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How Do People Dealing With Depression Deal With Stress

Positive emotions help build resistance to stress, depression

July 16, 2009
People who experience positive emotions may be building their resistance to hard times, researchers say. The study in North Carolina suggests that noticing and appreciating the small moments of happiness during the day can help build up the ability to ward off depression and stress. And researchers say this experience of happiness does not mean people need to have super-human levels of joy--even participants with normal and slightly above-normal levels of positive emotions on a daily basis devel... Read more »

Expert & Community Posts

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Asthma and Mental Illness: Is There a Link?
By Kathi MacNaughton , Health Expert

...been quite a bit of press devoted to the dangers of depression and suicide lately in regards to... Read more »

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Stress, Anxiety, and Exercise
By Jerilyn Ross, M.A., L.I.C.S.W. , Health Expert

...symptoms of anxiety and related disorders, including depression. Some studies show that exercise... Read more »

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What Young People Worry About
By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert

...and more young people report symptoms of anxiety, depression and other psychological... Read more »

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Stress and Depression in Rheumatoid Arthritis
By Christine Miller , Health Expert

...likely than the general population to experience depression because the painful limitations of... Read more »

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Depression in Men
By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert

...six people, one will be clinically diagnosed with depression. In real terms the figures for... Read more »

Health Guide

Managing Holiday Depression
...messages around us of joy, love and peace. But for many others, the holidays bring other emotions. Depression and anxiety are high around the holiday season. This can happen for many different... Read more »
The First 48 Hours: Top 10 Depression Myths Debunked
It’s all in your head. Only women get depressed. If you have depression, you’re stuck with it for life. Do any of these statements sound familiar? For all the misconceptions about clinical... Read more »
Depression and Teenagers: Some Basics
Teen years are difficult -- for both the teens and their families. Add depression to the situation, and it can be especially difficult to know where to turn, and what to do. Just as there are... Read more »
Stress Part II: When the Brain Overreacts
...ancestor of ours felt over a the presence of a tiger at the water hole. Or, over tea and scones with people we enjoy, our brain starts acting is if we were backed into a dark alley with Jeffrey... Read more »
ADHD and Depression
One out of every four adults with ADD/ADHD also suffers from symptoms of depression.  When there are co-existing conditions, it can be harder to diagnose and treat ADHD.  The symptoms may overlap... Read more »

Medications

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...swelling of the ankles/feet mental/mood changes (e.g., depression, mood swings, agitation) ... Read more »

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) ? People who receive a diagnosis of cancer are often depressed about it. But is that depression just the result of getting the bad... Read summary »

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