If you find yourself falling into a slump during the winter months, but feel much better when spring arrives, you may have what is known as seasonal affective disorder.
Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a mood disorder, characterized by symptoms like increased sleep and appetite, weight gain, irritability, sensitivity to rejection and heaviness in the limbs, which occurs when the circadian rhythms of the body are disrupted.
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Occasionally we get actually so sad and we can’t even say what causes us feel this direction. There are times while we feel like blazoning out and it looks like nobody else is around to assist us. There are times that we believe we did everything we could, we exerted every attempt possible for something that is nor even worthy looking at. All this is extremely sad, and no word can excuse how we feeling in
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Published reports about how common sexual side-effects are vary quite a bit, probably because many patients are shy about such a personal topic. How common are they really? Voting in our poll does not reveal your identity to anyone. Please join us in creating an honest assessment of just how common sexual side-effects are. Any type of sexual difficulty that you developed as a direct result of taking an antidepressant that can’t be accounted for
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There is little doubt that depression is bad for the heart. Much as fatty diets, cigarette smoking, inactivity and obesity are linked with an increased risk of heart disease, recent evidence suggests that mental health has a similarly powerful impact. The question has always been, why?
Now, researchers provide the first data that may explain the association. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association
It’s been a tough week. In fact, the last month has been challenging. The expression, “What doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger,” was in jeopardy of being proven untrue several times over the past few weeks.
There were moments when I thought the stress would do me in. I felt defeated. I felt a disturbing sadness not experienced in a long time. I felt alone.
Our past can provide
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Information on depression is seen almost daily in the media. The World Health Organization projected that depression will rank second in worldwide disease burden by 2020. Heart disease will remain first.
Depression is recognized as the leading cause of disability measured in disability adjusted life years (DALYs). DALYs are defined as the sum of years of potential life lost due to premature mortality and the years of productive
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