Types of Depression
Discover the different forms depression takes and how to recognise them. Our guides explain clinical depression, seasonal affective disorder, postnatal depression, and other variations affecting people differently.
Bipolar and Manic Depression
Bipolar illness also known as manic depression disorder, is a serious medical condition that is responsible for drastic changes in moods. These changes usual...
Childhood Distress
Depression isn't just experienced by adults. In fact it also affects many children each year and impacts the entire family. The symptoms of depression are of...
Depression and Bullying
Research into the precise nature of the link between depression and bullying is ongoing but the link itself is clearly established. Children who deal with bu...
Depression and Sexual Assault
Depression can be the end culmination of many events in one's life and can occur from chemical imbalances in the brain as well. But for those who have suffer...
Depression Due to Bereavement
Depression due to bereavement may occur when grief becomes overwhelming persistent and prevents a person from functioning in a normal capacity. Grief refers...
Depression in Young Men
Although both men and women experience depression research has suggested that they feel it in different ways and may have varied ways of coping with the symp...
Dysthymia Depression
Dysthymia is a mild but persistent type of depression that occurs for two or more years in adults or one year in children. Although the symptoms are not as s...
Eating Disorders and Depression
While not everyone who has an eating disorder will suffer from depression, they are statistically more likely to experience both conditions. Exactly how depr...
Major Depression
Major depression is a type of depressive medical illness that is both persistent and has an enormously detrimental effect on a person's thoughts moods and fu...
Melatonin and Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that affects many people around the world, mostly through the winter months when light levels are l...
Pets and Depression
When many of us think about the concept of depression, we are likely to think about people dealing with a difficult health condition. Most of us give little...
PMS and Depression
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a complicated disorder that can trigger depression or be influenced by symptoms of depression. PMS involves a range of uncomfo...
Postnatal Depression (PND)
Postnatal depression (PND) is a depressive condition that follows the birth of a baby usually in the first month after childbirth. It is quite common, with a...
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a recognized depressive condition that occurs in a cyclical and seasonal pattern. What this means is that the symptoms o...
Soldiers and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be prompted by many different kinds of traumatic events but it can be particularly debilitating when it occurs from...