2. Psychosis (paranoid and manic depressive)

Clinical depression

Something like 98 percent of all people with depression, and I mean really severe depression I have a friend with stunningly severe depression this is a curable disease, with present medicine and present technology.

2. Manic depressive psychosis.

It's very powerful for depression, schizophrenia, many, many things.

3. Depressive disorders not classifiable under other headings.

Depression s Psychedelic Solution?

You see mental distress going up with lower income.

ZURICH According to the World Health Organization, depression affects an estimated 350 million people worldwide, making it one of the most prevalent psychiatric conditions. But only about half of those who try antidepressant drugs respond to them, and those who do may have to wait several weeks or even months before experiencing relief a critical failing for people at immediate risk of suicide.

An analysis by sex and degree shows that in 1993 16.2 per cent of men and 21.1 per cent of women suffered mild depression, 4.7 and 11.9 per cent respectively suffered moderate depression, and 0.5 per cent of both sexes suffered severe depression.

And then, we fast forward to about 1932, when three Italian psychiatrists, who were largely treating depression, began to notice among their patients, who were also epileptics, that if they had an epileptic a series of epileptic fits, a lot of them in a row the depression would very frequently lift.

It is relatively cheap, and it is easy for family practitioners, who treat the majority of depressed people, to prescribe. However, when the episode has passed, and medication ceases, depression tends to return, and at least 50 of those who experienced an initial episode of depression find that depression comes back, despite appearing to have made a full recovery.

The total incidence of clinical depression is 25.1 per cent.

And anybody who's been depressed here knows what that's like.

Where social status is concerned, it was found that mild depression is commoner in the quot low quot stratum and moderate and severe depression commoner in the quot low low quot stratum.

Well, taking all those tests is bound to make him sick.

game about mania, melancholia, and the creative process

The problem with viewing antidepressants as the main method for preventing recurrence is that many people do not want to stay on medication for indefinite periods, and when the medication stops, the risk of becoming depressed again returns. Finding new ways of helping people stay well after depression demands an understanding of why depression keeps returning.

he is taking the form of a mental breakdown... an acute schizophrenic episode .

Indeed, in key respects depression is comparable to Cushing's disease, a disorder cause by excessive production of cortisol. The elevated cortisol in Cushing's patients is higher than that found in major depression, but the psychiatric and somatic features of Cushing's disease are strikingly similar melancholia, depression, abdominal obesity, bone mineral loss, and increased risk for cardiovascular disease, along with shrinkage of the hippocampus and memory impairment.

I did get depressed.

From Depression to Freedom

You must be down in the dumps.

When my heart is lonely

Perhaps our parents suffered from depression.

Healing the Depressed Brain

Both manic depressive illness and schizophrenia are psychotic conditions, characterized by the patient s loss of control over his or her actions and thoughts, a recurrent state in which s he cannot be considered an agent with free will. Obsessive suicidal thinking and paralyzing lack of motivation allow depressed patients to be classified as psychotic as well.

Rates of depression carried on up, right across the Western world.

These disorders schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

I was a little prone to depression.

The claim that the spread of severe mental illness has reached epidemic proportions has been heard so often that, like any commonplace, it has lost its ability to shock. But the repercussions for international politics of the disabling conditions diagnosed as manic depressive illnesses (including major unipolar depression) and schizophrenia could not be more serious.

I'm not sad, but I'm scared.

Still, one of the problems with many of the current medications is that, even with treatment, the recurrence of major depression is very high around 70 80 . This suggests that physiological processes underlying depression the ones that may also lead to structural changes in the brain are not being completely arrested, and thus that a new generation of anti depressant medications is urgently needed.

No. He's suffering from acute melancholia, together with a guilt complex.

And we were testing if the mice would also self administer SSRIs.

It has a deep melancholy ring.

1935 relief, depression, recovery banks.

Should Children Take Antidepressants?

Consider depression, the most common mental illness, which must be distinguished from the sadness, disappointment, or frustration we all experience in our lives. William Styron s 1989 memoir, Darkness Visible, rightly calls depression a weak word for a debilitating condition that is marked by hopelessness, helplessness, and dread.

The DSM III s confusion of normal intense sadness and depressive mental disorder, which persists to the present, emerged inadvertently from psychiatry s response to challenges to the profession during the 1970 s. A powerful group of research psychiatrists was dissatisfied with the definitions of depression and other common mental disorders in the earlier, psychoanalytically influenced diagnostic manuals.

While symptoms of depression, anxiety and non specific mental disorders are more prevalent in women than in men, drug dependency is more prevalent in men, and the situation in our country is no different.

Is anybody here on antidepressants?

And I said, What? And she said, You're going to get depressed.

The worry is about antidepressants.

Aren't either of you concerned about his breakdown? What breakdown?