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Can
Botox
Help
Your
Mental
Health?
• Although it sounds strange, the act of paralysing
depressed people s muscles can prevent them from
frowning and generally looking unhappy, which therefore
makes them less unhappy. In a study within the Journal of
Psychiatric Research, Georgetown Medical School took
74 patients suffering with major depression and
conducted an experiment involving Botox. Half of the
patients were given the botulinum toxin to paralyse some
facial muscles, and the other half were given a saline
injection – a placebo.
• The results were quite fascinating. Roughly six weeks
after their first injection, 52% patients that received
Botox showed improvement in their depressive state, and
only 15% of the patients given placebos showed
improvement in their mental state. From these studies
we can assume that the Botox halted the facial
expressions linked with negative thoughts, as those
expressions can send signals to the brain and make the
patients feel worse. A psychiatrist at the University of
Basel in Switzerland believes the treatment interrupts
feedback from the facial musculature to the brain, which
may be involved in the development and maintenance of
negative emotions.