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How do you react to holiday stress?

Does the Holiday Season Stress You Out or Make You Happy?

  Yes. The end of the year holidays stress me out.


 Nope. I love holiday season.


 The holidays do a little bit of both.


 What stress? I live for this time of year.


 Love the season, can't stand the in-laws.


 The kids get hyper -- I get annoyed.


 Panic sets in as the days count down.


 I get depressed, moody, and cranky.


 I'm already stressing, and the holidays haven't even begun....


 Expenses (the cost of gifts, parties, etc.)


How do you react to holiday stress?

 Eat too much


 Don't exercise


 Isolate myself


 Spend too much money



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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated 40 million
Americans living today will suffer from major depressive illness during their lives.

Seasonal affective disorder is major depression that appears in the fall or winter and goes away in spring, thought to be caused by lack of sunlight.



Postpartum depression occurs within four weeks of a women giving childbirth. Most new mothers suffer from some form of the �baby blues.� Postpartum depression, by contrast, is major depression, thought to be triggered by changes in hormonal flows associated with childbirth.

Catatonic depression is a rare form of major depression characterized by (at least two): Stupor, excessive motor activity, extreme negativism, peculiarities in voluntary movement, and repetition of other people's words or actions. - mcmanweb.com



Psychotic depression is a rare form of depression characterized by delusions or hallucinations, such as believing you are someone you are not and hearing voices.


According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 18.8 million American adults, or about 9.5 percent of the US population age 18 and older in a given year, have a depressive disorder.
Depression is a chronic illness that exacts a significant toll on America's health and productivity.  It affects more than 21 million American children and adults annually and is the leading cause of disability in the United States for individuals ages 15 to 44.


Lost productive time among U.S. workers due to depression is estimated to be in excess of $31 billion per year.  Depression frequently co-occurs with a variety of medical illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, and chronic pain and is associated with poorer health status and prognosis.  It is also the principal cause of the 30,000 suicides in the U.S. each year.  In 2004, suicide was the 11th leading cause of death in the United States, third among individuals 15-24.


According to the World Health Organization, depression is presently on track to becoming the world's second-most disabling disease (after heart disease) by the year 2020.

Depression is responsible for some $87 billion a year in lost productivity in the US (a conservative estimate), and according to Bank One, is responsible for most lost work days in its employees after pregnancy and childbirth.

Additionally, one million people worldwide die by their own hand, most as a result of a mood disorder. Finally, the linkage between depression and a host of physical illnesses makes it arguably the world's greatest killer.

Research presented at the 56th Annual Conference of the Canadian Psychiatric Association shows a marked link between bipolar disorder and migraines.

The odds of migraine in persons with bipolar disorder were 40% higher than the general population.

Data obtained from 36,984 people aged 15 and over, who screened positive for manic or depressive episodes with migraine, were compared against those who screened positive for mania but who didn�t suffer from migraines.

Amongst males, 14.9% of those with manic episodes were also diagnosed with migraines compared with 5.8% of the general population. Amongst females, 34.7% had both migraines and bipolar disorder compared with 14.7% who only had migraines.unquote.gif

While the research was skewed towards persons who were already diagnosed with bipolar disorders, what does it mean for people who suffer from migraines but who may have an undiagnosed bipolar disorder?



Migraines and headaches aren�t fully understood but the manifestations are very real and debilitating for their sufferers:

Throbbing pain
Nausea
Heightened sensitivity to light or sound
Seeing dots, wavy lines, flashing lights, or blind spots
Difficulty with speech, sensation, or movement

 


An estimated 2.1 million American adolescents have experienced major depression within the last year, according to a new comprehensive government study.  Researchers surveyed more than 67,000 young people ages 12 to 17 and found that one in 12 had suffered from serious depression in the previous year.Nearly 13 percent of girls had struggled with depression, compared to less than 5 percent of boys. Odds of depression increased with age -- just 4 percent of 12-year-olds experienced depression but that climbed to 11 percent for older teens.

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  'Tis the season? People are now starting to prepare as they are preparing to shop shop for gifts now, getting ready to cook for their loved ones and basically seeing all the ads on TV. It’s Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah  once again and everyone’s joining in the holiday festivities. Everyone except you. This only means one thing: you’ve got holiday season depression. It’s a type of seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, that affects individuals everywhere.

It’s common for some people to feel sad, anxious, and uneasy when the yuletide season comes, but you have to admit it’s no fun. While everyone’s enjoying themselves, you’re busy being as mean as old Mr. Scrooge.

The Grinch Complex

You might not be as spiteful as the Grinch and you surely have no intentions of wrecking havoc like what he did to Whoville, but you’re just as sourly, as bitter and as miserable as he is. Of course, there’s always a reason why you feel that way. Here are some possible reasons for your holiday season depression.




by Forum Admin, 2009-11-02 14:30:00 More...

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Q. What is wrong with me?  I have what I think are anxiety problems.
About five years ago, I was diagnosed with ADD. I never experienced any sort of trauma, that I can remember. I get this horrible feeling and it builds up, until I start crying uncontrollably and hyperventilating. I’m also abnormally shy. I feel that same sort of anxiety when I have to talk to people, even people I’ve known for a long time. I don’t usually look people in the eye when I speak. I feel very nervous about a lot of things, and I’m tired of making any mistakes, big or small, and people’s reactions to them. Please tell me, is it possible that I have some sort of disorder?

by Lindsay, 2009-11-01 16:00:00 More...

