Mental health

Bipolar Disorder or Manic Depression Causes and Treatment

Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric condition defined as recurrent episodes of significant disturbance in mood. These disturbances can occur on a spectrum that ranges from debilitating depression to unbridled mania. Individuals suffering from bipolar disorder typically experience fluid states of mania...

What is Atypical Depression?

Depression takes on many forms, which is one of the reasons it is so hard to diagnosis someone with this condition. One form of depression is called atypical depression. If you have this condition you may find yourself wanting to sleep all the time and overeating is a big problem. Many people become...

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills for Mental Health - PLEASE

Marsha Linehan's dialectical behavioral therapy, while designed for borderline personality disorder patients, is filled with skills that can be used by any one, whether they're mentally ill or not. These skills help to keep our minds sharp, our relationships stable, and our minds at peace. If you ....

Postpartum Depression Symptoms – How to Know If You Have Postpartum Depression

So you’ve just given birth to a lovely baby. You should be feeling happy, right? But why do you feel down? Why do negative thoughts invade your mind? Why do you sometimes feel that you hate your baby? Perhaps it is not just a case of the blues. You might be experiencing postpartum depression sympto...

Signs and Symptoms of Depression

Life is filled with ups and downs. Often we experience sadness because of the seemingly endless struggles of life or due to certain losses, setbacks or disappointments. However, in the normal course of life, we get back on track and get on with our lives. But, if these feelings of sadness and despai...

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy - A Revolutionary Approach to Mental Health Recovery

For years, psychiatrists and psychotherapists struggled to help patients suffering from borderline personality disorder. The nature of the illness makes it difficult to treat with traditional techniques, such as cognitive behavioral therapy. Then along came Marsha Linehan and her new approach to tre...

Bibliotherapy: Freeing yourself from Depression, Anxiety, Stress and OCD

If you feel that you could manage your depression, anxiety, OCD or stress if only you had the tools, then why not try a good self-help book. This is a cheaper option for those who cannot afford private therapy or give those waiting to see an NHS Cognitive Behavioural Therapists (CBT), the foundation...

Journaling Your Way to Recovery - Beating Depression With A Notebook

Clinical depression not only affects millions of Americans, but it's a daily struggle for those millions. Though there is no disputing that the best way to cure depression is with proper medical treatment through a psychiatrist and therapist, there are things that we can do to help ourselves, too. ...

An Anxiety Depression Cure Just Right For You

There are many products and services that all claim to offer an anxiety depression cure. Don't forget that humans are very complicated beings. The reasons behind the mental problems are as much an issue as the illness itself. Mental illness can rob us of our life. At least, those parts of our life ...

Acupuncture And Depression - Is It Effective?

Are you severely or mildly depressed and wondering about acupuncture and depression? According to research and case studies, acupuncture is effective in treating depression. But, did you know that there is a way to treat the depression without the needles? More on that later. It appears that the mos...

The startling facts revealed about why you don’t need to suffer with depression.

Depression is an extremely common mental disorder which affects both sexes and all ages and the percentage of people who suffer depression is on the increase. At its worst, depression can lead to suicide, a heartbreaking fatal outcome associated with the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives each y...

A Spiritual View of Depression: The Hunger for Light

Although we generally experience symptoms of depression as primarily physical and emotional, their essential core may lie in something that cannot be seen that is of a spiritual nature, namely, the relative absence of the energy of light. When missing, the absence of light can feel like the sun cove...

Cognitive Therapies for Depression and Disorders

Changing the way you think in order to improve the way you feel, forms the basis of cognitive approaches to mental-wellbeing. Cognitive therapies recognise that our thoughts can affect our understanding of the outside world. Depressed people (i.e. people that practice depressed thoughts!) experience...

Relieve Mental Stress Using The Latest Brain Psychology

The psychology of stress and maintaining emotional hygiene is being increasingly studied by brain and neurological researchers. One recent confirmation of a long-held belief is that the brain exhibits "neuro-plasticity," that is, the malleable ability to "rewire" its neuron synaptic connections ......

The Astonishing Truth About Chemical Imbalances & Depression

If you're suffering from severe stress, or depression or anxiety, you may have consulted with a health professional to find relief. Unfortunately, most sufferers will be told a blatant lie about the cause of their suffering, that it is down to "chemical imbalances" within the brain, especially de .....

All Natural Depression Remedies

Do you or someone you know suffer from depression? It is a very common disease and a very disturbing one. If depression gets bad enough it can take over a person’s life and destroy everything they have. It makes it almost impossible to face each day and many people become withdrawn and unsocial. Th...

Teenage Depression – Effectively Dealing with Depression

Teenage depression hits 5% of children and adolescents, as reported by experts. Teenage depression is serious and needs to be addressed when symptoms start to show. Unfortunately, it sometimes goes unnoticed and untreated because of a lack of understanding about the condition. Adults may sometimes t...

A Spiritual View of Depression

There are many views today regarding the source of depression, those that involve an understanding of brain chemistry and of neuro-transmitters being among the more popular. Yet, there remains a vast gap between the current ways of treating depression as an entity - clinically, chemically, and in te...

Types of Mental Illness: List of Mental Disorders

Mental illness is a disorder of the mind. There are several different types of mental illnesses, with several disorders in each category. These vary from mild to severe and it is possible for these disorders to interrupt daily activities to the point that life becomes quite difficult. The treatment ...

How To Overcome Depression Symptoms

Everyone experiences some form of depression at some point in their life. When someone is sick, when you lose a job you love or when some other major problem occurs it is normal to feel depressed. However, when you are feeling depressed for long periods of time and for no apparent reason then you do...