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Do You Suffer Depression With Period Problems? Find Out More...

Feb 9, 2018
6 min

Do You Suffer Depression With Period Problems? Find Out More...

Managing Severe Monthly Depression Problems Every woman knows what it feels like to suffer from the monthly blues. But for some women,...

Alexandra Massey

Feb 7, 2018
8 min

When Depression Hurts Your Relationship

Which way round is it? Is it depression that's is hurting your relationship? Or is it your relationship that's making you depressed? It’s...

Alexandra Massey

Feb 6, 2018
6 min

Where Depression Comes From

There’s much controversy about the origins of depression and there’s no simple answer to this question. The experts tell us that...

Alexandra Massey

Feb 5, 2018
6 min

Are Depression Pills Placebos?

You may think this is a strange question but many people have commented to me that they don’t seem to think their antidepressants are...

Alexandra Massey

Feb 1, 2018
5 min

When Is Depression Fake?

In spite of the media trying to paint mental health in a positive light over the last few years, in one way it has trivialized the...

Alexandra Massey

Jan 27, 2018
6 min

How Is Depression Diagnosed?

When you're in a full-blown depressive meltdown, it can be extremely stressful even thinking about seeing a doctor. Having experienced...

How Do You Recover From Depression Without Support?

Alexandra Massey

Jan 25, 2018
6 min

How Do You Recover From Depression Without Support?

Your friends, family and social circle just aren’t people you can go to when you’re feeling depressed, so what do you do? This isn’t...

What Do You Do When Depression Medication Stops Working?

Alexandra Massey

Jan 24, 2018
9 min

What Do You Do When Depression Medication Stops Working?

It’s known by its medical term, tachyphylaxis and it describes what happens when the drugs stop working. For people who rely on...

Alexandra Massey

Jan 19, 2018
7 min

Will Depression Affect My Career?

In an ideal world, staff mental health would be as openly talked about as an injury. In fact, you would be forgiven for thinking that...

Who Gets Depression? Here's The Top 9 Risk Factors For Getting Depression.

Alexandra Massey

Jan 18, 2018
7 min

Who Gets Depression? Here's The Top 9 Risk Factors For Getting Depression.

Are you predisposed to get depression? Here’s the definitive answer on exactly who gets depression. Who Does Depression Affect? Anyone....

Have You Ever Wondered Exactly What Depression Is?

Alexandra Massey

Jan 10, 2018
7 min

Have You Ever Wondered Exactly What Depression Is?

Reading up on depression can be extremely confusing when all you want to know is: Why do I feel like this? What’s wrong with me? Where...

Does Your Doctor Understand What Depression Is? Might Be Easier to Explain What Depression ISN’T.

Alexandra Massey

Jan 9, 2018
8 min

Does Your Doctor Understand What Depression Is? Might Be Easier to Explain What Depression ISN’T.

It’s difficult to describe exactly what depression is because everyone’s experience of depression is unique to everyone else’s. People...

Alexandra Massey

Dec 14, 2017
4 min

What Food Relieves Depression?

It’s almost impossible to believe that food relieves depression; but it does. Researchers at Deakin University ran a study[i] and...

Alexandra Massey

Dec 13, 2017
6 min

How Medication Helps Depression

When we’re feeling hopeless and helpless due to a bout of depression, medication may be helpful to give us that mood lift that, somehow,...

When To Stop Taking Medication For Depression

Alexandra Massey

Dec 12, 2017
6 min

When To Stop Taking Medication For Depression

You go to your doctor to get help for depression and he prescribes some medication to help ease the depression and anxiety symptoms. So...

Alexandra Massey

Dec 11, 2017
6 min

Why Take Medication For Depression?

What Are The Good Reasons For Taking Medication For Depression? Let’s start with what are the not so good reasons for taking medication...

Help! My Medication For Depression Doesn’t Work

Alexandra Massey

Dec 7, 2017
5 min

Help! My Medication For Depression Doesn’t Work

The Pills Don’t Work It can seem like a bitter pill to swallow when your depression treatment doesn’t work. If this is you, you’re not...

Why Are We So Depressed In Spite Of The Happy Pills?

Alexandra Massey

Nov 24, 2017
5 min

Why Are We So Depressed In Spite Of The Happy Pills?

We in the UK are among the most depressed people in the Western world, according to new data released last month from the Organisation...

Thank Goodness Scotland Has Banned Smacking Kids

Alexandra Massey

Nov 1, 2017
5 min

Thank Goodness Scotland Has Banned Smacking Kids

Smacking children is to be banned in Scotland, the Scottish government has confirmed. The move would make the country the first part of...

What those who HAVE recovered from depression know that those who have never suffered DON'T!

Alexandra Massey

Oct 6, 2017
4 min

What those who HAVE recovered from depression know that those who have never suffered DON'T!

There is a definite payoff that comes with having recovered from depression. It's generally not spoken about because those people who...