Psychiatry News | Psychiatry News – Psychiatry Information

News & Articles By Tracey Watson

03/25/2019 / By Tracey Watson

Children exposed to lead have a SIGNIFICANTLY increased risk of mental illness – are we witnessing a lead-poisoned society going insane?

The 2014 water crisis in Flint, Michigan, raised national awareness of the effects of lead exposure on children. After municipal officials decided as a cost saving measure to switch the city’s water supply from Lake Huron to the polluted Flint River, residents immediately started complaining about the discolored and foul-smelling water. Nonetheless, it took scientists […]

03/05/2019 / By Tracey Watson

DISTURBING report finds that 20 million American schoolchildren have been prescribed antidepressants

In many ways the world is a far more complex, difficult place to live in now than it was 20 or 30 years ago. Social media places children under increasing pressure – and at an ever decreasing age – to look perfect, have limitless “friends” and lead apparently perfect lives. Many parents work longer hours […]

02/13/2019 / By Tracey Watson

Exercise outperforms antidepressants for reducing depression

Depression is one of the most common and debilitating mental illnesses of modern society. Over 16 million adults in the U.S. experience at least one major depressive episode each year, and experts estimate that around 15 percent of American adults will experience depression at some point in their lives. The quick-fix, go-to solution for the […]

12/12/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Probiotics for your anxious mind? Study shows a certain strain of bacteria could significantly reduce anxiety

There is no doubt that the hectic pace and demands of modern society foster anxiety. In fact, anxiety disorders are the most common mental health issue in the United States, affecting more than 40 million people – that’s 18.1 percent – of the population, each year. Statistics indicate that people suffering from anxiety are up […]

12/02/2018 / By Tracey Watson

New “antidepressant food score” rates foods based on their ability to treat symptoms of depression

When the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) Prozac first hit the market in 1988, around 2.5 million people were prescribed the drug. By 2002, that number had increased to 33 million. In the subsequent years, many other SSRIs have been produced and prescribed prolifically, with doctors handing them out like candy to anyone who is […]

10/21/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Skyrocketing antidepressant use now affecting marine life, turning waterways into a ‘drug soup’

It might seem like flushing something down the toilet means it magically disappears, but unfortunately everything that goes down there ends up somewhere. This means that the many people who flush unused medications rather than throwing them in the trash can because they think they’re being responsible are actually polluting the environment. This is especially […]

09/20/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Controversial study claims human memory cells do not grow throughout life, but stop regenerating before adulthood

Until the early 1980s, scientists accepted the findings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal – the father of modern neuroscience – that adult brains do not experience neurogenesis, the process in which the brain renews itself by producing new neurons. Experts started questioning this belief in the past few decades, however, after research confirmed that other […]

09/17/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Big Pharma drug pushers infiltrate local public schools under the guise of “mandatory mental health screenings” for children

According to the World Health Organization, the United States is one of the most depressed countries in the world, with one in five adults experiencing some form of mental health issue each year. While some of the millions of people diagnosed with these conditions seek therapy to cope with their problems, the vast majority are […]

06/18/2018 / By Tracey Watson

MEDICATION NATION: One-third of Americans take mind-altering chemical drugs that cause depression

There is a fundamental and unavoidable problem with pharmaceutical drugs: Not only do they not treat the underlying cause of most health issues, they inevitably cause multiple side effects, leading to other long-term problems. The United States has experienced an explosion in the number of people diagnosed with depression in the past few decades, and […]

04/01/2018 / By Tracey Watson

We know antidepressants cause suicidal thoughts in young people; why is it such a stretch to believe they can also cause murderous tendencies?

In the aftermath of every mass shooting in the United States – and such shootings take place with shocking regularity – the discussion always seems to be about the weapon used by the shooter. All anybody seems interested in is getting guns out of the hands of the American public, with the assumption being that […]

1 of 3