Overview: Depression and anxiety 22 Articles

by Howard Miller

Depression: What is it? Depression is endemic in the United States. But what does that statement, albeit true, actually mean? What is depression? How do we know that someone is depressed? How do we measure this cond...read more

by Todd Hicks

Do you often suffer or almost suffer a nervous breakdown? Are you someone who easily gets depressed? Please spare yourself the torture from this day on. You are about to learn how to prevent and eliminate stress and depres...read more

by Jill Ermer

I am a person who has dealt with depression and anxiety symptoms all my life. I started suffering from anxiety at a very young age I was only six years old when i began experiencing insomnia. True these symptoms had a lot ...read more

by Tracey Lloyd

Winston Churchill described it as a "black dog", before him Aristotle believed that it could be the making of a person, there is a stigma attached to talking about it in polite society yet 1 in 5 people will experience an ...read more

by Sean Andrews

Anxiety and depression are common in affluent countries. The cause is not a direct result of increased wealth, but of the kind of society that exists in these places. People are under pressure, the society and its rules ...read more

by Not Too Psycho

Man; How did I end up here again? Lost again, I hate it when I end up here. This place is so dark and dreary. The haze blankets the area like the fog over London. With each step taken the further I get more confused. Th...read more

by Ronda Claire

About Being Depressed Awhile back I was in my Yahoo e-mail account and an ad at the side asked, "are you depressed?" indicating to "click here" for information. When I did, and read the symptoms, I found I had all of th...read more

by Fabio Marquez

Waking up in the morning. Making a cup of coffee. Getting ready for work. These are all things we consider as normal activities going on in just about every home during the course of a regular day. Having plans, goals, bei...read more

by Myrna Writewood

Depression and anxiety come hand in hand its like one with the other. When we are depressed things look down and bleak where we feel anxious. When we feel anxious our bodies are tense and we can't relax. Where w...read more

by Lorraine Roach

Panic, anxiety and depression can stem from the fear we carry with us on a daily basis when we suffer from these often chronic situations. The fear is there under the surface of our thoughts and can jump into the consci...read more

by Frances Gordon

Depression, Oppression, Devastation, and Anxiety. In today's society, it is as common as the cold, but 100 times more serious. Drugs are never a cure or a fix. Some used appropriately, and under the right guidance...read more

by Alex Parker

The connection between depression and anxiety Everybody seems to know that depression and anxiety go hand in hand. People who are prone to depression, tend to have some form of anxiety and vice versa. There are many peo...read more

by Shawn Matthews

Did you know about 121 million people world wide have depression and more then 32 million in the states. People with a chronic illness are more than likely to get depression than people with out an illness. These peopl...read more

by Shamma B S

Depression is a disorder of mood or affect, in which the person experiences feelings of great sadness, worthlessness and guilt, and finds the challenges of life overwhelming. Depression may exist on its own or is often jus...read more

by Vanessa King

I feel like I'm climbing the same mountain as the rest of the world. If I could look down on it from above, I would see that I am climbing up the rocky side, with trees and thorns, mudslides and brambles, all manner of bra...read more

by Sylvano Anselmo

Saint John's Wort. Natural, wholesome, inexpensive and available over the counter, St John's wort seemed to be the dream remedy for depression. Taken all over the world in huge quantities, it has become the pill to pop wi...read more

by ktarcus

I have suffered with depression on and off now for thirty years. It is unfortunate that for the first twenty of those years my depression was classed as high anxiety. The two conditions though similar are separate states...read more

by Sara Green

Antidepressants, good, bad, (ugly?) I am writing this in my second month after deciding the pills that were being thrown at me weren't working. Antidepressants are different for everyone and...read more

by Ron Taylor

While less than half of those suffering from depression seek help, it is estimated over 100 million Americans experience depression in their lives, with females representing the majority of this number. Tragically, untreat...read more

by Jeanne Sones

Sometimes I get sad because I am alone and no one is around and I find myself sad. Is this a form of depression I'm not sure, or is this the beginning of depression? I have usually been able to thwart off depression wi...read more