Dr. Campbell has the humility and honesty to admit that he was wrong about certain things. And that quality in this world, deserves utmost respect.

@jenjoy3215

Жыл бұрын

Moreover, the entire medical community!

@movdqa

Жыл бұрын

In the engineering world, it becomes fairly obvious when you are wrong. Something breaks. Eventually. Or someone just proves you wrong. It's a lot harder in other areas because we don't have certainty in them.

@stefvangelderen8701

Жыл бұрын

This should be normal, but to day, this is the exeption.

@ireallydontthinkso

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Which makes him trustworthy, sadly also lacking in this world.

@ares106

Жыл бұрын

It’s not that hard to admit the “medical/scientific community” (you belong to) was wrong. A lot harder to admit you personally were wrong about something.

my "depression" over the years was not caused by lack of serotonin , it was always caused by lack of money .

@dwaynechalmers9478

Жыл бұрын

100%

@LDMTX6

Жыл бұрын

Funny, but I have known several wealthy people who were quite depressed.

@punxiegeddings2711

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to 2022 where most of the population forgot what a joke was.

@elizabethwade9615

Жыл бұрын

Love it Bob 😃

@blueseptember2174

Жыл бұрын

I think there is depression from outside circumstances(i.e no money, abandonment, some cheated on you etc.) And then there's depression from hormonal imbalance(pmdd, postpartum, insulin resistance, menopause, men's low testosterone, men's aging hormone imbalance, puberty for teens etc.)

Just a layman's hypothesis here... Working in an elderly care home, I have noticed that depressed elderly (and who wouldn't be, having arrived in the last phase of their lives and in most cases having lost their life long spouses) remarkably respond well to regular personal attention, genuine listening and conversation that adresses their feelings. After a while of intensified frequency in doing so, most of them take up an interest of going out again, participating in social activities in the care home and their mood and general health improves considerably. Even among people who have suffered from bipolar depression for years. I'm not a neuro scientist, only a social worker. But I have always had the notion that it isn't some chemical imbalance that is the root cause of depression, but rather a combination of other and enduring factors that result in emotional distress, such as grief, loneliness, financial worries, etc. I was wondering, wether enduring stress, combined with lack of apetite for healthy food, (moderate) exercise , a regular sleep pattern and so on lead to A. an increase in stress hormones (cortisol, is it? ) on the one hand and B. a lack of the the reward/pleasure- (can't remember which ones those were) and bonding hormone (oxytoxine if remember correctly) on the other, which in turn lead to a detorioration of brain activity altogether. As someone who has dealt with severe depression myself, I've always found that no SSRI or any other drug substantially improved my situation, but social activities, exercise, sattisfying work with fine collegues and a structural, yet inevitably temporary lack of stressful life events worked wonders. Yet somehow contemporate society leaves less and less room for that and on the relational level, it seems many people are more on the edge or downright cynical nowadays. My own life and that of many of my brethren and friends has become increasingly busy with things, that we didn't have to deal with years ago. And they are all stress inducing. I would love to see how socioeconomic en political tensions influence the way we interact among ourselves and what that does to individuals on a neurlogical, microscopic level. My hypothesis would be: the pleasure/reward hormone and the bonding hormone are like oxygen to our entire body; essential conditae sine qua non for proper functioning. And they come from 'normal' and relatively carefree living standards and social relationships. The lack of which drugs could only remedy to a certain level imho. Or is that too outrageous an idea?

@nonzensy1554

Жыл бұрын

Free hugs is a good thing. Lifting people out of poverty is a good thing. i think you are on to something.

@GuardianGamerable

Жыл бұрын

Regardless of what causes depression, the basic things in life that make you healthy are always going to make you healthy. Eventually we might figure out exactly what chemical balances cause depression and we can imitate “health” with a bunch of chemicals. But until then, doing healthy activities and living in a healthy environment is going to work to some degree.

@glenwelsh402

Жыл бұрын

I love your hypothesis bro! A very widespread overview and realistic look at reality! It's people like you we need for restructuring our society!

@Pincer88

Жыл бұрын

@@GuardianGamerable Agreed, but it's not the answer to everything. Everyone will testify that being physically fit makes one more resistant against depression. However, fitness is not a guarantee on how people will deal with traumatic experiences - thousands upon thousands of combat veterans with severe PTSS (with among other symptoms, depression) are a stark reminder of that. The death of a loved one (I've literally see people die because of heartbreak after 60+ years of marriage), divorce or just social awkwardness and resulting loneliness can be spirit killers, regardless how much one works out or how healthy one eats. Poverty (i.e. not being able to afford living in a healthy envrionment) and physical or mental disability are also a strong indicators. Exercise helps, but... Good company, someone who's genuinely having and showing interest and who makes you feel you matter, is by far the most effective tool in our kit when dealing with depressed elderly. No amount of diet or exercise, even no anti depressant comes close. It may not be 'professional,' but who cares? We've rationalized and outsourced so much of our basic care for eachother with the sole result as far as I can see that we have material wealth but emotional poverty. Coming from a miltary background, it's the same mevhanism that keeps units fighting under the heaviest of combat: the tightest the interpersonal relations and shared experiences are, the better the unit cohesion, its prowess and the pride its members take in being a part of it. Individualism and the emphasis on personal achievements have killed that in civilian life imho. Leaving the Army and coming back to society, I was and sometimes still am disgusted about how self centered and nasty people can be. Something we would not tolerate in our company; the perpetrator would have been 'corrected' in a way that left nothing to misinterpretation. Yet in civy street it's seemingly normal or even desirable at times. In business for example I've met quite a few predatory types that were the CEO no less. Never met such big A-holes in my life, but when adressed about it, 'they cried all the way to the bank' and simply fired the person who spoke out (among which I was one).

@Pincer88

Жыл бұрын

@@glenwelsh402 Thanks man, much appreciated! I certainly hope you'll be on board as well!

So refreshing to meet a doctor who admits his mistakes thereby allowing correction and improvement. This approach is called science.

@noreenalbright2245

Жыл бұрын

He is awesome. Enjoy his sense of humor and honesty.

@hoxtondave9619

Жыл бұрын

@Richard Jones - he is NOT a doctor, although he's happy for everyone to lazily assume that he is. Has he admitted he was wrong to shill the Covid injections yet? Has he apologised? No. Why do you think that is?

@noamto

Жыл бұрын

He's not "a doctor" in the way you mean. He has a PhD not an MD.

@oopalonga

Жыл бұрын

agreed. he's amazing. it's also scary there are so many with medical degrees who still believe SSRIs work

@hoxtondave9619

Жыл бұрын

@@oopalonga It's amazing how many people still think that the Covid injections work as well.

I have late stage Lyme turned Lupus. When I have intestinal troubles, I also have depression and anxiety. Heal your gut and you heal your brain.

@cindlou7335

Жыл бұрын

Best probiotics??

@Kthomasritchie

Жыл бұрын

@@cindlou7335 Probiotic are BS. The carnivore diet is the best way to heal your gut.

@jasonuren3479

Жыл бұрын

Healthy gut, healthy body/mind

@moonhunter9993

Жыл бұрын

yes, gluten-intolerance was at the basisof it all.

@revcrussell

Жыл бұрын

I have intestinal troubles too, and noticed anxiety when my gut is having issues. I just figured that because most (~80%) of serotonin in the body exists in the gut because the brain and gut started evolving at the same time. The brain and the gut operate on the same chemistry!

I was first put on antidepressant medication when I was 13 years old. My symptoms worsened to the point of needing hospitalization. The solution was more or different medications. I'm in my 40s now and the "more/different medication" strategy really sums up my psychiatric treatment throughout the majority of my troubled life... About 2 years ago, I tapered all of my meds and eventually stopped them all together. It was not easy at first, but I was receiving excellent talk therapy and am blessedly living in a very stable, supportive situation. Now, I'm more emotionally stable than I can remember. Very few doctors have been able to answer my questions about how the drugs they claimed would help me work. The best I got was a relatively intelligent argument regarding anecdotal data and statistics. But after learning that the statistics can be skewed by cherry picking data, then learning how much cherry-picked data actually drives treatment recommendations by public health authorities, his argument no longer holds weight for me. I can't say I feel great. I have a deep understanding of what is going on around me and I value my ability to feel empathy for the pain I see. However, I'm able to see that pain in perspective now and it doesn't shadow every aspect of my life anymore. I will not go into detail about how I awakened to the insights which helped me come to that place, but I will say medications had very little if not absolutely NOTHING to do with it. Thank you Dr Campbell. Something about your coverage of this topic feels like the genuine apology I feel I deserve for being part of a failed experiment for most of my life.

@robosborne5527

Жыл бұрын

Jess, thank you for sharing. I totally get your experience.

@readyorknot2344

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like your a very empathic person in a crazy crazy world.

@cwnoxid1966

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jess I have had a simular experience with anti depressants and it wasn't until I went to a naturopath that I realised that nature has far better medicines to gently help you without the side effects incurred from the chemicals in pharmaceutical products.

@susanmarada3089

Жыл бұрын

Kudos to you! Couldn't have said it better myself. Drs force this crap on you and it doesn't help. Tired of trembling and having nightmares from side effects. Depression still there anyway. So why take the crap? I know some people it helps, but not all of us.

@suzannemcgregor6089

Жыл бұрын

I just want to send some support your way.

I’ve never seen a medical professional ever admit to being wrong about anything. This was very informative. Thank you!

@Tamarahope77

Жыл бұрын

I don't understand why he said that we have been wrong for 25 years. The chemical imbalance theory was debunked 25 years ago, and top psychiatrists have not believed it for years. There have been quite a few studies and papers written about it over many years.

@mlmcnew6761

Жыл бұрын

My god, everyone in the comments have Stockholm syndromes. This man has convinced you to jump out a 10-story window and die of a heartatack on the way down

@chonsly

5 ай бұрын

You just believe everything on the internet huh

Those of us in the psych med reaction groups have been screaming this for years. Thank you for bringing light to this important finding and discussion.

Highly recommend the book ‘Lost Connections’ on depression and anxiety. It outlines many different causes of depression … fascinating read! When I experienced severe depression 14 years ago I did take antidepressants but it was only when my situation changed and when I addressed things like how I was choosing to spend my time, who I was close to, the lack of ‘meaningful work’ in my life etc that my depression actually went away! And I can only see that now when I look back. Many people do find that antidepressants help but they don’t help everyone and that’s why this new research is so important. There’s definitely been an attitude of ‘well if you are still depressed on antidepressants then it’s obviously not REAL depression’ which is awful. So many areas of life can be focused on and changed in order to alleviate depression symptoms.

@garyschollmeier779

Жыл бұрын

Oh man, I forgot I bought this book on Kindle a couple of years ago. I need to read through it again.

@boomtao

Жыл бұрын

Author? Found several books with that title. I suspect it must be: Johann Hari?

@garyschollmeier779

Жыл бұрын

@@boomtao I believe it's Johann Hari but best wait for OP to respond to double check.

@andytalks7898

Жыл бұрын

I second this recommendation, it was a bedrock foundation for my recovery with mental health issues and addiction. I am almost 1,000 days sober and life has been an incredible journey. I wish you all the best.

@richardcarnell2551

Жыл бұрын

Doctors aren't trained to know about the endocannabinoid system because it was discovered because of cannabis, it isn't there because of Cannabis but the Omega 6 and 3, omega 6 toxicity and omega 3 deficiency is the cause of depression and anxiety and also bipolar and schizophrenia, the Cannabinoid system regulates serotonin and dopamine - our natural thc (made from omega 6) is called Anandamide - this is from an old BBC horizon documentary and shows a scan of a human brain and torso for CB1 Cannabiniod receptors, as you can see there are throughout the brain wherever there are cells - this is the biggest medical discovery ever made and again doctors aren't trained to know... www.dailymotion.com/video/x2u9q58

I was taught about the Serotonin Depression connection in medical school in the 1990's. This is exactly what I have learned over the past few decades of practice. Whenever someone in supposed authority tells you that the science is settled, do not accept that as a fact. it could be anything but settled until the next discovery comes along.

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Жыл бұрын

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Жыл бұрын

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I know it's something we've all heard, but sleep was so essential and in my case saved me. I way underestimated how much of a role it played. I'm not perfect with my health by any means , but has significantly improved since getting more sleep.

@F4CTZV

Жыл бұрын

Sleep is actually bad for depression and makes it worse. Everyone who stayed up for 48 hours for example who suffers from depression experienced the vanishing off the depression once sleep deprived.

@tjx982

Жыл бұрын

I noticed winding down for the night earlier and eliminating blue light 2 hours before sleeping has made me wake up much happier

@DickMullen41

Жыл бұрын

@@F4CTZV This is nonsense. The proper amount of sleep is essential to combat depression and be in good mental an physical health in general. Sleeping too much can indeed worsen depression though, that much is true. The reason sleep deprivation may have gotten rid of depression in these people is because of the short term euphoric effect that sleep deprivation causes. This doesn't last and is obviously not a viable long term solution. It's like arguing consuming alcohol is good for depression cause the depression vanishes while being drunk.

