Posts Tagged by depression
Love and Mental Illness | GeekMom | Wired.com
Love and Mental Illness | GeekMom | Wired.com By Jenny WilliamsEmail Author February 2, 2013 | 8:00 am | Categories: Bedroom, Health and Beauty,Library, Sex and Relationships, Support Reaching the Skies by ThisWolfWalksAlone on deviantART. (CC-BY-3.0) I haven’t publicly dwelled on my personal life of the past year, but to say it’s been eventful is an understatement. After 14 1/2 years of… more
Separation and Divorce: Child Custody, Division of Property, & Common Law Marriage
Separation and Divorce: Child Custody, Access, and Parenting Plans When parents separate, they need to arrange how they will share the parenting of their children. If they cannot agree, they may have to go to court. The court must decide based on what is best for the child. In family law, this is… more
Videos about Depression and Mental Health
Causes of Depression What causes depression? Mental health experts aren’t entirely sure, though they suspect environmental factors, like war, physical ones, like abuse, and biological conditions, l… Expert: J. Clive Spiegel, M.D. 2:36 Diagnosing Depression Before clinical depression, also known as major depression, can be treated, a doctor’s diagnosis of depression must be made.… more
Psychotherapy may work if blended with Antidepressants – Chicago Tribune
Psychotherapy may work if blended with antidepressants – Chicago Tribune. December 06, 2012|By Kate Kelland | Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Patients with depression who fail to benefit from antidepressant drugs may do better if they are also treated with a type of “talking” psychotherapy called CBT, according to new research published on Friday. In the first… more
When drugs for depression fail, talking therapies help | Fox News
When drugs for depression fail, talking therapies help | Fox News. Published December 07, 2012 Reuters Patients with depression who fail to benefit from antidepressant drugs may do better if they are also treated with a type of “talking” psychotherapy called CBT, according to new research published on Friday. In the first large-scale trial to test… more
When You Can’t Afford Psychotherapy | Psych Central
When You Can’t Afford Psychotherapy | Psych Central. By MARIE HARTWELL-WALKER, ED.D. You know you’re in trouble. Maybe you’ve been depressed for what seems like ages. You can’t get motivated to do things. You don’t enjoy doing the things that used to give you the most pleasure. Yoursleep and appetite are off. Sex? You can’t be… more
Top 50 health apps: Body&Soul
Top 50 health apps – body+soul. These are pretty good start . . . good ratings. for PMS, meditation, relaxation, exercise, and more. Rory ************************************************** By Charmaine Yabsley & Maureen Shelley Maintaining your health, fitness and happiness goals is only a click away… We review 50 of the best health and fitness apps… more
Screening Tools: eMentalHealth.ca
click here for : Screening Tools Wondering if you or a loved one might have a mental health concern? Use our free, anonymous, clinically validated screening questionnaires to see whether or not there may be a mental health issue. Remember: these self-assessments are for screening only… more
Meditation: lasting effects on brain functioning
Meditation may have lasting positive effects on brain functioning – Syracuse natural health | Examiner.com. Video: Meditation Techniques: How Long and How Often to Practice Meditation The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine writes thatmeditation is recognized as a mind-body practice in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). There are various types of meditation, most of which originated… more
Coquitlam girl who posted bullying video takes own life – The Globe and Mail
Coquitlam girl who posted bullying video takes own life – The Globe and Mail. Like many teenagers, Amanda Todd struggled to fit in. The skinny girl with long brown hair didn’t have many close friends and often ate lunch alone. She was bullied – in person and online. A product of her generation, Amanda turned… more
Anger Management and Its Silver Lining
Anger Management Counseling and Anger’s Silver Lining. A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Because of a few high-profile individuals, anger management and aggressive outbursts have been in the public spotlight recently. They’ve spurred conversations about what anger is, what it means to lose control, and how to deal with anger. In some cases, people are also beginning… more
A psychiatrist’s double bind – The Globe and Mail
A psychiatrist’s double bind – The Globe and Mail. Enlarge this image A psychiatrist’s double bind GILI ADLER NEVO From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 3:20PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 3:26PM EDT A soft knock propelled me to open the door in time for my next patient. The corridor… more
Emotional Abuse – YouTube
Emotional Abuse – YouTube. www.abusoemocional.com Stop Emotional Abuse, You Deserve Better.We all know about Sexual Abuse. We all know about Physical Abuse. But, we know very little about Emotional Abuse.Emotional Abuse occurs when one person emotionally and psychologically abuses another person who is in need of sincere affection. This kind of abuse takes many… more
Mindfulness: Attention and Attunement
Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D.: Reliable Methods: The Future of Self-Transcendence. The three decades since mindfulness meditation was first found to help with anxiety, chronic pain and depression have seen the reversal of a trend that goes back over a century. When Freud founded psychotherapy as “a middle way between philosophy and medicine,” he took pains… more
Stress Relief 5 Easy Resolutions
Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW: Stress Relief For 2012: 5 Easy Resolutions That Will Stick!. The new year is up on the calendar. Will this be another year that you vow to start exercising only to drop your gym membership by Valentine’s Day? Remember the year you were determined to start flossing? Take vitamins? Give up… more
Spiritual Laws of Money & Abundance
Follow The Spiritual Laws of Money and Abundance. By S. Roman & D. Packer in Abundance on February 7th, 2008 Money is neither good nor bad; it is energy. It is the way money is used that determines whether or not it is a positive energy that will benefit you and others. If you come… more
Accommodations: Illness or Excuse?
A Serious Illness or an Excuse? – WSJ.com. By ANDREA PETERSEN Sally McCay At University of Vermont, above, staff role play with students with mental health issues to prepare them to negotiate with professors. Earlier this semester, college senior Leah Nelson emailed one of her instructors to ask for extra time to complete a paper.… more
Rewiring the Brain to Ease Pain
Rewiring the Brain to Ease Pain – WSJ.com. Rewiring the Brain to Ease Pain Brain Scans Fuel Efforts to Teach Patients How to Short-Circuit Hurtful Signals By MELINDA BECK How you think about pain can have a major impact on how it feels. That’s the intriguing conclusion neuroscientists are reaching as scanning technologies let them… more
Money making you crazy? Therapy the answer?
If your relationship with money is making you crazy, therapy might be the answer – Winnipeg Free Press. If your relationship with money is making you crazy, therapy — not the retail variety — might be the answer By: Carolin Vesely Enlarge Image Dr. Moira Somers helps people to wake up to their financial reality.… more
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