No child chooses to be depressed, and parents typically don't see it coming and sometimes don't recognize it when it is present. But childhood depression is treatable.
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The president clearly believes we need to remove the stigmas of war's mental health consequences. But it is striking that his statement completely ignores the 71 percent of the suicides that occur after service.
As therapists we can't offer patients the shining moment in a Chicago chapel that started Marsha Linehan on the road out of hell. But we can recognize and embrace the central insight she had, which she later came to call "radical acceptance."
By helping younger generations to learn how to cope with environmental stressors and manage mental illness, we may be able to help give these young adults the tools necessary to live a healthy, "carefree" life long into their years of adulthood.
Though I have never been violent, I should be barred from owning a gun. It defies logic to permit someone with severe mental illness, especially one who has a history of violence or was recently discharged from the hospital, to possess a firearm.
I know what you're thinking: What does it feel like for a human to have his or her medial forebrain reward circuitry stimulated with an electrode? Does it produce a crazy pleasure that's better than food or sex or sleep or even "Seinfeld" reruns?
Why is there such a strong anti-medical model attitude towards serious mental illness when the evidence keeps growing that these are diseases of the b...
Several weeks passed in this way, and I slowly became quite happy. Every day was a good day. My brain was emptying out of thought content, and instead was filling up with silence.
Did you ever look at your husband or wife and feel that person is an impostor? Janet, a 24-year-old graduate student, came home from a stressful day at school and found a man she thought was a stranger in her bed.
You don't mean to be grumpy. But darn it, you are miserable in the oppressive heat, your kids are home for 90 consecutive days, and you are don't have the stamina to pretend you are giddy that summer has arrived. Sound familiar?
Phillip Sinaikin, M.D. is a Florida psychiatrist who has been in practice for 25 years. "Psychiatryland," his new book, focuses on excesses and industry influence in the field of psychiatry.
Sometimes people with ADHD tend to have what look like compulsive tendencies. This is because we've learned to overcompensate for difficulties that we've experienced with distraction, disorganization and inattention.
There is another half to the bipolar experience, where our understanding helps us remove the suffering while we gain the ability to function completely in all states, from the highest high to the deepest low. I call it "Bipolar In Order."
It's so easy to say that Ryan Dunn, or anyone who drinks and drives, is personally responsible for whatever damage they do. But every time a drunk driving accident occurs, aren't we all at least a little to blame?
Why do only some people succeed at learning from their bad experiences, while others fail? It turns out that some of us may have a more adaptive style of self-reflection than others.
My client had started going to meditation classes and liked them, but he was still feeling terribly depressed. Then, as suddenly as it was unexpected, he confessed to me that he had had several affairs during the course of his marriage.
Tough guys -- real men -- don't get depressed. After all, depression is a "women's disease." If only it were that simple.
Yes, depression can be dangerous and is a barrier to aging well, but it is not an inevitable outcome of old age, and when it occurs, it can usually be overcome.
Anyone, including all our warriors, who has an incredibly challenging job needs all the internal resources they can get. Forrest Yoga gives you the resources you need to perform your job as effectively as possible
Depression affects more than 6.5 million of the 35 million Americans aged 65 or older. For those who are homebound, the prevalence is even higher, with estimates ranging from 13.5 to 46 percent.
The president has announced that after an initial drawdown in Afghanistan, the remaining troops will be withdrawn "at a steady pace" going into 2014. But that's not good enough. President Obama had an opportunity to pivot his policy on the war and he didn't take it.
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