New knowledge: Depressed people need a clear, easy-to-understand model of how depression works and why it is so awful. We call this the cycle of depression. We teach it to clients in the very first session and it almost always blows them away. I’ve seen depressed people laugh out loud...
Major depression commonly co-occurs with symptoms of insomnia. However, the underlying psychobiological mechanisms which can explain this relationship are still not well understood. Hyperarousal and negative emotionality have been proposed to be possible mediating factors. Several studies have suggested that...
Having these feelings with consistency for at least two weeks may mean that you have depression. But these are not meant to scare you or to encourage hypochondriacism. It’s important to understand the various symptoms so we can use essential oils effectively to treat the feelings you might be...
It should be noted that the fear-avoidance model of chronic pain [5] specifies not only a negative downward spiral, but also a positive upward spiral. When a non-threatening appraisal of pain is made that does not elicit fear, this is assumed to result in confrontation and engagement behavio...
(Medical Xpress)—Many chronically depressed and treatment-resistant patients experience immediate relief from symptoms after taking small amounts of the drug ketamine. For a decade, scientists have been trying to explain the observation first made at Yale University. ...
Think of it as the ketamine helping to make new catcher’s mitts for the glutamate, so that the nerve cells can respond to it again. Regrowing and reactivating synapses helps the brain’s ability to change, which may help it shift out of depression. That may also explain why ...
Then comes the tough part – knowing what to do and why you got here. Admitting that to yourself, let alone your partner, isn't easy when it may challenge your self-concept. [Read:How to Claim the Love of Your Life.] That may explain a recent Huffington Post and YouGovsurveythat fou...
If you are one of the many women that suffer from PMS, you an end your suffering using five simple dietary and lifestyle interventions. I will explain how to do that. But first, I want to tell you a story. 如果你是众多饱受PMS困扰的女性之一,你可以通过五个简单的食谱和生活方式干预来解决...
Dealing with any level of test anxiety during the SAT or ACT is, at its best, the opposite of fun. This guide will explainwhat test anxiety is, why it happens, and what you can do to manage it. Test Anxiety: What Is It? The first thing to say is thattest anxiety isreal. It's ...
According to the Sleep Foundation, those who experience insomnia are ten times as likely to have clinical depression and 17 times more likely to have clinical anxiety. As episodes of insomnia increase in quantity and severity, the chances increase. Those with acute and chronic insomni...