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A few months back, Mickie Singer and a few women were discussing ways women dealing with depression could help one another. Singer – a former high school teacher, author, mental-health educator and advocate – thought of all the times throughout
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People have about the same risk of having suicidal thoughts or attempting suicide when starting out on antidepressants no matter what type of pill they’re prescribed, new research shows. “There is no meaningful difference between these agents,” Dr. Sebastian Schneeweiss
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New Study Shows Differences Between Male and Female Mexican-Americans Admitted for Substance Use Treatment There are pronounced differences in substance use patterns between Mexican -American women and men admitted to treatment according to a national study sponsored by the Substance
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A daily dose of electricity delivered to a specific part of the brain can lift depression, new research confirms, even for people who’ve already tried multiple antidepressants to no avail. While there’s evidence that this technique, known as transcranial magnetic
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Among adults beginning antidepressant therapy, the risk of suicide or suicide attempts does not appear to vary by individual type or class of medication, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the
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It’s estimated that 700000 women a year experience postpartum depression. That’s about 1 in every 5 mothers! This clip is from a video that features two postpartum depression experts: Shoshana Bennett, Ph.D., and Pec Indman, Ed.D., MFT. The video describes
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Anthony Monaco from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK, worked with an international team of researchers to study four candidate genes in families from the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. He said, “To our
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Often, people who suffer from depression tend to overeat or not eat at all. It has been scientifically proved that the kind of diet intake you have directly affects your mood. Think about it! Even if you are one of
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Bipolar disorder, which is also known as the manic-depressive disorder, is actually a psychiatric diagnosis. This diagnosis explains a group of mood disorders that is defined by the presence of one or more than one events of abnormally high energy
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A survey showed 17.5 percent of Chinese adults are suffering from mental disorders, with 6.1 percent suffering from mood disorders, 5.6 percent suffering from anxiety disorders and 5.9 percent suffering from substance abuse disorders, chinanews.com.cn reported Wednesday. The survey, jointly
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Researchers were able to control for possible reverse causality – that early experience of psychosis may be prompting drug use – to clarify the relationship between early drug use and later psychosis. Early use of marijuana appears to raise the
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Despite a House committee chair’s belief that there is a link between antidepressants and suicide, mental health experts, including military leaders, say such unproven claims could keep veterans and service members from seeking life-saving treatment. Mental health leaders challenged the
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