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 [...]

In today’s stressful day and age, many people suffer from severe anxiety disorders. Unfortunately, many of these individuals begin a routine of strong anti-anxiety medications in a search to cure their problems. However, often times anxiety can be dramatically lessened with the use of natural herbs. In this brief article, I’m going to go over [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In about 1 year, roughly 20 million Americans or about 10 percent of the American population will be afflicted by depression. This results to a severe hamper to their ability to function well and will further result to high economic damages, but the emotional damages are catastrophically higher.
And because most of the depressed population [...]

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 [...]