Depression

I facilitate a Family Issues and Loss group for adults. What I find interesting is how one topic almost always spills into the other. When a family loses a member they are not only faced ... Read More

New findings show that patients who suffered with depression reported more severe arthritic knee pain than those without depressive symptoms. Tae Kyun Kim, MD, study author and director ... Read More

Dr. Lloyd I Sederer, MD, a psychiatrist and public health advocate, recently published important tips for helping your loved one with mental illness. In his 35 years of practice, Dr. Sederer ... Read More

New research presents the possibility that people with depression may be at a higher risk for developing kidney disease. Previous studies have shown that depression has many negative impacts ... Read More

Full permission has been given by the client to tell this story on GoodTherapy.org. All identifying information has been changed. The client ‘Jimmy’ that I described in the previous ... Read More

Positivity can make a huge difference in your day. Several mostly-positive days make for a positive week. Then come months, years, and a whole life. Of course, there are down times: dark ... Read More

During my career, I had the privilege of working with adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in an outpatient program at a local behavioral health center.  Although frequently ... Read More

From how we screen for depression and who can treat depression to how it affects college students and how grief and depression overlap, news about depression has been a common topic of ... Read More

Depression varies from person to person and episode to episode, not only in its degree of intensity and disability, but also by which types of symptoms the depressed person experiences. ... Read More

In the United States, public awareness about addiction and addiction counseling has grown tremendously in the past decade or two. But it’s easy to take for granted a link between awareness ... Read More

The burden of life unfolding not according to plan can be the trigger that sets a mental health problem in motion, such as falling into depression after divorce or suffering PTSD after ... Read More

There’s no blood test, eye chart, brain scan, or any other quick way to tell if someone is depressed. Detecting depression is nuanced and difficult. Some people are screened when they ... Read More