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Your Brain on Psilocybin
Humans have been taking psilocybin-containing mushrooms for centuries, but there has been recent research into the therapeutic possibilities of this molecule.
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The Truth About 'Truth Serum'
Sodium pentothal, the so-called "truth serum,' is real! But does it work? Find out what "truth serums' do, and how your brain lets you tell lies.
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Hacking Your Sleep: Melatonin Secrets for Bipolar Disorder and ADHD
Unlock the secrets of circadian rhythms and their impact on mental health with Dr. Tracey Marks, a psychiatrist. Discover why bipolar disorder and ADHD are profoundly affected by a disrupted body clock. Learn about clock genes, sleep...
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Top 4 Inherited Mental Health Disorders: What You Need to Know
Psychiatrist Dr. Tracey Marks explains the top 4 mental health conditions with the highest heritability (greatest genetic influence). She discusses what heritability means, the role of environmental triggers, and how knowing your family...
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The Story You Tell Yourself: Understanding Your Narrative Identity
The story you tell yourself about your life has immense power. This is your narrative identity – it shapes how you think, feel, and act. In this video, psychiatrist Dr. Tracey Marks helps you understand the key elements of your...
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The Surprising Origins of Vampires
Our fascination with vampires has spanned centuries, but it didn’t all start with Dracula. In fact, the first vampires (dating back to the 1800s!) were actually women. This genre of literature gave writers an outlet to explore female...
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Psychiatrist or Therapist: Who Should YOU See?
Psychiatrist Dr. Tracey Marks delves into the key differences between psychiatrists and therapists, offering guidance on choosing the right mental health professional based on symptoms and treatment needs. The video also explores the...
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How To Tell If Your Anxiety Is Treatment Resistant
In this video, we're going to talk about what it means when you have treatment resistant anxiety. I’m also going to define four terms for you, treatment resistance, treatment refractory, medication intolerance, target symptoms. I also...
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When Should You See A Doctor For Mental Issues? (The ULTIMATE Guide)
This video is for those of you who are trying to figure out when it's time to see a doctor about your mental health - or if you're just curious about what kind of issues typically warrant seeing a therapist. Well, today I’m going to talk...
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Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder aka Multiple Personality Disorder
Dissociative identity disorder develops when person fails to form a total personality that integrates all aspects of yourself and your emotions. For more on dissociative states watch this video on depersonalization. What Is...
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The Truth About Testosterone And Depression
Testosterone deficiency is a common cause of depression in men and can often go unrecognized. As a psychiatrist, what I see is the either the depressed man who doesn’t get enough improvement with antidepressants or the man who is not...
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What is Conversion Disorder - Anxiety Out Of Control?
Conversion disorder is also called functional neurologic symptom disorder. This is where you have medically unexplained neurological symptoms. The symptoms are thought to have a psychological basis because not only are they not supported...
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What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a brain disorder that creates faulty and inaccurate perceptions about your appearance. For some people you can even have delusional beliefs that make you think the flaws you see are an accurate...
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What Is Intermittent Explosive Disorder? Is It Just Being Angry?
What is intermittent explosive disorder and what we do about it? This video is based on a several viewer questions. Some of the questions were around distinguishing it from bipolar disorder. Others asked me to to talk about it because...
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What Does It Mean To Be Neurotic?
In this video I discuss three ways to define neurotic. 1. Using the five-factor OCEAN model developed by Lewis Goldberg 2. Using the concept of neurosis developed by Sigmund Freud 3. Using personality organization construct developed by...
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Understanding Histrionic personality- The Pain Behind the Drama
Histrionic personality disorder falls into the cluster B grouping of personality disorders. Cluster B refers to the group of personality disorders that share the characteristics of being dramatic, emotional or erratic. And the...
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What is Anxious Depression?
Anxiety and depression often come together. And there's different ways this can look. Sometimes anxiety spawns depression, where you start off with something like obsessive compulsive disorder where you have these overwhelming thoughts...
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The Connection Between Anxiety and Stomach Problems
There’s a bidirectional relationship between gastrointestinal disorders and anxiety. This relationship is thought to be controlled by a gut-brain connection. Research studies have concluded that there is signaling between the gut and the...
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Window of Tolerance: What is it and how to stay in it
In this video, I discuss the window of tolerance and how to stay in it. The window of tolerance is a state where you are performing at your best. You're relaxed, but alert. You're focused, but not overwhelmed. Learn how to find your...
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Signs You Might Be Struggling With Scrupulosity (Religious OCD)
Do you sometimes feel like you're being too hard on yourself? That maybe your thoughts and feelings just don't line up with what everyone else seems to believe? If so, you might be struggling with scrupulosity. In this video, I talk...
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If You Suffer from Premenstrual Dysphoria - Watch This
PMDD stands for premenstrual dysphoric disorder. This is not to be confused with Premenstrual Syndrome or PMS. PMS is changes in mood during certain parts of the menstrual cycle. It affects 80% of women. The mood changes can be mild to...
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Oppositional Defiant Disorder: The Disorder That Makes You Defy Authority
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is a condition that affects both children and adults, causing them to display persistent defiance, hostility, and disobedience towards authority figures. In this video, we'll explore what ODD is, the...
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Ketamine for depression - A Powerful but Tricky Solution
Ketamine is a very powerful anesthetic drug that’s made it’s way into psychiatry. In this video I talk in detail about how Ketamine is used to treat depression. Ketamine is known on the street as special K. It’s a hallucinogen and...
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Is Hearing Voices Ever Normal?
In general when we hear that someone is hearing voices, we believe that the person is experiencing a psychotic episode. Psychosis is a break from reality and not knowing what’s real and not real. Usually hearing voices, also called...