@jordandesmet6593

Жыл бұрын

Depressed = deep rest. Boom.

@Sinoochka

Жыл бұрын

Too bad a major symptom of depression is inability to fall asleep

Psychedelics helped me deal with my addiction. Having suffered anxiety and depression as well. I must say taking them turned my life around. I started micro dosing and just in a couple days I noticed major changes in my stress levels, depression, and everything else. It’s been really great. After battling with these for years little did I know that shrooms will save me.

@clairepala3094

Жыл бұрын

I’ve heard so much and I really want to try them too. I put so much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety levels

@claire.morales9884

Жыл бұрын

I was having this constant and unbearable anxiety because of university stress. Not until I came across dr.coxx, a very intelligent mycologist. He saved my life honestly

@johntolliver8940

Жыл бұрын

He’s on insta?

@ronaldcarter1541

Жыл бұрын

yeah mate.. @ dr.coxx

@realisticlife647

Жыл бұрын

The trips I've been having has helped me a lot, I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have a lot more empathy as well

I recall in the early 1960's that Howard Spiro (Yale School of Medicine) warned students and newly minted physicians that much of what they learned was wrong and would need to be relearned. And he repeated this warning a generation later in his writings. RIP

@trucid2

Жыл бұрын

Even more true today than it was back then.

@man_at_the_end_of_time

Жыл бұрын

Carlos Vega@UCo3GgYRSWAXivURriKldKig He has a PhD in nursing so what? It is not like the little tin deities (MDs) are so special. Further, in this era many of the primary providers are ARNP or APRN. I read and listen, I try to take my own measure of the available knowledge.

@LTPottenger

Жыл бұрын

50% of all we know is wrong, but we don't know which 50%, or something tot hat effect. Medicines are needed sometimes but often have terrible side effects and cost, but fasting is free and often very effective. Some of the many benefits of fasting and a lower carb whole food diet on the immune system, blood pressure, blood sugar and anti-aging, all backed up by clinical data: Fribrosis/scarring is reversed. Reflexes and short term memory are increased. The hunger hormone ghrelin lowers with extended fasting and rises from dieting Thymus stem cells are regenerated, which suppresses aging and renews the immune system. Fasting stimulates phagocytosis, the ingestion of bacteria and viruses by the immune system. Blood pressure is quickly and dramatically lowered, which is very important for a good outcome with the current pandemic. Fasting increases nitric oxide, which has manifold postive effects like reducing arterial plaque. Weight loss from fasting only loses10% lean tissue and 90% fat compared to the typical 25% lean tissue and 75% fat lost when calorically restricting for long periods. Blood clotting is reduced and blood clots and arterial plaque are reabsorbed into the body. Vitamin D plasma levels are increased, and vitamin D in turn increases autophagy! Blood sugar and insulin are lowered, allowing white blood cells to move more freely throughout the body and do their job. Ideal blood sugar is around 80. Some viruses activate glycolosis (the release of sugar in the body) and clinically it has been shown that decreasing glucose metabolism in the body weakens the influenza virus. Is fasting just the same as caloric restriction? No! Dieting increases the hunger hormone ghrelin while fasting decreases it and has many other health benefits! kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYqgj9CinMu9fMY.html What breaks a fast? kzread.info/dash/bejne/aZWGrtV8oNvfY9I.html When you move out of MTOR your body shuts down the building blocks of the cell which are used to produce organelles and proteins. This means the mechanisms needed by viruses to replicate are by and large unavailable when you are in a deeply fasted state. Does fasting lower testosterone? No, it raises it and builds muscle! kzread.info/dash/bejne/mH6JpteccrrcZNY.html Fasts of several days will not affect short term female fertility and may increase long term fertility especially in women with PCOS. Fasts from 36-96 h actually INCREASE metabolic rate! kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJl3wcmCgpXAYZc.html The hormone Leptin is an immunomodulator that keeps the body from attacking itself and obesity causes leptin resistance. Fasting very quickly reduces leptin resistance and leptin levels and one day of fasting can cut your leptin levels in half and gets your immune system working properly again! Does the body preferentially prefer glucose as a fuel? No, it never uses mainly glucose for fuel and using glucose for fuel is very biochemically damaging! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJplzNmGktm0qNo.html Fasting stimulates the AMPK complex and activates autophagy. Autophagy (literally self eating) will cause cells to recycle foreign matter such as viruses and kill cancerous and senescent cells. AMPK does many helpful things in the body including activating the body's antioxidant defenses. Fasting can make you gain muscle faster: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4aBmqmLqtaveco.html Deep ketosis virtually eliminates chronic inflammation in the body. This can offset the life threatening symptoms of viral pneumonia which effectively kills you through inflammation. This also creates BHB ketones in your body, which also help your immune system and anti-oxidative system, especially in the brain. Ketones also provide an additional energy source during infection, which is critical when trying to fight off a bug. In fact you can have as much as three times the total energy available in your blood when you are in deep ketosis, or even more. It increases mitochondrial function and repairs mitichondrial DNA, leading to improved ATP production and oxygen efficiency and thereby making cells better able to fight off infection. Increased mitochondrial function also has the added benefit of increasing your metabolism and cancer prevention! Your body releases interferon which is also triggered by the body during viral attacks to shut down the replication ability of the surrounding cells and stop infections. After 72 hours or more fasted, your body actually recycles large numbers of immune bodies and creates new ones, rejuvenating your entire system. When you fast, this stimulates apoptosis in senescent or genetically damaged cells. This kills these cells off completely. Senescent cells are responsible for the effects of aging and are the root cause of the development of cancer. If it were possible to destroy them all it would completely stop aging and cancer. That is not possible but fasting can help limit these effects by killing off many of the affected cells and limiting the future effects of aging. Fasting also releases BDNF and NGF in the blood which stimulates new nerve and brain cell growth, helping a great deal with diseases like MS, peripheral neuropathy and Alzheimers. In fact, the biochemical regulator of BDNF production is beta-hydroxybutyrate, which is the same ketone the body produces to nourish the brain while fasting. Autophagy induced by fasting even helps hair regrow. Dieters losing weight through intermittent fasting show greater reduction in waist size and increase in insulin sensitivity for the same weight lost and alternate day fasters were shown to lose fat while gaining muscle at the same time over a six month period. Fasting reverses metabolic syndrome, which is tightly correlated to Chronic Fatiguque Syndrome, high blood pressurecancer and many other chronic diseases. Fasting has been shown to increase bone marrow volume by 10% and levels of carnosine in the body in as little as a few weeks. Fasting also increases telomere length, negating some of the effects of aging at a cellular level. Eating one meal a day can bring most of these benefits to a lesser degree, and adding a few entire days off from eating per week will have even more effect especially when starting to feel poorly. Exogenous ketones can aid with fasting, making it easier in healthy people and allowing some people with specific issues to fast in spite of them without worrying as much about hypoglycemia. Children, pregnant or nursing women should not fast for periods longer than 16 hours. People with pancreatic tumors or certain forms of hypoglycemia generally cannot fast at all. Type 1 diabetics can also fast but it is more complicated and should be approached with caution as it could lead to ketoacidosis. Those with Addison's disease may also be unable to fast without liberal use of exogenous ketones, depending on severity. If you experience extreme symptoms of some kind, especially dizziness then simply break the fast and seek advice. Resources: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7714088/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6859089/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23876457 repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1537&context=edissertations www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)30849-9 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25686106 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24905167 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10859646 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005272806000223 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1413655/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815756/ www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(15)00224-7 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/25712 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779438/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10232622 academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/81/1/69/4607679 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3017674/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312809002832 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5895342/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526871/ www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001176 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23408502/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27569118/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21410865/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407435/ www.arcjournals.org/pdfs/ijrsb/v3-i11/7.pdf www.amjmedsci.org/article/S0002-9629%2815%2900027-0/fulltext pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20921964/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6141719/ faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.819.10 www.biorxiv.org/node/93305.full pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25909219/ www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa012908 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15522942/ clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/36/3/217 europepmc.org/article/MED/22402737?javascript_support=no onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2265.2005.02288.x www.collective-evolution.com/2017/05/16/study-shows-how-fasting-for-3-days-can-regenerate-your-entire-immune-system/ www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/abundance-of-fructose-not-good-for-the-liver-heart holistickenko.com/vitamin-d-kidney-liver-disease/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20102774/ n.neurology.org/content/88/16_Supplement/P3.090 www.nia.nih.gov/news/research-intermittent-fasting-shows-health-benefits pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23707514/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31877297/ This list compiled over years of research by the user known as Pottenger's Human on youtube but feel free to copy and paste this anywhere you like, no accreditation needed! My channel which will always contain an updated list of fasting benefits on the community tab. I also have playlists on fasting and health and wellness and make a little commentary on health and fitness as well.

@trucid2

Жыл бұрын

@It’s OK but Given that more and more studies that are coming out today are downright fraudulent, it's more likely than you think.

@joshburrell5621

Жыл бұрын

@It’s OK but yes and no, they may know more (or atleast think they do) but there's also more going on in current times which asks more questions of them that they don't have answers too. So it kinda evens out to be fair.

I came for the covid news, stayed for the respect for science. Dr Campbell you are awesome. Thank you.

@mrangelino

Жыл бұрын

Same here ☺️

@alejandrinahs

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! His professional and ethical insight is beneficial to the general public.

Nobody I've ever known who is depressed just happened to become depressed one day. They were depressed after a long string of hardships and not having any resources or support. Over time they couldn't "fake it" anymore and "happy pills" got prescribed. Now we all keep going to work, but everything feels like sleeping while you're awake.

Fascinating. I can give you a reason to consider, something I’ve noticed. Ever since the mobile phone appeared we have suffered from depression more. Even children have become depressed more so than ever before in my lifetime and I’m 66. Or perhaps we have reached that utopia we wanted and the results are very similar to the rat utopia study. So many similarities. As to why the brain reacts in the way it does is from the vibrations, and we all know the energy fields in our lives. Love your stuff and thank you.

Focus on gut health, lift weights, fresh air, sun light, drop social media. Purpose.

After struggling with anxiety and depression for 15 years I was prescribed prozac, I felt so bad the Doctor changed it to Citalopram. Aftter 3 years there was no change in mood but there were side effects. So I stopped the drugs, started at the gym, spent more time outdoors, stopped watching TV and reading news. I haven't had a depressive period for the last 10 years. I strongly believe our environment is the major cause. Look at the state of our society - lack of community, meaningful work, good nutritious food etc. It's no wonder people are responding negatively. But it's harder to fix society, much easier and more profitable to sell a drug to mask the symptoms. Also, at 66, I've lost count of the times medical treatments have been revised in light of new evidence. I suspect in 5-10 years the same will be true of recent mrna injections. I appreciate Dr Campbell's open mind, a rare thing in the medical profession these days.

@andreaerling7614

Жыл бұрын

Zuma Maya. I was also prescribed Citalopram. I did nothing for me.( I got out of my depression when my circumstances changed) Stop the drugs, exercise, surround yourself with like minded people, stop watching TV, eat well, look after yourself. No antidepressants needed, no covid vaccine needed, either.

@stewartmeetball3417

Жыл бұрын

Diazapam .. anyone prescribed it ?

@richardfowler9901

Жыл бұрын

Tyson done it

@christiancilia7332

Жыл бұрын

@@andreaerling7614 yes yes yes and we must fight back against these elites trying to destroy us

@johnl5316

Жыл бұрын

@@stewartmeetball3417 it is a very addictive anti anxiety agent

I was on SSRIs for anxiety/depression and my own experience was that they removed my physical responses to anxiety and removed a lot of my nuanced feelings. I still haven't gotten most of them back yet. I used to be able to enjoy rain and feel cozy, and I used to have very nuanced feelings of love and sadness. Now these feelings don't appear or last very short time. I feel flatter overall and I have shit memory, but without them I don't think I could have survived since my anxiety made me stop eating and lasted from waking up until going to bed. It feels like they removed a lot of my personality/brain and I guess it's permanent. I didn't feel happier on them, or well I had the period of super highs and lows when taking them at first, then I just felt blank but able to work on my anxiety patterns without anxiety attacks. I was a mess for years. I feel better overall but different. I wish I had proper psychriatric help instead because I understand why I felt anxious and horrible in the first place,. and those issues are still unresolved. as soon as I have more money I will get proper therapy. But I will never take medicine again. The brain zaps when quitting them and sleep paralysis I got on them was horrible.

@399THUNDER399

Жыл бұрын

Man what you said about nuanced feelings is very relatable, down to the coziness of rain, I feel exactly the same. I only took them for about 4 months and even though I have stopped I still feel less sharp. I find myself caring less about things I observe so I end up forgetting important details at times. For me it was worth it, I would rather deal with this than the constant pain and insecurity, but sometimes I do feel that a fundamental part of me is missing.

