Depression Articles

• Anxiety and depression
  Anxiety is an important emotion, which is designed to help increase a person’s survival rate. It is defined as negative emotions and consists of fear, worry and sometimes even physical symptoms such as nausea or chest pains. This complex emotion is composed of numerous elements, some of which are somatic or cognitive and thus the body prepares itself to deal with this type of external threat by speeding up the heart rate, slowing down the digestive system, and increasing the blood pressure.
  
  
• Bipolar disorder
  Bipolar disorder is also known as manic depression. Oftentimes, people who suffer from this disorder have been described as moody, melancholy, and dark. These descriptions stem from the misunderstanding that surrounds this disorder. Such misunderstandings often occur thanks to books such as Catcher in the Rye and movies such as A Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. However, we should really be looking at real life “examples” of this disease such as Van Gogh, Kurt Cobain, and Virginia Woolf.
  
  
• Clinical Depression
  Clinical Depression is a mental illness that is characterized by a lengthy time during which a person is sad. However, it is important to understand that just because a person is being gloomy, doesn’t mean that they are depressed. This is because depression is also accompanied by a feeling of apathy, a loss of self-esteem, and the thought that they can never be happy again, which continues on endlessly.
  
  
• Factors For Depression
  There are many factors, which can contribute to the cause of depression. These factors may act alone or in combination to cause a depressed person to feel the way that they do. The three main factors that contribute to the cause of depression include Environmental, Psychological and Physiological factors.
  
  
• Postpartum depression
• Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Signs and symptoms of depression
• St. Johns Wort and depression
• Subtypes of depression
• Tips for reducing depression