Anti-depressants, Side-Effects, and Alternatives
Side effects associated with synthetic antidepressants range from aggravating ones, such as constipation and cotton mouth, to more serious problems such as impotence, irregular heart rhythm, and extr ...
Major Depressive Disorder
I am a person, a unique complex individual. My diagnosis does not define who I am. It only describes some of the things that I experience. Major depressive disorder is one way to describe how I feel ...
Pregnancy and Depression
How do you know if you have depression when pregnant? I know winter doesn't help but how do you know?
I've never had depression, nor do I know what it really is but I've been feeling different. N ...
Battle Depression through Meditation
Yes, you read right. You can fight depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, and much more with meditation. Psychologists are currently using meditation as an addition to their medication treatments for ...
Depression and Diet
Just curious if anyone here is also trying to lose weight and if their depression is making it hard to get motivated. I need help getting and staying motivated, but the depression is SO OVERWHELMING! ...
Study Finds that Yoga Could Replace Some Prescription Drugs
Traditional medical practitioners often turn to prescription drugs to treat depression and anxiety disorders before other alternatives are explored. What if doctors prescribed a twice-weekly yoga sess ...
SAMe for Depression
Studies have shown that SAMe shapes the formation of brain chemicals and helps in the preservation of glutathione, a key antioxidant. In addition, SAMe is involved in the development of myelin, the wh ...
Drug Warning
My mother and father have recently given up after 40 years. They used chantix after failed attemps using patches.
While they are now both non smokers, my mother suffered severe reactiions to this ...
Be your own drug pusher..... exercise
Two groundbreaking books are taking the exercise community by storm... "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" (by John Ratey) and "The Athlete's Way: Sweat and the Biology of ...
Yoga and Depression
According to researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine, yoga postures and the deep, controlled breathing associated with yoga might help to ease anxiety and depression. Brain scans of ...
