Mental health
If you are a patient of depression or/and are on antidepressants, it is best to avoid alcohol altogether. There are two reasons that associate alcohol and depression. Regular excessive drinking (including binge drinking) leads to depression. This is called...
Mental health
Overview After a bout of binge drinking, you experience certain symptoms that are collectively called hangovers. Most hangovers resolve on their own but some can last for up to 24 hours. Its symptoms typically begin after the level of alcohol in the blood has dropped...
Mental health
There are some usual and unusual accepted remedies that really work in a natural manner to alleviate your depression symptoms. They are effective in both young and elderly and should be seriously taken up. Besides taking help for your clinical depression with the...
Mental health
There is no test, which will specifically diagnose depression and pinpoint this condition. Diagnosis of depression is a complex procedure, which involves history taking, studying the symptoms, physical examination, lab tests, imaging procedures, and more. When you go...
Mental health
Treatment of depression in women follows the same path as that of treating depression in general. But, a woman is more susceptible to going into depression and the reasons and treatment options are explained below. Causes of depression, in general also need to be...
Mental health
Overview Just as depression causes and its symptoms differ in different patients, depression treatment options too, vary. A particular treatment may work for one but may not suit another. Again, the depression may be mild, moderate, or severe because of which the...
Mental health
The following statistics for depression in women have been referenced from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). As explained in the earlier post that talks about causes of depression in women, the prevalence of this mood disorder in women is higher than in...
Mental health
Overview Symptoms and signs of depression in women are about the same as those explained in this post on depression symptoms with a few differences. The symptoms and feelings in women, however, last longer than in men, and risks of recurrence are also higher. However,...
Mental health
Having discussed depression in general, there is a need to discuss female depression separately because it differs in the sense that women are more prone than men to be depressed, the causes of depression in women are different, and the symptoms too differ. Women are...
Mental health
Reading these depression statistics about how many people suffer from depression and knowing its prevalence worldwide in developed countries makes one aware and alarmed that depression is so common with such a high incidence and prevalence. Overview Depression is the...
