Depression Treatment

An intervention is never easy. No one likes to be confrontational with other people. This becomes even more difficult when that relationship is a work-based relationship.

People whose lives have been plagued with an alcohol or drug addiction usually have other problematic issues to deal with as well. One of the most common is mental illness. There are more than four million people in the United States who suffer from alcoholism or drug addiction and a mental illness at […]

The image of the man as the strong, silent type, while a comforting one to many, is probably the biggest reason that men who suffer from depression tend to suffer in silence, never seeking the correct treatment they need to pull themselves out of the emotional doldrums that weigh on their heart and mind, […]

Depression is a real physical illness with physical causes. A new experimental treatment called Deep Brain Stimulation is an improved version of electroshock therapy which sends a moderate current into the frontal cortex.

Suicides among young people continue to be a serious problem. Each year in the U.S., thousands of teenagers commit suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for people aged 15-24. A new study on teen depression and suicide has found that over half of all adolescents who commit suicide have experienced a […]

The final stage of a landmark federal study on treating depression suggests that two-thirds of sufferers eventually can be helped if they are patient enough to keep trying medications until they find one that works. Thirteen percent of the 123 study participants who did not get better on the first three drugs they tried […]