Aquilino Tejeira Hospital 1. Prolonged depressive reaction (27 per cent of all visits)

Well, taking all those tests is bound to make him sick.

Clinical depression

I did get depressed.

From Depression to Freedom

You must be down in the dumps.

When my heart is lonely

Something like 98 percent of all people with depression, and I mean really severe depression I have a friend with stunningly severe depression this is a curable disease, with present medicine and present technology.

Healing the Depressed Brain

I was a little prone to depression.

Depression s Psychedelic Solution?

I'm not sad, but I'm scared.

The problem with viewing antidepressants as the main method for preventing recurrence is that many people do not want to stay on medication for indefinite periods, and when the medication stops, the risk of becoming depressed again returns. Finding new ways of helping people stay well after depression demands an understanding of why depression keeps returning.

2. Manic depressive psychosis.

It has a deep melancholy ring.

1935 relief, depression, recovery banks.

Should Children Take Antidepressants?

3. Depressive disorders not classifiable under other headings.

It is relatively cheap, and it is easy for family practitioners, who treat the majority of depressed people, to prescribe. However, when the episode has passed, and medication ceases, depression tends to return, and at least 50 of those who experienced an initial episode of depression find that depression comes back, despite appearing to have made a full recovery.

An analysis by sex and degree shows that in 1993 16.2 per cent of men and 21.1 per cent of women suffered mild depression, 4.7 and 11.9 per cent respectively suffered moderate depression, and 0.5 per cent of both sexes suffered severe depression.

Is anybody here on antidepressants?

And I said, What? And she said, You're going to get depressed.

The worry is about antidepressants.

The total incidence of clinical depression is 25.1 per cent.

Aren't either of you concerned about his breakdown? What breakdown?

That we found out that we could take fuzzy concepts like depression, alcoholism and measure them with rigor.

Not only do they suppress the dopamine circuit, but they kill the sex drive.

ZURICH According to the World Health Organization, depression affects an estimated 350 million people worldwide, making it one of the most prevalent psychiatric conditions. But only about half of those who try antidepressant drugs respond to them, and those who do may have to wait several weeks or even months before experiencing relief a critical failing for people at immediate risk of suicide.

I know one girl who's been on these antidepressants, serotonin enhancing SSRI, serotonin enhancing antidepressants since she was 13.

You see mental distress going up with lower income.

And anybody who's been depressed here knows what that's like.

Readjustment my foot! That's just another word for moping around.

That always account for your sinking into the dumps, doesn't it?

Where social status is concerned, it was found that mild depression is commoner in the quot low quot stratum and moderate and severe depression commoner in the quot low low quot stratum.

he is taking the form of a mental breakdown... an acute schizophrenic episode .

Indeed, in key respects depression is comparable to Cushing's disease, a disorder cause by excessive production of cortisol. The elevated cortisol in Cushing's patients is higher than that found in major depression, but the psychiatric and somatic features of Cushing's disease are strikingly similar melancholia, depression, abdominal obesity, bone mineral loss, and increased risk for cardiovascular disease, along with shrinkage of the hippocampus and memory impairment.

And here you can see the patients all had symptoms of depression, moderate and severe.

These are commonly prescribed antidepressants.

2. Psychosis (paranoid and manic depressive)

He was now traumatized and depressed.

And they also all seem a little bit most people have this instinct that, well, sure, there needs to be anti depressants for the really depressed people.

Our children are becoming depressed at an alarming rate.

So do you think the mice self administered antidepressants?

And so there's over 120 million prescriptions out there for antidepressants.

Perhaps our parents suffered from depression.