“Jon Kabat-Zinn’sFull Catastrophe Livingshould be in everyone’s Audible, but especially for those with major depressive disorder,” Daymont says. Your therapist may recommend apps and online programs like Woebot and Deprexis, which offer cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based interventions to ...
Major depression affects the brain in many ways. People with long-term or severe depression may lose some important connections in their brains (called synapses) that let nerve cells communicate. “We think that the number of synapses goes down because severe stress triggers reactions in the brai...
To study help-seeking among the general population and people with major depression. 12-month help-seeking for emotional problems was assessed in a cross-sectional 2006 Estonian Health Survey. Non-institutionalized individuals aged 18-84 years (n = 6,105) were interviewed. A major depressive ...
after her father’s suicide in 2009, she had her first period of major depression. Another happened while she was working. She was concerned she would lose her teaching job and become poor again. She went to the hospital...
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with postpartum depression first seek help from their partners [13], and support from their partners can be considered the most powerful factor in alleviating their depression [14,15,16]. However, no research provides a detailed examination of matters such as the processes that mothers with ...
The Help4Mood consortium, comprising partners from Scotland, Spain, Romania, and Italy, aims to develop a system for supporting the treatment of people with major depressive disorder in the community. The Help4Mood system consists of three parts: (1) A Personal Monitoring System that collects ac...
Major depressive disorder, or clinical depression, is described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). The symptoms of clinical depression may differ in each particular case, but here are the most common signs of depression: ...
This has relevance in suicide prevention, particularly for those with major depression, the clinical condition most frequently associated with suicidal behavior. In this study of a random and representative community sample, a vignette depicting classical features of major depression was presented to ...
(充足的)sleep is essential for maintaining good physical and mental health. Now, new research has revealed that good health also depends on sleep schedules. In fact, waking up an hour earlier is generally found to help p...