My Experience With Depression Growing up I was always a happy child. Or at least, I didn’t have too many worries, and I was impossibly optimistic. I’ve always had a natural inclination to sarcasm, but that didn’t affect my life. If anything, it just made life funnier. Then, around college, I started feeling…off. I was constantly stressed out, and unhappy…
Month: February 2019
Medicating Depression Naturally
Medicating Depression Naturally If you are like me and prefer not to put any chemicals in your body in the form of drugs and medication, you need to find a natural alternative. But what if you suffer from depression that requires you to constantly take medication just so that you can function normally in life? Are there natural alternatives that…
Masking Depression With Alcohol
Masking Depression With Alcohol Depression and alcoholism are both serious medical conditions. They are not symptoms of a weak a character or lack of will power. They are, however, conditions that can destroy the lives of people suffering with either one of them. Ironically, it is not unusual to have depression lead to alcoholism. Let me explain by telling you…
Main Depression Types And Their Symptoms
Main Depression Types And Their Symptoms There are persons who use to say they are depressed without actually realizing what it really means. Being sad or disappointed by some unpleasant situation in your life, doesn’t mean you are depressed. Depression is a severe mental illness and it should be diagnosed and treated by a doctor. If you are concerned with…
Living With Depression How To Cope Each Day
Living With Depression: How To Cope Each Day Many people feel the pains of depression when they can’t get out of bed each morning or they suffer from constant anxiety. Even if your antidepressant medication is helping, you can’t help but feel like your depression will never end. When getting through each day of your life becomes a challenge, below…
Just A Little Down Or In Depression How To Tell The Difference
Just A Little Down Or In Depression – How To Tell The Difference? We all feel a little blue from time to time. Life can throw one curve ball after another at us and wear down our inner joy. The question is though, how can we tell when that gloomy feeling has progressed to a form of depression? Knowing the…
Identifying Depression Triggers
Identifying Depression Triggers More than twenty million Americans suffer from depression every year, but just because someone is suffering from the blues doesn’t mean it has to turn into something more serious. There are certain triggers that can often flip a person from sad to clinically depressed. Depression is triggered by the following ten common situations: 1. Job loss. Losing…
Identifying and Treating Depression
Identifying and Treating Depression The brain is the most powerful organ in a human body, yet depression (like many other forms of mental illness) is still a largely stigmatized disorder. Unfortunately, it also happens to be a widespread problem, as an estimated 19 million adults in the United States alone live with it. Symptoms typically manifest in patients between the…
How to Recognize and Eliminate Depression
How to Recognize and Eliminate Depression Most of us feel sad, or depressed at some point in our lives. Often the loss of a pet, a minor illness or even the thought of getting older, leave us feeling sad, or blue. For most people, these feelings are temporary, and resolve themselves over a short time. However, when feelings of sadness,…
How To Recognize Adolescent Depression
How To Recognize Adolescent Depression According to WebMD.com, adolescent depression affects about 1 out of every 33 children, including one out of every 8 adolescent. It is normal for your child to feel feelings of sadness, and to even have times of sadness that they can’t really explain the cause of. It begins to warrant a closer look once those…
How To Mentally Treat Depression
How To Mentally Treat Depression When it comes to depression, you may think of sadness, anger, and negative feelings all of the time. You may also think about therapy, medication, meditation, and some other common depression treatments. There are a few other ways that can be just as effective as those. You can treat your depression by using your mind…
How to Leave Depression Behind
How to Leave Depression Behind Often times, depression can be a difficult, debilitating illness that can cause great pain. It is a health condition that continually afflicts millions of individuals worldwide. When left untreated, it often provides the individual a sense of hopelessness and feeling totally alone. It is crucial that individuals that struggle with depression find out as much…
How To Help A Depressed Person
How To Help A Depressed Person Do you have a friend or family member that suffers from depression or perhaps bipolar disorder? Not only is this very upsetting to the depressed person, but it can cause much frustration in those among their family and friends. Some hold back from trying to help such a person for fear that they will…
How to Handle Depression over the Loss of a Relationship or Job
How to Handle Depression over the Loss of a Relationship or Job There are all types of outside forces that can make a person depressed. It can be the loss of a job, spending the holidays alone, or lack of friends. Anyone of these outside forces can cause a person’s inner perspective to take a wrong turn, and create a…
How to Forget Your Depression
How to Forget Your Depression It does not take a clinical psychologist, or neurological surgeon, to determine whether or not an individual is depressed. You likely feel moody, and empty inside. There is probably a high level of hopelessness and helplessness that leaves you with the sensation that your life will never be better. However, there are significant ways that…
How To Fight Those Feelings of Depression
How To Fight Those Feelings of Depression Everyone goes through the doldrums at one time or another. However, you have to know the difference between just the regular blues and major depression. Sometimes what starts out to be a minor case of the blues can end up dragging you down so much that it results in depression. When you down,…
How To Fight Depression In A Poor Economy
How To Fight Depression In A Poor Economy If you are one of the millions of Americans affected by the poor economy, then you know that depression is just around the bend. It is easy to get lost in blaming one another or just feeling that you aren’t good enough. Instead of getting sucked into the black void known as…
How To Beat The Blues Depression Tips To Help You Feel Better
How To Beat The Blues: Depression Tips To Help You Feel Better Serious medical depression is much more than just feeling down or a little bit sad. Real depression takes all of the joy from your soul and forces you to live in a world of darkness. If your life is spiraling out of control due to a severe depression…
How I Won the Battle over My Depression
How I Won the Battle over My Depression I am one of those individuals that took heavy anti-depression medications for years, with little to no results. For me, my depression has been a debilitating condition that caused me to do nothing, and experience virtually no life at all. After spending years of following the doctor’s advice, I finally took the…
Hopelessness And How To Get Rid Of It
Hopelessness And How To Get Rid Of It In this day and age, hopelessness is rampant. There are many valid reasons why people are losing hope in the world today. Even when the reasons are valid, it is important not to give up hope. Hopelessness is a burden that weighs you down and prevents you from being able to do…
Get Out And Get Some Sun To Defeat Depression
Get Out And Get Some Sun To Defeat Depression Did you know that lack of sunshine could lead to depression? Well a lack of sunshine and getting out can lead you to start to form dark thoughts. Your body and mind both need vitamin D to function properly, so if you stay cooped up all day in your room and…
Four Exercises That Fight Depression
Four Exercises That Fight Depression When you’re depressed, one of the worst things you can do is just sit inside and do nothing. Exercise boosts endorphin levels in your brain, leading to a sense of well-being and euphoria. Even gentle exercise like walking can make you feel better. Researchers have found that active people have higher levels of contentment than…
Fantastic Foods That Fight Depression
Fantastic Foods That Fight Depression If you’re feeling depressed, there are plenty of natural ways to cope with it. Exercise, talking with friends, getting more sleep and buying a pet, are all effective ways to relieve depression. Changing your diet is another way to alleviate your symptoms of depression. The foods you eat are related to how you feel, and…
Effects of Depression
Effects of Depression Depression affects more than just the depressed person. It affects everyone around them. Many times the depressed person doesn’t even realize how depressed they are. It’s important for a loved one to help the depressed person get the medical help they need. Visit The Doctor Many depressed persons are resistant to seeing the doctor about their depression.…
Effective Ways to Treat Depression
Effective Ways to Treat Depression Millions of individuals worldwide are affected by depression, and believe that there is no way to alleviate the pain and suffering experience. However, there are effective ways to treat depression through research and action. The following list can assist individuals in treating themselves to alleviate the signs and symptoms of the condition. Any individual that…