@sealslayer

Жыл бұрын

I’ve not been on SSRI’s but was on mirtazapine, I know exactly what you mean, I can’t feel cosy or relaxed, can’t tell what season it is or the time of day but I do believe the feelings are still there but the depression has locked them away. I think we have to learn to feel them again

@OcedarMopzar

Жыл бұрын

Heavily blunted anxiety was the biggest noticeable improvement from SNRI as well. It killed that shit dead, I haven't had anything even resembling the panic attacks I used to get before taking it. My depression got better but never disappeared, though I wonder if that was a side effect of me being less anxious about things. Still got low moments but they weren't as bad. I never noticed the general emotional blunting a lot of people talk about. I still love a rainy day, and when I asked my family whether they noticed any differences personality wise after several months, the only thing they noticed was that I was more outgoing and social. So, YMMV. Worth noting I was on a fairly low dose of venlafaxine, 75mg, and took it alongside therapy for ~2 months. Definitely noticed when my junk stopped working for a few days after I started. That was concerning but went away over time.

@girlbuu9403

Жыл бұрын

Got put on SSRIs and... nuanced feelings yeah you could say that. It was more like I just stopped caring. Not in a "I think I will lay down and die sort of way" but in a "Huh my eggs are cold, oh well." "Ow I stepped on a board with a nail on it ha ha maybe I'll get tetanus" "This person is kind of annoying okay I can just punch them in the throat" That last one happened. Yeah, no nuance. I wasn't even like furious and screaming. They just annoyed me so I punched them. I felt no remorse for it either. Things even darker than that happened, and when certain thoughts entered my head... read; increased risk of suicide is a side effect of a lot of these. When before dying was terrifying given my uncertainty of the after life, when that thought never entered my head even in my darkest depression until I was put on this drug, when I was annoyed at a bunch of people and thought "Well I might as well take them with me", when I actually started thinking about how I could pull that off... ... I quit cold turkey before I hurt myself or others. Horrific withdrawals. Thought I was going to die. Worse bit? I was a teenage lesbian who was raised in a fundamentalist house hold. I was depressed and anxious because I thought I was going to hell. Also other things, things I'd rather not go into detail about, but that was the thing that was really eating me at the time. But sure, chemical imbalance in the brain. PS: Not a word about my family being evil. When they did find out they were upset, disapproved, but didn't disown me or anything. It is weird how used to I was more concerned about people attacking me for being a homosexual and now I am more worried about people attacking them for not 100% accepting me for it but here we are. Or maybe this is the worst bit. I hate to tell all of you this... but I am in my late 30s. This was in my mid teens. The dullness never goes away. It aged me mentally by forty years, I am suffering memory loss early and constantly am doing stuff like walk into a room and forget why I came in, space out for no reason, pace around, where are my keys oh they're in my hand... Sure everyone does stuff like that but such behavior was rare before Paxil. I think the damage is permanent. Between this and a few other incidents I will never trust doctors again.

@Mimi-lo2gi

Жыл бұрын

​@@girlbuu9403

OMG, the way that he presents this new insight is so real and down to earth. No crying about the past, just honesty. This is how you do it. Damn good. This is grown up science, ready to allow for new perspectives when there is proof. Thanks, I needed to see this! Gives me back a little trust in humanity. As a scientist myself, I met sooo many people claiming to be scientists and then hanging on for fear life to their old beliefs instead of allowing for new truths to be unveiled. Thanks so much!

This is why I keep coming back Doctor John. You don't say follow the science, you actually follow the science. You also admit when you're wrong. Much respect Doctor Campbell.

@zazzyz4558

Жыл бұрын

HE wasn’t wrong. He was just promoting what science was saying at the time. I reckon that’s his job. And now he’s bringing us up to date. Bravo Dr. John!

@m2hmghb

Жыл бұрын

@@zazzyz4558 When you say something that is factually incorrect you are wrong. It doesn't matter if you know it or not. It doesn't matter if years later you are corrected. Everyone is wrong about things, it's just people tend to shy away from admitting it.

@andrewditton7226

Жыл бұрын

What about the people who were right about it, while being treated like they were wrong? Are we going to extend them the same praise and compassion?

@m2hmghb

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewditton7226 I hope we do. Do unto others as you would like done to you.

@lechatel

Жыл бұрын

Science isn't something that is 'followed'. Science is something that is constantly challenged, tested, and reviewed. One 'follows' a cult. Not science.

Your entire demeanor, humility and ability to say we just don’t know, is why I trust you so very much. I truly wish I lived near you and you were my healthcare professional.

@anna-rosarosa7947

Жыл бұрын

The problem is, if you would have had him as your healthcare professional at the time he was beliving the serotonin theory(he was teaching it), then you would have had with great certainty an antidepressant.

@kellyberry4173

Жыл бұрын

@@anna-rosarosa7947 Like EVERY OTHER doctor. Doesn't mean he was wrong...nobody knew.

@catherinenelson4162

Жыл бұрын

You'll see this sooner or later, so I'll explain it to you. In England, medical doctor's tend to be called "Mr ", as opposed to the U.S. way of calling them Doctor. If you are a professor in a University, however, then in England, you would be called Doctor. In the U.S. a few with PHD's want to be called Doctor, but most don't, as it's viewed in our universities as putting on airs. John Campbell has a PHD and taught nurses in a large, British University. He also did some training of nurses in foreign countries. As appropriate for England, he is called "Doctor". That being said, he knows his stuff and is very good at research. He isn't a phony or a pretender, and with his PHD is is as capable of reading and interpreting medical literature as any M.D.

@mikewallace8087

Жыл бұрын

State of the Art is parlance best intended treatment . Then change may come later. What seems certain is if you drop a rock onto your foot the sensation will not be pleasure.

@cmdreltonpoole6303

Жыл бұрын

@@anna-rosarosa7947 They still work, you know, they didn't just magically stop. There's no reason to stop prescribing them.

I remember the doctor recommending I take some anti-depressants. I respectfully declined saying “No, I want to get out of my shitty situation, not feel better about it”. And if we were to be honest I think a lot of people around me needed to change but they were not willing to do the work. I was just a person they chose to externalise it on, because they didn’t want to do any work on themselves.

@Varocka

Жыл бұрын

For many people with major depressive disorder they can feel so poorly about everything that they simply cannot change their situation without some kind of outside intervention, that's why they wish they could stop existing.

@hewehawi

Жыл бұрын

@@Varocka and that’s why I stated it was MY experience. Not everyone’s, not ‘some people’s’, but mine. I know how some people feel- I know how most doctors treat most people. But maybe we should try to fix the shitty situations sometimes, and that was what I needed in MY experience.

@dickJohnsonpeter

Жыл бұрын

But that's the totally wrong way of looking at depression. Not only do outside events have nothing to do with depression you also don't have the ability to change outside events if you are depressed. Depression is can't be caused by events happening in your life, they can trigger the depression you already have but they can't cause it. If you actually have depression you know this because you could win the lottery and still have depression. You still would have to force yourself to do everything. Whatever is necessary to make yourself able to deal with events in life is necessary and the pros and cons need to be weighed logically when you're dealing with medication. If a medication might have a few side effects but makes you feel motivated and not anxious then the pros far outweigh the cons. But you were right to not take medication since you didn't have depression and were just having a normal reaction to stress and bad things.

@bosmer3836

Жыл бұрын

@@dickJohnsonpeter source? lol

@swegatron2859

Жыл бұрын

I think a harsh reality is not everyone is capable of making changes to improve their situation. It’s kind of a social natural selection. Some people will just remain perpetually miserable and not have the capacity to make changes. If anti-depressants can get them through the day it’s better than nothing ig

This is actually progress in the study of depression, it’s quite exciting. And very clearly explained, thank you for sharing Dr C.

When I was depressed in my college years, I took venlafaxin and it was great, it totally changed my mood from one day to the other, I was on the brink of suicide and took a massive amount of 150 mg. I have never feel more alive and full of meaning and goals. However, I returned to the normal dose and eventually started to feel the "good" mood I was in as artificial or fake. Eventually I started to change my lifestyle and life started to improve. Antidepressants in my opinion are good as a 'tactical' method for boositng the mood when the situation is almost suicidal, however, for me, the right solution for depression, is the holistic one, changing the environment you're in, your diet, performing excercise, working towards set goals and trying to bond with people.

@cindy6101

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been taking two doses of Venlafaxin (150mg + 75mg) daily for twelve years now ( I’m 61) I didn’t realize this was a large amount My depression was situational and my life is full of joy now But I’m afraid to go off my medication and would never do so without my doctor’s guidance That said, I’m still afraid to change anything because I don’t want to fall into that deep dark hole of depression again

@vivvpprof

Жыл бұрын

I'm in therapy and I can just say the same - I have periods of feeling like living the most meaningful life on earth. Yet, I've never taken any antidepressants. Conclusion is I think obvious. Best wishes to you and congratulations.

@timtripp4222

Жыл бұрын

Please read the book 'the medicated child" by Peter ??? That will give ya a good background & help ya understand things.

@DJWESG1

Жыл бұрын

I've taken everything for depression, even had a few experimental treatments.. Two things work for my depression one is ibuprofen the other is weed. Dr looked into my 'issue' and agreed, ibuprofen and weed were far superior when combating my personal condition. If ur ever feeling super low and confused, take some ibuprofen see what happens.

@adararelgnel2695

Жыл бұрын

Same for me. My situation seemed good and normal but it was not right for me at all. I think, if you can answer to yourself "why" you are depressed, then you don't need medication. You need to deal with the "why"

I felt like I knew so much after I graduated from nursing school. You are in a good place if you are willing to learn things all over again and let the pride go. This is a man that I trust, because of his willingness to admit when he is wrong. 🙂

@andreawalker2535

Жыл бұрын

Well, it wasn't his fault that he got it wrong! The science was faulty, and it is a miracle that anybody was helped by these drugs. The drugs were meant to get people back to work and eliminate face to face therapy which is what helps people, IMHO. Insurance limits therapy, and, so, think that through. Retired psych RN here.

@baseballmomof8

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@ReeceS6419

Жыл бұрын

@@andreawalker2535 You are so right and I meant no offense. You rarely hear of doctors or scientists saying they got it wrong, is what I meant. Data is constantly changing and we need to be up to date and informed and readily admit when we get it wrong. Especially now with the craziness of the last 2 years in the medical community!

@leonardmead1425

Жыл бұрын

I love this guy and I'm going to draw him and put it on my wall, he is just so honest and and wants people to know what they would find hard to hear anywhere else

@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg

Жыл бұрын

That's not a reliable arbiter of trustworthiness - it's a bare minimum you should expect of any person. Campbell has been wrong or misinformed on a lot of subjects and is yet to admit he was wrong about those issues - don't put him on a pedestal because he accepts the results of one metastudy.

I just love that you always post links to the studies. Thank you, Dr Campbell.

Thanks, I'm from the UK and all of what's been said is true. People are going through tough times and there is a difficult winter ahead. The biggest problem here is the gas and electric bill's have gone up 400% . Will be sharing this video with friends and families to help them realize and prepare. With inflation currently at about 10%, my primary concern is how to maximize my savings/retirement fund of about £300k which has been sitting duck since forever with zero to no gains.

@instinctively_awesome8283

Жыл бұрын

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@marianparker7502

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure the idea of a Invstment-Adviser might sound controversial to a few, but a new study by investopedia found out that demand for Invstment-Managers sky-rocketed by over 41.8% since the pandemic and based on firsthand encounter I can say for certain their skillsets are topnotch. I've raised over CAD580k within 18months from an initially stagnant portfoli0 worth CAD150K which was devoid of dividend stocks. These are the high-volume traderss.

@PhilipMurray251

Жыл бұрын

That's impressive! I could really use the expertise of this advisor, my portfolio has been down bad.... Who’s the person guiding you?

@marianparker7502

Жыл бұрын

@@PhilipMurray251 Having an Invstment-Adviser is key to portfoli0 growth and securing one's wealth. My Invt-Adviser is Nicole Ann Sabin You can easily look her up as She has years of Finanncial markt experience. The Market has been pretty bad until recently it decided to surge and Everybody was Practically Crying then. It kept dipping. That's what you get when you feel you can navigate the process on your own. I'm not bothered with how bad the Market is because my assests are insured due to her advice and I still receive my profitss.

@PhilipMurray251

Жыл бұрын

@@marianparker7502 Thanks for this tip. Her website popped up on the first page immediately I searched her, I read through her resume and it seems pretty tight. So, I dropped a message & hopefully she replies soon.

When I was a teenager in the 90s I was sent to the doctor because I had fallen into a pretty bad depression. She, who has no psychiatric training, diagnosed me within five minutes as having a "chemical imbalance" and sent me home with free samples of one of those SSRI drugs. Nasty business, that was. No question about what I was eating, who I was spending time with, was I doing recreational drugs, do I exercise, nothing! What a journey to find one that didn't mess me up completely! Never again!

@timefortee

Жыл бұрын

I've experienced the exact same thing when I accompanied a teen to his pointless appointment. Until the very end was waiting for the moment she'll finally ask at least _one_ question about the kid's family or school life... That moment never came and I was utterly appalled and in disbelief. Fraudsters.

