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 as other [...]

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 is [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Coping with Depression

We have seen that sadness, hopelessness, loss, low self-regard, loneliness, guilt, and shame are complex conditions or processes. [...]

Clinical Depression

Major depression is also known as clinical depression, unipolar depression, and major depressive disorder. People who experience [...]