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Major Depression affects 15 million people, or 7% of the U.S population every year. Translated, this effectively means that 1 in 14 people suffer at least 1 major depressive episode that lasts two weeks or more each… Read More . . . → Read More: You Could Be Depressed – Millions of People Are – And Not Even Know It! …if they bought into the notion below. I am developing sites to help people find good halfway houses and sober livings if they are coming out of treatment. On the home page I found myself writing the following paragraph, which sums up what I am about. For people who can’t toil through my longer stories in this blog — here it is in a nutshell, off the site The Halfway House Guide. I… Read More . . . → Read More: Dual Diagnosis — Most alcoholics and addicts could come close to “finding a cure”
I have been preaching for years now that I believe most people who are alcoholics began drinking (or drugging) to help kill the pain of a mood disorder. For whatever reason until today I had not known that there was empirical scientific data backing this notion up. Nobody really knows if you can be an alcoholic first, and then that triggers a long-term depressive episode, or visa versa. If you have an alcohol or… Read More . . . → Read More: Gene Linked to Both Alcoholism and Depression |
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