Adam Lane Smith

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1,798 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles · Why You Keep Repeating the Same Relationship Patterns | Adam Lane Smith - EP 782 · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

I will live with chronic pain forever because there is no hope.

That is what depression is.

We used to say depression was caused by low serotonin.

Now they're saying that's actually not accurate, but it is correlated with low serotonin.

We know that serotonin is released primarily in our gut when we're in the parasympathetic rest and digest state.

Now that's the state we go into when we feel connected and bonded to our tribal structure, our family, our friends, our kith and kin, the people around us who love us.

Our system says, I don't have to be afraid.

I'm surrounded by people that will help me if something goes wrong.

I can rest and digest.

And that's where serotonin is produced down in the gut.

Now, if we never, ever get to slip into that mode, because nobody, we don't feel, believe biochemically that someone loves us and is protecting us.

There's an old saying up in Iceland, bear is the back of a brotherless man.

If you don't have someone watching you, you're naked back there and something can attack and hurt you.

So you're always afraid.

Your cortisol is high.

It's dysregulated.

Of course your serotonin will be low.

And of course you're going to have depression.

I think depression is a natural evolution of the endless fear and pain and disappointment.

I don't think teens naturally become depressed.

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