Overcoming Feelings Of Helplessness

We all come across feelings of helplessness to some degree or another sometime during our life, this is fine as long as we get back on track and overcome these feelings. However for some, feelings of helplessness set in and begin to affect our way of thinking and life. Here are some helpful tips to help you understand those feelings of helplessness and how to overcome them.

Depressed Failure

Learning to pinpoint external factors which lead to failure is the key to freeing yourself of blame

8 Choices You Must Make to Live Successfully With Chronic Illness

We may not have a choice about the chronic illness we live with, but we do have a choice about how we live with it. Little choices can make a large impact on our life!

Five Tips For Dealing With Your Depressed Spouse

Here's a scenario for you - You've just had a great day at work, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping and you whisk home to share your day with your spouse, only to find them depressed, negative and basically uninterested in what you have to share with them.

How Did I End Up in Depression

How did I end in depression? Sharing with you the symptoms and signs of depression. Also my personal poem written during the time of depression. And how I deal with depression and overcoming depression.

Ayurveda Viewpoint on Depression

Depression seems to be more common now than it was fifty or one hundred years ago: between ten and fourteen million Americans suffer from this frustrating, puzzling condition. Fortunately you can self-treat mild depression with Ayurveda, but it's very important to identify the underlying cause of your problem and to seek professional help for moderate or severe episodes.

Adolescences Suicide - Tips to Prevent: Part 2

I have made an endeavour to analyse the responsibilities of parents, teachers and friends in abetting their teen's suicide. A vivid account and narrations have been reviewed with various reasons and causes which attribute in their negligence, thereby, driving their teens to take away their own lives.

Depression Is No Match for Herbal Treatments

More and more consumers are approaching their doctors about getting natural herbal advice for their depression rather than being placed on synthetic anti-depressants. the most common herbal remedy is St. John's Wort-

Depression-Some Natural Cures From the Health Food Store

If you suffer from depression, you may wonder if there is anything you could get in a health food store that can help alleviate your depression naturally, without resorting to pharmaceutical antidepressants. Millions of people around the world use some of the following methods to relieve their depression naturally.

Parenting A Bipolar Child - Help Your Child Lead A Rewarding Life

Parenting a child with bipolar disorder presents its own unique challenges. Family and friends may have attributed your child's difficult behavior to stubbornness or other personality flaws. They may disagree with your parenting skills, however it is important to recognize and accept bipolar disorder for what it is – just another medical condition.

Using Electroconvulsive Therapy To Treat Bipolar Disorder – What Is It Really All About?

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock therapy, is a controversial medical treatment that induces a seizure by passing electricity through the patient’s brain. ECT was a common psychiatric treatment until the late 20th century, when it fell into disuse as better drug therapies became readily available for more psychiatric conditions.

Anti-Depressants: Is The Cure Worse Than The Illness?

This is the sort of book you wish your doctor would read. It looks holistically at depression considering the biomedical model (i.e. there is something wrong with your body and in particular your brain) as well as psychosocial factors, lifestyle changes and other environmental influences. 'Is It Me or My Meds' is penned by David Karp, who has long term depression and anxiety. He interviewed 50 people (including teens) with major depression and manic depression to gauge their attitudes about taking antidepressants and dealing with depression and the stigma around it.

A Spiritual View of Depression: The Light That Shines in the Darkness

The capacity of darkness to create a 'cover' over light is what creates the sense of emptiness or lack that is so intrinsic to depression. Though light always remains present within each individual being, darkness obscures the inner connection with the heart and with the source of being so that this light cannot be felt.

Anxiety Medication

Two typical lines of treatment are followed to cure anxiety disorders, namely medication and psychotherapy. It is left to the choice of the individual and the doctor as to the course of treatment to be followed. At times, a combination of both methods is used to cure the symptoms of anxiety.