Sleep-deprived high school students who doze off in class aren’t just risking the wrath of their teachers. They’re also three times more likely to be depressed than their alert classmates who get enough sleep, a new study has found. “Sleep deprivation and depression go hand in hand among teenagers,” says the study’s lead author, Mahmood [...]
I was reading Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (which I highly recommend as it is better than the movie) and in it she was talking about the brain and the mind. Now most people tend to think of the brain and the mind as one unit but this is far from reality. The brain in [...]
1. Baby us – I understand that I am sick and you are trying to help but by treating me like an infant reinforces my own thoughts that I am basically useless 2. Speak louder then normal – I have severe depression, post traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder and generalized anxiety disorder none of [...]
What is SAD?An estimated 2 to 3% of Canadians suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of depression that seems to be related to the amount of sunlight that you are exposed to. An extreme form of the “winter blues,” SAD is worst for most people in the fall and winter. Rarely, people develop [...]
During my first admission the doctor told me that he believed that ECT might be good for my situation and he said I should go forward with it. I replied that is good what the heck are you talking about? ECT is Electro Convulsive Therapy or shock treatments and when he said this all I [...]
I have written about a part of this in the past where some of us who are mentally unwell fear getting better because it is an unknown. The mental disorders or labels that I carry around with me have been on my back for quite some time and to be honest I can not remember [...]
One day you step out the front door and you take a baseball bat to the face. You retreat into your home and fix up the injuries and again try to make it out your front door but the baseball ball is still waiting. It takes awhile but you come up with a plan which [...]
I found this list over at NAMI (National Alliance On Mental Illness) and figured I would share it with the rest of you. Abraham LincolnThe revered sixteenth President of the United States suffered from severe and incapacitating depressions that occasionally led to thoughts of suicide, as documented in numerous biographies by Carl Sandburg. Virginia WoolfThe [...]
Depression: Major Depressive Disorder – The scales of depression- Tomorrow will be a better day. I hope- The story in the picture- Depression versus depression- The symptoms of my depression- The wall- A depression cure?- How to make depression worse- Suicide- Keeping the monster quiet- PBS’s depressions special- Defining depression- The Approaching Storm- Depression Video- [...]
I can handle being depressed and I can handle being borderline manic what I have problems with is what lies in between. One second I am king of the world and the next moment I am struggling for air. It is not knowing what is going to strike next and the fear that the happiness [...]