“An international team of researchers lead by the University of Granada has scientifically proven, for the first time, that depression is associated with important alterations of the oxidative stress, so it should be considered a systemic disease.” This is important if it is verified with further study. No one goes around telling people with systemic…
Having depression, or even having attempted suicide in the past doesn’t change the fact that you, and your life, have value.
“The most maddening—and the most common—response I get when I write about the daughters and sons of unloving mothers is that people point out that the ones I write about were “only” (quotations marks mine, and meant ironically) verbally abused. Science knows better, but the culture does not; the mantra seems to be that if…
“Fewer men than women are formally diagnosed with depression, and in Western countries, rates of male depression are half that of females. Experts suggest that the lower reported rates of men’s depression are due, in part, to men’s reluctance to express concerns about their mental health and reticence to seek professional mental health care services…
Unless you live with post-traumatic stress disorder, it can be hard to understand why an event from the past can still affect someone now. You may wonder why they just can’t “forget about it,” or get confused when seemingly low-stress situations evoke a strong reaction. But for people with post-traumatic stress disorder, their brain actually…
“One of the most pernicious results of Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) is also, amazingly, the most directly fixable. Who hasn’t, at some moments of their lives, wondered what it’s all for? What’s the point? Why am I here on this earth? What am I supposed to be doing? Does anything really matter? I have noticed…
