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8 Steps to Take When Considering Antidepressants

by Michael Banov

This article give a brief, focused list of things to do before deciding to take (or not to take) antidepressants. The author is a Harvard-trained, triple board-certified psychiatri...

A Case Study on Anxious Depression

by June Butlin

Helen is a single parent of three children who works extremely hard to provide for her family. She was employed part time as a teacher, and although the money was limited, she mana...

Clobbering The Symptom

by Beata Bishop

Beata Bishop takes a look at how people who suffer from depression are treated by doctors. She talks about the way in which few doctors attempt to uncover the cause of the problem ...

Depressed? Your Dreams Can Help!

by John Goldhammer

Dream researcher John Goldhammer has discovered, from his 25 plus years of researching dreams and techniques of dream interpretations, that the majority of our dreams have a profou...

Depression

by Sheldon Litt, Ph.D.

My dictionary defines depression as: "an emotional state of mind characterised by feelings of gloom and inadequacy, leading to withdrawal." This is the usual description of a patho...

Depression

by June Butlin

Depression is a growing health problem and one of the least understood diseases. It affects adults and children of all ages and can be very serious. Untreated depression may lead t...

Depression - Promising Treatment Approaches

by Jonathan McGookin

This article focuses on depression --- a debilitating mental illness where the affected person often develops an extremely negative outlook on life and sees no way out of the black...

Depression - The Fast-Spreading Malady

by Manisha Jain

Depression, as the word itself suggests, is a low feeling, an experience of nothingness and low spirits. Depression is a growing health problem and one of the least understood disea...

Escaping the Prison of Depression

by Dorothy Rowe

Dorothy Rowe, researcher and prolific author about depression for 35 years, writes in her column that many people who are depressed present images of being trapped and alone when a...

Fatigue Propelled Depression

by Michael Levy

In this column which focuses on depression caused by fatigue, the author discloses that latest US statistics declare one in ten teenagers suffer from major depressions and that man...

Healing Your Moods Naturally

by Brant Secunda and Mark Allen

The authors, a shaman healer and the world champion Ironman, describe how necessary and beneficial it is for us to keep our connections to the natural world.

Living With Someone Else's Depression

by Joseph Poullis

This brief article touches on the ways that being in close contact with a depressed person can affect one. Family members, as the depressed person makes the long descent into hope...

Moving Through Depression

by Maggie Baker

This author was diagnosed with depression at the age of forty. She felt that she had spent her adulthood lurching from one crisis to another, including a disastrous marriage and a ...

Moving Through Depression, Literally

by Maggie Baker

Maggie writes about a very personal journey from a major breakdown seven years ago. She tells of how repression of her real self was at the heart of her problems and how she has ov...

Moving Through Depression: A Few Steps Further

by Maggie Baker

Maggie Baker. A follow up to her previous article Moving Through Depression (issue 34).

Natural Approaches to Depression

by Rory Myles

This article describes research linking Depression with a wide range of health problems, including Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Back Pain, Cardiovascular Disease, Physical De...

The Experience of Depression

by Dorothy Rowe

Each of us experiences depression in an image which is idiosyncratically our own, and yet which shares a meaning with all other people's images of the experience of depression.

The Myth of Chemical Imbalance

by Dorothy Rowe

Dorothy Rowe discusses the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) report on the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant drugs (SSRIs such as Ser...

What if Depression were a REM Sleep Disorder?

by Andrew Richardson

This article, in presenting a particular approach to depression, also provides useful information about the way that the Human Givens philosophy and practice work, and why they are...

What We Fear The Most

by Dorothy Rowe

Clinical psychologist Dorothy Rowe, well known for her work on depression and her many books on the subject, explores our fears about ill health and dying.