Sleeping all day, skipping class, binge drinking – they’re hallmarks of the college experience for many students, but they’re also... Read more »
Sometime in the mid-1990s my mother uncovered some photos of me as a child that I'd never seen before. I flipped through them and found one... Read more »
It's thirty years ago, but I can still remember in painful detail what it was like to be a teenager with depression. I felt lost all the... Read more »
Do you ever feel cranky, super-sensitive, impatient, snappish, crabby, moody, want-to-bite someone’s head off, annoyed, surly, grouchy,... Read more »
As I said in an earlier blog entry, most of my childhood was blighted by clinical depression. After I was diagnosed at age 27, my parents... Read more »
This is a study to determine how to best treat adolescents with depression that is resistant to the first SSRI antidepressant they have tried. This... Read more »
Researchers say teens who are at high risk for developing depression because their parents suffer from the condition may be helped by a new program... Read more »
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... Read more »
In Part II of this series, I described the notion of demoralization among individuals receiving chemotherapy. When individuals are demoralized, they... Read more »
In Part 1 of this piece, I very briefly described emotional states related to feelings of depression and depressed mood. I then, even more briefly,... Read more »