Relationships and Work Problems: Stress in general can contribute to depression. There are stresses involving work, maintaining a home, caring for children, financial, and sexual problems. As people get older there is the stress of dealing with elde...
Women Are At Greater Risk For Depression Than Men Major and chronic depression affect twice as many women as men, so the statistics say. They do not mention that women go for treatment with less of a feeling of stigma than men. Men think they are we...
After you have been through a depression, you are changed forever. You know just how bad you can feel and how hopeless and unimportant life may appear. You have gotten help either through talk therapy, antidepressants, a combination of both, or more...
Suffering A Stroke And Feeling Hopeless Getting severely depressed after having a stroke is not unusual. When my mother had her first massive stroke and I went to the hospital, tears were flowing down her face and she kept telling me, 'I don't want...
Illness and Depression Depression often tags along with another serious illness such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, Parkinson's Disease and more. So often doctors will treat the illness but not treat the depression which follows along....
Some types of depression run in families, suggesting that a tendency to be depressed can be inherited. That is, if there is someone in your immediate family, parents, siblings, aunts, and uncles, you may be more likely to suffer from depression. Thi...
Anyone who has suffered with chronic pain, the pain that becomes your life partner and then stabs you in the back, knows how easily it becomes to fall into a really bad depression. The pain that never quits leaves you wondering if living is as great...
If you are depressed you don't feel good. You may tend to self medicate using drugs or alcohol or both. Alcohol can be a strong anti depressant at first but then when the use continues, alcohol becomes a depressant. Alcohol is like many other drugs...
Electro convulsive therapy is a treatment for severe depression. It is used when the situation is so bad that there is a concern for suicide or serious behavior problems. During this treatment the brain is zapped with a strong electrical current. Th...
There's no need to spend a fortune on an aromatherapy bath product. You can make your own at home and enjoy the benefits of herbal, aromatic baths without hurting your wallet. To learn more about the benefits of aromatic baths, how to get the best r...
Lets look at some simple things we can do to lessen depression and in particular, one method that is very effective. This is going to be our use of language. We just cannot underestimate the power that language and words have upon ourselves and othe...
Depression is a real illness which affects so many people. In fact, many people will, at some stage in their life feel the effects of some form of depression. Current statistics reveal that about 1 in 5 people will suffer from depression at some poi...