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Depression: Six Common Depression Traps to Avoid
April 30, 2011 /

Six Common Depression Traps to Avoid Expert advice on how to sidestep pitfalls that often accompany depression. When Orion Lyonesse is getting depressed, she turns into a hermit. She doesn’t want to leave the house (not even to pick up the mail), and she cuts off contact with her friends and family. “The more I’m alone, the deeper the depression gets,” Lyonesse, an artist and writer in Lake Stevens, Wash., tells WebMD in an email. “I don’t even want to cuddle my cats!” Avoiding social contact is a common pattern you might notice when falling into depression. Some people skip activities they normally enjoy and isolate themselves from…
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Alcohol, mood and me (not you)
April 28, 2011 /

Thanks in part to studies that follow subjects for a long time, psychologists are learning more about differences between people. In a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, the author describes how psychologists can use their data to learn about the different ways that people’s minds work. Most psychology research is done by asking a big group of people the same questions at the same time. “So we might get a bunch of Psych 101 undergrads, administer a survey, ask about how much they use alcohol and what their mood is, and just look and see, is there a…
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The Way we Communicate with Young People is by Text, Saves Lives!
February 7, 2018

Men Can Defeat Depression; Boost Mental Health!
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Depression Is Not A Choice
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Genetic Risk For Major Depression Identified
April 28, 2011 /

Genetic Risk For Major Depression Identified Apr 28 2011 A new study reveals a novel gene associated with major depression. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 28 issue of the journal Neuron, suggests a previously unrecognized mechanism for major depression and may guide future therapeutic strategies for this debilitating mood disorder.
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Reasons Not To Break Your New Year’s Resolutions
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Men Can Defeat Depression; Boost Mental Health!
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African Americans are particularly at risk for mental illness
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Why Doctors Should Be More Empathetic–But Not Too Much More
April 27, 2011 /

Why Doctors Should Be More Empathetic–But Not Too Much More Research is revealing what goes on in the brains of health care workers when they see patients as objects Brain scans suggest doctors learn to shut down empathy Image: Hüseyin Tuncer If possible, think back to a time you or a loved one had to be in a hospital for a significant amount of time. What do you remember from the experience? Many people report an eerie feeling about their stays in hospitals. Even if everyone treating you was kind, attentive, hard working, efficient and competent, you may still have had a sense that—compared to other situations in which…
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The Effectiveness Of SSRI Antidepressants Reduced By Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
April 26, 2011 /

The Effectiveness Of SSRI Antidepressants Reduced By Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Scientists at the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at The Rockefeller University, led by Paul Greengard, Ph.D., and Jennifer Warner-Schmidt, Ph.D., have shown that anti-inflammatory drugs, which include ibuprofen, aspirin and naproxen, reduce the effectiveness of the most widely used class of antidepressant medications, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, taken for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders. This surprising discovery, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may explain why so many depressed patients taking SSRIs do not respond to antidepressant treatment and suggests that this lack of effectiveness may be…
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GPs do not have the time to conduct proper psychiatric interviews and rely too heavily on questionnaires.
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Treating Depression Often Lies In A Gray Zone – From Pills To Psychotherapy
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In Fighting Anorexia, Recovery Is Elusive
April 26, 2011 /

Dr. Suzanne Dooley-Hash believes that she will never fully recover from the anorexia that has plagued her since she was 15 years old. For many years, she did not take laxatives constantly to lose weight, as she did in the mid-1980s, and her health was “relatively O.K.” Thoughts about her weight did not occupy every second of every minute of every day. But in 2005 she relapsed, losing one-third of her body weight in six months. She took off 19 months from her job as an emergency room physician at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor to devote herself to getting her life back in order.
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Tips to eliminate stress throughout the week
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Women, Men and the Way We Write About Depression
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If you are depressed, how to tell and when to get help
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What Is Depression?
April 24, 2011 /

What Is Depression? By learning about depression, you’ve made an important first step toward getting help. A lot of people have a hard time accepting that they may have depression. They feel ashamed. But depression is not something you brought on yourself. It’s a disease — just like heart disease or diabetes.
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Babies’ Persistent Fussiness Could Mean Behavioral Woes Ahead
April 23, 2011 /

Study links problems in infancy to temper tantrums, aggressive actions and more Excessive sleeping, feeding or crying troubles during infancy are associated with a greatly increased risk for behavioral problems later in childhood, research suggests. Such behavior, which the researchers describe as “regulatory problems,” were the focus of an analysis of 22 studies conducted between 1987 and 2006. Data came from 16,848 children, including 1,935 with regulatory problems who were tested.
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Treating Depression Often Lies In A Gray Zone – From Pills To Psychotherapy
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GPs do not have the time to conduct proper psychiatric interviews and rely too heavily on questionnaires.
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Fears and Facts About Antidepressants
April 20, 2011 /

Along with counseling, antidepressants are a common part of treatment for depression. And they are usually effective. Six out of 10 people treated with antidepressants feel better with the first one they try. If the first antidepressant medication doesn’t help, the second or third often will. Most people eventually find one that works for them. Yet many people who could benefit from an antidepressant never try one, often because of fears and misconceptions about them, experts say. You Can Start Feeling Better: 8 Important Things to Do About Depression
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MOLECULES OF THE MIND
April 18, 2011 /

Psychiatric Times. MOLECULES OF THE MIND To Sirtuin With Love: Caloric Restrictions and the Genes of the Aging Brain By John J. Medina, PhD | April 5, 2011 Dr Medina is a developmental molecular biologist and private consultant, with research interests in the genetics of psychiatric disorders. For more about Dr Medina, visit http://brainrules.net. One of the most interesting research efforts of the past few years seems to have taken a page from the preoccupations of the self-help magazine world: the cognitive decline of the brains of aging baby boomers and the obese nature of their grandchildren. These topics have been united by the well-established finding that restricting caloric…
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