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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

 
Seasonal affective disorder (also called SAD) is a type of depression that occurs at the same time every year. If you're like most people with seasonal affective disorder, your symptoms start in the fall and may continue into the winter months, sapping your energy and making you feel moody. Less often, seasonal affective disorder causes depression in the spring or early summer.

Don't brush off that yearly feeling as simply a case of the "winter blues" or a seasonal funk that you have to tough out on your own — you may have seasonal affective disorder. Treatment for seasonal affective disorder includes light therapy (phototherapy), psychotherapy and medications. Addressing the problem can help you keep your mood and motivation steady throughout the year.

by Forum Admin, 2009-10-30 11:30:00 More...

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 Thanksgiving Can Be  Low-Stress 

If You Follow These Steps

 
 
 

      Talk to your relatives to determine who will be hosting Thanksgiving dinner and any other activities that may revolve around this day. Offer up your house only under a couple of circumstances: if you host it every year, if it's your turn to host a major holiday, if hosting it somewhere else will put a tremendous amount of stress on an elderly or ill member of the family or if you really want to host it.

by Lindsay, 2009-10-30 17:30:00 More...

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Can Americans Be Happier?

PBS has announced that a new series will air during the first week of the

2010 New Year that examines this question.

This Emotional Life, a co-production of Vulcan Productions and the NOVA/WGBH Science Unit, unfolds across three, two-hour episodes, exploring the nature of the social relationships that are the key to our human happiness; the obstacles to happiness, negative emotions, which we can't live with and can't live without; and the sometimes misguided pursuit of happiness itself.

 Each episode weaves together the compelling personal stories of ordinary people and the latest in brain science research, along with revealing comments from celebrities such as Chevy Chase, Larry David, Elizabeth Gilbert, Alanis Morissette, Katie Couric and Richard Gere.

“Science has revealed three important facts about happiness: You can't be happy alone; you can’t be happy all the time; you can be happier than you are. Our three shows examine each of these three facts,” notes Harvard psychologist and best-selling author of  Stumbling on Happiness , Professor Daniel Gilbert. Prof. Gilbert’s research has examined why people so often mispredict what will make them happy.

The three episodes — which air on PBS January 4-6, 2010 (at 9:00 PM) — trace our relationships and what science reveals about them beginning with our very first one, the parent-child relationship, and how our connections to others impact our happiness. Below are descriptions of This Emotional Life's three episodes:

 


by Lindsay, 2009-11-12 15:00:00 More...

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New Breakthrough Could Be Why Some

Antidepressants Do Not Work For You

Stressful Life Events Are a Major Cause of Depression
 

What causes depression has been oversimplified, resulting in drugs that treat stress but not necessarily depression, according to a new research.

 

October 27, 2009 2:58 PM PDT -- Depression researcher Eva Redei presented research at the Neuroscience 2009 conference in Chicago this week that calls into question two tenets of depression science: that stressful life events are a major cause of depression, and that an imbalance in neurotransmitters triggers depressive symptoms.

For decades, drugs have been developed around these beliefs, leading to antidepressant medications that are actually designed to relieve stress. But stress-related genes have almost no overlap with depression-related genes, reports Redei, the David Lawrence Stein professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. (Full disclosure: Northwestern is my alma mater.)

That means those antidepressants work if you're stressed, but not necessarily if you're depressed.

"This is a huge study and statistically powerful," Redei says. "This research opens up new routes to develop new antidepressants that may be more effective. There hasn't been an antidepressant based on a novel concept in 20 years."


 

by Forum Admin, 2009-10-30 11:00:00 More...

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 Depression can go away and you won't always feel like you do now!         

I joined this forum looking for help and advice which I found in abundance but I also wanted someone to tell me that there is light at the end of the tunnel and that depressive feelings can be reduced or go away completely. I hope that my story can give some advice but also let people know there is light at the end of the tunnel.


 

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Depression Switch Rate In Bipolar Mania ‘Low’


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Only a small proportion of bipolar disorder patients switch from mania to depression, say European researchers in findings that suggest atypical antipsychotics may protect against the switch to depression.

Switching in mood polarity in bipolar disorder patients has been identified as a predictor for poor long-term outcomes. However, while the switch from depression to mania has received a great deal of attention, the risk for switching from mania to depression is poorly understood.

Eduard Vieta, from the University of Barcelona, and colleagues therefore examined data from the 2-year, prospective, observational European Mania in Bipolar Longitudinal Evaluation of Medication study on 2390 patients who took part in the maintenance phase of the investigation, which lasted for up to 24 months.



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Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) should be shortened to

include only mood and cognitive symptoms.


If accepted, the 35-year-old definition found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) would not include symptoms that are associated with medical illness.

The proposal is based on a study that appears in the online first edition of the journal  Psychological Medicine .
The current definition of major depressive disorder includes nine symptoms — a definition that has remained essentially unchanged since the 1970s.

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