Attending school on Zoom and quarantining from family and friends has children struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic, but, surprisingly, having kids at home may help adults feel less distressed, researchers report. Adults in households with children have fewer mental health problems than adults living without kids, a new study shows. Child care—beyond the effect of…
Exercise vs Drugs for Depression
Aerobic exercise interventions found comparable to antidepressant medication in the treatment of patients with major depressive disorder.
Dealing With Sickness-Caused Depression
When I start to feel depressed, I immediately go inward to try and figure out what is wrong with me or my environment. I feel like I am doing something wrong. Then, when I come down with a cold or another sickness, I realize the depression should have warned me to take care of myself….
Depression in Children Linked to Low Levels of Vitamins B12 and D
Up to 2.5% of children and 8.3% of adolescents suffer from depression, a condition that’s associated with significant complications later in life, including an increased risk of suicide, substance abuse, physical diseases and problems with work, academic and psychosocial functioning. It’s believed that both genetic and environmental factors play a role in why some children…
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Depression
A young person I know felt so depressed that she thought about ending her life every day. She planned how and where she would crash her car and fantasized about putting on dark clothing and walking onto the highway at night so a driver would hit her. She felt anxious and hopeless, certain that she…
This Nutrient Deficiency Is Associated With Depression
Research published in December 2021 using data from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging (TILDA) discovered those with a vitamin B12 deficiency had a greater risk of symptoms of depression. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 264 million people worldwide live with symptoms of depression. In 2017, roughly 17.3 million adults in…
Holiday Blues or Something More?
I left the hospital that evening, and darkness had already settled in on this mid-winter day. I ran to the car as a piercing rain had begun to fall. Chilled and wet, I glanced briefly in the rear-view mirror as I pulled away. It was going to be a long drive home in these conditions….
Anxiety Effectively Treated with Exercise
A new study from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has found that both moderate and strenuous exercise may alleviate anxiety symptoms. Researchers believe that even when the disorder is chronic, exercise can play an essential role in helping to reduce the symptoms of anxiety. Published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, the study was…
Depression Caused by Genetics? Most Likely Not
Since the discovery of DNA, the central dogma of genetic translation has lured us in with a simple path from genes to illness. With the completion of the Human Genome Project, however, we were forced to begin to explore the limitations of the mutation model of illness and our assumptions about the biology behind illness…
Doctors Told to Suggest Meditation, Self-Help Before Drugs to People With Mild Depression
People suffering from less severe depression should be offered a range of options before being given anti-depressants, doctors in the UK have been told. Therapy, self-help with support, group exercise, group mindfulness, or meditation are among the list of options patients can choose that are preferable to drugs, according to draft guidance published on Tuesday by…
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