@finwilliams4550

Жыл бұрын

The owners of pharmaceutical companies fund all medical schools and control the curriculum. They are not teaching anybody to make people healthy. Those companies were created by the monopolisers of the oil industry to sell the waste from their oil and they have made fotrunes from sick people over the past century.

@sn0wchyld

Жыл бұрын

partner had a similar experience but with cholesterol. No questions re stress, diet, lifestyle etc, not even a 2nd test after a few weeks, just a immediate prescription for statins, because its the national health authorities policy. This is for a woman.... where despite statins having no benefit for women (in fact all cause mortality studies suggest negative outcomes) and being in her mid 30's who'd just been through some very stressful times & events, was overweight, poor diet, and doing little exersize... but why address the causative issue when we can just give a pill and call it a day? SMH

@baldmichaelresoluteprotect1206

Жыл бұрын

I was misdiagnosed with cancer when in fact it was sodium nitrite poisoning (E250) in food I ate. Ignorant doctors should have known about this as the toxicity of sodium nitrite has been known about for over 100 years. I now believe the immuno-therapy I was given has caused my symptoms to be worsened as my pituitary gland is not functioning correctly after I terminated the treatment having worked out what was going on, no thanks to the NHS.

@mikecheq45

Жыл бұрын

They couldn’t get me on sssri’s quick enough. Horrible things. My head has never felt right since.

Fascinating. Finding out that what one has been teaching for decades is not correct must be distressing. I applaud your ability to not let your personal pride or ego hinder your goal of providing accurate, up-to-date information about the latest medical findings.

@jasonrattue

Жыл бұрын

But isn't this the fundamental principal of Science - that there is no right answer; that 'the answer' evolves due to the latest research. Which is why the "I am the science" comment caused such disgust in everyone except the MSM.

@69birdboy

Жыл бұрын

This has been asserted in alt medicine for decades. Pharmaceuticals did this initially in Japan I believe as a selling point.

@Fedorevsky

Жыл бұрын

I went to a psychologist for depression 30 years ago. He was more of a believer in depression being a kind of thought problem. Negative experiences leading to negative thoughts and it bringing mood down naturally by all the negativity becoming too much too handle. After a while once my situation got better my depression slowly let go of me. I never used any medication.

@bobf5360

Жыл бұрын

I have in the past taught some of this and I am actually excited when I find that what we have been teaching is wrong. New scientific information is always exciting. It doesn't mean you have wasted time in the past, it means you have an opportunity to be closer to ground truth. To be fair though, a lot of what is in textbooks isn't wrong, its just oversimplified or incomplete. It has to be, otherwise you could never get through even the basic Krebs cycle without spending a semester on how that works in different contexts. Anyway, another great video by Dr. Campbell.

@bobf5360

Жыл бұрын

and one more thing- good scientists don't take being wrong personally. If you show a good scientist data on why they are wrong, they are happy to change their mind or adjust their hypothesis- thats how science works. Being wrong doesn't need to bad. CONTINUING to be wrong in the face of solid, multifactorial evidence, that is bad.

This man is great at explaining complex things in simple terms. I very much appreciate that.

I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety based on some stupid mood questionnaire. I took antidepressants for about a week and realized it only got me high, I still felt the same underneath a fake smile, i immediately stopped taking the antidepressants. Not until 10 years later when im in the hospital in serious condition do doctors realize i have an immunological disease. I literally had to diagnose myself (with no biology or chemical understanding) and i told them i had Crohns Disease. They ran all their tests over like 8 months and turns out I was right.

@rundogrun297

5 ай бұрын

That is why I highly recommend NOT going to docs at all unless medically necessary

“That makes perfect sense, except that it’s wrong”. You my friend are a remarkable man/Doctor.

@heizensperg

Жыл бұрын

It always made 0 sense and it's crazy it has taken this long for them to realise. We all know why $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

@s.a565

Жыл бұрын

That's not how common sense works. Famous words from Judge Judy: if it doesn't makes sense it's BS!

@timblock3483

Жыл бұрын

@@heizensperg Yep, gotta sell that poison.

The fact that depression and chronic pain can be treated by the same medication tells me that it's not a deficiency it's a symptom.

@wyattfamily8997

Жыл бұрын

I'm a 73 year old Australian male who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia ( a catchall term for undiagnosed cause of pains ) many years ago. Recently I've also been diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis and found the chemical prescribed by my specialist didn't agree with me. My G.P. suggested I try Curcumin, which is widely used in South Africa as an anti inflammatory and for gastric problems. It is a derivitive of Tumeric. I found it not only effective for the Ulcerative Colitis but many of my other "fibromyalgia" pains also vanished. The added advantage of course that it is not a manufactured chemical either. The chronic pain did also cause some depressive symptoms also which have ceased.

@chrisstevens8431

Жыл бұрын

I get the feeling that so many thinking that big pharma has a solution to ALL of their problems, is a symptom of mass formation...............

@4TIMESAYEAR

Жыл бұрын

Actually, psych meds don't work for chronic pain. Been there done that.

@itsjudystube7439

Жыл бұрын

Correlation isn’t causation. Just because two things can be treated the same way doesn’t mean they have the same cause. If you have a pain in your knee because you twisted it you can take a pain killer. If you have a headache you can take a painkiller but you haven’t twisted your head. 😀

@itsmewayne428

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree...I suffer with chronic pain & Tinnitus..

This has been discussed for quite some time, and in my studies it was clear that we didn't know exactly how these SSRIs were working, and it wasn't a given that this was all due to serotonin levels. There's a lot we don't yet know about the brain. Honestly, being able to discount something in the face of new evidence is just good science. 👍🏽

@dannyjensen2123

Жыл бұрын

Actually ssri inhibitors May not work at all. Science is fraudulent.

@Pandoradan

Жыл бұрын

@@dannyjensen2123 I'm just gonna point out that, with respect, you're using the gains of science to even post in KZread. So the blanket statement is a bit dramatic, not too mention inaccurate. Do you have any references to support this statement or are you just trying to start an argument?

@dannyjensen2123

Жыл бұрын

@@Pandoradan i would suggest Reading “deadly psychiatry” by the former head and co-founder of the nordic Cochrane institute peter c goetzche or dr David Healy who has spoken openly about this problem for years or Ben goldacre who wrote a bestseller about why medical science is broken (bad pharma)- this is not new - sadly

@chonsly

5 ай бұрын

Your studies? Who tf are you? What studies?????

@Pandoradan

5 ай бұрын

@@chonsly I'm sorry, does education trigger you?

Thank you for taking the time to explain this issue clearly for us layman. Im very glad i found this video!

The book Lost connections by british-swiss journalist Johan hari, who had suffered on antidepressants for 15 years, beautifully explores the outdated belief that depression comes from a lack of serotonin and offers 9 actual causes for depression that are taken from studies from around the world. I urge everyone to read it.

@chrisberry9017

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your recommendation Glen

@dh00mketu

Жыл бұрын

Care you mention these reasons?

@JanCarol11

Жыл бұрын

Katinka Blackford Newman, a BBC journalist, has also written about her harrowing journey into antidepressants and psych-diag-nonsense in "The Pill That Steals Lives," turns out she had a liver enzyme that made these drugs exactly wrong for her. It's a very accessible read - the science & studies interspersed with her own compelling story.

@NS-xt5wv

Жыл бұрын

I was never buying the whole serotonin theory. Depression may be stemming from physiological reasons, but these reasons probably will be found elsewhere in the body, like nutrients/macro elements/hormonal misbalance, but in most of the cases, my personal belief is that depression is an existential issue, or an issue caused by trauma.

@glenwelsh402

Жыл бұрын

@@dh00mketu the causes? Well the book is called lost connections because it says that when we lose certain connections to things it can cause harmful effects. Some that I remember are A connection to nature, A connection to a hopeful future A connection to meaningful work A connection to others, to name a few. I guess the idea in the book is to find balance across all the different needs we have as humans (somewhat relating to Maslow's heirarchy of needs) as opposed to ignoring the emotional signals we have that tell us something is wrong and overwriting them with pharmaceutical products.

In the light of NEW EVIDENCE....OH MY GOODNESS...A DR. THAT CHANGES His MIND!!!👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥰

I've watched on and off since covid first started and you started videos on it. I just wanted to wish you good health and thank you for the videos.

This is interesting both as an amateur student of psychology (my wife's the one with degrees in medicine and psychology--I'm an engineer by training and inclination) and a sufferer of periodic depression. The problem, I think, was that the serotonin hypothesis was so attractively simple--and as Occam's razor suggests, the simplest solution should be your first port of call. Low levels of serotonin -> depression, therefore boost the serotonin levels by inhibiting reuptake and, if the hypothesis is correct, symptoms decrease--which is just what was observed in clinical trials. Unfortunately, although the outcomes were as predicted, the evidence now suggests that the underlying mechanism is not correctly understood so it was basically blind luck that SSRIs worked at all. It is important to remember, however, that SSRIs do, in the main, work, even if the actual mechanism of how they do so is less clear. These drugs do save lives every day, my own included. While some find long term solutions lie in psychotherapy or lifestyle changes, SSRIs can help sufferers regain enough control to be able to tackle more challenging options--or even simply to get through another day without suicidal ideation moving too close to actualisation. I've looked into that darkness and although it was the non-judgemental listener on the Samaritans phone line who helped me make it to the next day, it was my GP and her prescription that gave me time and space to recover and restructure my life so that I was in a position to accept the support of my wife and to move forward with more care and awareness. SSRI's are sometimes disparagingly referred to as 'crutches', implying that they merely mask symptoms but I would rather take a different view; if I have a broken leg then a crutch allows me to get around and continue with life while allowing healing. In that interpretation I'm more than happy to acknowledge that SSRIs are a crutch and I would no more disparage, or discourage, their use than I would kick the crutches out from under a patient with a broken leg. However they work, for most of us they give a breathing space and, frankly, just carrying on breathing can sometimes seem an impossible burden. As John said in the video, if you are currently prescribed an SSRI don't stop without consulting your doctor. Even if it is agreed to try another approach, a sudden cessation can trigger dramatic effects. Your doctor can advise on a tapering schedule, especially if you have been taking them for some time. If we can, let us look at this report as good news; it gives a new opportunity to understand the mechanisms underlying both depression and its pharmacological interventions which may open the way to better therapeutics or an improved application of existing medications. To those who are currently struggling; seek help and support, although it sometimes seems otherwise, people do care and resources are out there; accept support and advice when offered; remember that tomorrow is another day and maybe, just maybe, it'll be a little brighter than the day before.

@fortissimoX

Жыл бұрын

The fact is, there is natural cure for depression that has extremely good results and no side effects whatsoever, and you can't overdose with it and you can't get addicted to it. It's called psylocibin mushrooms and pharmaceutial lobby did everything they could to supress that knowledge. And they succeded, it was forbidden to use them once they showed success in clinical trials. Of course, in society based on greed and profit, they had no other choice. Fortunately, the truth is finally coming out and mushrooms are decriminalized in more and more countries.

@eileenkillen1481

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your opinion on depression medication. My life changed for 100% better when I started medication. Anyhow you said everything that I was thinking but could never put into words as articulated as you did. Thanks again!!

@soulpowerful

Жыл бұрын

Excellent comment

@Tamarahope77

Жыл бұрын

The chemical imbalance theory was debunked many years ago, this is not new. It's just one of those stubborn myths that refuse to die. Studies also show that SSRIs work for severe depression but not a lot better than placebo for mild or moderate depression. The "numbers needed to treat" for the most effective medications are between 5 and 9, whereas the nnt for psychotherapy is 3. The nnt for EMDR for depression in the latest meta analysis is 2. That is, one out of two who are treated is expected to recover. Whatever the case, evidence shows that a combination of medication and therapy works best, but interestingly, adding medication to psychological treatment doesn't improve outcomes, while the addition of psychotherapy to medication increases efficacy.

absolute respect for admitting you were wrong....if only politicians and scientists did the same....oh look it's a squirrel!

@picksalot1

Жыл бұрын

So, the "Experts" are wrong again. What a surprise. 😂

@RunPJs

Жыл бұрын

Not that special. Politicians are just generally human trash

@kristinpiechotta9000

Жыл бұрын

So who do you think did the research? The scientific process leads to new findings all the time

@somebodyelse4786

Жыл бұрын

He's a scientist, too!

@ohlookitsasquirrel

Жыл бұрын

@@kristinpiechotta9000 lol..i didnt say all did i...so fast to get things wrong eh! Am talking about the ones that are wrong, i thought that was clear by the subject matter.

So much respect for this gentleman! His knowledge & explanations are delivered with kindness & humility. An international gift to us all.

@milktobo7418

Жыл бұрын

He missed how physical activity seems to cure depression. To bad he didn't tie it in.

@baseballmomof8

Жыл бұрын

He certainly is.

