Depression Symptoms

Hanging around those of us that suffer from depression or bipolar disorder could drive saints crazy. Spouses, significant others and loved ones all know this, but for everyone else out there: mental illness is not contagious! Let me repeat this. It is not like a common cold or the flu; you cannot catch it from [...]

Just think about this: over the past 30 years the rate of depression and anxiety has increased enormously, particularly in the past five years. In the western world alone, depression is one of the most debilitating and expensive illnesses, costing billions of dollars a year. One in five westerners have some form of mental illness [...]

Well, here it is… the middle of January.
The glittery holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s - with the hustle bustle of shopping, parties, and eating all that decadent food (yum!) are now just memories. There’s nothing to distract your attention from the fact that it’s still winter… cold, dark, gloomy.
How’s your energy level right [...]

Do you find yourself often irritable or angry, trapped in confusion, misery, uncertainty, unconfident, and hopeless that you feel that your life has no direction or your life isn’t worth living?
These feelings are emotional symptoms of depression. It is not as simple as having a bad day that disappears quickly, but continues to stay [...]

Being depressed or feeling sad from time to time is a natural reaction of humans when they experience something traumatic, like the loss of a loved one, loss of job, domestic violence, divorce, stress, financial problems, social failures and others.
However, sometimes these feelings can get out of hand and the person suffering from manic [...]

The term bipolar is adequate as it is in regards to the two opposite poles of emotions a person with bipolar depression feels. This is the depressed phase and the manic phase.
The depressed phase is where the usual symptoms of depression are seen. In the manic phase, a bipolar depressed person will feel the [...]

With about thirty to forty percent of all people diagnosed with depression, atypical depression is the most common subtype of depression in outpatients that inflicts the depressed population.
Unlike the more sever cases of depression, atypical depression allows an inflicted person to have mood reactivity. They can sometimes react to a positive event or situation. [...]

Many people live their lives trying to be happy, going with the eternal pursuit of happiness. Some even have their idea of what happiness should be.
It could be having a wonderful family, having kids, getting a high-paying job that doesn’t require you to be at the office all the time.
The all American dream.
But [...]

What is depression postpartum?
Depression postpartum is known as perinatal depression. Depression can affect women during or after pregnancy - even a year later -. The exact number of women with depression during this time is unknown. But researchers believe that depression is one of the most common complications during and after pregnancy. Often, the depression [...]

What is Mifepristone?:
Mifepristone is too known as RU-486, this drug is ussualy used for abortion; on the other hand, Mifepristone is use too as anticancer drug. Last researches have discovered that Mifepristone is used by people with pshychotic depression as well- there are people that suffer a deep mental disorder, often the main symptoms [...]