Fear is an underlying factor in depression. People who go through mental health problems often harbor a tremendous amount of fear about the symptoms and the repercussions of the condition. ...

Over 200 million people worldwide are unemployed. The prevalence of depression and chronic pain in this population is staggering, especially when focussing on the long term unemployed. ...

Postnatal depression (PND), also called postpartum depression, is experienced by approximately 15%-25% of women after childbirth. Men can also experience this depression although much less frequently. ...

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is an episode of depression that occurs and tends to reoccur during a certain time of year, usually in winter. SAD entails serious mood changes and possible heightened anxiety. It is not a separate disorder to depression and is added as a description to the pattern of major depression or bipolar, otherwise known as a subtype. ...

Anger is not an emotion usually associated with depression, but absolutely essential in the causation and psychogenesis of depression. Therefore beating depression requires a healthy and balanced understanding of what anger is and how one best manages and expresses it without allowing it to fester and cause depression. ...

Bipolar is an extremely serious mental health condition, previously called manic depression, and sometimes referred to as bipolar affective disorder. ...

There are many reasons for the perpetual tiredness people with depression suffer.  One major factor is that people who suffer depression usually have an overactive mind in an under-active body. Depression is quite rightly described as a deadly cocktail of hopelessness and helplessness. Though my own reading and my own recovery story I learnt I wasn’t as helpless as I thought. With appropriate guidance and t ...

Loneliness underpins all mental health issues, and certainly all types of depression cause deep loneliness for many people. Loneliness is an awful gnawing and plaguing sense of unease and separation from the world, and normally gives rise to ugly feelings of separation, disconnection and alienation which in turns breeds resentment, contempt for others, anger, isolation and dejection. ...

Major depressive disorder or major depression, also called clinical depression or unipolar depression, is characterised by a combination of symptoms that interfere with a person’s ability to work, sleep, study, eat and enjoy once-pleasurable activities. ...

Melancholic depression is a hard and distressing type of depression, generally diagnosed amongst older people; it may have a unipolar or bipolar course. It is a relatively uncommon diagnosis. Major depression has five subtypes, called specifiers by the DSM. These are melancholic depression, atypical depression, catatonic depression, postpartum depression and seasonal affective disorder. It is important to a ...