Depression, anxiety and addiction are leading to high suicide rates in the Military

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The other day on the radio I heard some shocking statistics about depression and suicide as it relates to the military. Personally, I don’t think there could be many… Read More

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Depression TV From WebMD

Check out this website I found at webmd.com.
It is called “Depression TV and it has a whole series of 3 minute videos with excellent questions and answers. Depression: When Should I Seek Help, Depression and Loss of Libido, Depression and Rage – Are they Related, and many more. I think this is one of the few video sites I have seen that succinctly

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You Could Be Depressed – Millions of People Are – And Not Even Know It!

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

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Are all Bipolar people “whack-jobs”?

I read this in an advertised Blogupp entry that started out as follows:

Bi Polar Disorder Written by: Baby J on May 4, 2010.

One day you wake up and everything is perfectly normal. You wake your kids, make breakfast and kiss your husband good day. All it takes is one incident. Something you’d never expect, yet the perfect trigger. In my case it was a liar. That

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Addicts or Depressives and Self-Destructive Thinking

The famous inspirational business writer Napoleon Hill wrote 16 lessons about how to succeed in business. One of them focused on how you THINK as a person. He was so convinced you could “think” yourself to any degree of success he wrote a second book called “Think and Grow Rich”.

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Bipolar Disorder and Depression – Seek help as soon as you have any of these symptoms

Bipolar Disorder tops the list in terms of the number of diagnoses made each year by doctors, mainly because most depression today is diagnosed as bipolar depression.  Regardless of how prevalent these two diagnoses are individually ( The national Institute of Medical health estimates depression alone affects 20,000,000 Americans every year), there are stigmas attached to these disorders. Don’t allow a stigma to stop you from seeing the reality of the disorder — you or… Read More

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A Brilliant Writer Describes Depression in Such a Way it is a “Must Read”.

I just read several of the most inspiring posts by another writer yet since having been introduced to this whole blogging thing. The blog is called “Drunk in Cardiff”, authored by “The Drinker”, and subtitled “The long walk to recovery from alcoholism and depression”. Just the subtitle makes one who has been through this whole journey want to jump on his work, I believe. So at the risk of losing the 3 people who may… Read More

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“Rag” Magazines vs. Science: Are the Rat Population Studies True?

One need only look at the racks stuffed full of “rag magazines” at the head of most market checkout lanes to know they are there because they sell. They sell the surprise and shock of a headline that announces somebody who is or was “on top” of their game has shaved all their hair off, married a mooch, or gotten busted for a whole bunch of drugs that were discovered when their car was searched… Read More

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Don’t Die Crying — When the moment arrives, how will YOU feel?

A very common heart problem is called an “arrhythmia” — in fact I am fairly sure I read somewhere that upwards of 15% of people or more experience heart arrhythmia at some point in their life. “Cardiac arrhythmia” is a term that encompasses a whole bunch of different conditions that can occur when the electric circuitry of the heart muscle is thrown out of whack and results in one’s heart beat becoming too fast or… Read More

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The unseen link between depression, anxiety and addiction.

Just as a “normal person” — if there is such a person — might have come home after work that day and said “Honey, I just had a rough day”, or told a buddy that Friday “Man, I had a rough week”, there was a day I was saying to whomever I could find who would listen, albeit tongue in cheek, “Man, I’ve had a rough eight years”. But I meant it. Still hospitalized, I… Read More

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