What is causing so many people to take antidepressants? If you add up together all the percentages of the people who suffer from mental illnesses, it comes up a very large number. A lot of people are suffering from Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, depression, ADHD, dysthymia (chronic unhappiness), the list goes on an on, and added together, it's huge.
New research shows how stress in families can cause children to get a disconnection between their amygdala - the primitive part of the brain that regulates fear - from their front cortex - the conscious part of the brain which tells the amygdala whether there is really anything to worry about, or not. When this is not properly connected, stress and fear can get out of control.
Therapy can repair this disconnection to some degree later in life, but with an enormous amount of hard work.
Watch the embedded video, it's so powerful. There is so much suffering in the world, and neoliberalism doesn't help.
The Amygdala-Prefrontal Cortex Connection is Crucia
I know this video comes over as a bit like an advert, but I think Dr Greg Baer is right, and his therapy gives hope to millions of children with ADHD. These children are being given stimulants, which can harm a growing young brain, which is already under a lot of dress, even more.
Greg Baer M.D. teaches you an ADHD treatment that is successful without medication.
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The "experts" pathologize everyone for profit, and wonder why there's unhappiness.
ReplyDeleteOn a pleasant note, I just want to say that "amygdala" is derived from the Greek word for "almond."
ReplyDeleteMe, personally, I prefer walnuts over almonds; British crime dramas over American ones, and so on :)
Roasted, salted almonds yes; walnuts bleh
ReplyDeleteOn 2nd thought, make 'em honey roasted.
ReplyDeleteAnother pleasant note:
ReplyDeleteThe Bloodsuckers - by Karen Hunt
Slowly but surely, we're learning the answer to Tom's perennial question: "What does it mean to live a good life in a good society?"
amygdala (n.)
ReplyDeletepart of the brain, from Latin amygdalum "almond" (which the brain parts resemble), from Greek amygdale "almond" (see almond). English also had amygdales "the tonsils" (early 15c.), from a secondary sense of the Latin word in Medieval Latin, a translation of Arabic al-lauzatani "the two tonsils," literally "the two almonds," so called by Arabic physicians for fancied resemblance.
almond (n.)
kernel of the fruit of the almond tree, c. 1300, from Old French almande, amande, earlier alemondle "almond," from Vulgar Latin *amendla, *amandula, from Latin amygdala (plural), from Greek amygdalos "an almond tree," a word of unknown origin, perhaps from Semitic. Late Old English had amygdales "almonds."
It was altered in Medieval Latin by influence of amandus "loveable." In French it acquired an unetymological -l-, perhaps from Spanish almendra "almond," which got it by influence of the many Spanish words beginning with the Arabic definite article al-. Perhaps through similar confusion, Italian has dropped the first letter entirely (mandorla). As an adjective, applied to eyes shaped like almonds, especially of certain Asiatic peoples, from 1849.
Wally sells walnuts at Walmart.
ReplyDeleteAmanda vend des amandes au magasin d'amiante.