Overcoming depression is about learning from mistakes and work on not repeating them. Overcoming depression is a tandem procedure: learning what works, and unlearning and stopping what doesn't work. We need to outline these points because often people do not understand why recovery is punctuated with relapses and episodes. This article isn't meant to impose guilt or make … [Read more...]
Unemployment
Mental and physical health problems can jeopardise or cause long term unemployment. Long term unemployment is defined as 27 weeks or longer, and can cause severe social exclusion as a result. In some cases being forced out of the work due to external factors beyond one’s control - involuntary unemployment - may not have been a result of mental health, but the experience and … [Read more...]
Postnatal Depression
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. PND is not the ‘baby blues’. About half of all woman go through the baby blues, a milder depression that is normally resolved within ten days after the birth. There is also a … [Read more...]
Melancholic Depression
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 … [Read more...]
How Mutual Support Groups Beat Depression
One thing I totally vouch for is the positive effect and value from support groups. Not necessarily therapeutic groups, I'm more referring to organic mutual support groups run by and for their members. I believe that when done properly (and many statistics back this up) group therapy is a lot more effective than one on one psychotherapy or counselling - when it's done properly. … [Read more...]