Watch this interesting video on the evolution of our understanding of sadness and depression.
Date Posted: October 15, 2014
Categories: Depression
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When we fight the pain: judge it, try to push it away, avoid it, ignore it, it actually triggers other painful emotions, resulting in more emotional pain.We also never learn healthy ways to cope. Sitting with our emotions simply means allowing them, ...
Oct 1
Categories: Depression
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That feeling of disappointment is linked with a rather uncommon type of brain signaling, new research shows. It involves the finely tuned, simultaneous firing of two different neurotransmitters in the brain and it is the ratio of the two ...
Sep 30
Categories: Depression
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How one thinks about, and deals with, stressful events affect the level of stress and anxiety they feel. Crucially, there are three thinking and behavioural styles which tend to increase the chance someone would experience depression and anxiety: ...
Sep 25
Categories: Anxiety, Depression
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A recently published study in The Lancet estimated that 40 percent of Americans will develop diabetes in their lifetime - a trend which is largely due to obesity and inactivity. Since the 1990s, some public health professionals have turned their ...
Sep 20
Categories: Depression
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In recent weeks, the global conversation surrounding death by suicide has taken center stage, and now more than ever, we're acknowledging the effects of undiagnosed, untreated and mistreated depression on those rising numbers. Approximately two out ...
Sep 15
Categories: Adoption / Reunion Issues, Depression
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In the central nervous system, serotonergic transmission is critically regulated by serotonin reuptake through the serotonin transporter.
Sep 3
Categories: Depression, Post Partum Depression
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A new study in mice suggests that serotonin deficiency may not play as influential a role in depression as has previously been thought.
Sep 2
Categories: Depression, Post Partum Depression
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Lots of people experience depression, while others just have bad days or just are feeling down on themselves. No matter why they're depressed, sad, or unmotivated to do much of anything, one thing is certain — it's a tough feeling to experience. ...
Sep 1
Categories: Depression, Post Partum Depression
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Depression may be better predicted and understood now that University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have discovered that young adults who previously experienced the mental illness have hyper-connected emotional and cognitive networks in the ...
Sep 1
Categories: Depression, Post Partum Depression
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A mindfulness-based therapy for depression has the added benefit of reducing health-care visits among patients who often see their family doctors, according to a new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the Institute for ...
Aug 26
Categories: Depression, Post Partum Depression
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Patients with severe, nonchronic depression had better rates of recovery if they were treated with cognitive therapy (CT) combined with antidepressant medication (ADM) compared to ADMs alone.
Aug 21
Categories: Depression, Post Partum Depression
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People taking prescription opioids to treat moderate to severe pain may be able to breathe a little easier, literally. A study found that a new therapeutic drug, GAL-021, may reverse or prevent respiratory depression, or inadequate breathing, in ...
Aug 20
Categories: Depression, Post Partum Depression
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Both arthritis and depression are common in the United States, with age and obesity trends likely to increase the number of people who suffer from both conditions simultaneously.
Aug 19
Categories: Depression
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Reported poor sleep quality, independent of a depressed mood, appears to be associated with an increased risk for suicide in older adults.
Aug 14
Categories: Depression, Sleep Disorders, Suicide Prevention
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Robin Williams has long been a sufferer of bipolar disorder, a mental illness where the person fluctuates between episodes of extreme energy, focus and productivity (mania) and severe depression.
Aug 13
Categories: Bipolar, Depression, Mood Swings / Bipolar
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