Depression Articles

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• Taking Antidepressants: Your Comprehensive Guide to Starting, Staying On, and Safely Quitting
  There are many myths and little information about taking antidepressants. There’s also no shortage of horror stories on the Internet from patients who’ve experienced a slew of serious health concerns. Then, there are the sensationalist ...
• Depression’s Links to Heart Disease
  Persistent depressive symptoms are common after angina, heart attack, or other heart problems. Depressive symptoms also are thought to increase the risk of further heart problems and mortality. Dr. Michael Rapp from St. Hedwig's Hospital, Berlin, and ...
• Being Good vs. Being Codependent
  Is the way that you are ‘being good’ to your loved ones actually caring and good? Or are you involved in codependent ...
• When We Lose an Animal Loved One
  In Loving Memory of Tycho, 1999-2010. Do not underestimate how deeply the loss of our animal loved ones can affect us. Our loved one is a part of our identity. We are everything to him. We ...
• My Trip to the ER: Attention Must Be Paid
  I'm a psych patient. My primary diagnosis is bipolar II, but there’s a little anxiety, PTSD and other stuff ...
• Supporting Individuals with Depression: The Importance of Self-Care
  Depression is a disorder that affects millions of people. While we all experience ups and downs, depression is different. Often accompanied ...
• Eliminate Outdated Attitudes on Mental Health
  Spring is a time for new beginnings. This year, let’s celebrate the season with a new approach to America’s mental health -- one that will save Americans much shame and suffering even as ...
• Tipper Gore on Mental Illness
  Speech given at Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry Dartmouth Hitchcook Medical Center Thursday, January 14, 1999 Good afternoon and thank you, Dr. Silberfarb for the kind introduction It's great ...
• 10 Ways to Help Someone Who’s Depressed
  It's often frustrating and can make a person feel helpless to try and help someone who's depressed or who suffers from depression. Whether it's clinical depression or the winter blues, a person who's ...
• You Can’t Fight Depression Alone
  Two things happened today that made me want to pound my head against a wall, Charlie Brown-style. The first was that I got an email from a woman who said that she is suffering from ...
• Worst Things to Say to Someone Who’s Depressed
  Some people trivialize depression (often unintentionally) by dropping a platitude on a depressed person as if that is the one thing they needed to hear. While some of these thoughts have been helpful to some ...
• Best Things to Say to Someone Who’s Depressed
  When you find out someone is depressed, it's tempting to attempt to immediately try and "fix" the problem. However, until the depressed person has given you permission to be their therapist (as a friend or ...
• Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
  Antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed class of medication in the United States. But Dr. James S. Gordon questions the use of drugs to treat depression: This book will challenge the prevailing “medical model” of depression ...
• Will I Ever Be the Same Again? Transforming the Face of ECT (Shock Therapy)
  The basis for the scientific method and in many respects for common sense lies in the gathering of data that confirms or denies a hypothesis under question. Carol A. Kivler, in her book Will I Ever ...
• Depression For Dummies: A Reference For The Rest Of Us
  Laura L. Smith, Ph.D. and Charles H. Elliott, Ph.D. have a hit on their hands with the easy-to-understand guide to everything you ever wanted to know about depression but were afraid to ask, Depression for ...
• Conquering Depression in the Golden Years
  Chances are, at some point, you or someone you know will encounter a friend or family member who is a senior and struggling with or exhibiting signs of depression.  This is an illness that is ...
• 14 Strategies for Sleeping Better
  For you the idea of sleeping well might be as far-fetched as a unicorn sighting. And in our productivity-driven society, sleep is usually the first thing ...
• The Depression Cure
  Upon reading Stephan Ilardi’s book The Depression Cure, a quote from Chuck Palahniuk’s book Fight Club continued to pop up in my mind. In one chapter, a character by the name of Tyler Durden explains ...
• Depression Is Contagious
  Essentially a self-help book for ordinary people who may be looking for ways to overcome depression, Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D.'s Depression Is Contagious also offers those in the mental health world practical tools for their ...
• Strategies for Overcoming Depression
  There are a lot of articles on the Internet about overcoming depression. They suggest things such as changing your thinking, changing your mood, and voilà! ...
• Struck By Living: From Depression to Hope
  Any memoir opening with “I tried to kill myself three times” has the imperative to deliver on the promise of importance, conflict, and resolution inherent within that declaration.  For author Julie K. Hersh, Struck by ...
• The Efficacy of Postpartum Depression Screening
  How effective is postpartum depression screening? More than one in 10 new mothers is thought to experience significant postpartum depression. The condition has a substantial impact on the whole family, and while effective treatments are available, ...
• What to Expect from an Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Treatment
  Electroconvulsive Therapy -- or ECT as it's commonly known -- is a brief medical procedure that involves applying short electrical bursts to the brain through external electrode pads on your head. These electrical ...
• Risks of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
  Modern electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is generally considered a safe and effective treatment for severe, chronic depression and treatment-resistant depression, although it may occasionally be used to treat other conditions as well. Despite its general safety ...
• Depression and Teenage Pregnancy
  Research suggests that childbearing does not necessarily cause psychological distress among teenagers. Dr. Stefanie Mollborn of the University of Colorado and her team investigated stress ...