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Living With A Bipolar Person

Living with a bipolar person presents challenges, not the least of which is negotiating the minefield that often describes the personality of a bipolar person.  Typically, when one thinks of living with a bipolar person, the imagery conjured is of dealing with deep depression switched between episodes of manic highs.  While both of these extremes do occur in the life of a bipolar person, more often, living with a biplar person most often deals with is tremendous swings in attitude. Read more

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Motivation And Depression

Motivation and depression form links in ways that frustrate attempts at becoming un-depressed.  In order to become un-depressed, a person first has to become motivated to be un-depressed, but one of the first things depression takes from a person is motivation.  Depression and lack of motivation form a vicious circle this way, and the severity of the depression corresponds to the lack of motivation’s depth. Read more

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Causes Of Depression

Causes of major depression often revolve around what psychologists call internal schemas.  An internal schema is how we perceive ourselves in relationship to the world – a schema frames, in your mind, how you view yourself in the world.  An internal schema that says, “I am stupid” will yield conclusions to personal observations that confirm the thought “I am stupid”.  Our schemas help us form the personal picture, good or bad, that we carry of ourselves each day. Read more

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Therapy Approaches For Depression

Benefits of Psychotherapy for Depression

If you think that therapy for your depression could be the best course of treatment, it’s important that you understand some of the data behind its application.  The facts listed below (1) indicate that therapy is a valuable asset in the treatment of depression:

  • 35 to 45% of depressed patients are not helped with the first course of treatment of anti-depressant drugs.
  • Many patients who would be drug responsive refuse to take them due to personal objections or fear of possible side effects.
  • Long term, reliance on drugs may interfere with the patient’s ability in using their own cognitive abilities to combat depression. Read moreRead more
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Apr

Advances For Treatment For Depression

Advances for treatment for depression have been an ongoing process since Hippocrates, in the fourth century B.C., classified the first known clinical instance of depression as “melancholia”.  Aretaeus, a second century A.D. physician continued the advances for treatment for depression when he described the melancholic patient as “sad, dismayed, sleepless… agitated and suffering loss of sleep…complaining of a thousand futilities…and desiring of death”.  Even in modern times, when you consider the modern pharmaceutical advances for treatment for depression, it’s hard to escape the fact that the basic feeling of depression hasn’t changed in thousands of years. Read moreRead more

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Mar

How To Overcome Depression And Anxiety

I know how to overcome depression and anxiety in my personal life.  It’s something that I do most every day, what interest me the most these days, is if I can help you learn how to overcome depression and anxiety in your personal life.  I have had to learn to deal with a significant mood disorder in my life, and the training I’ve received can be beneficial to all who learn it. Read moreRead more

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