Understanding Bipolar Disorder
Author: Anne Wolski
Bipolar disorder, once known as manic depression, is an illness where the sufferer alternatively experiences both extreme joy and terrible desolation. Medication and therapy are generally used to sta...

A Simple Cure For Anxiety And Depression
Author: Saleem Rana
Our innate desire is to be happy, and when we move away from it, we experience fear. This fear is actually millions of years old, for it arises from the biological programming of our species. While...

Mindfulness and Depression: Things Are Looking Up
Author: Maya Talisman Frost
From yoga studios to cancer clinics, from preschools to college campuses, mindfulness is quite the buzz. Law schools are offering courses in mindfulness as a tool to help in mediation, and business c...

Depression And Suicide
Author: Dr. Isaac Schumann
Eighteen year old Catherine had everything: the most supportive family, a loving boyfriend, awesome set of friends and a comfortable life. But all of these things took a backseat when she was diagnos...

Living With Someone Experiencing Depression
Author: Arthur Buchanan
Living with someone who experiences depression is not easy at times. When they are struggling it can often be hard to know what to do and say. It is not uncommon to have feelings of anger, guilt or f...

How To Meditate
Author: Steve Gillman
How to meditate? Breath, and watch your breath. Among the documented benefits of meditation are less anxiety, decreased depression, reduction in irritability and moodiness, better learning ability an...

Depression Is A Real Illness
Author: Dr. Isaac Schumann
Because most people get depressed from time to time, there is that eternal question if depression is a real illness. The answer is: yes. The clinical one, that is. It has been said that about one out...

Seasonal Affective Disorder and Tanning Salons
Author: Mimi Richardson
With the arrival of the cold season, besides cold-driven nuisance, some persons experience drawbacks regarding the general state, lack of energy and depression of unknown origin. It was scientificall...

Diabetes, Depression, Sleep and Hypnosis--A Surprising Connection
Author: C. Devin Hastings
"You cannot always control circumstances, but you can control your own thoughts." Discussed in this article: 1) The Sleep-Diabetes Connection. 2) Sleep and Depression--A Brief Overview 3) How A Hypn...

How Do I Know If I Am Severely Depressed?
Author: Dr. Isaac Schumann
Curiously easily diagnosable and treatable medical problem, depression happens to at least 20 million American adults every year. As we discussed earlier, although everyone has experienced sadness an...

FDA Approves New Therapy for Depression
Author: Charles E. Donovan
On July 18, 2005, the FDA approved vagus nerve stimulation therapy as a treatment for chronic depression. This is the first ever FDA-approved long term treatment option for sufferers of treatment-res...

Treating Depression
Author: Dr. Isaac Schumann
Health care providers can take care of depressed people. A physician, for one, has also training in treating psychiatric disorders. The same goes with the physician assistant and the nurse practition...

The Invisible Disease: Depression
Author: Arthur Buchanan
The Invisible Disease: Depression Introduction Depression is a serious medical condition. In contrast to the normal emotional experiences of sadness, loss, or passing mood states, clinical depressio...

Depression and Experts
Author: Friedrich Asen
This article is about depression from an unusual perspective. It is about the powerlessness and hopelessness of modern psychological science and research. The importance of an holistic approach to ...

The Dreadful Migraine
Author: David Chandler
A migraine is a throbbing or pulsating headache that is often one sided (unilateral) and associated with nausea; vomiting; sensitivity to light, sound, smells; sleep disruption, and depression. Atta...