Just as neurotransmitters help ferry signals along nerve pathways, other complex chemicals called hormones carry messages to organs or groups of cells throughout the body. These chemicals trigger or regulate certain activities, such as the release of an egg from a woman’s ovary and the delicate control of blood sugar levels.

The hypothalamus in your brain, the pituitary gland below your brain, and the adrenal glands atop your kidneys form a trio known as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Together these structures govern a multitude of hormonal activities in the body and may play a role in depression as well.
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If you want to stop taking an antidepressant, it’s important to speak with your doctor first, the American Academy of Family Physicians says. The doctor may recommend weaning your body off the medication gradually.

People who stop an antidepressant too quickly may trigger a host of symptoms that doctors call antidepressant discontinuation syndrome. Symptoms may include:

• Anxiety.
• Feelings of depression or sadness.
• Moodiness and irritability.
• Tiredness.
• Headaches and dizziness.
• Nausea and vomiting.
• Diarrhea.

If an antidepressant is causing an unpleasant side effect, your doctor may opt to lower your dose or prescribe a different type of antidepressant altogether.

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Pain is depressing, and depression causes and intensifies pain. People with chronic pain have three times the average risk of developing psychiatric symptoms — usually mood or anxiety disorders — and depressed patients have three times the average risk of developing chronic pain. When low energy, insomnia, and hopelessness resulting from depression or anxiety perpetuate and aggravate physical pain, it can be impossible to tell which came first or where one leaves off and the other begins.

Pain slows recovery from depression, and depression makes pain more difficult to treat. For example, depression may cause patients to drop out of pain rehabilitation programs. So it often makes sense to treat both pain and depression; that way they are more likely to recede together.
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I never understood why my life turned out the way that it did. Its a non-stop cycle of depression that always finds me. Happiness now seems unreachable to me. I get more jaded, sarcastic, and I seclude myself more.  I thought I was a good person and hell, even my therapist told me I was kool but that’s not what life shows me.  I consistantly get yelled at, fucked over, and treated like dirt.  I deserve the latter for some reason unknown to me.

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Many times, introverts felt that something is wrong with them. This happens especially when they are in the middle of crowd, among the extroverts. Many people are saying that introverts are bad, while extroverts are good. The introverts have an advantage and they supposed to make use their uniqueness instead of resenting them.

Here are the eight reasons why introvert is OK!
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You can’t help Harry to see the light, it’s too late. Harry is already gone! But Harry can help you to switch on your lights.

Get It Here

It’s the unthinking question millions of people ask each day to a friend, a significant other, a family member.

The answer may be surprising because it doesn’t make sense. When a person is suffering from depression, the answer is more often than not, “I don’t know,” or worse, “Nothing.”

Depression Doesn’t Need a Cause
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Guide your friends in appropriate action

By being aware of your symptoms, your friends can be educated about what a panic attack is. Tell them not to rush you to the hospital unless you describe symptoms that are different from your typical panic attack. Tell them that being reassuring during the experience generally is enough.

Here are some other pointers you might want to give:

• Don’t assume what I need, ask me.
• Let me pace my recovery, but encourage me to get help.
• Find something good in my achievements. When I overcome an obstacle (such as driving on the highway), make a big deal of it.
• Don’t let me avoid life. Help me take the baby steps to live life to its fullest.
• Don’t give up your own life to protect me. We only will grow to resent each other.
• Don’t panic when I panic. I need you to be confident that I will get through this.
• Don’t tell me to “Calm down” or “Get a grip on yourself.” If I could do that, don’t you think I would?

Panic disorder is a difficult problem for everyone involved. But, with care, patience and some help from your friends, you can overcome it.

Depression is one of those things that throws your entire life out of sync. And it camouflages itself so well: That headache that won’t go away; the knot in your stomach; the recurring mouth ulcer all signs of depression.

While it certainly would be nice to be able to just call a time out whenever you’re feeling a bit depressed, in the real world we actually have to learn how to manage it effectively.

And while serious depression calls for medications like Cymbalta, if all you need is some help rising above life’s little letdowns, try manipulating your mood with these quick mental fakeouts.

