Depression

Mental illness in youth: a common struggle

2013-05-17 13:55:00

Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...

Army sergeant found guilty of premeditation in killing 5 servicemen

2013-05-13 10:15:00

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Army Sgt. John Russell was found guilty Monday of the premeditated murder of five fellow servicemen in 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, a charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Families...

Women's brains more likely than men's to respond to crying babies

2013-05-07 05:45:00

WASHINGTON – Why do kids grow up to cry “Mommy” more often than “Daddy”? The National Institutes of Health has an answer: The wailing of a hungry infant is less likely to bother a man than a woman. In an experiment, 18...

Five killings at Camp Liberty in Iraq: Calculation or despair?

2013-05-11 20:21:00

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide whether the 14-year Army veteran was deluded by depression and despair as he shot five fellow service members in...

Predicting stubborn alcohol addiction: mood, motive may hold keys

2013-05-02 16:20:00

It doesn't take stacks of research to demonstrate that medicating painful feelings with alcohol or drugs is a dangerous and ultimately futile strategy (although those studies do exist). But the relationship between emotional difficulties and alcohol...

Antidepressants: A help or hindrance to those facing surgery?

2013-05-02 05:30:00

About 11% of Americans over age 12 take an antidepressant, making the drugs the most widely used medication in the United States. And with more than 51 million in-patient surgeries performed annually in the United States, a substantial overlap between the...

Mariel Hemingway urges change to help others find a personal best

2013-04-06 00:00:00

Mariel Hemingway, makeup-free and in sweats, is gorgeous. That bone structure, her cheetah-like build and flowing hair have been familiar for decades. What's disarming is her forthright approach to a rough family history and her determination to live...

Yoga might help boost mental health

2013-04-13 00:00:00

As you stretch into warrior pose and inhale and exhale, you're not just stretching those hamstrings and lungs; you're also doing good for your brain with a practice that can stave off or relieve problems such as stress, depression and anxiety. Yoga...

Pastor Rick Warren takes to social media to mourn son's suicide

2013-04-12 20:07:00

When in pain, pray. When you worry, worship. When in grief, share it in your small group. The Facebook post, sent in the early morning hours Friday by famed pastor Rick Warren, was short on words but deep in meaning. Since the suicide death of his son a...

Rick Warren: I've cried tears of grief, joy since son's suicide

2013-04-09 08:15:00

Famed pastor Rick Warren took to social media to thank the public of for its support in the wake of his son Matthew Warren's suicide and announced an effort to help bring awareness to mental illness. Warren said he and his wife want to "end the stigma...

Rick Warren uses Facebook, Twitter to share sermon about loss

2013-04-12 17:12:00

Rick Warren says 'haters celebrate' his pain after son's suicide

2013-04-09 08:12:00

Rick Warren said it's been difficult to deal with some of the hate mail and online comments he's read since announcing Saturday that his son had committed suicide. "Grieving is hard. Grieving as public figures, harder. Grieving while haters celebrate...

Phone therapy for primary-care patients with clinical depression is not only as effective as therapy at the doctor’s office, it also can enable them to continue therapy, according to the results of a study by Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

2012-06-12 18:17:00

It's pretty obvious now that I was suffering from depression. Scientists don't know everything about it, but they do know it's something gone wrong in the brain. In a teenager, it can be really tricky. It can look like a bad case of the blues. That's what my parents thought for a while.

2012-05-08 17:45:00

I was finally diagnosed with clinical depression. I was put on medication and spent the next two weeks waiting for it to kick in. I did a lot of reading, especially Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.' I used the madness of that book as an escape from the madness that I was facing.

2012-05-07 00:00:00