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Depression in Office
2007-06-25 15:08:00
Depression a common term for a sad or low mood or the loss of pleasure; an emotion that does not affect capacity to perform personal and vocational obligations Fawn Fitter knew it was not just another bad day at the office. She was doing what she loved–writing about careers for major ...
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Depression Depressing the World Economy
2007-06-18 15:07:00
Depression, a common term for a sad or low mood or the loss of pleasure; an emotion that does not affect capacity to perform personal and vocational obligations There are 330 million people around the world suffering from depression. According to Dr Christopher Murray from the World Health Organization (WHO), major ...
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Vagus Nerve Stimulation: A new Depression Treatment Option
2007-06-10 09:14:00
This new procedure uses brain stimulation to improve symptoms, but long-term effects aren’t yet known. Discover how it works and understand the pros and cons Depression is usually a very treatable condition. Often, standard treatment with antidepressant medications, psychotherapy or electroconvulsive therapy can help improve even severe cases of depression. But if standard ...
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Women Who Stop Antidepressant Suffer A Relapse
2007-06-06 08:34:00
Is it safe to take antidepressants during pregnancy? It?s hard to find a straight answer on whether expectant women should continue taking antidepressants during pregnancy and what effect the medication has on newborns. Recent studies have been as contradictory and unclear as news about the benefits or drawbacks to a ...
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Underweight babies more Susceptible to Depression
2007-06-03 08:33:00
Underweight babies : There has been a significant increase in the number of underweight babies being born in the UK, a report from a think tank has concluded. According to the study carried out by the Fabian Society, 2006 saw 78 out of every 1,000 babies born weighing less than 5lb ...
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Women with Chronic Headache More Prone to Depression!
2007-05-31 08:33:00
Stress is by far the most common headache “trigger.” Both female and male headache sufferers report that headaches are more likely to occur during or after periods of stress. Major life-changing events like marriage, birth of a child, or career changes all are sources of stress. However, research has found that ...
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Depression Clutches Burn Patients
2007-05-28 08:52:00
WHEN I MET Pooja, the first thing I notice is her eyes, with their piercing pupils and watery whites. But she has not been crying. Pooja’s eyes are irritated because she cannot blink easily. They look out from a face that has been damaged by severe burns so badly that it looks ...
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Depression and Negative Thinking
2007-05-23 08:44:00
Negative thinking dominates when a person experiences depression. The depressed person can experience negative thoughts as being beyond their control, that can then become automatic and self-perpetuating. Negative thinking can be categorized into a number of common patterns called “cognitive distortions.” The cognitive therapist provides techniques to give the client a ...
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Depressed Teens Indulging in Risky Sex Practices
2007-05-19 08:27:00
Teen depression is a serious issue, but can be helped when you know the symptoms. Though the term ?depression? can describe a normal human emotion, it also can refer to a mental disorder. Depressive illness in teenagers is defined when the feelings of depression persist and interfere with the teen?s ability to ...
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Depression: An Indication of Parkinson?s Disease
2007-05-15 09:13:00
Parkinson’s disease (also known as Parkinson disease or PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer’s motor skills and speech. The possibility of an ?organically? based depression intrinsic to the path physiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and comparable to endogenous depression (Major Depressive Episode) has ...
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Antidepressants Linked to Increased Bone Fracture Risk
2007-05-12 09:07:00
An antidepressant, in the most common usage, is a psychiatric medication taken to alleviate clinical depression or dysthymia (’milder’ depression). Several groups of drugs are particularly associated with the term, notably MAOIs and tricyclics (whose serendipitous discovery and psychiatric use dates from the 1950s) as well as SSRIs and more recent ...
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Stress and depression - Does stress increase depression?
2007-05-09 09:37:00
Are you a fragile person who tends to think about even the smallest things in life? Then you must have heard that you are stressed in life from the persons that are around you and those who are a part of your life. stress is not always a hick up, it is needed in small ...
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Divorced Women and Depression
2007-04-27 21:43:00
?A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there?s less of you.? These words of Margaret Atwood express the kind of pain most women go through when their marriages break up. A divorce can be really taxing on both man and woman. With divorce rates on the increase, it?s definitely an issue of social ...
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Tips on Dealing with Depression
2007-04-26 23:30:00
Note: The tips listed here may not help for severe cases of clinical depression but are meant to ‘beat the blues’. Depression has been affecting a large number of people nowadays. Many of them don?t even know that they are suffering from depression. Here are some simple starting tips to overcome depression: * Know the cause of ...
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