YOU KNOW YOUR LOVED ONE IS STRUGGLING WITH DEPRESSION. They are showing all the symptoms: sadness, irritability, lack of pleasure in activities they once enjoyed, fixation on past failures, changes in their sleeping and eating patterns, etc. Their depression is...
HAVING A BABY IS AN AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE, BUT IT CAN TRIGGER A RANGE OF POWERFUL EMOTIONS FROM EXCITEMENT AND JOY TO FEAR AND ANXIETY. The birth of a baby can also result in something unexpected: depression. It is not uncommon for most new moms to...
THE TRICKY THING ABOUT TREATING DEPRESSION IS THAT IT DOES NOT AFFECT EVERYONE THE SAME WAY. Countless types of depression exist, and people experience this illness to varying degrees of severity. For some, non-pharmacological interventions are able to improve...
Research being conducted about ketamine for depression—as well as about various psychedelics—has been paving the way for these drugs to be used as antidepressants. The research doesn’t stop here, however. The knowledge obtained from these studies is crucial in the...
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that occurs when someone goes through a traumatic event. This event doesn’t have to be catastrophic by everyone’s definition, but it does severely traumatize the victim in a way that interferes with their everyday...
