When Is Depression Fake?
In spite of the media trying to paint mental health in a positive light over the last few years, in one way it has trivialized the...
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Alexandra Massey
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How Is Depression Diagnosed?
When you're in a full-blown depressive meltdown, it can be extremely stressful even thinking about seeing a doctor. Having experienced...
Alexandra Massey
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How Do You Recover From Depression Without Support?
Your friends, family and social circle just aren’t people you can go to when you’re feeling depressed, so what do you do? This isn’t...
Alexandra Massey
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What Do You Do When Depression Medication Stops Working?
It’s known by its medical term, tachyphylaxis and it describes what happens when the drugs stop working. For people who rely on...
Alexandra Massey
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Will Depression Affect My Career?
In an ideal world, staff mental health would be as openly talked about as an injury. In fact, you would be forgiven for thinking that...
Alexandra Massey
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Who Gets Depression? Here's The Top 9 Risk Factors For Getting Depression.
Are you predisposed to get depression? Here’s the definitive answer on exactly who gets depression. Who Does Depression Affect? Anyone....
Alexandra Massey
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Have You Ever Wondered Exactly What Depression Is?
Reading up on depression can be extremely confusing when all you want to know is: Why do I feel like this? What’s wrong with me? Where...
Alexandra Massey
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Does Your Doctor Understand What Depression Is? Might Be Easier to Explain What Depression ISN’T.
It’s difficult to describe exactly what depression is because everyone’s experience of depression is unique to everyone else’s. People...
Alexandra Massey
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What Food Relieves Depression?
It’s almost impossible to believe that food relieves depression; but it does. Researchers at Deakin University ran a study[i] and...
Alexandra Massey
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When To Stop Taking Medication For Depression
You go to your doctor to get help for depression and he prescribes some medication to help ease the depression and anxiety symptoms. So...
Alexandra Massey
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Why Take Medication For Depression?
What Are The Good Reasons For Taking Medication For Depression? Let’s start with what are the not so good reasons for taking medication...
Alexandra Massey
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Help! My Medication For Depression Doesn’t Work
The Pills Don’t Work It can seem like a bitter pill to swallow when your depression treatment doesn’t work. If this is you, you’re not...
Alexandra Massey
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Why Are We So Depressed In Spite Of The Happy Pills?
We in the UK are among the most depressed people in the Western world, according to new data released last month from the Organisation...
Alexandra Massey
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Thank Goodness Scotland Has Banned Smacking Kids
Smacking children is to be banned in Scotland, the Scottish government has confirmed. The move would make the country the first part of...
Alexandra Massey
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What those who HAVE recovered from depression know that those who have never suffered DON'T!
There is a definite payoff that comes with having recovered from depression. It's generally not spoken about because those people who...
Alexandra Massey
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What Is Depression?
Depression is described in the dictionary as being ‘low in spirit; downcast’. What it actually feels like is a cloud of lead particles...
Alexandra Massey
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When POWERLESSNESS Becomes POWERFUL
I went to a family memorial service last month for a lovely, old lady who had once been my mother-in-law. Not seen a whole bunch of those...
Alexandra Massey
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Survival Traits Children Use When Raised In A Dysfunctional Family
When efforts to bond with our dysfunctional parents failed, the result was confusion and anxiety. In order to survive in a home devoid...
Alexandra Massey
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9 Signs You Were Raised In A Dysfunctional Family
What is a dysfunctional family? Well, there is a huge span when it comes to the term ‘dysfunctional’. It ranges from mildly dysfunctional...
Alexandra Massey
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5 Foods That Help Beat Depression
I’ve always had a difficult relationship with food. As far as I can remember I’ve eaten food based on how I felt but never more so than...
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