Whether you’ve experienced it yourself or know someone who has, the debilitating effects of anxiety and depression are clear. Often, these conditions can lead to broken families and lost relationships, crime, despair, and even suicide. The options for relief are severely inadequate—not for lack of existence, but for lack of awareness of their existence.
If you see a doctor for anxiety or depression, they will likely have a short conversation with you and offer an SSRI, and if you don’t want to take that route, they might just tell you to exercise more and eat better.
What so many people don’t know is that there is an abundance of scientifically verified options available for the treatment of anxiety and depression. Along with a team of top-notch scientists and researchers, Richard Jacobs is determined to compile a thorough list of 17+ of them and offer them to anyone dealing with anxiety or depression.
It’s a considerable feat, but Jacobs has a personal stake in the matter, and it’s likely that you do too.
Tune in to learn how you can help.
Hello, this is Richard Jacobs, host of the Finding Genius Podcast and executive director of the Finding Genius Foundation, a 501 C3 registered charity with the IRS, non-profit. Today, I want to talk to you about what else? Anxiety and depression. I want you to imagine going to a doctor, a practitioner, a healthcare person and telling them what’s going on with you or you going into the office, let’s say with someone that needs help and the doctor says well, we have these drugs, these SSRIs, we have this, we have that and there’s a couple of different things that you can do. If you are lucky, the doctor tells you this, if you are not lucky, the doctor says it’s all in your head, you will be fine, just go exercise or go do this or do that.
I don’t actually know which way is lucky or unlucky if you are given these drugs that don’t seem to be very effective for a lot of people, at least long-term or if it is better that the doctor just tells you to go get exercise and do things that make you happy.
Either way, it is a blowoff. Either way, it is not showing you all the possible things you can do to help yourself. Now, I want you to imagine what if you went to a healthcare practitioner or what if there was a resource for anxiety and depression and you looked and there were 17 different scientifically verified treatments for anxiety and depression. You’d be overwhelmed, sure but you would be blown away, wow. I didn’t know there were so many ways to tackle this thing. Guess what? That is the goal of the codex for anxiety and depression. I have a team; a Board of Directors now, all top notch scientists and great thinkers and we are compiling a list of all known possible treatments for anxiety and depression. We are going to be hiring several researchers to go and research as many scientific papers and other articles and interviews and seminars and all that on all these 17+ different treatment methods.
We want to back this all up with science and not just there was an article on the internet that said X. What I want to do is compile these 17+ potential different treatments for anxiety and depression and offer them to you if you have anxiety or depression or to a friend, family member, co-worker or loved one that does because if you have any familiarity with this, I’m sure you know how debilitating anxiety or depression can be, how it can hurt relationships, how it can strain relationships, how it could tear apart families, how it can lead to suicide in some cases, how it can lead to crime, how it can lead to despair and being unable to work, unable to function and all these terrible things and just an unhappy life and often a shortened life to disease and stress etc. Nobody wants that, it’s a burden. It’s like an anvil weighing upon the person that you care about or weighing upon yourself.
It makes everything hard like you are moving through molasses and I know because my wife and one of my children, actually two of my children deal with chronic depression and anxiety. So, it hits home, it’s right here in my home. This is a very important thing for me to do and this is the goal of the project. So, I hope this makes sense what I am describing to you and I hope that you are excited at the prospect of a resource like this. I’m going to create it but I need your help.
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