those mysterious chemical imbalances, even though trillions of dollars are made