Posts Tagged ‘Great’

Depression Symptoms – How To Know About A Depressed Mood

Almost everyone goes through depression once or more in his or her lifetime. This may be due to the hectic lifestyle most of us lead, these days. The competition, job requirements and family life makes it really important for most people to look out for certain things that would reduce some amount of stress they [...]

Causes of Depression – More Than Just The Blues

Definition of Depression: Nearly everyone experiences occasional feelings of sadness; depressed feelings are a natural reaction to disappointment, loss, difficulties in life, or low self-esteem. But when periods of intense sadness last for weeks at a time and hamper your ability to function normally, you may be suffering from clinical, or major, depression. Major depression [...]

What Is The Likelihood Of Your Depression Returning?

We all get depressed from time to time, don't we? It's pretty normal to get nostalgic or extremely sad when we make major life changes or encounter personal problems, illness and death in the family. the factors causing depression will always be there, no matter what we do. We cannot be happy 100% of the [...]

Avoiding Depression

Can you really avoid depression? Is there a way that you can get rid of this awful disease that seems to be taking over your life? For many, the only way to rid their bodies of depression is by taking medications and getting therapy. Both of these things are great ways to work through your [...]

Healing Anxiety – Naturally

In my work as a counselor there is no shortage of opportunities for expanding my understanding of all the different disorders that people have. Bipolar, depression, anxiety, paranoia, ADHD, learning issues, obsessive-compulsive; the list is long and seems to be getting longer. I prefer to refer to them as 'dis-ordered states'. rather than defining a [...]

How Depression Affects School Performance

When a teen is failing or doing poorly in school, parents may react with understandable frustration and try all sorts of strategies, from bribery to punishment, to get their teen to turn things around. When all things fail, tension rises and everyone becomes exasperated and at a loss to figure out the cause - and [...]

7 Tips to Handle Pre-Retirement Depression

You are already fifty, and as early as now, you are already asking yourself the question, What will I do when I retire? Retirement actually causes a lot of stress, and unfortunately, you feel it even before it happens. You become anxious or even depressed, and unless you resolve your issues right away, this supposed-to-be [...]

Introduction to Soaring & Crashing – My Bipolar Adventures

I'm not a famous actress like Patty Duke (Anna Marie in They call me Anna) or Carrie Fisher (in The best Awful); or a gifted psychiatrist like Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison (in An Unquiet Mind); or a flamboyant, young journalist like Lizzie Simon (in Detour: my Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D); or a notorious newswoman [...]

Bipolar Poetry From the Mind of a Manic-Depressive Person

In my never ending search for sanity I've begun writing down thoughts in poetic form. I've included some of my personal works below, see if you can find the differences from the other compositions you have read. Watched the colored clouds preeningIntersection of those pupilsCaresses the cornea to post visionsI long to tell you a [...]

Health Insurance – Bipolar Patients

A diagnosis of bipolar or manic depression is often thought of as an automatic denial when it comes to health insurance, even if the diagnosis comes long after the health insurance policy has been purchased and put in place. While is can be very complicated to get coverage for bipolar disorder related treatment, it is [...]