Unipolar Depression - Articles
Is Depression Real Or Just a Western Phenomenon?
by
Katherine S.

... ated with data from 2004. Depression has actually moved up to the third most disabling condition worldwide. What I found quite interesting is this paragraph in their report: "Unipolar depression makes a large contribution to the burden of disease, being at third place worldwide and eighth place in low-income...
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Depression
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Anonymous Mom

... can understand that. He has another pdoc appointment next week. Yesterday, Todd was also depressed. Todd's dx is major depressive disorder. I'm not that familiar with the unipolar depression, but in his case it seems his mood can just bottom out in a minute. I was painting in his room (this is taking forever!), and when I went to call him to t ...
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JOURNAL" Agitated Depression
by
annhertel


... . everything is foreign and i am detached. i am in the "low" part of the cycle, so it's pretty much "clinical depression". but i don't have regular depressive episodes like a unipolar depressed person would. instead i have "agitated depression" which is like normal depression but you have some elements of mania mixed in, so i am an explosive nut jo ...
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A quick look at (bipolar) depression (me & the ac reflect)
by
BPChicks
... .So a rapid decent to negative 10 is a hard fall. Depression is depression….-10 is -10 no matter what distance you started from. It’s the bowels of hell.I’m not blowing off unipolar depression, don’t misunderstand…I am only trying to explain… If you are depressed, you think you miss(ed) the 5 foot living? Try missing the “baseline 15″ That’s a ...
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A quick look at (bipolar) depression (me & the ac reflect)
by
BPChicks
... .So a rapid decent to negative 10 is a hard fall. Depression is depression….-10 is -10 no matter what distance you started from. It’s the bowels of hell.I’m not blowing off unipolar depression, don’t misunderstand…I am only trying to explain… If you are depressed, you think you miss(ed) the 5 foot living? Try missing the “baseline 15″ Tha ...
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Bipolar II is often misdiagnosed ...
by
A. Brewster S.
... pectrum might be related to several changes in diagnostic criteria, including improved probing for history of hypomania, lower minimum duration of hypomania, and inclusion of unipolar depressions with bipolar signs such as family history of bipolar disorder and mixed depression. He recommends caution in the treatment of mixed depression, for which ...
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The Evolution of Depression
by
Dr. Shaheen Lakhan

... st common mental disorder of all. Since depression appears to be largely genetic, several long-standing questions continue to bedevil researchers. Have the genes for clinical unipolar depression undergone selective evolution–or is depression a random product of mutation, evolutionary drift, or other non-selective forces?The symptoms of depression a ...
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Separating Depression From Being Blue
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DepressionFree ..
... se conditions can often take care of the depression. But if you are diagnosed with depression, it is important to know which type. JOSEPH FRIEDMAN, MD: There is what we call unipolar depression, which is this sort of state in which somebody has a depressed mood, maybe comes out of it, maybe it persists. But when they come back to normal, they sort ...
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Here’s a small part of depressio...
by
Dr. Kalea Chapman
... plug talk therapy, though.My jaw nearly dropped to the carpet as Andrew Solomon, carefully plucked brightly colored pills from his pillbox that he takes every morning for his unipolar depression: Remeron, Zoloft, Zyprexa, Wellbutrin, Namenda, Ranitidine, and two kinds of fish oil. He might have even mentioned Prozac. He takes Namenda, an Alzheimer’ ...
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Shedding Light on the Darkness of Depression
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Nancie ..
... guishes between two major kinds of depression: bipolar and unipolar. Bipolar, or manic, depression is characterized by recurring mood shifts which the patient cannot control. Unipolar depression is a single, progressive state, without the mood swings. One theory speculates that too little of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine causes unipolar depre ...
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