This isn’t really surprising is it? An issue like depression zaps our ability to do much of anything, let alone eat healthy, exercise and take care of yourself. This is just another way it is a deadly serious disease. Australians with serious mental illness are living on average for 10-32 years less than the rest…
I find it to be pretty accurate as well. How about you? “”You don’t know why, but now everything you eat tastes like mashed potatoes and nothing you eat is satisfying,” it reads. “You keep eating because you must eat to live, but the effort that it takes to prepare food is taxing and there…
Last week, I linked to an article and discussed the importance of mental health care in UK primary schools. Today, I wanted to follow up on that with a couple of links to articles that talk about this same problem in the US, and the importance of getting help early. Adolescent Depression: Early Mental Health…
This is an interesting way of looking at depression, and might also explain why people who have never had depression, and those who are currently suffering, have a hard time finding common ground. Often people who are depressed complain that other people don’t understand what they are going through. But this study suggests that the…
This particular story does not involve a child, it involves a 20-year old woman who was dealing with postpartum depression, but I think there are two important lessons to be learned from it, that do apply to children as well. 1. Victims of sexual abuse, and sex trafficking, come from all over, including well-to-do suburbs….
It is a psychological state in which you may have learned to believe that you are helpless in particular situations. You may feel that you have no control over your life and “give up.” The result is that you have learned to remain passive in the face of unpleasant, harmful or damaging circumstances, even when…
