Depression Articles

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• Manage Your Depression Through Exercise
  Starting any exercise program can be a tough task.  However, for those suffering from depression, it can be close to impossible.  Just getting out of bed is a struggle for some; how are they to ...
• What You Need to Know About Treatment-Resistant Depression
  Depression can be effectively treated with psychotherapy and medication. But it takes time to find the correct medication ...
• The Gentle Self: How to Overcome Your Difficulties with Depression, Anxiety, Shyness, and Low Self-Esteem
  I think everyone’s a little narcissistic.  We all have moments when we wish everyone would be more like us—when we get upset that no one seems to care about what we are feeling.  We also ...
• Social Support Is Critical for Depression Recovery
  Every human being wants to belong. This need is so strong that people will do nearly anything to feel ...
• The Lonely Screams: Understanding the Complex World of the Lonely
  Loneliness is certainly a common human experience; even if you’ve been lucky enough to feel it only briefly, or rarely, you know the misery of it, the actual physical pain of it. Arising from a ...
• 5 Damaging Myths About Postpartum Depression
  Postpartum depression (PPD) is one of the most common complications of childbirth, according to Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, director of the Perinatal Psychiatry Program at the UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders. PPD ...
• Courage and Limits with Your Teen
  This column uses a story based on a real-life situation in therapy to represent both the teen and parent viewpoints on ...
• Are You SAD This Winter? Coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder
  Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) goes beyond the winter blues. It goes beyond feeling tired or sad or ...
• The Empty Chair at the Holiday Table
  Getting ready for the first Thanksgiving after David died was very, very hard. The loss of my husband’s brother ...
• Alternative Treatments for Depression
  There are a wide range of alternative treatments for depression. Before seeking out a mental health professional or talking to their doctor, a ...
• 5 Ideas for Boosting Your Energy When Depression Strikes
  Depression is as much a somatic (physical) disorder as it is a psychological one. Energy loss is a ...
• Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter along the Path to Hope and Healing
  With 114 pages of some of the most beautifully written insight, information, and advice that I have ever read in regard to navigating the labyrinth that is depression and its various treatments, Dr. Deborah Serani’s ...
• Change Your Thinking To Change Feelings of Hopelessness
  How many people have you met or heard of who have experienced a loss in their life? As human ...
• From Suicidal To Being in Awe of Life
  I’m 28 years old and for the last four years I haven’t had one suicidal thought or intention because ...
• Sleeping With Gods
  The subject of mental illness has often been explored in works of literature and other media. Michael Fontana’s novel Sleeping With Gods aims to combine a coming-of-age love story with themes of mental health. In ...
• Cry Depression, Celebrate Recovery: My Journey through Mental Illness
  Barbara Altman, a St. Louis, Mo., native, earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Fontbonne University and taught music therapy at St. Louis Institute of Music.  She now teaches piano and guitar in her home ...
• Train Your Brain to Get Happy
  It seems as though every few months another book is published that purports to have discovered the ultimate cure for an unhappy life.  Some tout self-esteem, others Buddhism, and still others plastic surgery.  Train Your ...
• Surviving Depression: My Agonizing Struggle with Sanity
  Robert L. Hamlett’s Surviving Depression offers a window into the life of a man to whom many people can relate.  His style may not be as eloquent as some, but Hamlett does get his point ...
• Stop Suffering Needlessly: How to Quickly Recover from Depression
  Almost everyone reading this review – particularly those in the mental health field - will have had first-hand experience of dealing with depression at one time or another, whether the sufferer was a client, a ...
• History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life
  After reading History of a Suicide, written by Jill Bialosky, I was moved by the way the author not only shared her story of her sister's suicide, but also how committed she was to researching ...
• Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression
  In Yoga for Emotional Balance Bo Forbes, PsyD, explores how yoga can compliment traditional psychotherapy to help patients improve their anxiety and depression symptoms through movement and breath work. Much of the book is devoted ...
• Attributional Style and Depression: How Your Explanations Influence Your Mood
  Several weeks ago I took my four-year-old son camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ...
• Treating PTSD with Surf Therapy
  For the last handful of years, Britain and the United States have done quiet experiments with a new form of therapy for veterans ...
• Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter
  Dr. Deborah Serani's new book, Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter along the Path to Hope and Healing is a solid entry in the self-help depression book genre, once you get past the ...
• In the Zone: Depression and Emotions
  Introduction: This article proposes a non-drug treatment for depression in terms of hidden emotions. It appears that most depression involves ...