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What Are The Causes Of Depression? Am I Depressed Or Just Simply Sad?

What Are the Causes Of Depression There are countless causes of depression, we can’t really enumerate it all since there are different factors that contribute to depression, which may or may not cause depressive state to an individual. Different people have encounters of depressive situations,...

Understanding Depressions – Signs Solutions And Symptoms

Understanding Depressions – Signs Solutions And Symptoms Feeling down, depress and helpless are normal. We all experience at some point in our lives that we are not feeling good about something. These situations of worthlessness are identified as...

New Depression Treatments may Involve Neurological Protein

A protein peptide could be involved in a new treatment for depression with a low side-effect profile. Neuroscientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found that coupling between two dopamine receptors was significantly...

Fish Oil Doesn’t Affect Postpartum Depression

Taking fish oil (DHA)  supplements during pregnancy, widely thought to help mothers’ moods and children’s cognitive skills, does not appear to reduce the risk of postpartum depression of mothers or boost the language development...

How Many in U.S. Are Depressed?

The CDC says that about 9% of Americans report they are depressed at least occasionally, and 3.4% suffer from major depression. The 9% are people who reported to surveyors that they felt depressed to some degree in the two weeks prior to being...

Depression Risk for Partners of Breast Cancer Patients

Women with breast cancer have an increased risk for depression, and now new research finds the same thing to be true for the men in their lives. The study followed more than a million men enrolled in a nationwide Danish health registry for 13...

Weight Linked to Depression

Nearly a quarter of obese Americans say they have been diagnosed with depression, a significantly higher percentage than normal weight people, according to the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The new survey also says that more than one...

Depression – What to do?

Feeling down once in a while is normal. But some people feel a sadness that just won’t go away. Life seems hopeless. Feeling this way most of the day for two weeks or more is a sign of serious depression. At any given time, most people with...

Metabolic Syndrome Can Really Get You Down

What is the problem and what is known about it so far? “Metabolic syndrome” is a group of conditions that together raise a person’s chances of getting heart and blood vessel disease. The syndrome includes obesity in the abdomen...

Depression: Recognizing the Physical Symptoms

Recognizing the Symptoms of Depression Most of us know about the emotional symptoms of depression. But you may not know that depression can cause physical symptoms, too. In fact, many people with depression feel pain or other physical symptoms....

Depression in Women

10 Signs of Depression in Women Here are the facts about depression in women. In the U.S. about 15 million people experience depression each year. The majority of them are women. Unfortunately, nearly two-thirds of those women do not get the help...