@thomasphilip8916

Жыл бұрын

@@milktobo7418 depression mainly caused by dietary issues

Thank you for making this. The narrative around depression and serotonin never made sense to me. I suddenly developed chronic depression and severe OCD after my daughter was born. While I am predisposed to mental illness it seems strange that I'm mostly okay all my life and then, as if hit by a train, now need to take medication in order to function normally. It's been three years of this now and I don't know why I'm not back to normal

@puppetken

8 ай бұрын

This happened to me after my third child. Full blown postpartum and OCD. I take all natural now.

I suffer from GAD but that is to be expected from anyone who has a creative bent. The best therapies I know are exercise, being surrounded by nature and making music. It will be different for everyone but I think exercise is a really effective therapy for most of us who suffer Anxiety or Depression. Thank you, Dr Campbell. Wonderful stuff as usual!

As a longtime sufferer of depression and severe anxiety attacks for no apparent reason, I found that it was entirely caused by a mass of conflicting concepts which prevented me making clear decisions and destroyed confidence. Once I’d sorted these conflicts out the depression disappeared and never returned.

@CHX_37

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that. I remember listening to a man who did rock climbing say that it was an activity that forced a person to focus on one thing and how good that was for overcoming stress.

@nathansurendran2602

Жыл бұрын

What did you to to sort the conflicts?

@kkpaine

Жыл бұрын

Did you talk to someone?

@bigfletch8

Жыл бұрын

Poor breathing techniques cause so many physiological problems, which are then linked to the mental process. For example, " normal" day to day stresses cause extreme breathing restrictions; already poor. Wim Hof has created a simple breathing sequence which increases the breathing capacity dramatically, so next time the obstacle appears, your breathing handles it easily. Restricted breathing is the worst cause of panic attacks. Think of having difficulty carrying a moderate load then building up your strength. The load becomes easy. Dont be put off by the ice part. Try it by all means , but the breathing is the key. The cold therapy just demonstrates how yiur capacity has improved. It truly is amazing how many conditions this cures...but sadly, no profit for big pharma lol...

@nockianlifter661

Жыл бұрын

@@nathansurendran2602 If I could pick one single thing it would be taking an online course ‘An Introduction to Logic’ by Leonard Peikoff. I had taken the course on a recommendation as part of studying The Trivium. I found it really tough, but I worked really hard at it to answer all the set questions. It took me over 6 months. A few weeks after completing the course I said to my wife that it felt like physical changes were occurring in my brain-a really odd sensation as if rusty gears were beginning to turn. After a few days of this process I was aware of a mental clarity that I’d never had-I suddenly knew things and I had no idea exactly how I knew them. My low moods cleared up at the same time, the anxiety attacks ended. Since then I also began serious weight training three times a week - this seemed to be the perfect and natural physical compliment to the work I’d done on my mind, so I cannot rule out that this is also a factor, but it was at least a year after the logic course.

I am so happy to hear that there are doctors and scientists out there who are continuing to advance knowledge, who are not sitting pretty on thrones of settled science. Thank you, Dr. Campbell, there is so much we do not yet know. ( I have taken SSRIs for depression. They may have helped, but I think it was changing stressful circumstances and rest that really helped me.)

@thedave7760

Жыл бұрын

No such thing as settled science, if you can't question it then it is dogma not science.

@mp7161

Жыл бұрын

Sitting pretty on the mountains of money obtained by creating drugs and profits on fake assumptions. Almost identical with the kovit vaksin. Maybe the anti-depressants work because of the placebo effect.

@kimparke6653

Жыл бұрын

Even changing the way we think about things helps. I feel trauma causes anger, if that anger isn't processed ,it goes underground and turns into a depression.

@AlexM-jd2ro

Жыл бұрын

It could be placebo effect....

@tiredoftheworld4834

Жыл бұрын

@@thedave7760 people don’t allow you to question it…

How many Drs will actively and wholeheartedly come out and admit when they are mistaken? Ty Dr. Campbell for your continued pursuit of truth and informative discussions on the various medical problems afflicting our world today. 👍

SSRIs gave me my life back after a horrible year of depression, anxiety and OCD. For me it drastically reduced the symptoms of anxiety and basically cured the OCD that kept me away from uni for a year. Also basically cured my constant panic attacks. It did not do much for depression, but it becomes much lighter when you do not have to deal with all the other disorders. Have heard the same from many other SSRI users, so these finds should not be a huge surprise.

@Olivia-W

Жыл бұрын

1). Awesome! Keep it up. 2). Purely personally after I learned we don't know the mechanism, I was rather driven to see if the effects could be accomplished through other means. After trawling through papers, settled on keto. We really know so little about how people work 😮‍💨.

As a sufferer of depression since my teen years and a scientist, this is a conversation that I had with my psychologist a decade ago when I decided against all doctors to wean of my SSRI after diagnosis in my mid-thirties with a repetitive depression disorder. I was not getting a wow effect from the medication and I pointed that I was diagnosed just by some medical questionnaires without anybody having a look at any physical grounds for my condition (apart from discarding physical illness). My therapist gave me the credit to recognize that there are very little and very contradictory investigation about the grounds of depression and I have not regretted getting off the meds and trying to manage myself with a better lifestyle since then. My educated guess as a scientist is that at the end when they will investigate, we will have a parallel to "cancer" and we are grouping a vast amount of different illness or mechanisms that produced similar symptoms under the "depression" label. For some patients the SSRI works and works well and I do not doubt that this group could really have the mechanism of recapture of serotonin as a main problem. I have also heard of good results by improving the absorption of micronutrients. Anyway I think this is a good thing, as it will bring new research to this area and we may be closer to a real view into the "black beast". Take care

@thelettuceuk

Жыл бұрын

Agree strongly too, have found it bizarre/tragic that doctors have dished out anti-depressants to friends/relatives without asking for a food/exercise diary first at least. For some that would doubtless give better answers/treatments.

@scarred10

Жыл бұрын

Nobody gets a wow factor from antidepressants and there is no diagnostic physical test for depression, its diagnosed by clinical interview based on DSM criteria which are somewhat arbitrary.There are several hypotheses for depression and serotonin deficiency was just one.

@nate6511

Жыл бұрын

I think this theory also fits what I have been told by a former psychiatrist, who told me that I may have to try several antidepressants before I found something that made me feel better. Eventually we realized that SSRI's were making me feel restless and anxious (prozac was the worst for me) and was advised to avoid them altogether; the first SNRI I tried was an immediate hit for the anxiety I experienced... I know it does affect my depression as well because I have increased the dosage a couple of times during difficult periods in the past two years, but once I'm stable again I can decrease the dosage and feel mostly the same--albeit with a clearer mind... Which honestly doesn't seem like an issue of a chemical imbalance, especially because these depressive episodes are generally triggered by life events.

@nate6511

Жыл бұрын

@@thelettuceuk I know people (minors even) who received antidepressants before ever visiting a therapist! A lot of the issue here is that it's simply easier/less time consuming/cheaper to offer a "miracle drug" over options that require more work from all parties involved.

@scarred10

Жыл бұрын

@@johnandrewcameron1 you mean there are several precipitating factors but they would present with consist symtoms.I remember 33 yrs ago when I was diagnosed with organic depression largely due to family history and absence of onvious stressors they thought only meds would work and I was offered no therapy.The cause was actually BDD but they put that down to the depression also.I would agree that psychiatry is the least evidenced based of all medicine withany docs having very little psycho therapeutic skills at all.

The medical community could use a million clones of you Dr. Campbell. What a blessing you are. Be well and thank you for all the hard work, it is much appreciated and valued.

@darrenthomson1930

Жыл бұрын

get me a bucket

@chrisstevens8431

Жыл бұрын

It would be like the return of Nazi German medical experimentation on a far wider scale.................

@heizensperg

Жыл бұрын

Where’s your appreciation for the scientists who have been speaking out against this bullshit for years and called cranks for it? Campbell is late to the party. And he didn’t do anything btw

@chrisstevens8431

Жыл бұрын

@@heizensperg Worth bearing in mind campbell spent 2 years cheerleading for tea, which has proved to be deadly.............

@littlemissgroove

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisstevens8431 what? tea is deadly ???

Dr. Campbell is our generations primary care physician. Love his teaching acumen. He is truly the best. Thanks from the US!

I am just getting through a five year fight with severe drug resistant depression. Tried many different kinds of anti depressants over that time and for three first four years it was hell. It gave me panic art tracks, high anxiety and agoraphobia. So I think it is something else other than what you are saying. I believe it’s in our DNA, on my mothers side there were four generations of depression suffers, two committed suicide, two tried. At 67 this isn’t my first time, I was hospitalized at 40 for suicide and was there till they found as drug combo that helped (Effexor and Nortriptyline) which I was on till this break. I just wish they could a way to stop it it changes you, you lose memories, get brain dogs etc. I appreciate your explanation of the new findings and look forward to the next information you provide! Thank you, I’ve been following you since Covid started along with Chris Martensen at peak prosperity. You both kept me healthy, no covid, no omicron ,, no flus or even and no jabs. Read to many reports on to put in this old body. Thank you!

@SarahDale111

Жыл бұрын

Would you consider trying a carnivore diet? It has helped me (and many others) immensely.

Thank you for correcting that information. We love doctors like you who are not afraid of honesty. Bless you, Dr. Campbell! 🙌

@andrewditton7226

Жыл бұрын

"People who are no afraid of honesty" You mean the people who were labeled as crazy for saying exactly this for years? The ones that knew they'd be ridiculed for spealing the truth and did it anyway? Or the ones who are only JUST NOW coming out with it? Now that it is safe for them to do so?

I cannot say just how refreshing and admirable it is to hear so much epistemic humility from a researcher. The sentence "This makes perfect sense, aside from the fact that it's wrong." is a sure sign of somebody who is worth listening to. That has become so rare to find, especially in the last two years. Thank you!

@iatsd

Жыл бұрын

He's not a fvcking researcher. He's an ER nurse. That's all. I wish to god people would stop pretending this guy is anything other than that.

@eugeniebreida1583

Жыл бұрын

Who is the researcher to whom you refer? John Campbell didn’t/ doesn’t undertake laboratory research, so far as I know.

@iatsd

Жыл бұрын

@@eugeniebreida1583 They won't reply. They don't have the honesty or the intestinal fortitude to reply when their fantasy is threatened.

Dear Sir Campbell, thank you for having investigated and sharing this. But now I'm very interested in psychosis, dopamine levels and the effect of anti-psychotic drugs.

Fascinating. I have Major Depressive Disorder and have been under treatment for 20 years. Thank you for this information and keep us posted if you learn something new!

Dr Campbell has very effective teaching skills. His teaching is effective because he doesn't treat his audience like a bunch of 8 graders. Love his diagrams.

For me, the SSRI didn't really make me feel any happier, it just made things look 'not so bad', so I was able to function better.

@flowerpower3618

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. I’m on them because I need the boost to be able to practice cognitive behavior therapy and exercise and even pray. I don’t care how they work but I know that for me SSRI ‘s have been a miracle.

@stadiumarcadium2351

Жыл бұрын

numbing is not a fix

@momkatmax

Жыл бұрын

It took me from the blackness to a level of gray. That was a victory. I could catch my breath and allow myself to function. SSRI didn't have any side effects, and certainly didn't make me happy just removed the abnormal depression. After 30 years I am of normal mood, a person who has contentment with normal occasional changes of mood . You can't be happy all the time, that isn't guaranteed to anyone. You get days that stuff happens!

@666chapelofblood

Жыл бұрын

Brain killer tablets.

@roisinmc7442

Жыл бұрын

They made me completely blank and emotionless. I'm convinced it created an ahedonia in me from which i've never properly returned even though i'm off them 20 years. I never feel excited or really happy or sad about anything.

Thank you for stepping up and talking about this topic. So much harm is done via SSRIs and SNRIs, even though they benefit some. We have to find new ways.

I was put on SSRI'S 23 years ago for postnatal depression... I had 4 children and recently came off them 9 months ago after the birth of my last child. Throughout my time on these meds, I felt numb and finally came to a conclusion.... My theory is that depression is both a genetic and environmental issue. I also feel that dopamine base levels have a lot to answer for in this mystery. The same way that certain people are predisposed to addiction etc. Many still think addiction is a mind over matter issue and a symptom of being weak willed. 😔 I am certain that in 20 yrs (ish) We will look back on our ignorance towards addiction with a huge amount of shame and sadness. The same way that we now look back on our attitudes to mental illnesses and asylums. We have so much to learn. Until we get to the truth, I ask that people be compassionate, loving and empathetic towards those struggling with depression, anxiety, addiction etc.

@Vousie

6 ай бұрын

The thing is, while some people may well have a predisposition to addiction, which would make it much harder to break an addiction, in the end, they still need to put in that effort to say "no", to decide that they want to make something of their lives. They're not a slave to their own desires. Mostly I think addiction is more of a mental health issue once again - that people don't feel unhappy with their lives in the first place, which is why they turn to drugs to make themselves feel better. Thus why so many keep relapsing even when they've had "help" to force them off the drugs: The root cause, their mental health was never dealt with, so it just drives them straight back to drugs. This has been shown by Dr. Bruce Alexander in the study where they had rats in a cage with morphine available. When the rats were kept alone, they would use more and more morphine until they overdosed. When they were together & had lots of others to play with, they barely used any of it. (serenityatsummit.com/news/overview-rat-park-addiction-study/)

@rundogrun297

5 ай бұрын

I have been depressed for many many years. I have been on and off a buffet of ssri's They have NEVER helped me EVER. So I agree we do not know squat about the cause of depression at all. I'll just keep moving on with my life.

