Stick It To Depression Blog
Resources to help manage depression or anxiety and increase your peace and joy.
The Healing Fusion: When Modern Medicine Meets Ancient Wisdom in a GP’s Practice
The Beautiful Side of Grief is a weekly podcast for people who want to hear interviews from people who have moved through heart-wrenching loss or those who are supporting this process. It is diverse and heart-warming, though most of all, it is positive and filled with...
Bridging East and West: Integrating Acupuncture into Modern Mental Health Practices
In recent years, there's been a growing fascination with the ancient practice of acupuncture as a potential game-changer in the realm of mental health. People are increasingly curious about the needles that have been a staple in traditional Eastern medicine for...
Healing the Healer: A Guide to Self-Care Strategies for Acupuncturists
The need for healing has become a universal necessity in the hustle and bustle of our modern lives. Whether it's the stresses of work, the demands of family life, or the constant digital noise, everyone seeks a sanctuary for rejuvenation and balance. Although healers...
Acupuncture: Your Key to a Life Restored, Naturally
The Chris Voss Show Podcast - In this podcast episode, I was an invited guest and I was pleased to talk about my life as a medical practitioner, my battle with Crohn’s disease, and my journey into the acupuncture treatment industry. Listen to the full podcast here or...
My Journey Into Transformational Acupuncture
Learn more about my overarching mission in the acupuncture industry by listening to this podcast interview I recently had with Ann Théato of the Psychic Matters podcast. Transcription: Ann: With me in the studio today, I have a fascinating guest who is joining me all...
Thinking your way into depression
We can think ourselves into depression. We have around 60,000 – 70,000 thoughts a day, and very few of them are original. We can tell ourselves many times a day that we are stupid, are unattractive, are too short, or too tall, too fat, or too thin. These false...
Physical illness as a cause of depression
In considering the cause of depression, it is important to rule out a number of medical conditions first. Particularly in this age of Dr Google, patients may feel depressed and then look to herbs or natural therapies for depression and then go ahead treat themselves,...
What Causes Depression?
What causes depression? When thinking about the cause of depression it is useful to see us as more than just a mere machine. Modern medicine does tend to think of human beings in such a way. For example, seeing the kidneys as operating like a swimming pool filter, the...
Antidepressant Guidelines – incredibly unhelpful!
The president of the RACGP, the peak body for general practitioners, Dr Harry Nespolon said this week, “This is one of those areas where patients’ effect is so variable, that guidelines may in fact be incredibly unhelpful”. This was said in response to new research...
Medications as a cause of depression
Medications can be a less obvious cause of depression. These include a group of drugs known as Beta Blockers. Before ACE Inhibitors became available in the 1980’s, Beta Blockers were the most popular blood pressure medications and are still widely used today, such as...
About Dr. Alex
Dr. Alex Joannou is the leading global expert on depression and acupuncture, an award-winning speaker, 2x #1 best-selling author, and highly accredited GP. His 40-year medical career spans 300,000 patient consultations and over 35,000 acupuncture treatments. Dr. Alex trains acupuncture practitioners globally to “Stick It To Depression” using Transformational Acupuncture.
