Sleep hygiene is about developing healthy habits for getting a good night's sleep. This podcast and article will show that one of the keys to beating mental health is to get regular sleep which means practicing good sleep hygiene on a daily basis. Sleep hygiene is one of the most important concepts in all of mental health recovery and one that often gets ignored by those … [Read more...]
Anger
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. Underneath the emotional pain and troubled moods in … [Read more...]
Tiredness
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 … [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...]