You know when you don't feel like yourself. If you're suffering from depression, it's likely you're feeling varying degrees of exhaustion, worthlessness, helplessness, and/or hopelessness. When such negative thoughts and feelings persist, some...
Depression among seniors (individuals over age 65) can be somewhat different than depression in the younger population. Although it can be the result of chemical imbalance in the brain or a side-effect of medication, depression in the elderly is...
When someone has a prolonged fatal illness, suffers from serious progressive memory impairment, or is being kept alive by extreme medical interventions, their friends and family members may begin grieving the loss of their loved one's former self...
Depression can strike anyone, but people with serious illnesses such as stroke may be at greater risk. Appropriate diagnosis and treatment of depression may bring substantial benefits to persons recovering from a stroke by improving their medical...
An intervention that includes staffing doctors' offices with depression care managers helps depressed elderly patients reduce suicidal thoughts, a study funded by NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has found. Martha Bruce, Ph.D.,...
People age 70 and older who continued taking the antidepressant that helped them to initially recover from their first episode of depression were 60 percent less likely to experience a new episode of depression over a two-year study period than...