Mental Health

Best Movies About Addiction And Recovery

FILMS ARE GENIUS – Oct. 26, 2022 - Movies that detail addiction date as far back as D.W. Griffith’s 1912 Coca-Cola-inspired flick “For His Son,” a silent film about a doctor creating an addictive soft dr... Read More...

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Book Excerpt: HOME IS WITHIN YOU by Nadia Davis

A MOTHER’S LOVE CONQUER’S ALL – Oct. 22, 2022 - Since the day of my release from Santa Ana jail my head said, “Go alone and get it done quickly.” But that’s not how recovery from trauma, addiction, and chronic ... Read More...

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Matty Healy Finds Sobriety Easier In a Relationship

WITH GOD? OR GODDESS? – Oct. 17, 2022 - “If I made the decision, I could be on drugs by myself here at the moment and so I’m choosing not to. But if you have a partner, that choice is taken away a bit be... Read More...

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Over 50? Sleeping Under 5 Hours Has Health Hazards

YOU DON’T SNOOZE, YOU LOSE – Oct. 19, 2022 - Are you over 50 and getting five hours or less sleep a night? This could be a problem for your long-term health, warns a study published this week. Researc... Read More...

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Common Signs of Sociopath: ‘Harder to spot than psychopath.’

BLOOD DROP OUT – Oct. 16, 2022 - 4. They know how to get your blood boiling. Sociopaths know how to push the right psychological buttons to gain control in a relationship. Once they’ve achiev... Read More...

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Mike Patton, “The Drinking Just…Happened”

FAITH SOME MORE – Oct. 20, 2022 - Patton said he ultimately became depressed and was diagnosed with agoraphobia. According to the Mayo Clinic, agoraphobia is defined as “a type of anxiety disorder in which you ... Read More...

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‘You Don’t Look Anorexic’

EATING AS A RELIGION, OR NOT? – Oct. 18, 2022 - Food had long been a fraught subject in the Maxwell household. Her parents were also bigger-bodied and dieted frequently. They belonged to a fundamentalist Baptis... Read More...

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Lululemon Founder Helped Promote Film Demonizing Vancouver’s Homeless

EXERCISE THIS! – Oct. 14, 2022 - The film repeatedly portrays Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as beset by “skyrocketing crime and violent attacks” and repeatedly characterizes the city’s homeless populatio... Read More...

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Hang-xiety? How a Night of Drinking Can Tank Your Mood

GETTING A DUI? – Oct. 6, 2022 - One of the many things I have noticed about life after 40 is that even a single glass of wine can make me feel icky the next day. I wake up tired, foggy-headed and anxious... Read More...

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Long Term Antidepressant Use Linked To Increased Morbidity and Mortality

BUMMER – Oct. 6, 2022 - The authors then assessed the association between antidepressant use and four different morbidities: diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease (CHD), and cerebrovascular disease (CV... Read More...

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Sad In The Fall? There’s A Reason For That.

SUMMER IS OVER? – Oct. 12, 2022 - But seasonal affective disorder can happen at any time, in any season. And right now, as we transition away from summer and settle into our new fall routines, many peopl... Read More...

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Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Addiction, and Illness Under Capitalism

VIDEO – SOCIETY’S CHILD – Oct. 14, 2022 - This is helpful. I’ve never made the connection between societal (in US, etc) expectations related to individualism and the how they facility capitalism and vice versa.... Read More...

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Why Are Kids So Sad?

FASCISM? – Oct. 11, 2022 - But the technology thesis hasn’t performed well under critical examination, as the Times package notes. What possible reason could there be for American young people to be particularl... Read More...

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Adwoa Aboah: Loneliness Attached to Sobriety is Like a ‘grieving period’

IT’S WORTH IT – Oct. 8, 2022 - She said: “I don’t think people talk about it (loneliness) enough when attached to sobriety. Like imagine, you know, it’s almost like a grieving period. “You mourn the people y... Read More...

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Ripped Richard Branson Shares Workout To Keep You Kicking In Your 70s

VIDEO – AFTER YOUR MEETING... – Oct. 4, 2022 - We’ve waxed lyrical here at DMARGE about staying ripped in your 50s, but Virgin Group founder Richard Branson just proved you can indeed stay ripped in your 70s to... Read More...

