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Living With Someone Else's Depression

by Joseph Antony Solomou

This brief article touches on the ways that being in close contact with a depressed person can affect one. Family members, as the depressed person makes the long descent into hope...

Moving Through Depression

by Maggie Baker

This author was diagnosed with depression at the age of forty. She felt that she had spent her adulthood lurching from one crisis to another, including a disastrous marriage and a ...

Moving Through Depression, Literally

by Maggie Baker

Maggie writes about a very personal journey from a major breakdown seven years ago. She tells of how repression of her real self was at the heart of her problems and how she has ov...

Moving Through Depression: A Few Steps Further

by Maggie Baker

Maggie Baker. A follow up to her previous article Moving Through Depression (issue 34).

Natural Approaches to Depression

by Rory Myles

This article describes research linking Depression with a wide range of health problems, including Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Back Pain, Cardiovascular Disease, Physical De...

Seasonal Depression: How to Protect your Well-Being over the Winter Months

by Andrew Wormald

Mental health issues can affect people in all sorts of ways, so it’s important to look after both ourselves and each other. Throughout the winter months, approximately 2 million peo...

Suicide - Is It All in Your Mind?

by Christopher Paul Jones

In this article, Harley Street therapist Christopher Paul Jones talks about Suicide and asks the questions, ‘is it all in your mind?’.

Suicide – The Conversation You Need to Have

by Nancy Blake

Think about the following scenario. You have been taken into someone’s confidence. You may even have agreed not to tell anyone else. The challenge is implicit – you must find a way ...

Support and Care for Postnatal Depression

by José Calvo

Although families throughout the world experience a great deal of joy surrounding the birth or adoption of a child, there are many parents who go through some degree of mental angui...

Teen Suicide Prevention and Awareness - I AM NOT OK

by Steve Wilson

When I decided to produce a community service video I spoke to several fellow nurses to get their opinion on what type of video would have the most impact on our community. We came...

The Experience of Depression

by Dorothy Rowe - Deceased

Each of us experiences depression in an image which is idiosyncratically our own, and yet which shares a meaning with all other people's images of the experience of depression.

The Myth of Chemical Imbalance

by Dorothy Rowe - Deceased

Dorothy Rowe discusses the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) report on the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant drugs (SSRIs such as Ser...

Top Solutions for Treatment Resistant Depression

by Dr Nima Fahimian

Depression is one of the most common mental conditions in the United States, affecting and challenging the lives of over 40 million adults. As is generally accepted in the psychiatr...

What if Depression were a REM Sleep Disorder?

by Andrew Richardson

This article, in presenting a particular approach to depression, also provides useful information about the way that the Human Givens philosophy and practice work, and why they are...

What We Fear The Most

by Dorothy Rowe - Deceased

Clinical psychologist Dorothy Rowe, well known for her work on depression and her many books on the subject, explores our fears about ill health and dying.

Young Lives Snuffed Out …Marks didn’t Add Up?

by Manisha Jain

The headlines scream at you every morning. One dreads to switch on news channels nowadays. Reason: Reports of students ending their lives over a few measly marks just hit you betwe...