Dr Maria Cronyn

24/07/2025

How has someone's Toxic Positivity affected you?

24/07/2025

This stands to be true for me.
Full detachment with no drama.
Done.

24/07/2025

21/07/2025

Yes, they are stored in the nervous system

21/07/2025

Victims and narcissistic abuse by family or partner often feel this way. Going low and no contact is extremely extremely difficult. It’s a process that takes time and requires support.

21/07/2025

Most Mental Illnesses Arise Without Family History

Most mental illnesses don’t just follow family lines, according to a massive Danish study.

Examining over 3 million people, researchers found that the vast majority of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression cases occur without close relatives having the same diagnosis.

While family history can double or triple risk, it’s far from a guarantee.

The study highlights the unpredictable and multifactorial nature of mental health disorders.

Even in high-risk families, most individuals remain unaffected.

These insights could reduce stigma and support more nuanced mental health policies.

20/07/2025

Totally true! SSRI’s are baseless in there prescribing. And then you get dependent on it and have to taper. But the risk of taking them in the first place, causing some other problems with serious side effects is always glazed over too.

Try something natural for your depression and get to the root cause.

For decades, millions believed that depression stemmed from a “chemical imbalance” in the brain specifically, a lack of serotonin. But a landmark scientific review has just shattered that idea. After analyzing decades of research, scientists found no clear evidence that low serotonin causes depression. The popular theory, long used to justify widespread antidepressant use, may have oversimplified one of the most complex mental health conditions.

The findings have stirred both scientific and public debate. Many psychiatrists now warn that framing depression purely as a chemical issue may have steered patients away from more effective therapies like lifestyle changes, trauma-informed care, and talk therapy that tackle the root causes. While antidepressants may still help some people, the study urges a more honest conversation about how and why they work.

This discovery marks a turning point in how we think about mental health. It reminds us that depression isn’t just a biological malfunction it’s deeply personal, social, and psychological. And real recovery might lie beyond a pill bottle.
Source: Moncrieff, J., et al. (2022). Molecular Psychiatry.

18/07/2025

18/07/2025

Emotionally absent parents raise adult children who are fluent in everyone’s emotional language but their own.

You know who needs support, who needs soothing, who needs to be left alone - but knowing what you yourself need, let alone how to ask for it, seems as foreign as a parent who could read what you needed without being told.

18/07/2025

A little known fact that adoption itself causes a type of complex PTSD is often not diagnosed. This population exceeds 7 million people in the United States alone.

18/07/2025

Offering Adoption literate Natural mental health to adult pediatric adopted persons and all who love them!

18/07/2025