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Dr. Explains what happens when a person uses cocaine or heroin for the first time

THEY GAMBLE BIG – Oct. 9, 2022 - Around 100 million people consume illicit drugs such as cocaine or heroin in India – this revelation was made by the Narcotics Control Bureau DDG (Operations) Sanja... Read More...

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LSD-based drugs help mice with anxiety and depression — without the trip

STANLEY MOUSE? – Oct. 5, 2022 - The new drug comes from a large team of scientists who did not start out looking for an antidepressant. They had been building a virtual library of 75 million molecules... Read More...

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Was Jeffrey Dahmer an Alcoholic?

RED OR WHITE? – Oct. 7, 2022 - Jeffrey was not only an alcoholic, but he was a lifelong alcoholic — he had reportedly started drinking quite heavily during his early teenage years itself as a way to cope... Read More...

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How Ugly Will Life in the Metaverse Become?

HUMANITY’S SWAN SONG? – Oct. 7, 2022 - I choose a world with a four-story comedy club under a starry sky. When I enter, a man in a gray hoodie comes up to me. “Hello,” I say. He stares at me in reply, so... Read More...

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Can Smartphones Predict Suicide?

WOULDN’T THAT BE GREAT – Sept. 30, 2022 - But her life on the outside was as unsettled as ever, she said in an interview, with a stack of unpaid bills and no permanent home. It was easy to slide back int... Read More...

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Therapy for People Who Can’t Go to Therapy

OPIUM IS THE OPIUM FOR THE MASSES – Sept. 27, 2022 - At a basic level, people have varied access to internet, broadband and mobile phone data plans, which can hinder access. At the public clinics where I conduc... Read More...

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases: ‘Out of Control’

BE SAFE, NOT SYPHILITIC – Sept. 20, 2022 - Sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. are at a crisis point. On Monday, prominent public health experts and government officials raised an alarm over the ongoing a... Read More...

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Can Dogs Help People Stay Sober?

FEED THEM, NOT YOUR ADDICTION – Sept. 20, 2022 - “Over the years, my patients explained how much their dogs meant to their physical and their mental health,” he said. “The dogs add stability. They give t... Read More...

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Country Singer Luke Bell Dies from Fentanyl Intoxication

TOO MUCH DEATH – Sept. 20, 2022 - According to Saving Country Music, Bell was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and his “mental state took a turn for the worse” over recent months. “Luke fought this as h... Read More...

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Ibogaine Addiction Treatment In Brazil

WORTH THE AIRFARE – Sept. 21, 2022 - In recent decades, after a strong renaissance of clinical research around ibogaine and other mind-expanding drugs, psychedelic-assisted therapies are becoming increas... Read More...

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Chris Dale and Patty Li – A Marriage Saved in Spite of Addiction

AUDIO – HAPPILY EVER AFTER – August 2022 - Christopher Dale is an experienced public relations professional, writer and recovering addict. In addition to being a regular contributor to Addiction Recovery eBulletin, ... Read More...

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Revelatory Account of Mental Illness

IS EVERYBODY CRAZY? – Sept. 23, 2022 - It’s a startling passage in the prologue of “Strangers to Ourselves,” but like so many of the stories in this intimate and revelatory book, the truth of it is real but inc... Read More...

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“The Myth of Normal”: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

THE DRAMA KING – Sept. 16, 2022 - “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté, who argues in his book that “psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call d... Read More...

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Put Down Your Devices and Let Your Mind Wander

I THINK THEREFORE I AM THE I AM – Sept. 23, 2022 - The researchers contrasted people’s estimates of how much they would enjoy just sitting and thinking with their actual experiences of doing so in a series of s... Read More...

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Life-size Lanterns Raise Awareness of Suicide and Mental Injury

ART CAN HEAL TOO! – Sept. 23, 2022 - “Too often, we see people suffering in silence,” said Emily Norton Ashinhurst, executive director of the Irish Diaspora Center, which organized the one-night display. But... Read More...

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