Mindfulness Medication

Hey team, I recently submitted some small essays for my university's scholarship portal. The prompt was asking for the writer to describe their largest accomplishment and what makes them special. I got very excited over this prompt to boast all about how amazing and perfect I am and how my immense value is only tied to what I have done. Lol, you guys know me, I couldn't write any of that without laughing. I wrote about realizing my unconditional value and the unity that brings to all others who again have unconditional value. I decided to share it here on the blog because it fits well into what I already discuss so much. Hope you enjoy.      What I hold as the pillar of my success is not an achievement, award, or objective, but the quality of my entire being. My most meaningful achievement is realizing my own unquantifiable, unconditional worth and value, as well as recognizing the same unconditional value in others. This realization has deepened my love for them and myse...

  Hey team, I recently read/listened to the book “Brain Energy” by Chris Palmer MD, who discusses energy utilization and metabolism in the brain as the common pathway for mental illness. I first heard about this theory and book last year while talking to a pharmacist working in psychiatry during a conversation about the biology of depression and mental illness. I have continued to read up on modern psychiatry and some of the biology behind it, which I have discussed a few times on this site. I decided to read this book as a healthy segue into learning more about symptom burden and treatment. Dr. Chris Palmer describes how all mental health conditions can be traced back to mitochondria, metabolism, and energy utilization. Initially, I thought this theory was overly reductionistic, comparable to the chemical imbalance theory, and therefore had only limited value. However, the more I read, the more comprehensive I found it to be. I realized that this theory is not reductionistic at al...