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How Depression Can Affect Relationships — And What You Can Do About It

Romantic relationships don’t run on autopilot. It takes deliberate effort from both parties to maintain passion and attend to each other’s practical and emotional needs, especially when living together and sharing household responsibilities. So it isn’t hard to see how depression can upset the balance. People who are depressed often…

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How a Strong Social Support System Helps Combat Depression

When you’re depressed, it’s easy to feel like you’re all alone, isolated in your lack of interests or inability to focus on normal activities from everyday, functional society. You may even think it’s best to remain apart from others and just suffer quietly by yourself.  After all, the thinking goes,…

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Gentle Ways to Provide Self-Care for Depression

When you’re depressed, you don’t feel good about yourself or the world around you. You may be mentally drained and listless, and you don’t see the point of things you never used to question. You may feel like you can’t do anything right or well, so what’s the point in…

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The Connection Between Self-Esteem and Depression

Most everyone at some point entertains doubts about themselves — say, after being passed over for a promotion, following a big argument with a close friend, or when you’ve been called out for making a serious or embarrassing mistake.  How we deal with these self-doubts differs from person to person, but…

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Is It Burnout, Depression, or Both?

Let’s face it: Contemporary work life can be incredibly stressful. There’s the “always on” expectation brought on by mobile devices, Zoom fatigue, tight deadlines, long hours, the constant pressure to be more productive — and increasingly, the gnawing fear that your job could be replaced by AI.  Workers are feeling…

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The Holidays & Mental Health: Tips for Managing Stress

The holidays are a time of celebrations, family gatherings and festive traditions. At the same time, it can be a period of increased stress, overwhelm and depression.  Shorter days, the mania of shopping for gifts, financial pressures and complicated family dynamics can all take a toll, especially for those already…

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The Link Between Borderline Personality Disorder and Depression

Many people who suffer from borderline personality disorder, or BPD, also struggle with major depressive disorder. In fact, it’s uncommon not to see the two disorders co-existing. That coexistence makes treatment more complicated.  What Is Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline personality disorder involves intense and rapidly shifting emotions, impulsive behavior and…

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How To Identify and Manage Seasonal Affective Disorder

‘Tis the season: With autumn well under way, the days are growing shorter — and once daylight saving time goes into effect, it may be dark outside when you wake up, leave work or both. That can make sunshine feel like a precious but scarce resource. That lack of daylight…

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Can Antidepressants Make Depression Worse?

Public awareness of depression as a serious mental health issue has increased over time, a trend that has helped more people seek help from medical professionals. While current figures are hard to come by, federal data suggest that just over 13% of adults in the U.S. used antidepressants from 2015-2018,…

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Hope For Treatment-Resistant Depression: Lifestyle Tips and Advanced Therapies

What is Treatment-Resistant Depression? Depression is tough. It can affect your mood, sleep, appetite, and thinking, draining your interest from things you once enjoyed. And unfortunately, some types are tougher than others. When depressive symptoms haven’t improved or returned after a regimen of at least two different antidepressant medications, along…

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