If you have, or do, suffer from depression you will relate to the common response from friends, family and colleagues “Oh! get over it”, or “It’s all in your mind”. How wrong they are! How terrifying is it when you see a loved one or friend heading on the downward path and no […]

There are a number of treatments available to sufferers of depression who are looking for more help than using antidepressants alone in fighting depression. Treatments ranging from herbs and acupuncture to guided imagery are all finding their place in an ever modernising approach to treating depression. Although this field of medicine is vast, it is […]

While feeling anxious is a normal reaction to certain stimulus, people with anxiety disorders are constantly subjected to this annoying feeling. There are many treatments available for anxiety attacks that can help patients lead a normal and healthy life.
Anxiety is the feeling that is generated when we are placed in situations of stress or when […]

Depression is much more common than most people realize and certainly not due to any fault of the sufferer. The earlier a person seeks help to cure depression, the better it is for him and his loved ones. The early warning signs are often ignored as just a passing phase. Sometimes a person may have […]

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a mirror on the creativity so often associated with mental illness. In this book she turns that mirror on herself. With breathtaking honesty she tells of her own manic depression, the […]