I have corrected most of my depression without medication. What helped me the most? Diet. What I eat is what affects my mental health the most. Then it's my interests and surroundings. Medications always made things worse for me.

@moonhunter9993

Жыл бұрын

with me, gluten-intolerance was the main cause of it all.

@iamthatiam363

Жыл бұрын

Yeah look into the gut health, kimchi, natto, sauerkraut etc. I'm the same if I eat inflammatory causing foods such as dairy, wheat, sugar, white rice, breads of any kind, alcohol. It doesn't leave much😄

@rahn45

Жыл бұрын

Mine was a vitamin D deficiency. Supplements helped more than any anti-depressant, change in diet, or exercise.

@terrynash-ie9lz

Жыл бұрын

what did you change in your diet?

@TheKitchenerLeslie

Жыл бұрын

Much of it is the cognitive dissonance caused by societal mind-viruses installed by people who really know what they're doing. Depressed people are easier to control. You'll always be happier if you shut off the tv and mainstream media.

The world needs more doctors like you. Clarity, honesty and good communication. Thank you🙏

@chrisstevens8431

Жыл бұрын

Campbell is a retired nurse, who for months was cheer leading for the deadly tea, and now when the dangers are undeniable has reversed his earlier position.......lol

@clavo3352

Жыл бұрын

Well said in few words !! I sure hope AI gets Dr. Campbell's integrity.

@iatsd

Жыл бұрын

He's not a medical doctor. He's an ER nurse. Unless you were intending to say the world needs more doctors that are actually nurses, in which case, carry on.

@wallsgreebo8352

Жыл бұрын

Mate i can carry on regardless of whether you give me permission or not 😂 Whether he's a doctor or a nurse, all i care about is he's giving decent information and communicating it in an honest and clear fashion. Now off you piss 🖐

I appreciate you so much for your consistent integrity. You admit when you have gotten things wrong when new information has presented itself. We see so many people double down on incorrect information because they're afraid of admitting errors and it's refreshing to see someone with maturity and accountability.

Thank you for being open to admitting that we aren't always right and we can learn and grow our knowledge. If it means that something we previously believed wasn't right, then it opens us up to possibilities!

Dr. Campbell! Thank you so much for covering this topic. I'm a psychotherapist so I'm excited to hear you speak of this. My hunch is that at least one major type of depression is due to structural changes within the brain brought on by learning (like we see in brain plasticity studies). I'm sure these changes have a cascading effect on hormones and other things, which is what you seem most interested in. The longer people practice "depressed thinking", the harder it is to come out of it. If depression is allowed long-enough of a time to "grow it's roots", so to speak, it will eventually permeate every aspect of a person's personality. It can be undone, but it's not easy.

@howyoullappear1187

Жыл бұрын

Yes, cascading changes…. the more a thought is repeated it becomes the norm, like anger it is addictive in itself. So it becomes your go-to place,becoming a deeper place to be but with less trigger events to get there. How we frame our thoughts (and time )is a big factor. I found ekhart tolle ‘s (among others) approach to mindfulness is working very well and is opening my eyes to stuff that was there all along, where anti depressants while the brief mental crutch/lift might well be thought to be needed, being down after grief or whatever is natural and you need to be there to process it. Something that I could not do while on them, yes they hold you up, clipping the bottoms off the moods, but also they clip the tops off the better ones, a few weeks in and a robot somewhere in the middle emerges… I didn’t even like myself then, which was worse than the original problem. Trying to reverse engineer something beyond our grasp is difficult to say the least. The more we know, the more we realise we know nothing…

@John-ed2wj

Жыл бұрын

But what about the people who have suffered from depression since they were a teenager?

@jackooboy1

Жыл бұрын

Yes, very similar to the kindling theories in bipolar, schizophrenia, etc. With delayed treatment, or delayed changing of environment to a healthy place, the brain structure changes and makes the lived experience "foundational" neuroplasticly. Oi!

@KJ-lb4tj

Жыл бұрын

@@John-ed2wj same thing. Have a read around Joanna Moncrieff, top psychiatrist at university college London

@Jojoma449

Жыл бұрын

Every psychiatrist before treating any patient should get a microbiome stool test for that patients first. Disrupted microbiota causes disrupted foggy sad brain. Not only I researched this extensively I experienced this on myself numerous times when I was infected with parasite and was able to heal it and several years later I had dysbiosis and pathogenic bacteria that was releasing endotoxins which stimulate immune system increasing cytokines and causing panic Or anxiety. No wonder so many people get anxiety post Covid is because their gut microbiome is disrupted and they are in inflamed state. Every Paychiatrist should start there before treating every new patient. Otherwise they do a disservice to that person.

I've had some thoughts on this recently and I think it has something to do with trauma and the effect this has on the body and the brain. As we go through life, we experience traumatic events. These events differ for everyone and the level of impact these events differs for everyone. For example, childhood neglect or a car accident as an adult. I think it all depends on how the brain processes these memories, and the beliefs that are created afterward. Some people can process traumatic events better than others and it often has to do with what traumatic events they have had happen to them as a child. So when we are "traumatised" and we don't process that memory well, we create negative beliefs (ex: I am not good enough; I am not lovable; I am not safe). If you look at EMDR therapy it is about changing beliefs created by traumatic memories. Then, there is the energy that is created by the traumatic event that gets stored in the body and if we are unable to release the energy then it stays in the body and creates pain, disease etc. See Peter Levine's theory on this. I am not a medical professional, just someone with a bit of life experience and ideas about these theories. I don't think you just 'get' depression. Similar to anxiety. It has to be as a result of something that has happened to you and how your brain has or has not processed it. Interested to hear others thoughts on this :)

@trucid2

Жыл бұрын

Depression is similar learned helplessness. The body is conserving energy because of repeated failure, or perceived failure. It's similar to a bear hybernating. It's all environment.

@patriciamay5521

Жыл бұрын

This is very interesting as I had an event when I was 35 when I couldn’t stop crying. Went on Paroxetine (seroxat) and 35 years later am still on it. But last year I developed FND ( functional neurological disorder), by the way, coincidentally? 2 weeks after the covid vaccine. This is considered a psychiatric condition caused by stress as there is no physical evidence of nerve damage. Now have limited arm movement and worst of all, am no longer able/allowed to drive. So, what is EMDR and who is Peter Levine?

@jacko4483

Жыл бұрын

And sometimes it's simply physical damage, rather than hidden thoughts and traumatic events, which are very real and devastating in their own right. I recently experimented with getting off of citalopram and Adderall after being on them for 18 years under the monitoring of my nurse practitioner. There has been very little stress in my life other than devastating covid in November and long Covid symptoms that are s l o w l y going away. I thought that it didn't seem that the meds were really doing much any longer so let's give it a try. That was a bad idea! Between that, the powerful long covid symptoms and a root canal and crown that flared up and needed to be removed a month ago, it was a trifecta of misery. Having quit drinking eight years ago has been a great accomplishment but late June was so bad I went back to drinking vodka for a couple of weeks. Not heavily, but I emptied two fifths in two weeks until after the tooth extraction and after I got back on the citalopram. I also got back on the Adderall about two weeks ago and thankfully I have been coming out into the light again. It was a dark couple of months 😬. I've had about 8 concussions since I was a young boy and I firmly believe that has had a huge effect on my condition. I'm a very healthy and active man of 61 years, but those last couple of months were hell.

@rahn45

Жыл бұрын

I think when it comes to memories it's actually pretty easy to figure out if it's something that's eating away at you. If you think about it and you feel a bottomless pit in your stomach then it's something that needs to be confronted and resolved still. One of the methods for dealing with such memories is to relive though through writing about them: Essentially putting as much detail as you can into it, which makes it more real so you can better process the memory as something concrete as opposed to something nebulous and hiding in the dark. It will be extremely difficult, unpleasant, and painful the first time around; but typically doing it subsequent times becomes easier to so do. Ideally it gets to the point where you can read what you've written down and you'll be able to say that it's still a bad memory, but you won't have that feeling of a hole in your stomach anymore. Course that deals with only the anxiety and depression in regards to the past, but that's where most of it stems from it seems.

@bethjones4088

Жыл бұрын

@@patriciamay5521 if i took a “vaccine” and became injured/ill soon after, i naturally would think it was what was injected into my body and start investigating that to get the right treatment

I have a radical idea, Dr John. Might be totally out to lunch, but it might be worth considering. We know that giving men with low testosterone supplementation to a healthy level both elevates and levels mood, decreases anxiety, boosts confidence and increases energy. We ALSO know from certain trials/experiments that women with low libido don't just get a boost in their libido with mild testosterone supplementation. They're also less prone to negative emotion, more confident and less anxious. AND we know that since the 1970s, we've been detecting declines in testosterone levels and sperm counts in men. Also, decreases in male genital size. Suspects are petrochemicals like BPA and phthalates that are ubiquitous in the lives of most humans on the planet. It's quite alarming how the WHO and other health agencies have just quietly lowered (more than once) what levels of T and sperm are considered "normal" to prevent too many men from coming up abnormally low. Sperm banks in the 80s routinely saw sufficient motility and count in 80% of donors. Now, it's more like 30%. A "healthy" 30 year old male today has the same T level as the average 80 year old man back in 1970. AND we know that this is not a human-specific phenomenon. It's hard to gauge an alligator's mood or to determine whether they're depressed, but we do know that animals (particularly aquatic ones) are experiencing similar measurable problems. Low T, low sperm counts and smaller penises and testes. Anyway. What if some of this epidemic of depression and anxiety could be fixed with a good old testosterone patch?

Thank you Dr John. How wonderful to get some new insight on depression. Interesting updates

I am happy to hear you admit that Dr Campbell. You are one that has admitted that. While millions of other doctors sit back and continue to do the wrong thing. My trust in medicine is negligible at best. I surely will need a doctor or surgeon at that dire need or moment of urgency. What I don't need from the medical community is practicing malfeasance like promoting something that they knew all along wasn't worthy. Yes and they pushed bad medicine for how long 40 years and two out of three Americans are taking SSRI ? What a sham / shame. God bless you talk to Campbell and other physicians like yourself.

@esecallum

Жыл бұрын

Mostly fraud.... did you hear the amyloid protein alzheimer fraud last week ? they just cut pasted images.

