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How Reducing Inflammation Can Reduce Depression

As things stand most people who are treated for depression are partially responsive or non-responsive to conventional antidepressant medication. Rates of depression continue to increase and, according to the Depression and Bipolar Support alliance, the U.S. economy spends around $70 billion annually on lost productivity, medical expenses and... Read moreChevron
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Benefits & Limitations of ECT for Depression

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), sometimes called shock treatment, is a form of therapy for depression. ECT remains a controversial form of therapy because so little is actually known about how it works. One of the reasons it continues to be used is because it achieves a rapid therapeutic effect where no existing medication or other form of... Read moreChevron
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Seeking Professional Help for Depression

I loved my grandfather dearly. He was a gentle, shy man with a quiet sense of humor. I still miss him, even though he died almost twenty years ago. He had one quirk, however, that did make my mother's childhood difficult at times. He firmly believed that when you were ill, you just had to soldier on. When my mother was sick, she would leave the... Read moreChevron
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Treating Depression with Cognitive Therapy

Change the way we think about a situation and the result usually influences the way we feel about it. Cognitive therapy makes the best use of this simple association by showing how thoughts, beliefs, emotions, physical feelings and actions interact and affect one another. Once a patient grasps these essentials, and applies them to their own... Read moreChevron
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Medication for Dysthymia

  Dysthymia is often thought of as a mild form of depression. In reality it is a chronic mood disorder that can become a form of life-long depression. Dysthymia in adults lasts for at least two years.   For most days, and for most of the day, the symptoms of dysthymia persist. Energy levels are low and even the most minor activity can... Read moreChevron

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