I am always looking for new ways to illustrate the difference between clinical depression and plain old sadness. So picture a basketball floating in a swimming pool. This represents your brain when you feel good or you in a mood that is average for you. Now take the basketball and force it to the … [Read more...]
Bipolar Depression Symptoms: Are They Any Different?
Bipolar disorder can be tricky to uncover because the symptoms can easily be mistaken for other disorders and diagnoses. For example, bipolar depression symptoms often look the same and feel the same as the common Major Depressive Disorder. Bipolar depression symptoms can be recognized, however, … [Read more...]
Beat Depression Before it Starts by Becoming Positive Realist
To beat depression before it gets started it's best to have a realistic view of yourself, others, your future, and the world in general. Most people think that being a a realist involves being negative. It is true that some people who are always positive are simply in denial. But it's also true … [Read more...]
Agitated Depression: Sometimes Depression Doesn’t Look Like Depression
Agitated depression is a clinical condition in which a person has Major Depressive Disorder, but it notably restless, constantly active, or extremely irritable. People sometimes say that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is probably a duck, However, most people think of clinical … [Read more...]
Adult Depression Can be Less Severe Than Child Depression
Adult depression is a clinical condition and not a diagnosis. It is usually referred to in the context of comparison with child depression or teen depression. It may seem surprising, but there are times when an adult depression can be easier than the mood disorder of a child that has been … [Read more...]
Acute Depression is Not Cute But it May be the Best Kind of Depression to Have
Acute depression refers to a clinical depression that lasts for longer than two weeks and where the onset is recent. Usually, an acute depression is a 'reactive depression' because often it is reaction to some event or live circumstance or loss. The loss can be tangible and obvious to anyone, or … [Read more...]
What Causes Anxiety Attacks in a Marriage?
What causes anxiety attacks in a husband or a wife? Most of us are conflict avoiders. For some people, their only experience with discussing a sensitive subject with family involves the s___ hitting the fan. For others, the fear of making someone else feel bad or the risk being disliked is enough … [Read more...]
The Symptoms of Anxiety Attacks Can Be Surfed LIke a Wave
The symptoms of anxiety attacks such as shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, dizziness, derealization, the fear of dying, and others are rarely dangerous to the person experiencing them. What makes panic attacks seem impossible to stop is the fact the symptoms of anxiety attacks feed on each … [Read more...]
Social Anxiety Treatment: Do We Address the Symptoms or the Causes?
Many people suffer from some form of social anxiety that impairs their ability to be effective in certain tasks or activities that they want to do. Should social anxiety treatment seek to reduce symptoms of anxiety or should it focus on discovering and resolving the underlying causes? In my … [Read more...]
A Third Natural Remedy for Anxiety is Often Overlooked
Learning to change your breathing into a relaxed pattern is a powerful, natural remedy for anxiety that people overlook because it seems so basic and simple. Everyone knows how to breath, right? Wrong! Your lungs behave one way when you are in a relaxed physical state and another when you are in … [Read more...]
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