Tag Archives: depression
High Tide, Low Tide: A Caring Friend’s Guide to Bipolar Disorder
A new study says birth control pills may make you depressed. That’s not news to many women
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Treating depression, anxiety and insomnia with Chinese medicine
Guest post by Kath Bartlett, LAc, licensed acupuncturist and Board Certified in Oriental Medicine, NCCAOM Everyone wants to be happy and avoid suffering and pain. Our body’s nervous system hardwires us to pursue this attainment. So when anxiety, depression, stress or insomnia affect us, we understandably seek relief from our afflictions. Western medicine offers drug […]
Depression in the Workplace
How would you explain to your boss that you suffer from depression? Why would you even bother? It can be such a risk sharing with anybody, let alone your employer, that you have a mental illness. Even in this day and age the stigma against it is alive and well. Dr. Neil Korsen, Medical Director […]
Melancholy Be Gone. Spring Arrives March 20, 7:21 P.M. EDT.
“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” ~Albert Camus I long for summer. Yesterday it was relatively warm and the sun was shining. I could taste spring. I could imagine summer. If the sun ever came up this morning, I never noticed because the sky was […]
Unplug and Get a Good Night’s Sleep
I used to have a terrible time with insomnia. Used to — I have to knock on wood — don’t want to unleash the demons. I could get to sleep just fine, but would be wide awake a few hours later and could not get back to sleep. Was it stress? The full of the […]