Word: depressionitis
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Krauthammer claims that Obama’s plan to reduce health-care costs, make college more affordable, develop alternative sources of energy, and limit greenhouse- gas emissions is “perhaps the greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people.” (In a non sequitur of...
The researchers theorize that depression might have some direct physiological impact on the heart - like causing it to work harder in the face of stress. The study also found that the more depressed women were, the more likely they were to smoke cigarettes or have high blood pressure and diabetes...
No one is sure exactly how depression hurts the heart, and one plausible explanation is that the train runs in the opposite direction - a damaged heart and its consequent stress on the body might activate, somehow, genes or other physiological changes that contribute to depression.
Read TIME's 1992 article about depression and drug therapy.
Read "Depression Drugs for Kids: How Safe?"