DACA Recipients Cope With Health Challenges in Face of Uncertainty DACA Recipients Cope With Health Challenges in Face of Uncertainty:- Since President Donald Trump announced he was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Dulce Castro’s heart beats faster whenever she thinks or talks about DACA, which shields from […]
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A Patient’s Guide to Depression A Patient’s Guide to Depression:- It doesn’t take much to get some people in a funk. A squabble with a spouse; a bad review at work. Most often, the sour moods that result are fleeting. Not so with depression. If those feelings persist – usually […]
Turning the Sleep Dial Up and Down on Depression Turning the Sleep Dial Up and Down on Depression:- Sleep problems and depression are often tangled up like sheets on an unmade bed. Not getting enough sleep raises the risk for the mood disorder, and depression can deeply disrupt ZZZ’s. The […]
What New Depression Drug Possibilities Are Out There What New Depression Drug Possibilities Are Out There:- Medications are a common and often effective treatment for depression, but they are far from perfect. In fact, in some cases meds have proven to be no better than a placebo, and some patients […]
What’s the Connection Between MS and Depression? What’s the Connection Between MS and Depression?:- Let’s be real: We can’t always see the glass as half full. Sometimes we feel a little down, and that’s perfectly normal. But intense depression is another story. It’s longer lasting and interferes with work, relationships […]
Is Your Chronic Procrastination Actually a Matter of Mental Health Is Your Chronic Procrastination Actually a Matter of Mental Health:- Perhaps you’re checking Facebook – you know, just one more time before you get started with your work. Then it’s email. Then it’s some other obscure to-do that suddenly seems pressing […]
Riverdale Star Lili Reinhart Says Show Saved Her During Her Worst Depression Being on a hit TV show doesn't exclude you from dealing with very real issues that face many people with mental health problems… In a long series of very revealing tweets, Riverdale star Lili Reinhart confessed to the […]
Past depression tied to worse breast cancer survival odds Women with a history of depression may have lower survival odds with breast cancer than patients without past mental health problems, research in Denmark suggests. In the study of more than 45,000 women with early-stage breast malignancies, 13 percent of patients […]
Traumatic Stress May Alter Boys’ and Girls’ Brains Differently A new brain-scanning study has found that traumatic stress affects the brains of adolescent boys and girls differently. Among youth with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the study found structural differences between the sexes in one part of the insula, a brain […]
