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Grieving and Depression
Grieving can lead to depression, if individuals don’t process their grief in a healthy way. Normally, the bereaved go through seven stages of grief. Everyone may not experience the stages of grief in the same way. Sadly, even when death is expected, it may still come as a shock to you when [...]
Stress and Clinical Depression
The role that stress plays in creating, triggering or just increasing the severity of depression disorders is not quite clear. It is believed in the medical community that there is some type of complex union that does occur between stressful situations and how our mind scope with it that often leads to clinical depression.
Stressful [...]
Depressive Disorder
The term depressive disorder covers a wide range of mental illness including but not exclusive to clinical depression, major depression, unipolar depression and unipolar disorder.
Patients suffering from major depressive disorder tend to lapse into perpetual periods of sadness and often digress to a feeling of low self esteem or worthlessness. They often find it [...]
Menopause and Depression
During Menopause women often feel frustrated with their bodies, issues and symptoms associated with this life change and also sad at the loss of their ability to bear or carry children any longer. Although most women will feel some periods of sadness during menopause and adjust to it, others will develop depression and may [...]
Female and Depression
Although depression appears to affect both genders woman have been found overall to be more susceptible to it then men. Even the causes and symptoms differ from male to female. The unique factors of women’s depression can be linked to such diverse range of causes from hormonal to social pressures.The National Mental Health [...]
Major Depression Prior to and During Pregnancy
At least one 1 in 4 women often beginning in their early twenties will be diagnosed with having some form of a major depressive disorder. Major depression is recognized as a mood disorder triggered by chemical changes in the brain often in connection to life stresses but can also happen with no obvious cause [...]
Depression and the Elderly
As people age they are faced with a wide variety of dramatic and in some case traumatic life style changes that may become risk factors or stressors for depression. Retirement often leaves the elderly with a sense of uselessness. Downsizing and giving up life long homes that can either no longer be affordable on [...]
Mild Depressive Disorder
Mild depression like the other depressive disorders affects many people with symptoms that although not disabling will have a definite effect on the patient’s life and happiness. Mild depression like other forms of depression causes a general dissatisfaction with life and an inability to just enjoy things and activities that they are normally interested [...]
Mental Disorder
Mental disorder also called or referred to as mental illness can be readily defined as a behavioral pattern which creates distress or even a disability to function in a normal day to day capacity. There are many categories that fall under mental disorder including disassociate disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, eating disorders, [...]
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal affective disorder is a depressive disorder where normally mental healthy people develop or experience symptoms of depression. It is also often called winter depression or winter blues for although it can occur in any season it is prevalently in the winter that it affects most people. It is a recurring illness and so is [...]