Depression (27)
A new magnetic therapy that treats major depression "is rapidly gaining momentum," said Dr. Murali Rao of Loyola University Medical Center, one of the first Chicago-area centers to offer the treatment.
A new national report reveals that 45.9 million American adults aged 18 or older, or 20 percent of this age group, experienced mental illness in the past year. The rate of mental illness was more than twice as high among those aged 18 to 25 (29.9 percent) than among those aged 50 and older (14.3 percent). Adult women were also more likely than men to have experienced mental illness in the past year (23 percent versus 16.8 percent).
Low levels of vitamin D have been linked to depression, according to UT Southwestern Medical Center psychiatrists working with the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. It is believed to be the largest such investigation ever undertaken.
Men who take the antidepressant nortriptyline (Aventyl) are nearly 10 times more likely to have suicidal thoughts than those who use the antidepressant escitalopram (Lexapro, Cipralex), according to a new study.
If you notice periods of depression that seem to accompany seasonal changes during the year, you may suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Also known as winter depression, SAD is a mood disorder that effects millions of people worldwide. It has been estimated that 1.5-9% of adults in the US experience SAD
Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter, hence the name winter depression.
Antidepressant medications can have a substantial effect with severe depressions, there is little evidence to suggest that antidepressant medications produce specific benefits for the majority of people with less severe acute depressions according to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Exercise and Depression Linked
Research has shown time and again when depressed people follow aerobic-exercise regimens they see improvement in their depression. Their depression improvements are comparable to that of those treated with depression medication. Studies show there is a strong correlation between improved mood and aerobic capacity when exercise is use as a treatment for depression.
Using drug free ways to fight depression will prevent you from becoming one of the tens of millions of Americans who have been made crazy due to their use of or withdrawal from antidepressant drugs.
Antidepressant drugs have a potent addictive potential “side effect” causing you to acquire a more severe form of depression than you started with. After an initial uplift in your condition, antidepressant drug users tend to spiral downward into a chronic course of long-term depression. Long-term depression patients can also end up becoming bipolar, or developing various types of psychoses, meaning that you’ll need to “graduate” to a new or additional medication. This medication is often an anti-psychotic drug that blocks dopamine receptors in your brain.
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is one of the most severe forms of mental illness that affects millions of Americans. Bipolar disorder causes mood swings that range from the lows of depression to the highs of mania. Bipolar disorder "mood swings" between depression and mania can be very abrupt. Bipolar disorder mood shifts may occur only few times a year, or as often as several times a day. Bipolar disorder, in some cases, causes symptoms of depression and mania at the same time.
Late life depression, characterized by persistent down moods, can elevate the risk of multiple illnesses, worsen the outcome of existing disease and conditions and can also shorten life according to several studies. Therefore finding effective ways to decrease depression in the elderly can have several benefits including but not limited to reducing the risk to several diseases, improve the outcome of several diseases, reducing severity to several diseases, reducing elderly mortality rate and improving the quality of life for the elderly. Japanese researchers have now found one potential natural way to reduce depression risk in the elderly: green tea.
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