Word: depressionitis
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With 1.5 million readers a month, Heather Armstrong's website, Dooce.com, might very well be the most popular personal blog on the Internet. Dooce began in 2001 and rose to infamy after Armstrong became one of the first bloggers fired for writing about her employer on the Internet. But now...
You suffered from terrible postpartum depression. What was that like? It was this constant state of panic, of me thinking that the world was going to end and I was going to die homeless and naked on the street. I suffer from depression, but this was different. What I'd...
Tell Us Something New In his article, former history professor Newt Gingrich misstates some facts about the 20th century [March 23]. The Great Depression did not give rise to Nazism or Japanese militarism. It was World War I and its aftermath that set the stage for both Mussolini's march...
In 2006, Dr. Eric Finzi, a cosmetic surgeon in Maryland, injected Botox into frown lines around the mouth or in the forehead furrows of 10 clinically depressed women. The treatment was found to eliminate depression symptoms in nine of them and to reduce symptoms in the 10th woman. At the...
Such studies are part of a growing trend in counseling and therapy that focuses on behavioral change - a new approach summed up by the Alcoholics Anonymous slogan "Fake it till you make it" - rather than the stern "talk therapy" of the Freudian era. Cognitive behavioral therapy, for instance, teaches patients...