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...
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Alexandra Massey
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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...
Alexandra Massey
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
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...
Alexandra Massey
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....
Alexandra Massey
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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...
Alexandra Massey
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
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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
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,...
Alexandra Massey
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
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...
Alexandra Massey
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...
Alexandra Massey
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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...
Alexandra Massey
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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...
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