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How Sleep Can Cause Depression
Depression is a mood disorder that causes extreme sadness. It often can be severe, rendering the person almost helpless. Those who suffer from depression may have symptoms that include extreme feelings of sadness, feeling hopeless or worthless, and often may be anxious or suffer from panic attacks. The physical symptoms include feeling [...]
Winter Blues – Light Therapy
While in some countries, men toil under the blazing heat of the noon sun, in yet other places, people’s faces break into smiles when they see the sun peep out of clouds!
The Swedish, the English and the Americans often curse the unpredictable winter weather and long for some sunshine. When the skyline is filled with [...]
Support Groups For Depression
Depression is an affliction that affects many people throughout the world. One of the characteristics of true clinical depression is the withdrawal of the depressive and their isolation from others. Support groups can break this isolation and draw them back into society by encouraging them to discuss their problems and get some relief from their [...]
Postpartum Depression
Postnatal blues also called postpartum depression or postnatal depression affects almost 16% of all women after birth. In fact, the numbers may be even higher because many women never report the situation and try to get through by coping on their own. Postnatal blues tends to occur about 10 days after giving birth. Women may [...]
How To Prevent Suicide
Depression is a mental disorder that affects millions of people around the world. Depression range from mild to severe. In some cases untreated depression can lead to more serious depression and even suicide. Suicide often occurs when the person has been in a depressed state for a long time and believes that there is no [...]
How Antidepressants Help You
Antidepressants can be very helpful in treating the symptoms of depression. The human brain has more than 10 billion brain cells, each with thousands of connections with other cells. Messages that direct much of the body’s functions go through the brain using these connections. The signals are transmitted between cells using chemical called neurotransmitters. Serotonin [...]
Herbal Remedies For Depression
Modern lifestyles generate couch potatoes, obese, and munching salted chips while watching TV. When depressed, we’d munch away to glory and later attempt to burn calories in a gymnasium. Some splurge and go on a shopping spree, while others hit the bottle. Yet others resort to over-eating, substance abuse and perhaps even suicide.
While yoga, meditation, [...]