When you are feeling hopeless or depressed it is often very difficult to think clearly or find anything to make yourself feel better. Life can feel pointless. Getting out of bed in the morning may as well be running a marathon. You just don’t have anything to give.
Sometimes the only thing you can do to [...]
By Jeffrey Perkel
HealthDay Reporter
Researchers have uncovered a potential cause for postpartum depression, at least in mice.
According to the study, from assistant researcher Jamie Maguire and lead researcher Istvan Mody, both of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, dysregulation of a particular class of proteins called GABA receptors on [...]
Everyone has been depressed. It’s part of life. Some people suffer from a chemical imbalance that makes it difficult to ever come out of depression without a lot of medications. But, sometimes, medication is not enough and sometimes the side effects are worse than the actual depression. So, let’s check out a few ways to [...]
I’ve been on Prozac for three weeks now, so I thought I’d report back on its effects, and also offer a bit of a forum:
Comment, if you want to, sharing what medication you’re currently on, or have been on, (doesn’t have to be anti-depressants) and the effects it’s having/had on your life and mood.
Basically, I [...]
In those old good days, we Iranian considered depression being a luxury illness. This was a common shared belief that many of us may agree that we had or still have. We perceived depression being a rich man problem, people who were tired of all the privileges in life and did not know what to [...]
It is important to acknowledge and understand that, although it sometimes it feels like it, the Ego is not your enemy.
It is more like a misguided friend or a naughty child who has lost faith and confidence in you, your Authentic Self and the Universe. It truly believes that it is working on what is [...]
We live in a world that is rapidly changing. All this change can lead to lots of stress. Stress happens when people face change that they have no control over. The resulting stress can feel overwhelming and one of our first reactions is resistance to the feeling itself. We’ll do just about anything to escapes [...]
Many people for a variety of reasons feel depression at one time or another in their life, and most of the time it’s just a brief passing feeling. But there are some that seem to be depressed or feel sad all of the time or more often than not. This is not uncommon and there [...]
It’s you, alone in the world, in a constant fog of intense sadness and lethargy. You alternate between hiding your misery and sobbing uncontrollably. You feel empty inside, as if nobody loves you. And your self-esteem is at an all-time low. You wonder if there is any point in going on alone. Maybe if you [...]
Lately, more people are depressed than ever before. Statistics point out that diagnosable depression is common in the United States and internationally. Depression affects approximately 57.7 million American adults or about 26.2% of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. Everyone will at some time in his or her life be [...]