Mental health

Living with Depression

Depression is a psychological, biological and environmental problem that has affected millions of people, both directly and indirectly. People suffering with depression often have difficulty functioning normally, and frequently experience problems in their everyday lives as a result. The emotional t...

Depression - False Identity

Enlarge ImageWho is more prone to become affected by or suffer from psychological problems? the answer nearly everyone. Depression in the United States alone has left its mark on at least 17 million adults who have experienced a bout of clinical depression at some stage. Suffering from this disorder...

Eating, Drinking, Overthinking: The Toxic Triangle of Food, Alcohol, and Depression—and How Women Ca

By Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Ph.D. Depressive symptoms, unhealthy eating habits, and heavy drinking unite to create a space that is so poisonous for women that I have called it the toxic triangle. Eating, Drinking, Overthinking will help you understand your own relationship to the toxic triangle. It is...

Depression - Disorderly Conduct

People tend to sense uncertainty to the real meaning behind the word depression, trying to determine the difference between a depressive illness to that of a miserable mood can be tricky at times. In the medical world doctors use the word depression in different terms. Symptoms of a depressive illne...

Depression and the blues

Tackling and understanding depression You may feel an absolute sense of failure, or may experience a string of days when you feel so. Most often men and women confuse serious depression to be a part of PMS. When in actuality depression commences once you keep digging up the past and are left with an...

Depression symptoms and medication

Difficult to diagnose with exactitude and difficult to cure, depression is a serious condition that can have profound negative results on the patient and those around him. The complexity of the problem depends on the fact that you cannot base the symptom of depression solely on pathology (whose fiel...

Lifting Depression: The Chromium Connection

"Lifting Depression: The Chromium Connection" outlines new research showing the benefits of chromium for those suffering with depression. A recent survey reveals that when it comes to those suffering from depression, as many as one-half of those people, an estimated 30 million in the United Stat ....

Mindfulness And Mental Health Improvement

What's going on in your head? Until you know, there can be all sorts of problems. Uncorrectable problems. You can't fix a problem that you don't see, right? That is where mindfulness comes in. Mindfulness and mental health are intimately connected. Your mind is busy in there right now, talking ab .....

Bipolar Depression

What is Bipolar Depression? The distinguishing characteristic of bipolar depression, as compared to other mood disorders, is the presence of at least one manic episode. Additionally, it is presumed to be a chronic condition because the vast majority of individuals who have one manic episode have add...

Yoga: Exercise for Mental and Physical Relief

Right place for Yoga Yoga is an exercise which gives the necessary stress and strains to the body muscles and improves the blood circulation. The proper location for yoga is necessary to get the essence of its effect. Generally a location which gives fresh atmosphere, silence and cleanliness can be ...

Handling Depression: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

This condition affects the mood and brain function, disrupting sleep, home life, work, and relationships. The treatment for depression may be approached in different ways, and sometimes more than one type of approach can be used at the same time. Symptoms Depression brings feelings of misery, tearfu...

Winter Is Here: Are You Prepared For Seasonal Depression?

New York, NY - The clocks have been turned back and the darkness of winter is arriving. Wintertime means vastly different things to different people, but for many, it is a time of depression. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression with a decidedly seasonal flavor, linked closely t...

Multiple Personality Disorder - Symptoms and Solutions

Multiple personality disorder, which is also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), is a psychotic (neurosis) disorder in which a person suffering from the mental disturbance undergo different experiences and his/her personality becomes dissociated into more than one personalities. These per...

Anger - The Common Source of Personality Disorders

Anger is a compounded phenomenon. It has dispositional properties, expressive and motivational components, situational and individual variations, cognitive and excitatory interdependent manifestations and psychophysiological (especially neuroendocrine) aspects. From the psychobiological point of vie...

Depression and the Narcissist

Question: My husband is a narcissist and constantly depressed. Is there any connection between these two facts? Answer: Assuming that these are clinically established facts, there is no necessary connection between them. In other words, there is no proven high correlation between suffering from NPD ...

The Instinct to Heal: Curing Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy

By David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., PH.D. Published by Rodale February 2004; $23.95US/$34.95CAN; 1-57954-902-0 Americans seek therapy in record numbers and consume more medications than ever before, yet stress, anxiety, and depression continue to rise to epidemic proportions. People can spend years on ...

How To Recognize If You Suffer From Depression

A Simple Self-Assessment Can Detect Early Signs Have you been feeling down lately? How does one tell the difference between "the blues" and real depression? Just in time for National Depression Screening Day, October 9th, comes this advice from Frederic Flach, MD, KHS, author of THE SECRET STRENGT ....

The Heart Too Long Suppressed: A Chronicle of Mental Illness

By Carol Hebald Published by Northeastern University Press September 2003; $24.95US/$36.95CAN; 1-55553-482-1 "Carol Hebald's The Heart Too Long Suppressed is a most compelling journey through mental crises. Haunting and powerful in its sweep of pain and fear, here finally is a life-affirming memoi ....

The Myth of Mental Illness

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. ... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of som ......

Personality Disorders

The classification of Axis II personality disorders - deeply ingrained, maladaptive, lifelong behavior patterns - in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM-IV-TR, Washington, 2000] - or the DSM-IV-TR for short - has come under sust...