1. Put on a blue shirt.
Researchers found blue is generally relaxing (which is why shrinks tell their patients to stare at the sky), while orange is the biggest irritant. Red and purple, by the way, suggest power. Wear them to work and act like a big shot; people will subconsciously obey.
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When depressed, I experience:

* a loss of enthusiasm for life.
* a lack of energy for self-growth.
* confusion as to what is the meaning of life for me.
* a blue funk.
* a lack of excitement or appreciation for my accomplishments in life.
* lethargy, tiredness, and exhaustion.
* an inordinate desire to sleep.
* a flat emotional affect.
* boredom with my life, job, family, friends.
* the absence of spontaneity or joie de vivre.
* a lack of desire to keep on keeping on.
* the feeling that the world would be better off if I no longer existed.
* the desire to run away or end it all.
* the feeling that I am only an observer of life and not involved in it.
* a sense of living in slow motion.
* a feeling of energy and drive in the midst of a crises, deadline, or tragedy.
* tearfulness and weeping for no apparent reason.
* loneliness, isolation, a lack of being connected to the others in my life.
* apathy, discontent, and a hollow feeling regarding my day to day existence.

What are some causes of my depression?

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Young children of depressed mothers are at heightened risk for behavioral problems and injury, new research shows.

A team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center looked at 1992-1994 data on more than 1,100 mother/child pairs taking part in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth.
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by Jane Framingham, Ph.D.
In addition to the major types of depression that affect men and women, women also suffer from unique types of depression due to their special physiology and hormones. Estrogen, the “female sex hormone,” affects more than 300 functions in a woman’s body including regulating menstrual cycles, protecting the heart and maintaining strong bones. The fluctuating levels of estrogen during menstrual cycles, pregnancy and menopause may impact mood and, in severe cases, trigger depressive episodes.

Unfortunately, these types of depressive episodes in women and girls often are blamed on “being moody,” “that time of the month,” or “the change” and go untreated. It is time to get beyond stereotypes that prevent women from getting medical help:

* Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) can be treated or prevented — there is no reason why women need to suffer so needlessly and frequently.
* More than half of the women suffering from postpartum depression will experience it again with the birth of another child. It is critical to identify this danger and treat it early.
* Rates of suicide for women are highest during the perimenopausal years; these are tragically shortened lives, considering women now live a third of their lives after menopause.
* Recent research shows that women’s biology differs from men’s in many more ways than previously thought and these physical differences (such as different levels of estrogen, serotonin, cortisol and melatonin) are beginning to provide clues to why women are so much more susceptible to depression as well as a special type of depression called Seasonal Affective Disorder
* Stress plays a major role in depression, and it may be that women and men respond to stress differently — while women are more likely to suffer from “emotional ailments” such as depression, anxiety attacks and eating disorders, men are much more likely to act out aggressively and abuse drugs and alcohol.
* Women’s fluctuating hormone levels during menstrual cycles, after childbirth, and during menopause contribute to forms of depression unique to women including Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), Postpartum Depression, and Perimenopausal Depression. The good news is that research is helping us to understand the biological factors for depression in women and identify ways to treat and prevent it. A woman may suffer from depression at any point during her life. Like depression in men, the underlying cause of depression in women is a combination of changes in brain chemistry, stress, trauma and genetics.

The major types of treatment for depression are the same for women and men. Women who have suffered sexual traumas (such as rape and incest) may want to work with a therapist who has training and expertise in this area.

In addition, a woman’s unique biology may predispose her to unique forms of depression not found in men.

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At the beginning of the 21st Century African American women find themselves achieving new heights and reaching new milestones. Education and hard work has enabled them to achieve successful careers and respect in mainstream society. Despite this good news, Black women still find themselves lagging behind Whites and other women in health and mental health indices. For example, the depression rate among African American women is estimated to be almost 50% higher than that of Caucasian women.

Black people account for approximately 25% of the mental health needs in this country though they only make up 11- 12% of the national population. To make matters worse, only 2% of the nation’s psychologists are Black.

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