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Serotonin, Mood and Weight Loss — An Interview with Judith Wurtman
Enough!
We all want to feel the best we can, right? We want to be happy dammit!
Well, it turns out that feeling good has a whole lot to do with chemicals — brain chemicals called neurotransmitters and one of those is called serotonin.
Dr. Judith Wurtman is an expert in serotonin. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts and has researched serotonin for many years at MIT…
Dr. Wurtman has kindly agreed to help us out with some questions about this whole idea of how serotonin is connected to feeling good but also, surprisingly, to obesity, emotional eating, and binge eating… Read more
How to get rid of unwanted thoughts
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A friend of mine is plagued with unwanted thoughts.
He’s been diagnosed with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and I can tell how bad he is at any given moment by the number of times he calls me — he says I say the same stuff as his psychologist but I’m a lot cheaper! :-)
I mean… this is a guy who is bordering on reckless in many areas of his life but is brought to his knees with fear from thoughts that are totally irrational…
If I told you what they were you’d think it was silly but these silly thoughts dominate his life completely.
I don’t believe in the OCD label, at least not in his case. What I see is an extreme example of the issues we all face — the inability to drive our own mental car, the inability to choose the focus of our attention, the inability to see thought for what it really is… Read more
