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5 Rules For Eating Away Your Depression

The Path to Wellness Is Through Food

If you are one of the estimated 15 million Americans suffering from depression, you may be surprised to learn that the path to wellness and vitality is through...

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5 Essential Keys to Tapering from an Antidepressant

What YOU Can Learn From Hundreds of Patients

Every year, millions of people worldwide choose to take a pharmaceutical approach to treating their depression. For some, antidepressants provide a...

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6 Natural Products That Actually Work

Lessen Your Toxic Load

In your quest to find products that support a healthy, conscious lifestyle, do you sometimes feel like you have to compromise between effective and safe? We've been led to...

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Tapering Psych Meds: The New Awakening

An OCD Diagnosis and 8 Years of Meds

Honestly, my obsessions are still here but I just feel separated from them in some way so I can function better.

When we first met, this was how Tasha described...

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A Discussion of Pussy: A Reclamation

It’s happening. Right. Now. I couldn’t be more enlivened by the incredible women that are speaking this message of feminine empowerment. By the fact that we are waking up in droves, to...

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Antibiotics During Pregnancy: Let's Revisit

Antibiotics and the management of pregnancy and birth

They told me I’ll need IV antibiotics because I had GBS my last pregnancy.

I could feel Catherine’s confusion as it...

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ADHD: More of It, Better Diagnosis, or Both?

"[DSM-V] is a wholesale imperial medicalization of normality that will trivialize mental disorder and lead to a deluge of unneeded medication treatment – a bonanza for the pharmaceutical...

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6 Steps to Reclaiming Your Sensuality

Think about the last time you had a huge zit on your face. Do you remember how your energy contracted and you wanted to honor your invisibility by avoiding all social contacts? How this experience...

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7 Facts About Depression That Will Blow You Away

Adapted from A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan, MD

A silent tragedy in the history of modern health care is happening right now in America, but no one is talking about it. We have been told a...

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Ann Petersen's Story: Can Candidiasis Cause Depression?

Suffering from depression and multiple health issues, Ann Petersen takes us through her journey to a healthy and productive lifestyle.

I suffered my first depression in my senior year at high...

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Is It Her Hormones? A Case of Psychiatry Missing the Mark

Every Saturday, I sit down to review somewhere in the neighborhood of 75-100 scientific abstracts and pull papers that pique my interest. This 11-year-old ritual has kept my finger on the...

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A Case of Gut-Induced Mania

Sometimes, it just takes one case to bring an entire medical construct to its knees. Because if the current model can't encompass it, then the model must evolve to accomodate the seeming outlier....

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