News of Mood Disorders

my psychologist has just started me on cognitive behavioral therapy, and i have still not figured out how to use it. do you use CBT and if you do does it help you with depression and anxiety? right now i am not so sure that this method of treatment is going to work for me because i find it very hard to make my mind believe something else other than something it wants to believe.

Im just gonna test the website ....

My whole life ive been without love and at teh age of 20 i found it in a girl and we got married had a kid the whole routine the first tqo years were great but after that short story she started doing drugs and cheating etc which ended up with her going to prison for almost two years. I waited for her and within 3months she gets ...

ok everyone and anyone whose ever went through psychosis due to somthing emotional happening to them

the other night, my now ex bf, we had just gotten back together, when we got in another fight, well, about an hour and a half after i had left him, i started to experiance vertigo

very strange, i was also getting over being sick at t he time, but my ears had been fine for days, and when ...

What is S.A.D.?
depression that afflicts people only during the autumn and winter months
(October-April)
the cause is believed to be due to the shorter daylight hours in autumn and winter
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Who is affected by S.A.D.?

5% suffer from severe form of S.A.D.; 15% suffer more moderate symptoms
more common in women than in men (4-1)


Symptoms of S.A.D.
feeling down, gloomy
loss of energy
withdraw socially
carbohydrate cravings & increased appetite
sleep ...

What is light therapy?

involves being exposed to bright light, (20 times brighter than normal light), under specific conditions
daily treatment usually fifteen minutes to half an hour
light sources are available in different forms; special lamps that you sit in front of in the morning, a light visor that you would wear as you would a baseball cap, or in the form of a pair of glasses
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What does light therapy do? ...

OK, so no one ever said that holidays were the easiest things in the world to get through, but for some reason this year is really hard for me to get through. I'm missing my aunt more than ever this year. I mean, I've been so depressed that I have been going to talk to Mrs. Clark more than I've ever talked to a counselor before. It's been really helping too. I really wish I ...

I asked my husband for a seperation in August, due to him being physically violent at times (seemed seasonal) and being very verbally abusive. It all seemed to come in waves, and the rest of the time he was a sweetheart. I just couldnt take the mood swings and horrible treatment. I always suspected he was bipolar, he lived in a VERY abusive enviroment growing up (pretty much torture) but deep down is a great ...

Not to recently I met a girl at my school, She takes medication for clinical depression. Basically the meds just wipe out her emotion, she got sick of having no emotion one day and didn't take her meds. By the end of the day she had to cut herself to get through the rest of the day, which i neither think is healthy, or good for the psychy. Is there a happy medium? Any other ...

Hello. I'm not entirely sure if I am depressed or not, but I have to find out and I figure this is the best place to go in terms of anonymity. I'll start at the beginning. I've always been painfully shy; I have trouble saying hello to people walking by me on the streets some days. As a result, I've always had at the most two friends, and until high school, they were never true ...

i dont know why but sometimes when i get very depressed i want to slam my head with things, and a lot of times i do. i am not really trying to kill myself or hurt myself, and i am wondering why this happens. i need to try to stop or i could do some serious brain damage? do any of you get these compulsions?