The DSM: 4 Mindless Benefits & 1 Mindful Benefit
Therapists and health professionals have granted the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) unprecedented power. This book offers the definitions as to whether or not you will be designated as someone with a psychological disorder. With this power, it is worth peeking inside at some of the big problems...read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Happiness Resilience Spirituality ADHD dsm mindfulness peter parker social anxiety disorder social phobia spiderman suicidality suicide The Walking Dead Source Type: news
Keeping Rural Veterans Alive
Telehealth has become an important treatment tool over the past two decades. Using videoconferencing, Skype, and other services, veterans can talk face-to-face with mental health professionals right in their own homes instead of traveling for hours in some cases. This allows veterans to seek help anonymously if they are afraid of the stigma involved with mental illness.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Romeo Vitelli, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Health Psychiatry PTSD telemental health care treatment veterans Source Type: news
Can Exercise Protect Your Brain From Depression?
Recent studies have found that physical activity can trigger neurobiological changes that may help protect your brain from depression.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christopher Bergland Tags: Depression Neuroscience Resilience Source Type: news
Helping a Friend Who is Talking About Suicide
Having a friend who is contemplating suicide can be very scary. Your friend may try to swear you to secrecy, but don't make that promise.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 10, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, M.S., L.P.C. Tags: Child Development Depression Parenting Relationships Self-Help teen suicide; helping a suicidal friend; suicide warning signs Source Type: news
The challenges facing soldiers after combat
What are some of the challenges veterans face when returning from war, and how is treatment approached when counseling is offered?read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 10, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jack Pemment, MA, MS Tags: Depression Ethics and Morality Stress Therapy army cognitive processing therapy conscience CPT Craig Bryan killing military National Center for Veterans Studies PTSD soldiers trauma university of utah violence War Source Type: news
Earned Helplessness
How a bachelor gets a date, a dog food, and a blogger a post. read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joachim I. Krueger, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Social Life exploration - exploitation learned helplessness Source Type: news
Suicide Is Not a Moral Issue!
Why do we dredge up the old, tired, moralistic language to describe death by suicide, but not death by somatic illness? Depression is no more a choice than cancer. It is just less quantifiable. Depression, perhaps more than most bodily diseases, is permeable. Shape-shifting. A moving target. It eludes us when we try to understand and contain it.
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Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Deborah Vlock, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Education Parenting stress teen suicide Source Type: news
Treatment Resistant Depression and Borderline Personality
A debate between two academics about whether personality disorders or hidden "bipolarity" is the major cause of depression that responds poorly to antidepressants is dissected in this post. Many doctors seem to accept the absurd assumption that everyone who is moody must have an underlying manic depressive illness. They also seem to think that all depression is the same.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David M. Allen, M.D. Tags: Depression Personality Psychiatry Anti-Depressants anxiety disorders bipolar disorder bipolarity Borderline Personality Disorder dsm Hagop Akiskal John Gunderson Kenneth Silk major depressive disorder mania nassir ghaemi pani Source Type: news
Are You the Inspirational Type?
In a world full of inspirational quotes, it might seem that we're all looking for ways to become more motivated. As it turns out, some of us are more likely to get inspired than others. This 4-item test will show where you stand on the inspirational scale, and how becoming inspired can help you achieve your goals.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Happiness Personality Self-Help change goal-setting goals inspiration motivation psychology quotes Source Type: news
The Internet, Suicide, & How Sites Like PostSecret Can Help
When people who are depressed or suicidal go to the internet for help, research shows that their conditions tend to worsen. Disturbing stories of online suicide voyeurs make us fear the worst, but in reality, the dynamics at play here are unknown. We look at the research, our fears, and how communities like PostSecret are working to bring people help and hope.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jennifer Golbeck, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Media Internet online communities postsecret suicide Web Source Type: news
Pre-empting Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression affects at least 10-15% of new mothers, and it may be more common among certain demographics. Plus, it is often underdiagnosed. Knowing that, how can you prevent it? Based on our review, the best advice is to: (1) find a good therapist and (2) exercise.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sharon I. Praissman and Emma Williams Tags: Child Development Depression Gender Parenting postpartum depression Source Type: news
12 Ways Parents Can Protect Their Kids From Too Many Pills
Nelson Mandela said: “There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.” We should be treating our kids with fewer drug-company-pushed pills and with more love, understanding, and exercise. read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Allen J. Frances, M.D. Tags: Depression Health Parenting Psychiatry ADHD conduct disorder drug company marketing drug side effects pediatric drugs Source Type: news
Will you be my mother?
When a girl at the Genocide Museum in Rwanda asked me to be her mother, she gave voice to my own silent question--and fears.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jennifer Haupt Tags: Depression Parenting Relationships Resilience adoption compassion death of a child genocide good enough mother mothering rwandan genocide Source Type: news
From Awareness to Prevention
I believe in the power of awareness months to draw needed attention and funds to causes I care about. But, I also care about what happens the rest of the year. So, on the cusp on a new month, I want to think about how to move from awareness to prevention, and the power of a moment to move change forward.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - September 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elana Premack Sandler, L.C.S.W., M.P.H Tags: Depression awareness awareness month suicide suicide prevention suicide prevention month Source Type: news
The Present and Future of Treatment for Depression
What works in treating depression? What’s on the horizon?read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - September 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marty Nemko, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Neuroscience Self-Help Therapy alternative therapy CBT cognitive-behavioral therapy ECT Ketamine SSRIs st. john ' s wort Source Type: news
