The Stress-Addiction Link | Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction

Gene Linked to Both Alcoholism and Depression

By Tom Rees, on September 28th, 2011%

I have been preaching for years now that I believe most people who are alcoholics began drinking (or drugging) to help kill the pain of a mood disorder. For whatever reason until today I had not known that there was empirical scientific data backing this notion up. Nobody really knows if you can be an alcoholic first, and then that triggers a long-term depressive episode, or visa versa. If you have an alcohol or drug … Read More

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“Rag” Magazines vs. Science: Are the Rat Population Studies True?

By Tom Rees, on September 1st, 2011%

One need only look at the racks stuffed full of “rag magazines” at the head of most market checkout lanes to know they are there because they sell. They sell the surprise and shock of a headline that announces somebody who is or was “on top” of their game has shaved all their hair off, married a mooch, or gotten busted for a whole bunch of drugs that were discovered when their car was searched … Read More

Addicts or Depressives and Self-Destructive Thinking

By Tom Rees, on July 7th, 2011%

The famous inspirational business writer Napoleon Hill wrote 16 lessons about how to succeed in business. One of them focused on how you THINK as a person. He was so convinced you could “think” yourself to any degree of success he wrote a second book called “Think and Grow Rich”.

If somebody wrote a book about addicts and how they think, the title might be something depressing like “Think and You Will Discover You Have … Read More

Depression, anxiety and addiction are leading to high suicide rates in the Military

By Tom Rees, on May 2nd, 2011%

: Maj. Gen. Mark Graham speaks openly about mental health and his “family” of men and women in service. It is a start, but hardly enough to reverse what is really happening.

of men and women in (NOTE: Please read the articles at the end of this entry)

The other day on the radio I heard some shocking statistics about depression and suicide as it relates to the military. Personally, I don’t think there could be … Read More