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“Depression” is a common word in the English language. Many people will say something that does not raise their mood is “depressing” or if they are having a day where their mood is not a high as normal they will say they are “depressed.” The truth is they are just unhappy and the mood will […]

Depression is an awful medical condition that affects a huge proportion of adults at some point in their life. Many of you will know that depression is the name of a condition where people are suffering with unhappiness, but what a lot of you will not know is that depression runs in a cycle that […]

Depression doesn’t just occur without an external catalyst to make it start, the catalyst is normally an occurrence that would constitute something emotionally extreme. So what life experiences cause a person to suffer with depression?
Extreme emotions that cause depression
Emotions felt as a child
Extreme emotions felt as a child can come back to haunt a person […]

There is no single cause for depression as many people become depressed for many different reasons, many of which are due to different things that have happened in throughout their life. Sometimes depression may happen due to things that happened in the sufferer’s child hood but took time to fully take hold in the persons […]

Depression has risen significantly since days gone by; this may be due to the added stresses of everyday lives with the added pressures of working life and the financial worries from growing debt.
Depression is more common than many people would think, it is believed that between seven and twelve percent of men are affected with […]

Depression can affect up to one if six people at some point in their lifetime yet we still don’t understand what really makes depression happen.
It has been found that depression is an illness that runs through families, this may be due to each family member having the same genetic make up, making each family member […]

Depression is a multitude of different actions that together cause one big reaction, the chemical imbalance that causes depression.
When a person suffers great stress due to a time in their life that causes difficulty it can cause the neurotransmitters located in the brain and central nervous system to “overload” and lose its steady grip on […]

Do you ever feel down in the dumps? Possibly like you can’t go on another day? Hey, I’ve got a great idea that will cure everything. Go to a strip joint! Okay, just a small joke there. No but seriously, depression can hit some folks out of no where and this is often a melancholic […]

Anxiety and depression are by far the two most common mental illnesses diagnosed in the United States, and probably the world, although there haven’t been studies done to confirm it.  They both can be debilitating in their effects, and are very difficult disorders to live with.  Unfortunately, most people with anxiety and depression do just […]

am I suffering from depression
Everyone gets sad once in a while, but that is to be expected. Even those that seem to be happy all of the time actually have moments and even days when they are down in the dumps. Someone wondering am I suffering from depression has probably got a very good reason […]