Depression
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Dr. Richard Keller
According to the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, 19 million Americans suffer from depression, but, as reported in a 2003 study in the Journal of the American Medical Society, less tha ...
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Depression
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Christina B.
steel grey mist devours every drop of sunand rain dances in on the skirts of summer fogleaving droplets of dew behind, like jeweled gifts (revisions suggestion weaved in from my lovely friend Paula and my own)
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Depression
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Juliet J.
... fight tooth and nail every time.However, right here and right now I will say it… I’m depressed.It’s not as if I haven’t battled this ugly monster before. I experienced severe depression twice in my life. Once when was between fourteen and fifteen, and then again my freshman year of college when I was between eighteen and nineteen. While I’m human a ...
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Depression
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Anonymous Mom
Rob is angry now that his depression is not going away. He blames it on me because I keep nixing his Adderall plans. Yesterday was not a good day, we couldn't bear to be near each other so I let him ...
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Depressed?
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Marc V.
Thought about something this morning; You know, when you are feeling blue, or life is a little more of a struggle then it should be, Just Do Something. I had someone once explain to me that, physiologically, you can not be depressed or feel down, if you create movement. (Movement within your cells.) This is a simple as doing the dishes, polishing ...
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Depression
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Lee
I had the hardest time getting out of bed today. Just didn't want to do it. My cat tried to keep me up, then she gave up. I hit the snooze button so many times it gave up! Finally got out of bed 2 hours after my alarm. Came downstairs and laid down on the couch and watched tv. I also had a hard time getting to sleep last night. When I got ho ...
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Depression, Depression, Depression
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Bradley ..
... for starting the blog back up and then left one post alone for the entire week. As many of you know, I love to blog, but it is extremely difficult when I'm having a very low depression for a couple of weeks. My goal has always been to post every day except for Saturday or Sunday. Since I only made one post, I'm setting a goal of posting two days ...
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Major Depressive Disorder
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Clueless C.
... sive disorder, I want to briefly tell you what the others depressive disorders are in this category. There is major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder (low-grade chronic depression), psychotic depression (depression with a break in reality, hallucinations and delusions), postpartum depression (depression which occurs after the birth of one's b ...
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Major Depressive Disorder or Normal Sadness?
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Jason Schwartz, LMSW
An important question in the new issue of Psychiatric Times: A diagnosis of MDD is warranted, according to DSM, when a patient has at least 5 of 9 specified symptoms for at least 2 weeks, and the 5 symptoms include either depressed mood or an inability to derive pleasure from life. The sole exception is that bereaved patients are not considered to ...
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Depression
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Untreatable ..Depression Symptoms - According to the DSM IV the symptoms of depression are the following:
* Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day, as indicated by either subjecti ...
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