Depression is defined as “low spirits, gloominess, dejection and sadness.” Depression affects your whole body, physically and mentally. It affects the way you eat, sleep, feel about yourself and your actions towards yourself and others. There are many types and degrees of depression, all with different symptoms. The symptoms include; chronic fatigue, sleep disturbance, change […]
Category Archives: Depression
It’s hard to get out around other people when I am depressed and I have been depressed all my life. My self esteem makes me think I in no way measure up to others. I wonder if maybe I am too tall, overweight, clumsy, don’t wear the right clothes, people hate me, people think I […]
Chronic depression blues – Why do we feel so depressed? What makes us feel depressed? Will these feelings of depression ever go away? I’m sure that most people have suffered from “the blues” at some stage in their lives, but for some people suffering from chronic depression, it is a lot like having “the blues” […]
There are many reasons why people become depressed, especially with all the pressures and demands of 21st century living. People get the blues when they get passed over for that promotion that they’ve been aiming for because management wanted someone younger and livelier. There’s that beautiful girl you’ve always wanted to have a relationship with, […]
Most people will experience the feeling of depression at least once in life. Every one of us will have painful and unjust things occur in our lives. Each of us will lose people or things which are important to us and experience unpleasant events that are beyond our control. For some, these are just the […]
Stress, depression and anxiety are the plagues of the modern world. Every year, over 20 million people in the western world will enter into an episode of major mental trauma. Most of them will be treated with antidepressant drugs. But how effective are these powerful meds at providing at providing sufferers with a cure? The […]