Depression Symptoms

Just as the children can suffer from anxiety, they also can be in depression. Depression in young children is not as common as teenage depression, but it is a big problem. Do you realize that even babies can suffer from depression?

As a baby, they are not old enough to express what their feelings are. So, [...]

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 [...]

Depression is a psychological disorder which affects how you live your life. It affects everything. It affects your health, it affects your social life and it affects how you live your everyday life.
Depression can cause your health to deteriorate and should be treated immediately after you notice something different about your friend or your family’s [...]

Giving birth to a child is one of women’s peaks of achievement that no man will ever be able to experience. The feeling of giving birth to a child, albeit an extremely painful experience, is a joy like no other.
But sadly, there are women who instead of being jubilated has felt depressed after. Not [...]

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. [...]