One thing we might hope to learn from the observational studies is what the microbiome of a depression sufferer, or someone with schizophrenia – or even a rat with an anxiety problem – looks like.
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Having a gut causes depression.
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Your gut causes me depression.
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Stay on your side of the bed!
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One therapy for anxiety that was proposed but never really took off was to listen to verbal descriptions of your own stress triggers on tape but the verbal descriptions would be in a very very boring tone of voice. The idea is that the person would eventually learn to become bored by the triggers and they would lose their power to trigger.
I sort of did the same thing with my health obsessions (I had a bit of the Sz ‘somatic concerns’ symptom). I basically listened to health podcasts all day every day for a couple of years and eventually I just got fed up with the topic. I wonder if the same sort of concept could be applied to the various Sz symptoms.
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