Using Electroconvulsive Therapy To Treat Bipolar Disorder – What Is It Really All About?

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock therapy, is a controversial medical treatment that induces a seizure by passing electricity through the patient’s brain. ECT was a common psychiatric treatment until the late 20th century, when it fell into disuse as better drug therapies became readily available for more psychiatric conditions.

Categorize Your Depression

Depression is a hard to diagnose disorder of the body and mind and as such is easily confused with other illnesses such as eating disorders and drug and alcohol abuse. By knowing beforehand what the different types of depression are and how they affect your body and mind, you can move along the road to recovery that much faster.

Depression Is No Match for Herbal Treatments

More and more consumers are approaching their doctors about getting natural herbal advice for their depression rather than being placed on synthetic anti-depressants. the most common herbal remedy is St. John's Wort-

Adolescences Suicide - Tips to Prevent: Part 2

I have made an endeavour to analyse the responsibilities of parents, teachers and friends in abetting their teen's suicide. A vivid account and narrations have been reviewed with various reasons and causes which attribute in their negligence, thereby, driving their teens to take away their own lives.

Ayurveda Viewpoint on Depression

Depression seems to be more common now than it was fifty or one hundred years ago: between ten and fourteen million Americans suffer from this frustrating, puzzling condition. Fortunately you can self-treat mild depression with Ayurveda, but it's very important to identify the underlying cause of your problem and to seek professional help for moderate or severe episodes.

Light Therapy as a Treatment for SAD

The use of light therapy as a treatment for SAD syndrome, properly named seasonable affective disorder, is well known to, and generally recommended by, the medical profession. Millions of poor souls are affected by seasonal affective disorder and while most of us look forward to Christmas all they experience is depression and a craving for starchy and sugary foods

What Does It Mean To Be Depressed?

Depression is an overused word to describe how someone may be feeling. It is often used to describe moments of sadness or disappointment, where those descriptions may be more on target and more clearly define a course of action

Depression: The Plague of Modern Society

In a nation of a little over 300 million people doctors wrote 152 million prescriptions for antidepressants last year. If that does not make the case for a plague then it is impossible to make.

Manic Depression Revealed

Mental disorders or illnesses are not the type of problems that a person can easily overcome, they are not something that they asked for. They can't be overcome by willpower because they are problems that effect the brain. With proper treatment a person suffering with a mental illness such as manic depression can learn to control their symptoms and regain their quality of life.

Butterflies Can Smile

For those who are trapped in a spiral of stress, anxiety, depression, or negative habits then the solution is to undergo a process to develop a new way to be. Learning is making new connections in the hypothalamus and manufacturing new peptide chains with new feelings; remembering and living in the past is maintaining the old connections and therefore if you do not change what you have got you will continue to get what you already have.

Tips To Help Beat Depression

Depression is an illness suffered by many people. There are medical treatments available for depression, but there are also things you can do yourself to help deal with your depression.

Don't Be Bullied by the Blues

Depression is a bully that must finally be faced down and it will leave you alone. Here's a Don't Do list for getting out of depression. Ten tips to help you get on top of your depression and end the pain.

Depression Treatment

The treatment of depression must be holistic, and try to treat both the source and symptoms of the illness. Conventional medicine is often used, but this can be supplemented with other complimentary depression treatments. Find out more in this article.

Do You Wake Up at 2 AM? Is it Depression? Or Is It-?

Next time you wake up too early, don't be too quick to blame it on depression. Instead, think about what you ate and drank last night. By finding the real cause of your insomnia, you may be able to save yourself a trip to the doctor - and give yourself an excuse to make some healthy changes in your diet at the same time.