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Yes, Virginia, There Is Something Called Clinical Depression

Just recently I was part of an online discussion about whether or not depression is a real medical disorder as opposed to simply being “a wrong mindset”. Having suffered from clinical depression for 20+...

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Is Depression a Physical, Emotional, or Spiritual Illness?

What is depression? Mainstream medicine currently explains clinical depression as a biochemical imbalance best treated by drugs and (sometimes) cognitive therapy. Depression today is primarily defined as...

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The Basics of Self-Injurious Behavior

Self-Injurious Behavior, also known as Self-Mutilation (or more commonly Cutting), describes behaviors in which an individual causes physical harm to their own body. While making small cuts on one’s arms or...

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How to tell if you have Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric condition characterized by severe disturbances in mood. People suffering from bipolar disorder, a term which has replaced the outdated ‘manic depression‘, go...

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My Darkest Journey: Depression

Depression is a dark, ugly monster that consumes your mind with a spreading sensation of darkness. I know about depression first-hand. For one year of my life, I survived the clutch of this evil monster from...

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Symptoms of Depression

Depression Everyone experience depression. We have all experienced a period of helplessness and hopelessness at some point in our lives. The difference is we snap out of the depressive state by...

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Symptoms of Depression

People who may be suffering from depression or manic disorders actually exhibit or show each and every kind of symptom of depression that doctors will tell you that depressed people have. Missing the symptoms...

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Help and Hope for Those Suffering with Depression - Practical Advice that Works

I just watched a movie on tv titled CrazyLove. Everyone should watch this movie. It accurately portrays a young woman trying to please everyone and keep her life structured and controlled, up to her high...

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The Truth About Depression

Depression is not a simple case of the blues. If your sadness is interfering with your everyday activities, it's more serious than you think. Depression is very different from sadness. People who are...

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Nature of Clinical Depression

              “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved”, this is a line from the late Mother Teresa. For people with clinical depression, loneliness is not...

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