@LTPottenger

Жыл бұрын

Many common medications lead to t2 diabetes, and virtually every chronic disease will be worsened by that. Thankfully fasting can prevent or reverse most chronic disease! Some of the many benefits of fasting and a lower carb whole food diet on the immune system, blood pressure, blood sugar and anti-aging, all backed up by clinical data: Fribrosis/scarring is reversed. Reflexes and short term memory are increased. The hunger hormone ghrelin lowers with extended fasting and rises from dieting Thymus stem cells are regenerated, which suppresses aging and renews the immune system. Fasting stimulates phagocytosis, the ingestion of bacteria and viruses by the immune system. Blood pressure is quickly and dramatically lowered, which is very important for a good outcome with the current pandemic. Fasting increases nitric oxide, which has manifold postive effects like reducing arterial plaque. Weight loss from fasting only loses10% lean tissue and 90% fat compared to the typical 25% lean tissue and 75% fat lost when calorically restricting for long periods. Blood clotting is reduced and blood clots and arterial plaque are reabsorbed into the body. Vitamin D plasma levels are increased, and vitamin D in turn increases autophagy! Blood sugar and insulin are lowered, allowing white blood cells to move more freely throughout the body and do their job. Ideal blood sugar is around 80. Some viruses activate glycolosis (the release of sugar in the body) and clinically it has been shown that decreasing glucose metabolism in the body weakens the influenza virus. Is fasting just the same as caloric restriction? No! Dieting increases the hunger hormone ghrelin while fasting decreases it and has many other health benefits! kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYqgj9CinMu9fMY.html What breaks a fast? kzread.info/dash/bejne/aZWGrtV8oNvfY9I.html When you move out of MTOR your body shuts down the building blocks of the cell which are used to produce organelles and proteins. This means the mechanisms needed by viruses to replicate are by and large unavailable when you are in a deeply fasted state. Does fasting lower testosterone? No, it raises it and builds muscle! kzread.info/dash/bejne/mH6JpteccrrcZNY.html Fasts of several days will not affect short term female fertility and may increase long term fertility especially in women with PCOS. Fasts from 36-96 h actually INCREASE metabolic rate! kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJl3wcmCgpXAYZc.html The hormone Leptin is an immunomodulator that keeps the body from attacking itself and obesity causes leptin resistance. Fasting very quickly reduces leptin resistance and leptin levels and one day of fasting can cut your leptin levels in half and gets your immune system working properly again! Does the body preferentially prefer glucose as a fuel? No, it never uses mainly glucose for fuel and using glucose for fuel is very biochemically damaging! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJplzNmGktm0qNo.html Fasting stimulates the AMPK complex and activates autophagy. Autophagy (literally self eating) will cause cells to recycle foreign matter such as viruses and kill cancerous and senescent cells. AMPK does many helpful things in the body including activating the body's antioxidant defenses. Fasting can make you gain muscle faster: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4aBmqmLqtaveco.html Deep ketosis virtually eliminates chronic inflammation in the body. This can offset the life threatening symptoms of viral pneumonia which effectively kills you through inflammation. This also creates BHB ketones in your body, which also help your immune system and anti-oxidative system, especially in the brain. Ketones also provide an additional energy source during infection, which is critical when trying to fight off a bug. In fact you can have as much as three times the total energy available in your blood when you are in deep ketosis, or even more. It increases mitochondrial function and repairs mitichondrial DNA, leading to improved ATP production and oxygen efficiency and thereby making cells better able to fight off infection. Increased mitochondrial function also has the added benefit of increasing your metabolism and cancer prevention! Your body releases interferon which is also triggered by the body during viral attacks to shut down the replication ability of the surrounding cells and stop infections. After 72 hours or more fasted, your body actually recycles large numbers of immune bodies and creates new ones, rejuvenating your entire system. When you fast, this stimulates apoptosis in senescent or genetically damaged cells. This kills these cells off completely. Senescent cells are responsible for the effects of aging and are the root cause of the development of cancer. If it were possible to destroy them all it would completely stop aging and cancer. That is not possible but fasting can help limit these effects by killing off many of the affected cells and limiting the future effects of aging. Fasting also releases BDNF and NGF in the blood which stimulates new nerve and brain cell growth, helping a great deal with diseases like MS, peripheral neuropathy and Alzheimers. In fact, the biochemical regulator of BDNF production is beta-hydroxybutyrate, which is the same ketone the body produces to nourish the brain while fasting. Autophagy induced by fasting even helps hair regrow. Dieters losing weight through intermittent fasting show greater reduction in waist size and increase in insulin sensitivity for the same weight lost and alternate day fasters were shown to lose fat while gaining muscle at the same time over a six month period. Fasting reverses metabolic syndrome, which is tightly correlated to Chronic Fatiguque Syndrome, high blood pressurecancer and many other chronic diseases. Fasting has been shown to increase bone marrow volume by 10% and levels of carnosine in the body in as little as a few weeks. Fasting also increases telomere length, negating some of the effects of aging at a cellular level. Eating one meal a day can bring most of these benefits to a lesser degree, and adding a few entire days off from eating per week will have even more effect especially when starting to feel poorly. Exogenous ketones can aid with fasting, making it easier in healthy people and allowing some people with specific issues to fast in spite of them without worrying as much about hypoglycemia. Children, pregnant or nursing women should not fast for periods longer than 16 hours. People with pancreatic tumors or certain forms of hypoglycemia generally cannot fast at all. Type 1 diabetics can also fast but it is more complicated and should be approached with caution as it could lead to ketoacidosis. Those with Addison's disease may also be unable to fast without liberal use of exogenous ketones, depending on severity. If you experience extreme symptoms of some kind, especially dizziness then simply break the fast and seek advice. Resources: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7714088/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6859089/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23876457 repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1537&context=edissertations www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)30849-9 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25686106 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24905167 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10859646 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005272806000223 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1413655/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815756/ www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(15)00224-7 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/25712 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779438/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10232622 academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/81/1/69/4607679 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3017674/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312809002832 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5895342/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526871/ www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001176 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23408502/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27569118/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21410865/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407435/ www.arcjournals.org/pdfs/ijrsb/v3-i11/7.pdf www.amjmedsci.org/article/S0002-9629%2815%2900027-0/fulltext pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20921964/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6141719/ faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.819.10 www.biorxiv.org/node/93305.full pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25909219/ www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa012908 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15522942/ clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/36/3/217 europepmc.org/article/MED/22402737?javascript_support=no onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2265.2005.02288.x www.collective-evolution.com/2017/05/16/study-shows-how-fasting-for-3-days-can-regenerate-your-entire-immune-system/ www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/abundance-of-fructose-not-good-for-the-liver-heart holistickenko.com/vitamin-d-kidney-liver-disease/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20102774/ n.neurology.org/content/88/16_Supplement/P3.090 www.nia.nih.gov/news/research-intermittent-fasting-shows-health-benefits pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23707514/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31877297/ This list compiled over years of research by the user known as Pottenger's Human on youtube but feel free to copy and paste this anywhere you like, no accreditation needed! My channel which will always contain an updated list of fasting benefits on the community tab. I also have playlists on fasting and health and wellness and make a little commentary on health and fitness as well.

@johnl5316

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has a very good track record with depression and a LOWER relapse rate than drugs

@jonmason9360

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@@esecallum no, I haven't kept up on all the madness. Look out people, Jesus is returning sooner than most realize.

@craigflower13

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Just a couple of points Jon. John is a nurse like myself, his doctorate is in education, he isn't a medical doctor. The second point is that John stated quite clearly that these medicines work, we just don't know how they do this now. If you think this is bad medicine, then don't take paracetamol (Acetaminophen) and many other drugs, as we have no idea how many of those work either. Your answer is also predicated on the idea that all doctors receive some benefit from prescribing medication. UK doctors are not allowed to take inducements from any company and the NHS certainly doesn't pay bonuses for prescribing specific medication. In fact about 85%, of medicines given to patients in the UK, are generic and these are predominately supplied by pharmacists. So advertising and inducements maybe a fact of life where you live, but it certainly isn't the case within the National Health Service or in other countries where universal healthcare provision is provided. The NHS likes value for money. Below is the link to the NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) clinical pathway for the treatment of depression. NICE develop treatment pathways to standardise care across the country and provide evidence to support how they came to these conclusions. www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng222

“If that produces our humility, it can’t be a bad thing”, bless that wise and humble man! Dr Campbell is a knowledgable, experienced practitioner who has taught a myriad students a complex subject over a busy working lifetime…and yet….. is the first one to say I was Wrong, not even We were Wrong! He’s still learning which should be a great lesson for the rest of us dogmatists who know we are never wrong 🦉 Thank you sir 🦉

@thisdrinkinglife

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nothing from him about how wrong he was about covid, humility me hole, give over

@rfphill

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@@thisdrinkinglife how was he wrong?

@thisdrinkinglife

Жыл бұрын

@@rfphill big supporter of all the guff from the start. Just changed his tune the last two months or so especially since the British government started releasing the real facts on covid n the vaxxs.

@kathleengold2417

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Beautifully written

@cynthiagonzalez658

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@@thisdrinkinglife Covid was an unknown entity. He looked at data and pivoted according to objective science, which is a lot better than celebrity scientists like Faux-ci

WOW! Takes not only courage but a really high standard of ethics to admit this error, and by doing so right after finding out the truth Dr. Campbell gains even more of our admiration! Can we please get him on an advisory board in the govt.?

This man is a seasoned educator as he provided a wonderful explanation of SSRIs. Dr Stephen Stahl would be impressed

"If that increases our humility, that can only be a good thing" - so glad that Dr Campbell understands that humility means being teachable!!!

I personally thought the serotonin story was not scientifically viable from the very first time I heard of it. Most persons I have known who struggled with depression were treated by professionals who, in my opinion, were in denial of the actual issues and dysfunctional habitual perspectives. Psychology has, in my opinion, become a form of denial of human nature inspired by a hope for easier answers. I can appreciate how the mistake was made, we want to discover and manage biological processes as they impact mood and coping, but we have ignored problems in achieving paradigm shifts and modifying habitual thought patterns through other strategies. How the brain facilitates the depression we go through is not necessarily the cause, but merely the implementation. In this case, however, the correlations were non existent. Why can people be depressed when things are not actually going bad in their life? That strikes me as a naive question. How do we perceive that things are or are not bad? Certainly not rationally or accurately at all times. Why we see things the way we see them is not an easy question to answer, but a bias towards seeing human nature as more rational than we have any real evidence for is an injection of common denial into our efforts towards scientific inquiry. Human beings are not always honest with themselves about their expectations, hopes, or trauma. We are often capable of perceiving things as good or bad irrespective of the facts. This should not be surprising, nor perceived as a serious problem but rather as a common struggle we can be better prepared to own and thereby be more open to seeing things differently. I think of a young woman I know who was the victim of sexual abuse, 3 rapes, an attempt on her life, raised in a broken home, and abused by bullying by extended family members. And yet for over ten years she and her therapists were working on the theory that her anorexia nervosa and constant depression were caused by a chemical imbalance. This and numerous other examples I became personally familiar with are why I decided to abandon a goal for a degree in psychology but rather to change my academic focus to Human Development. It was not due to a lack of interest or fascination in psychology, but rather a rejection on my part of the direction psychology was taking academically. It was not a fight I had any interest in wasting time with. In my opinion, this shift in understanding causes for depression is but only one correction of numerous errors in the field of psychology that when someone rejects, they bring an unnecessary level of pushback from the status quo. So much so as to threaten their education, options, licensing, and other outcomes if choosing a career in psychology. Psychology for me became a discipline that is a strange combination of science and a biological false religion. Expressing that opinion has only served to alienate me in numerous discussions. I appreciate very much your honesty.

@gertrudewest4535

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Corporate psychology is designed to blame those suffering on the assembly lines 12 hours a day, five days a week for their despair, so they can reap the benefits of draining the life out of workers and destroying the once beautiful planet.

@emil5884

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This is a good comment. I especially agree on the point of denial, that's exactly what the "neurochemical cause of [psychological diagnosis]" is all about. It's about not looking at the pain of one's past and one's history and staying friends with everyone involved and not introducing any pesky accountability in social dynamics. Only the consequences is fundamentally an untreated condition that has an opportunity to further worsen, while side-effects are already liable to make it worse.

@scarred10

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J thunk you are confusing psychiatry with pschology.Psychology doesnt push biological causes at all it focuses on the psychosocial causes since it is only they that are amenable to therapy they offer,the psychiatrists prescribe the drugs and diagnose and sometimes direct the overall treatment. Human development is a vague nonsense term in the field of mental illness .

@Anna-mv9ew

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Still, one could get depression in that pain and another would not. The kinetics of why is that so was supposed to be psychiatry domain. Instead, they chose to make money selling dangerous placebos, supported by now debunked theory, brainwashing everyone that this is science when non-industry funded studies disprove the effectiveness of ADs, and even blue light therapy is more effective than the ADs... Psychiatry unfortunately is a corrupt joke.

@debbY100

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Great comment and experience - thank you!

I was wrong, what a great title! That's what people need honesty! It's ok to be wrong we all are at some point, but when it comes to people's health, having someone like Dr John say I was wrong based on the evidence at the time, but now the evidence is this, is so frigging great!! I respect him immensely for just bringing the truth as he knows it, and I love the way he explains it so people like me can understand this complex subject.

Excellent and insightfully put. More research definitely needs to be done, I have always been a bit suspicious of antidepressants with all the side effects it can cause and the difficulties with people coming off them.

I love how you explain things. I think if I had you in school I would have done better with remembering what I was being taught. Thank you for the visual. This helps me understand more.

Humility like this is what inspires trust - not the (over) confidence you often see. I think that false confidence helps doctors/scientists do what they need to do, which is tinker with the lives of the the people coming to them for help, but the risks of that approach far outweigh the benefits. This sense of humility should be taught to medical students everywhere. Thank you so much, as always!

Thank you Dr, now I know I'm not crazy or broken for still having depression even after increasing my serotonin levels. Let's hope and pray for a cure soon.

Psychedelic’s definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it’s just so hard to source here

@georgewilliams1062

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Psychedelics are the reason why i didn’t take my life when i was at my end. I was stripped of my ego and saw the beauty of life and interconnectivity and even though i still battle anxiety and depression, I’m doing better everyday and will never think in such a self destructive way again.

@zoeywinston6826

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LSD and mushrooms completely changed my whole outlook on life. I became a better version of myself This experience gave me a lot of confidence about my self and my body. A bunch of bad thought / behavior patterns were broken. One of these was pretty bad OCD that made me wash my hands a lot. It gave me a lot of hope that things will be fine, this is the one thing that I heard throughout the trip: Everything is alright. The main reason for the trip was my severe depression and it definitely helped me (although it's not gone). Before all I could do was lay in bed. Now I am trying to rebuild my life one step at a time which wasn't possible before."

@sarahh321

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[_James_tray] Got psychs

@Jerryberger9235

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@@sarahh321 Where to search?? Is it IG?

@nishaelvert1104

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Last year, I took shrooms at Las Vegas thinking it was going to hit like an edible or something. Shit was scary at first but amazing once you start getting deeper into your thoughts

Thank you Dr. Campbell for keeping us updated with things like this. I always catch wind of things like this in the media and find links to the studies but not being an academic makes it difficult to understand them. Thank you for explaining them in a way we can easily understand! Love your channel!

