Mental Health

Photo credit By Kamil Riaz Kara It creeps in slowly and silently sucks the life out of its victim. It is not apparent and can be only felt by those who are going through it. It creates havoc in the mind, snatches away the smiles and a person’s desire to live. Depression, a silent killer, is one of the most common ...

Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there such a thing as a “cancer personality”? Drawing on scientific research and Dr. Gabor Maté having decades of experience as a practicing physician, these questions about the effect of the mind-body link on illness and health and the role that stress and one’s individual emotional makeup play a vital role in ...

Chris Hayes of MSNBC reports on the promising published results from research into LSD-assisted psychotherapy to treat anxiety associated with advanced-stage illness, to other drugs that have a wide scope of therapeutic applications to treat other mental health disorders. “It’s evidence like this that tends to challenge the preconceived notions we have, or have been taught to have, toward illicit ...

As cannabis becomes more popular as being a legal way to medicate oneself in 24 states across the U.S., a tirade of news outlet who are dead-set against cannabis use in any form, are pushing out false information (propaganda) from a deeply flawed study which claims that it causes psychosis. Paul Armentano, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) ...

The word ‘Anxiety’ seems like such a harmless word which begins with stress or any kind of chronic worrying, and when our minds are at a constant state of stress, anxiety can occur and cause havoc on the neuropathways in our brain that control the function of our body which then can translate into all kinds of adverse physical symptoms.  ...