Posts Tagged ‘health’

Mid-Life Male Depression – How to Successfully Walk Through it and Recreate Your Life

Male depression can be a rollercoaster ride to hell, if you do not recognise what is happening. you were fine yesterday and are now experiencing something you cannot fathom, or name, and over which you appear to have no control. You may try to shrug it off as nothing, or hit the alcohol to help [...]

Signs Of Bipolar Disorder In Children – How To Deal With It

Recently, children who are as young as six years old have now been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. there are doctors who think that this is a fair assessment of many children, while others think that this is exaggerated. It is a discussion which causes controversy, but is not so amusing for those who know of [...]

Understanding Depression and How It Affects Our Health: Part 1

Depression has become the third largest individual health problem in Australia - around one million of us will experience a depressive illness this year alone. what makes us depressed and how do we shore ourselves up? in this article series we'll look at how the passages of life can be debilitating or rebuilding and how [...]

Art Therapy to Fight Depression

Today I found out about another alternative method to fight depression - art therapy. Apparently art has been used in therapy while treating mental health patients since 1940's and there are plenty of licensed therapists around. It seems the basis of this method is that we are all creative beings, and part of who we [...]

How to Help Depression – 10 Steps to Be Supportive of Your Loved One’s Depression

As a spouse or friend, it's difficult to know how to help depression in someone you love. normally happy and talkative, now they're somber and quiet. normally eager to dine out and take in a movie, now excuses to stay home alone. you want to help, but what can you do? No matter what type [...]

Depression – 7 Ways to Help a Depressed Person

A depressed person is not abnormal but just needs help to overcome the condition. Depression can be a lonely illness and help and support from family and friends can bring about life changing and life lasting results. You can help a depressed person in the following ways: 1. Providing company that will divert the depressive [...]

Type 2 Diabetes – Depression: Beat the Blues With These Tips

Depression can hit anyone at any stage in their life; there can be experiences that lead us to feeling down and out. You certainly don't have to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes to experience a state of depression. It can seem like a never-ending cycle when you are experiencing the depths of depression. sometimes [...]

Low Vitamin D and Depression

Three of every four Americans have either deficiencies or borderline vitamin D deficiencies. Yet, Dr. John J. Cannell, MD, head of the nonprofit Vitamin D Council contends that the situation is far worse, 95% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D, that's how big the problem is. It's very difficult to overstate the seriousness of [...]

Health Beat: Suicide indicators

WW II veteran never lost sight of ministerial aspirations Born and raised in a rural Alabama community during the Great Depression, a young Robert H. King never questioned his faith in God or his passion to someday become a man of the cloth. Read more on Jefferson City News Tribune Health Beat: Suicide indicators For [...]