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Anti Depression Treatment
2007-07-31 08:31:00
Anti depression should be the route to follow after you are diagnosed with depression. Besides sing anti-depressants, exercise and other medicines and therapies have been proven to be effective. Meditation and yoga are one of the best ways to combat depression and follow the path to recovery or anti depression. Many people have started turning ...
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Anti Depression Medication
2007-07-24 08:30:00
Depression can be easily cured with anti depression medicines. Though a bit costly, a person?s mental health should not be compromised at the cost of money. Though, finding and antidepressant drug is not an easy task because all people have different reasons for depression and so the medication varies from person to person. It ...
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Know the Signs of Child Abuse
2007-07-17 08:30:00
A 5 year old boy’s body covered with cigarette burns, an emergency hysterectomy performed on a six-year-old girl after being raped, a teenage suicide after years of sexual abuse. These are the extreme cases. For every known case of child abuse, many more children suffer in silence. Child abuse ...
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Mothers? Antidepressants May Lead to Abnormalities in Newborn
2007-07-10 08:30:00
A newborn?s risk of exhibiting drug withdrawal symptoms and respiratory abnormalities appears to increase with prenatal exposure to certain antidepressants, according to two new studies. Before prescribing this type of medication to pregnant women, the doctors are urged by researchers to carefully consider these findings. The risk of a respiratory disorder in ...
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Obesity and Depression
2007-07-03 02:30:00
Adolescents who suffer from depression are at a greater risk of becoming obese and staying obese, according to a new study. Adult obesity has been associated with depression, especially in women. Previous research has also suggested a link between depression in young people and higher body mass index. Until now researchers had ...
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Job Loss May Lead to Clinical Depression
2007-06-25 20:30:00
Clinical depression (also called major depressive disorder or unipolar depression when compared to bipolar disorder) is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual’s social functioning and/or activities of daily living. Although a low mood or state of dejection that does not affect functioning is often colloquially referred to as depression, clinical depression is a clinical diagnosis and may be different from the everyday meaning of “being depressed.” Many people identify the feeling of being clinically depressed as “feeling sad for no reason”, or “having no motivation to do anything.” One suffering from depression may feel tired, sad, irritable, lazy, unmotivated, and apathetic. Clinical depression is generally acknowledged to be more serious than normal depressed feelings. It often leads to constant negative thinking and sometimes substance abuse. Extre...
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Income Level May Effect Depression Treatment Response
2007-06-18 14:31:00
Low-income people with depression are less likely to respond to treatment and more likely to be suicidal than those who have higher incomes, according to a study in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Socioeconomic factors, including income, education and occupation, have long been linked ...
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Mushrooms May Cure Depression
2007-06-10 08:37:00
Mushrooms have been used for thousands of years both as food and for medicinal purposes. Mushrooms are the fruiting body and reproductive structure of a higher order fungus organism. Mushrooms are widely distributed throughout the world, and thousands of species have been identified. Mushrooms have high nutritional value. They help ...
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Hypothyroidism May Cause Depression
2007-06-06 08:36:00
Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the body lacks sufficient thyroid hormone. Since the main purpose of thyroid hormone is to “run the body’s metabolism”, it is understandable that people with this condition will have symptoms associated with a slow metabolism. Over five million Americans have this common medical condition There ...
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Holding Hand of Your Spouse May Reduce Your Stress!
2007-06-04 08:12:00
In today’s fast-paced world, many people are seeking a way to get away from it all and relax. Let?s face it–the stress and strain of your “to do” list can really take its toll on family life. People who deal with stress have “lifelines” to others who can help. Support is ...
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Heart Surgery May Cause Depression
2007-06-01 08:01:00
It is common for you to feel sad or depressed after a heart attack, cardiac surgery or procedure, recent hospitalization, or new diagnosis of heart disease. These emotions may be the result of not knowing what to expect or not being able to do simple tasks without becoming overly tired. ...
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Green Therapy for Depression
2007-05-29 06:56:00
Go green to bit depression 71 per cent report depression decrease after green walk (Green Therapy ), 22 per cent report depression increase after urban walk. New green agenda for mental health. With a mass of new and growing evidence, Mind calls for ecotherapy to be recognised as a clinically-valid frontline treatment for ...
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GP-first Choice of Depression Patients
2007-05-25 13:01:00
GP or general practitioner is still the first choice when it comes to seeking help for depression. This fact came to the fore through a new poll organized by irishhealth.com A general practitioner (GP), family physician or family practitioner (FP) is a physician/medical doctor who provides primary care. A GP/FP treats ...
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Girls at Higher Risk of Depression
2007-05-20 12:46:00
Girls’ risk for developing depression after puberty increased significantly if they had low birth weight, in a study funded in part by National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH). Yet low birth weight didn’t appear to be just one more risk factor for depression. Rather, it seemed to increase the ...
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Clozapine May Cause Heart Risks and Diabetes
2007-05-15 12:44:00
Clozapine is an anti-psychotic medication that works by blocking receptors in the brain for several neurotransmitters (chemicals that nerves use to communicate with each other) including dopamine type 4 receptors, serotonin type 2 receptors, norepinephrine receptors, acetylcholine receptors, and histamine receptors. Unlike traditional anti-psychotic agents, such as chlorpromazine (Thorazine) ...
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Antidepressants not dangerous for children, claims research
2007-05-09 09:37:00
Whenever there is a dilemma about a fact, we, the medical science people conduct a research, and that helps in a way to understand the trends and the curves that a particular dilemma can take. Recently there has been a volunteered debate on the effects of the so called antidepressants on the children. There ...
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Top 10 Tips to Overcome Depression
2007-04-29 00:19:00
?This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like ...
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