depression

If your mental wellness is affected by depression, your doctor may prescribe you antidepressants to help you cope. However, you may have to go through a variety of medications before you find the one that improves your wellbeing, and, even…

When a couple’s sexual health and wellbeing dwindles, the assumption is that the woman has instigated the end of intimacy. However, the split is more 50/50 than you might think. According to Bob Berkowitz, PhD, and Susan…

Weight loss is pretty straight forward: eat less, exercise more, and there you have it. So if you seem to keep piling on the pounds no matter how many diets you try, the problem may have more to do with your general wellness than with your…

It is very difficult to carry out any research using illegal drugs, which is why it is only just coming to light that a compound found in the illegal drug magic mushrooms may be the answer to curing depression. People who live with this…

Depression, contrary to our frenetic culture of ‘getting and spending’, is principally about being. In this sense, it is the shadow side of a civilization polarised towards doing. We hurry through life without taking time to draw breath or…

Being diagnosed with clinical depression is both a blessing and a curse – you learn that there are ways of coping with it, but then it can be difficult to talk about, particularly to those who have already made up their mind about you.…

Stress, or at least chronic stress, has far reaching implications. Too much stress results in the feeling of being overwhelmed physically or mentally. Anger, fear, depression and anxiety are all aspects of excessive stress occurring in your…

The first step in stress management is learning to identify the various symptoms of stress as there are good and bad symptoms. According to the Health Management Health Center, stress is the physical response to the body's "fight or flight"…

Dealing with depression is a constant battle. It is a fight against your brain for survival. Many people struggle with this debilitating and sometimes deadly disease. People with depression often have difficulty understanding what is going…

Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug among under-aged youth in the United States, resulting in nearly 200,000 alcohol related visits to emergency rooms and approximately 4,300 alcohol related deaths annually. Under-age use of…

Perhaps the notion that knee arthritis is affected by depression is one that invites scepticism. The cynical joke that arthritic pain is enough to invite depression is fairly understandable, but in a recent study involving 660 men and women…

Nearly a quarter of students suffer from some form of anxiety and depression, according to a recent study. Parents back home may be concerned that their teenager who has recently flown the nest is not coping, and this can impact on family…

Depression is the deep-seated disorder that very few can sit into a specific model; but in a recent study, scientists in America have attempted to understand the links between genetics and its maladies. Depression has many causes and…

Is your emotional wellbeing affected by imbalance, depression and anxiety? It may be time to take control of your life. Ayurveda is a complementary wellness therapy that offers many solutions to emotional wellness issues, giving you a…

If you know someone who is suffering from depression it can be difficult to know how best to help. Perhaps you feel they should talk about their problems but then find they won’t open up to you. Or maybe you think getting out of the house…

Bereavement refers to an event which results in loss - this may losing your job, or a similar event, or the death of someone you know. The latter of these events is more commonly associated to the term bereavement. How you deal with grief…

When you’re in recovery, it’s typical to experience frequent knocks to your mental wellbeing. If you suffer from substance abuse as well as a mental health disorder, this is known as a dual diagnosis disorder, and wellness problems often…

Junk food might be the tastier option, but it does very little for our health, both mental and physical. Eating too many saturated and trans fats can lead to a high cholesterol, increased risk of coronary heart disease and other health…

A report from the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health in America suggests that people who are unemployed are up to four times more likely to suffer from mental health issues, such as depression. 13 percent of unemployed…

When depression takes its toll on your mental wellness, the last thing you want to hear is that it’s also making you age faster. However, don’t shoot the messenger, but new research, published in Biological Psychiatry, is again blaming…

The International Diabetes Association recently published a 2012 listing for diabetes rates by country which read like a Who's Who of Arabian Gulf states. The prevalence rates of Kuwait (23.9%), Saudi Arabia (23.4%), Qatar (23.3%), and…

If you feel like your wellbeing is suffering from a persistently low mood, you may have depression. This syndrome often affects your mental wellness with a lack of drive and interest, loss of pleasure in everything, altered sleep and…

Everyone needs goals and challenges in life, and so the stress that comes along with that isn’t necessarily damaging in and of itself. However, when too much stress takes its toll in your emotional wellness, it can actually harm your…

Depression is rather over-diagnosed as a condition today. That's not to say it isn't damaging or dangerous, as it is. What I'm saying is that a lot of doctors and health professionals are more than happy to diagnose depression with minimal…

Diabetes wellness experts, psychiatrists and neuroscientists have agreed that it is important to measure depression and disease-related stress in people whose wellness is affected by diabetes. Further, they also conclude that genetic…

A new study from Brazil suggests that weak electrical currents passed through the brain via a headband could alleviate some of the symptoms of depression, when combined with an anti-depressant. Researchers discovered that six weeks of this…

As you get older, anything that can give your anti-ageing wellness a boost is appealing. Now Sari Botton, 47, reveals why Wellbutrin gave her the sense of wellbeing she needed. ‘I was 47 in the winter of 2013 when I…

Our mental health can come under strain when we experience big life events, such as starting new careers, bereavement or relationship breakdown. These situations could put us at risk of depression, which can show as mood disturbances,…

Our depression can be treatable, with medication, healthy eating and exercise working for some of us. Now a new way of dealing with negative thoughts could give us more ways to cope with this mental health problem. Cycle of depression…

Highs and lows are a natural part of our lives, and give us an idea about what's working for us in our lifestyles and what's not. If we're tired we may need to schedule more time for relaxation and if we dread Mondays then maybe it's time…