Depression, following the death of someone close, is an intense, traumatic but essentially natural process. In the normal course of events the process of bereavement may last anything from a few weeks to several months. The passage of time helps people to move on, but a few people find the debilitating effects of loss become a permanent feature of their lives. Psychologists call this complicated grief.
Why is it that some people are able to move on yet others are not? In what may appear to...
It's just over a year since my father-in-law died. One of three brothers, he lived to the ripe old age of 88, the last few years of which... Read more »
Regardless of what is scheduled in on the calendar, sometimes life happens regardless. Regardless of what form of mental or physical... Read more »
A study published in the January 2011 issue of Arthritis Care & Research found that although fibromyalgia patients are not at increased... Read more »
Twice, rheumatoid arthritis has tried to kill me. I was 12, almost 13, the first time, when it went systemic and starting attacking my... Read more »
A study published a few weeks ago in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests that approximately one in four people who are diagnosed... Read more »
Results from a new study suggest that depression may take as many years off sufferers' lives as smoking. Researchers looked at death records and a... Read more »
Women who suffer from depression as well as diabetes are twice as likely to die as women who have only one of the conditions. Researchers at Harvard... Read more »
Depression may rob cancer patients of years of life, a new study has found. Canadian researchers found a higher death rate among patients who... Read more »
According to a new study, patients who suffer from severe depression before having a cardiac event such as a heart attack are more likely to die than... Read more »
Doctors have found that people who suffer from depression are more likely to die from heart failure. Now Duke University researchers may be able to... Read more »
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