Evidence suggests that if
you suffer from any of the following conditions, boosting your
serotonin levels could help:
- Depression of any kind
- Bipolar disorder (aka manic-depression)
- Any anxiety disorder
(e.g. obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social phobia)
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Schizophrenia and other psychoses
- Poor impulse control
(e.g. addictions and eating disorders, rage attacks, impulsive
criminal or other antisocial activities, compulsive self-mutilation)
- Chronic pain
- Insomnia
- Parkinson's disease and neurologic
movement disorders in general
- Some forms of epilepsy
- Autism
- Tourette's syndrome
- Attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder
- Alzheimer's disease or other forms
of senile dementia
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