Tag Archives: Depression

What Are The Different Types Of Schizophrenia Hallucinations

What are the different types of schizophrenia hallucinations? Hallucinations can be described as profound distortions of reality where sensory perceptions are believed to be real even though there is an absence of external stimuli. They are a common feature of Schizophrenia but are also sometimes experienced by people with Bi-polar disorder (manic depression) as well [...]

How Chronic Anxiety Cripples Lives

Anxiety can give people an added push, an extra bit of motivation, to accomplish difficult or undesirable tasks. How many of us would continue to study for exams, if it weren’t for our exaggerated fear of failure? If we didn’t fear failure, many of us would fail to achieve what we wanted. On a grander [...]

Bipolar Paranoia Is a Psychotic Feature of Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a common, severe mental illness that impacts the lives of millions of people worldwide.  Manic or euphoric episodes and alternating episodes of severe depression characterize this condition along with many other symptoms such as bipolar paranoia. A magnified suspicion and irrational, extreme distrustfulness of others that has no basis on fact, paranoia [...]

Mild Depression

It’s a Question of Degree – mild depression I take the view that mild depression can for many people be entirely an natural response to some life events. Clearly, there are some circumstances, like the death of a loved one for example, where we would almost expect the bereaved person to become very sad, to [...]

Menopause And Depression

Why am I depressed? Depression affects twice as many women as men. Midlife is often considered a period of increased risk for depression in women. It is not known why, but it may be related to having a personal or family history of depression, life stressors, and role changes. Menopause is often believed to be [...]

Herbal remedies for depression – St John’s wort, but is it safe?

Natural, wholesome, inexpensive and available over the counter, St John’s wort seemed to be the dream remedy for depression. Taken all over the world in huge quantities, it has become the pill to pop without guilt or fear, the herbal Prozac that dusted away the blues nature’s way. The downside is only now emerging. Although [...]

Depression Treatment

Beyond Prozac: New Treatments, New Hope Welcome to the 21st-century lab, where hormones, brain pacemakers and magnetic coils can be a depression treatment We’ve come a long way. Some psychiatrists used to think you could cure depression by removing a patient’s colon or teeth. In the late 1800s, there was a doctor who observed his [...]

Dealing with Depression

Introduction What is depression? Most people, children as well as adults, feel low or `blue’ occasionally. Feeling sad is a normal reaction to experiences that are stressful or upsetting. When these feelings go on and on, or dominate and interfere with your whole life, it can become an illness. This illness is called `depression’. Depression [...]

Coping with Depression

We have seen that sadness, hopelessness, loss, low self-regard, loneliness, guilt, and shame are complex conditions or processes. The causes are complex and so are the solutions. It is hard to pull yourself out of a sinkhole of misery, sometimes impossible. When you feel most like doing nothing, you need to DO SOMETHING! When the [...]

Clinical Depression

Major depression is also known as clinical depression, unipolar depression, and major depressive disorder. People who experience major depression feel persistently sad. They do not take pleasure in activities that were once enjoyable. Other physical and mental problems often experienced include sleep problems, loss of appetite, inability to concentrate, memory problems, and aches and pains. [...]