Depression
Major
Depression Hopkins
Q&A: Inside Depression, Part One
Hopkins
Q&A: Inside Depression, Part Two
Plain
Talk About Depression from the NIMH
Helpful
Facts About Depression from the NIMH
Hopkins:
Seasonal Depression and Genetics Depression
Fact Sheet from the NIMH Antidepressant
Medications About
Electroconvulsive “Shock” Therapy
Spotting
the Warning Signs of Suicide Talk
Therapy vs. Drug Therapy
There is a tendency today to use the word "depression"
to describe the inevitable periods of sadness that each of us experience
from time to time.
Every year, 32,000 Americans commit suicide, and
depression is the diagnosis most frequently associated with taking one's
life.
Some 17 million to 20 million Americans suffer from
depression each year. The disease's gravest danger is that its
characteristic lowered sense of self-worth and self-blaming will lead to
suicide.
During any year, 10% the population suffers from a
depressive illness. Appropriate treatment can help most sufferers.
Includes types of depression, symptoms, causes and diagnosis and
treatment, along with tips for families and friends.
Depression is a common and costly mental illness which
affects approximately 17.6 million Americans each year.
November is the month for Thanksgiving, raking leaves,
chilly winds and darkening afternoons. For people predisposed to
depression, it has another side as well.
Depression is more than the blues. Depression is not a
personal weakness. Depression is a treatable illness.
Regardless of life circumstances it is the chemistry of
the brain that determines whether a person will respond to those
circumstances with depression, or develop depressive symptoms quite
apart from his circumstances.
Electroconvulsive "shock" therapy is one of
the safest and most effective treatments for symptoms of depression and
mania, especially when those symptoms have not yielded to other forms of
treatment, such as medications and psychotherapy.
Caught in feelings of desperation and hopelessness,
thousands of people -- some estimates put the number as high as 30,000
-- commit suicide each year in the United States. The number of people
who attempt suicide may be eight to ten times higher.
Are the days of lying on the psychiatrist's couch and
divulging your deepest problems over? Has Prozac completely superseded
Freud’s talk therapy as the only way to treat the most common
psychological problem, depression? Far from it ...
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