These two complex symptoms have a terrifyingly circular relationship, often blending seamlessly into each other, making it impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins

We blame neurotransmitters for everything, and try to use them to fix every mental health disorder in the book, but should we? Depression must be low serotonin, and anxiety must be too low or too high norepinephrine. But this view has its limits, and more and more research is confirming that neurological inflammation may be as important or even more important than neurotransmitter levels.

Neuroplasticity is part of the way your brain learns what is important to you. The pathways between neurons that you use most frequently get strengthened and prioritized because they matter to you. Your brain just assumes that the things you think about and do with your brain frequently are the things that are helping to keep you alive and functioning. Not the things that are making your life miserable, like negative self-talk or catastrophizing.