Some mental health professionals and people who live with depression believe crippling depression is simply a synonym for clinical depression or major depressive disorder. It is true that many have used the term this way, sometimes without being aware of its more popular meaning. Sometimes popular ...
Depression is very different from feeling a bit down, or having a moment of passing sadness. It’s an extraordinary “pain in the mind”. Imagine feeling sad, but much, much sadder than you’ve ever felt before. Imagine all the lights being turned off in your head. Imagine your mind tu...
Hurkle-durkling is lounging in bed past the time you should get up. You might know it as “bed-rotting” or practicing self-care. It differs from “being lazy” or “crippling depression” in that hurkle-durkling is a conscious decision to reject the demands that life places on us...
A Psychiatric Service Dogalso receives specialized training in order to perform certain tasks for an individual, the only difference being that a PSD usually helps those with unseen, unnoticeable disabilities (anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, depression). Just like other service dogs, PSDs hav...
With a strong belief in the necessity of mass vaccinations, the left, both reformist and revolutionary, has found itself promoting many of the same policies as the government, but unable to suggest an alternative in Italy to the crippling economic measures or the contradictory mode of imposition...
This will prevent the newly infected from infecting others and crippling cities still further – assuming, that is, a belief system in which yellow fever is contagious and spread from person to person. But in 1878 Memphis, where by September the epidemic is claiming 200 lives a day, this “...
We must open our eyes and allow the truth: that we can be wonderful AND have depression; that we can be clever AND be a rape survivor; that we can be talented AND struggle with crippling self-doubt. Even more, we can be seemingly totally normal and come from generations of hard-scrabbl...
Our brains are wired to ignore that suffocating and crippling feeling that one day we will all become fertiliser. Researchers at the Bar Ilan University in Israel found our brain refuses to accept that death is related to us. “We have this primal mechanism that means when the brain gets inf...
then it is. It counts. As I deal with anxiety — someone else deals with depression — or crippling grief — or just an inner battle of not being good enough or where they thought they should be. So whatever you live with — I hope you live with it well. I hope if it doesn’t ...
How much of depression, pain and anxiety in men is really a cry for pursuing a life that is true to them? The bitter and inconvenient truth that men trapped by the “beta male paradox” are unwilling to admit is that their approval-seeking behavior affects everyone…not just themselves. ...