Tag: depression

  • DepressionMD

    WebMD is churning out articles about depression daily.  Here are some from their “Top Stories” list: Hormones Can Affect Your Mood Major Depression: Many Avoid Treatment Talk Therapy as Good as Antidepressants Antidepressants Not Always Best For Depression More Medical Attention Helps Ease Depression

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  • Web Addiction and Depression

    WebMD:  Internet Overuse May Cause Depression. Researchers say that their work suggests that teens who use the Internet pathologically may be about 2.5 times more likely to develop depression than  teens who are not addicted to the Internet.

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  • Mom’s Affection (Would’ve) Helped

    PsychCentral:  Early Life Experiences Boost Adult Mental Health. A new study suggests infants who receive strong affection from their mothers are well equipped to cope with life stressors as adults.  Although the sample is small, the research is meaningful. Most prior studies have relied on recall; few have tracked participants from childhood to adult life,…

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  • The Blue and the Gray

    ScienceDaily: Why does everything look gray when you feel blue? Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. Scientific findings now lend empirical support to this representation of depression that everything looks gray when you feel blue.

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  • Feelings Contagious?

    A study at PhysOrg.com–feelings catchable. [R]esearchers [have] found a correlation between an individual’s emotional state and those of the person’s contacts.  In other words, it appears that you can catch happiness. Or sadness. (Via GoodTherapy.org)  

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