Singer/songwriter Thea Gilmore suffered postnatal depression (Picture: Pal Hansen ) Singer/songwriter Thea Gilmore, 33, has released 14 albums. She has two sons and has suffered from postnatal depression. I had my first son, Egan, in 2006. There was the …
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5 Steps for Overcoming Athlete Depression
After a game-winning play, what do you see? Fans chanting in joy and athletes celebrating their victory. But rewind the clock a few seconds and the picture could look vastly different. In this scenario, the game is going down to the wire and it …
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Postpartum Depression Can Be Rebirth: Talking with Dr. Susan Benjamin Feingold
The book is populated with inspiring first-person accounts from her patients … the societal stigma and partly their own thinking that “If anyone knew, they might take my child away.” I’ve had patients say that and usually I can assure them …
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Midlife suicides on rise in baby boomer population: Chronic illness and depression plague America
(NaturalNews) They are supposed to be in the “Golden Years” of their lives, enjoying the fruits of their lifelong labors and living out their remaining years in relaxing happiness. But sadly, for an increasing number of baby boomers, chronic illness capped …
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Viewpoint: Medicaid-Based Improvements in Depression Can Lead to Broader Health Benefits
Improvements in treating depression could lead to broader benefits in other health outcomes. A new study of Oregon’s expansion of Medicaid disappointed advocates by failing to find improvements in health measures like high blood pressure and …
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Depression May Raise Risk of Gut Infection
After adjusting for other variables, the researchers found that the risk of C. diff infection among people with a history of depression or depressive symptoms was 36 to 47 percent greater than among people without depression. A second study …
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Shane Todd’s laptop showed access to suicide, depression-related websites
SINGAPORE: Internet history on American researcher Shane Todd’s laptop showed that he had run searches on suicide and depression-related websites in the days before he died. This was revealed on the first day of a coroner’s inquiry into his death.
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic crisis that in the United States was marked by widespread unemployment, near halts in industrial production and construction, and an 89 percent decline in stock prices. It was preceded by the so-called New Era …
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Brain’s ‘Clock’ Disrupted In People With Depression
Disrupted sleep is so commonly a symptom of depression that some of the first things doctors look for in diagnosing depression are insomnia and excessive sleeping. Now, however, scientists have observed for the first time a dysfunctional body …
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Routine depression screening for adults not recommended
Depression constitutes a major public health problem, Dr. Roger Bland, of the University of Alberta, said in a journal … focusing on people with a history of depression rather than general screening. As in Canada, these recommendations do not apply …
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