When Healthcare ignores Mental Health: 200 common prescription medications increase depression risk

By SharpBrains | June 15, 2018

___ Many Amer­i­cans tak­ing com­mon meds that may cause depres­sion, study finds (CBS News): “More than one-third of U.S. adults are tak­ing pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions that may lead to depres­sion, new research finds. The study, pub­lished in the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion, warns that depres­sion is a poten­tial side effect of more than 200 commonly…

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Emotional self-regulation and Obama

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 30, 2008

Great arti­cle in the New York Times on Oba­ma’s emo­tion­al self-reg­u­la­­tion abil­i­ties: The Cool Fac­tor: Nev­er Let Them See You Sweat — “We even ele­vate such equi­lib­ri­um to the super­hu­man: calm, as applied to No Dra­ma Oba­ma, often comes linked to the mod­i­fi­er “preter­nat­ur­al.” — “But the calm tem­pera­ment is not so super­hu­man, nor is it…

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