Wes Burgess

“people who have the genes for unipolar major depression cannot turn off their stress response. When they experience stress from jobs, deadlines, family trouble, medical illness, or extreme excitement, large quantities of steroid stress hormones and norepinephrine come pouring into their brains and cannot be stopped. Every day, this stress overload is fatiguing and killing cells in their brains, bringing on unipolar major depression.”
― Burgess,, Wes, The Depression Answer Book: Professional Answers to More than 275 Critical Questions About Medication, Therapy, Support, and More

“Do not routinely give the diagnosis of Panic Disorder solely because patients complain of nervous, anxious, panicky, or fearful emotions—the criteria for Panic Disorder are mainly physical symptoms that are also associated with increased blood levels of adrenaline (epinephrine), lactic acid, and increased blood pH. Even the “psychological” symptoms of derealization, depersonalization, and fears of dying, losing control, and going crazy can be reproduced by artificially altering blood adrenaline levels and acid/base balance.”
― Wes Burgess, Mental Status Examination. 52 Challenging Cases, Model DSM-5 and ICD-10 Interviews, Questionnaires, and Cognitive Tests for Diagnosis and Treatment