If you have ever been fighting depression, how many times has a friend or colleague told you to snap out of it and thought they were solving the problem. Well depression isn’t like that. It is a deeply rooted problem that will not be cured overnight with some simple advice from someone that is not […]
Category Archives: Depression
How does our body being affected by depression? Can we call this a disorder or just reaction made by our body due to the negative emotional cause that had happened? How long this depression can take effect in our body? This are just questions that we need to know first before taking any cure or […]
Just as when people think that the only effective treatment for depression is to take drugs, new findings about talk therapy called cognitive behavior therapy appears to cancel the risk of suicidal thinking or behavior associated with taking antidepressant medication. Cognitive therapy is a type of talk therapy that involves counseling and changing a person’s […]
New measures are being explored to help patients with bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, to cope with their crushing illness. Surprising options are being tested as possible treatments for this disorder, such as motion sickness patches, a drug used to treat Lou Gehrig’s disease and a device that produces an electric field around […]
Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Audrey Hepburn, and even Jim Carrey all had something in common. Aside from being renowned artists, they were also afflicted with depression. It has been a great mystery how these men and women, praised for their genius in film, on the canvass, or in using […]
After the initial shock, we have somehow gotten used to the news of celebrities taking their own lives by way of suicide and drug overdose. Some of them are lucky enough to survive but others have succumbed to their attempts to end their life…and their suffering. It only goes to show that fame and fortune […]