Much depends on WHY a person is Depressed - sometimes there is a real reason - like a botched surgery or job loss or loss of spouse or someones life is generally going downhill ...... it is different than someone whose life objectively going well. Doctors have too much of a tendency to say "Here take this pill and you will feel great again!"

@troywalkertheprogressivean8433

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Circumstantial depression. It's perfectly logical, reasonable, and rational to be depressed if one is bothering to perceive the truth/reality. And some of us can't unsee it.

@MrOlleyOlley

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Gets worse when you know that between 60 to 80% of the benefits of antidepressants is a placebo effect

@SpaceTravel1776

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People experience the same event, yet some people suffer clinical depression for most of their life and some people don't get "depression" in the clinical sense. It has nothing to do with the "Why" something happened, or more accurately, the "What" that triggered the depression.

@arianeingham6699

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@SpaceTravel1776: Precisely. Brain chemistry is in perpetual fluctuations and the elusive “consciousness”, is the master chemist… or, in the undisciplined, the apprentice chemist. But we are each on our own journey to self mastery. We all deserve patience, from ourselves and each other.

@ciscokid0110

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When I was young, people were just sad for short periods of time. It almost seems like a club to join anymore.

Surely what this shows is we don't know much about anything, our personal experience is exactly that... personal...we all respond differently to all the factors, cause and 'cure'. What we need to learn from this is that sharing experiences is great, knowing that we aren't the only one going through this is helpful, but it's about time we all stopped thinking that we know whats best, or right, or true. It's just opinion and personal experience, so don't disrespect others or tell them they're wrong. Well done to all those who beat depression, it's hard work and you did it! Thanks for sharing your success stories and inspiring others. But do not assume you have the right to comment negatively on the situation and experience of another human being. This video shows how individual we all are on every level. And that medics are always learning, just like us. We need to inform ourselves not tell others how to live and what to do. There's far too much of that going on, as the whole jab situation has proved. Let's stop.

My naturopath put me on more B vitamins, especially B12 and folate and restricted food allergies and in 6 weeks I felt a huge change. So many other healthy practices have continued the process. Always thought I had a mild cloud over me, but moving to a mostly sunny place with good social connections has changed that as well. God is in charge! Thank you Doctor Campbell. Love your info.

@harrydavey9884

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Now imagine if we follow the globalist narrative and all turn vegan... How many B12 deficiencies we'll suddenly have.

I'm a resident doctor currently. During medical school a few years ago, most of the psychiatrists I worked with didn't believe that increased serotonin levels were the main mechanism by which anti-depressants actually worked. Studies from about 10-20 years ago were pointing in that direction. The psychiatrists, at the time, were under the impression that SSRIs worked through anti-inflammatory properties of the brain, or other vague/complicated pathways not yet understood.

@alnicospeaker

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reduction of inflamation sounds interesting and would certainly explain why drastic changes in diet also seem to work

@merg-vh5sx

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So juicing and fasts are probably as effective as anything else. Love it for us. 1x liver detox (but detoxes don't work) annually while we fix our gut microbiomes (hippie nonsense, won't work, leaky gut is a lie). Imagine patients' frustration. Imagine.

@robinhood4640

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Our current health crisis is inflammation, it's been going on for a while,and it has caused a lot of suffering and death. Coronavirus is a stroll in the park in comparison.

@monishbiswas1966

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Yeah - as with a lot of things the evidence base and consequently sentiment changed gradually, rather than a single study or paper changing eveyones mind.

@ysteinberg5084

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Which means, again, that sugar might be the real culprit.. medicine tends to go for the symptoms and not trying to find the root cause..

Such an important video. I’ve been on the same ssri for 10 years and don’t think I’ll ever be able to come off. I’ve worked very hard to heal myself from anxiety and ocd.such a multifaceted condition

Great video Dr. Campbell. Very interesting to know what percentage, probably larger than one would think, of those patients where SSRI Medications appear to be effective, are actually experiencing the 'Placebo Effect', whereby the medication works because you have been told it will work. The 'Power of Persuasion', alone, can be very impactful.

Oh my God. Nothing surprises me. Thank you so much John for informing everyone of the findings. One of my daughters was self harming at 15 years old As she had a few emotion issues and we decided to go through the therapy route instead of medication. Some progress was made but all was not healed. I kept wondering if it was an imbalance of hormones that was causing her problems, because my brother had a similar diagnosis. so decided to do my own research. This lead me to believe that if there was some inflammation in the brain causing her symptoms maybe it was her food that was causing her behaviour and mood swings. After a month of cutting out gluten and E numbers She had no symptoms and continued this diet for a long time. She is now 50 years old and she can tolerate small amounts of gluten etc. I urge all people who have mental health issues to take a look at their diet because I feel it’s worth a shot ???? It’s amazing what can affect our bodies if we are intolerant of some food etc….. I have physical symptoms that have improved no end after being tested for food intolerances and made changes in my diet Take care x

@rachelfinch8441

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Joan you are so near the answer I believe. There are many doing research on the connection of the gut with the brain. I’m very interested in this connection for personal reasons too

@yuppers1

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Yes I think this is correct. There was a tie between brain inflammation and depression in some research already. Problem is an anti-inflammatory diet isn't something you can't monetize. There's a lot of money in pills.

@nextlevelpaleo3828

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Spot on! Totally agree.

@ONELIFELIVEITOZ

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I do keto fasting and alternating OMAD total organic/wild caught proteins. I have reversed my T2D and have never felt better. 57yo. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@scarred10

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There is no way to measure brain inflammation and diet may or may not help,definitely food I tolerances arent related.Gluten free foods benefit only coeliacs.

Good on you John for owning the fact that you were mistaken and just talking about it all openly.

hi john i am very appreciative of all the information you provide andit has helped me no end. i am an autistic adult suffering long term high anxiety and depression. me watching this video is part of me trying to resolve a forward path for my treatment of my depression and whether or not to start trying anti depresents. so thank you for the updated data on this.

Thank you for making this, Dr. Campbell. Dr. Joanna Moncrieff has been correct about this for decades. Finally the tide is starting to turn, so we can move on and explore other avenues.

Wouldn't it be funny of they submitted the paper incomplete saying they were just too depressed to finish it...? Thank you Dr. Campbell for everything you do, your lack of fear and unswerving honesty is a Godsend during these dark times we live in.

@darrenthomson1930

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Get me a bucket.

I remember an enthusiastic drug rep, sometime in the 80’s, bringing me (a GP) the news of a new class of drug, the SSRI. Apparently, so the story went, depression was caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain and SSRIs, one of the early ones being Fluoxetine (Prozac), were effective in helping restore a proper balance. I also remember my immediate response: ‘Just a minute! Correlation is not causation. Perhaps the ‘chemical imbalance’ is not the cause of depression but the result of it’. I’m putting it simply. Since then, of course, we have discovered a lot about how the brain works. The brain does, indeed, change in response to our state of mind, not only chemically, but macroscopically too - the changes can be seen on MRI scans. The phenomenon is known as neuroplasticity. (I realise you know these things, Jon!) It seems to me that it we ‘form ourselves’ through the choices we make, not least through the thought processes that we choose to accommodate (or reject). Throughout my professional life I have taken this to be a guiding principle, particularly in the area of mental health. The application of this principle is the foundation for CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy). If you want to change unwanted symptoms it is necessary to change how you think. That’s it, in a nutshell. SSRIs represent inappropriate treatment because, in so far as their mechanism of action is understood at all, they don’t go to the root of the problem. The use of SSRIs was always a case of the ‘cart’, of trying to treat the consequences, being put before the ‘horse’ of managing the causes. And that’s why they don’t work. During my 40+ years of general medical practice I saw many hundreds of patients taking antidepressants. Very few of them unequivocally benefited from them. Many took them for years without knowing whether they made any difference at all, but were reluctant to stop. More often than not, I think, they were prescribed as the default option by hard-pressed GPs for ‘treating’ unhappiness. The evidence for the efficacy of antidepressants is conspicuously absent.

@jeffkiehne2545

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There seems to be evidence that cover up of use by Mass shooters in the United States as they hide medical records .

@Ayyeliki

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@Kings, I’m with you on the CBT front- although connecting with a competent therapist can be quite a challenge, sadly! I had the fortune to find one such soul who helped me with an eating disorder after college - and the ability ( a learned skill) to question my thoughts and challenge the rationality of them has helped me on so many levels ( esp. with my nutty teen now). As an aside, Have you ever read The classic “ the Road Less Travelled “ ( 1978 I think) by M.Scott Peck , MD ? He was A practicing psychiatrist, back in the day when they mostly offered psychotherapy before any meds ( slim pickings anyways those days ). After years of experience, he came to the conclusion that “… this tendency to avoid problems ( which he previously states are common and to be expected in life) and “the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since most of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, most of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree, lacking complete mental health.….”. It’s a very deep, fascinating and thought provoking read- my favorite book after the Bible. I highly recommend , the older stuff (as I call it) is so solid!

@kimlarso

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@jeanwallace9791

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@Running Red Fox Why would you want to change peoples thoughts If they can live with them.?

@dougb70

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there is a right time and place for each tool. If a patient comes to you starved, you don't take the moment to teach them to fish. You feed them. Then over time you teach them sustainable patterns. I suspect that is the same for mental health. SSRIs can be a good tool to facilitate coping in the immediate term. In the intermediate term, you apply therapeutic methods to mold the development of healthy thought patterns.

Dr Campbell, I really respect your honesty, all I can say is that it's refreshing to see people acknowledge the need for revising their views.

I would trust you as my primary doctor any day! I truly trust you. Medicine and the sciences are always evolving. Thank you for your info and research doctor.

My 91 yo mother has suffered with a lifetime of anxiety and depression. She’s been addicted to prescription drugs from 1960s such as Valium to Lorazepam. They have all been hopeless and done far more harm than good. I witnessed all of this from my childhood. I recognise it was her responsibility to work on getting herself well but the GPs facilitated the addiction. When it comes to Pharma I run for the hills.

@godloves9163

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Yep. Another one that understands because they went through the experience of pharmakia. People don’t understand until they witness it themselves. Many are so brainwashed relying on the system so much that they’re in denial until they witness it firsthand.

@scarred10

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Lots of drugs have saved countless lives and misery but antidepressants are way over prescribed and need to be part of overall lifestyle and psychotherapy.

@kiethj7

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My 60 yo mother has dementia from a opiate overdose that happened ten years ago. It all started in the early 90s when her Dr told her it was safe and non addictive. I run for the hills too my friend

@scarred10

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@@kiethj7 very short sighted, severe drug side effects are very rare and statistically insignificant compared to the good they do.For eg without opiates,pain would be unbearable and terminally ill patients would suffer a lot more

@scarred10

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@@kiethj7 no doctor thinks opiiods are non addictive.

Yes, this is absolutely why I trust presentation of evidence from Dr John - he is honest, humble and has great integrity. We need more of this in healthcare and research. Thank you Dr Campbell !!

@noreenalbright2245

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This honesty will HURT their bottomline, what they really are interested in. Sadly, they just want $$$ and drugs. I'm more for natural therapies, talk therapies, exercise and diet, boundaries/trigger avoidance, etc.

Fascinating diagrams and explanations. I had heard someone else a week or two ago announce this scientific discovery that depression is not caused by a lack of serotonin, and it was way over my head. This one makes a lot more sense. For me, I have taken SSRIs for years, and they do very well for me. The odd thing is that I was put on them because of CFS/ME and Fibromyalgia, and my doctor said that for whatever reason, they've helped some people with that condition. I certainly didn't think I was depressed (and still don't think I was). However, I took the meds as a trial for CFS/ME/Fibro, and the pain decreased, but the exhaustion and a multitude of other symptoms didn't budge a bit. A side effect that surprised me was that my mood lifted as well! Like I said, I wasn't what a person would call clinically depressed, but I did tend to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders. And here, several months after starting on this medication, the world looked brighter than it ever had before. That couple shades of brightness difference has remained with me all these years, but the management of pain hasn't been so dependable.

It is well known in the holistic and natural practices that a massive amount of improvements with depression can be helped by diet, exercise and having lots of human support makes a huge difference in peoples mood and life's outlook. I think what you are doing with making sure the truth comes out about the training that has been done over the past hundred or so years needs to be put right. Too many have been harmed by the medical industry especially over the past 3 years. Well done for speaking out. I have been looking into German New Medicine for answers for my clients and my family, this is a very interesting topic and maybe one you could look into on a video?

I used to be on depression medication for long periods. For me I felt like a zombie or zoned out which was actually a lot better than being really down all the time. I now have a strict diet, drink less alcohol and run most days which certainly makes me function better. I do still have a mild depression lingering in the background but I manage it. If I feel I'm getting worse I usually go back to my GP and some years I need to go back on the SSRIs. It ebbs and flows but you have to be in tune with your own body and mind and make sure to get help when you need it. The most important part is to stay functional and keep moving forward with help and support. Nobody can do it alone. Take care.