Any treatment plan that fails to address these underlying causes isn’t likely to be effective for someone who is suffering from depression.That’s why it’s so important to move beyond the default chemical imbalance explanation and understand what’s really driving the condition. Antidepressants Ma...
While no longer really a theory in the technical sense — it is certainly not so simple as a deficiency in serotonin that can explain depression — this narrative remains popular. The chemical imbalance message has been promoted by many well-intentioned stakeholders, including pharmaceutical c...
Depression does not just appear overnight, Green said, and is a long-standing condition. “It develops over many weeks, months and sometimes years,” she said. “Looking after our wellbeing when we are ‘well’ as opposed to waiting until we are unwell is really important and there are m...
Depression really can happen to anyone and often seems to happen to those who are sensitive and giving, so deriding sufferers as 'crazy' or 'nutters' is unfair, unjustified and certainly unhelpful. What Treatments for Depression are Available? These are explained in full on our page,Treatments...
But really it's multiple factors all working together to cause pain, problem, and decrease in function. See: What Is Tendonitis? Growing knowledge of tendonitis is pointing to a particular issue of 'Tendonosis', which basically means that due to lack of blood, the outer layers of a tendon...
Sometimes we're unhappy with life itself, with the idea that we come and go and do not really matter in the scheme of things. We're unhappy that there is no line of thought that ends anywhere except with a sense of the void. This anger at the hand you've been dealt, the hand tha...
The other day I was driving in my car listening to my favorite radio station when I heard something on the news about the rise of depression in children aged 12-17 years. As I care very much for children and see them as our future, this troubled me. It t
TYPES OF DEPRESSION Depressive disorders come in different forms, just as is the case with other illnesses such as heart disease. This pamphlet briefly describes three of the most common types of depressive disorders. However, within these types there are variations in the number of symptoms, thei...
What does the treatment of depression really cost? Health Affairs 1998; 17: 198-208.Croghan, TW, Obenchain, RL, Crown, WE (1998) What does treatment of depression really cost? Although treating a patient with depression is expensive, the bulk of the cost is for care of accompanying ...
Why our minds break is our thinking requires concepts that we get really emotionally invested in. We come to see our lives as defined by certain emotions and beliefs, and when these are challenged, it causes us a lot of stress. Usually, our thoughts and our perceptions bleed into each othe...