Ahuli - Everything Will Be Alright :-)

By Jo Hartley.
Our American soldiers on the war front are finding it increasingly difficult to get the mental health care they need. As violence rose in Afghanistan, new tactics have been employed, which in turn pushed our troops there farther away from operating bases and farther away from help.
A report released March 6 recommended the [...]

By Karla Gale.
SOURCE: Archives of General Psychiatry.
Among women with schizophrenia who are being treated with antipsychotic medications, an estrogen patch can markedly improve their symptoms, results of a clinical trial show.
Many women note a connection between the onset of psychosis symptoms and a major change in their menstrual cycle, including the birth of a child [...]

Depression is something seen increasingly often in our psycho-hypnotherapy practice here in the UK. Here are my top 10 tips for help with depression:

Respect the Clock - Set your alarm clock for a reasonable time each morning and make sure you get out of bed within 5 minutes of it going off, even if you [...]

By Radha Chitale.
For: AbcNews.
Ron and Carol Rossetti had a storybook romance. The two were high school sweethearts, went to prom together and married after college.
“He was like the fun in my life,” Carol Rossetti recalled. “But had I known the ride I was going to be in for, I’m not sure I would have signed [...]

Depression is like sinking into darkness. A person, suffering from depression, looses control of his life. It may be surprising, but the reality is this, that because one looses control of his life, one is depressed.
How we lost control of our lives? Society wants us to be obedient, because it wants us to be utilitarian [...]

Adults in treatment for severe mental disorders report greater levels of childhood stress than adults without psychiatric disorders, researchers from Germany found in a study they conducted.
A burgeoning number of studies suggest that adverse or traumatic experiences during childhood influence adult psychopathology, Dr. Brigitte Rockstroh, of the University of Konstanz, and colleagues note in the [...]

This year has been an emotional one for me. I can feel a wave of depression coming on this very moment, just thinking about what I’ve been through. My senior year in high school, meaning that my courses were the hardest they’ve ever been. Not to mention the fact that three of the six courses [...]

By Lauren Cahoon.
Source: AbcNews.
“It was then that I carried you.”
Some may recognize this line from the widely popular “Footprints in the Sand,” the poem that describes how, during the hardest parts of life, God carried the author through hard times.
Believers like Laverne Williams, a one-time depression patient and deaconess at Union Baptist Church in Montclair, [...]

By Karen Vieira.
Source: Brain Blogger.
Depression sucks, and we have probably all heard that it can be combated with proper diet and adding in missing nutrients. But who are we are fooling? Often, a clinically depressed person would prefer chocolate cake and potato chips for dinner rather than the salmon and salad that would help their [...]

Essay by James Potash.
Source: AbcNews.
Good news for a change.
About half of people who have a first episode of major depression are likely, upon recovery, to stay well - to stay depression-free, according to a new study.
This rate, based on a large study of 1,831 people, including 92 with depression, is reported in the May issue [...]