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Depression in children as young as 3 is real and not just a passing grumpy mood, according to provocative new research.
A persistent decline in the rate of Americans, especially children, newly diagnosed with depression followed the first federal warning on risks connected with antidepressant drugs, a study suggests.
For years Deborah Africa would stay up late and sleep in, savoring every extra second of sleep before dragging herself out of bed by 10 a.m. When Africa had kids and switched to an earlier schedule, she thought getting up four hours earlier might make for a tough adjustment. But she soon noticed a subtle change in her mood: the new schedule seemed to make her a little more energetic and optimistic.
Eighty-five percent of college students surveyed in an Associated Press-mtvU poll reported feeling stressed in their daily lives in recent months, while 42 percent said they had felt down, depressed or hopeless several days during the past two weeks. Here's how some students — interviewed independently of the survey — describe their stress:
Stress over grades. Financial worries. Trouble sleeping. Feeling hopeless.
According to a new poll by the American Psychoanalytic Association, 84 percent of analysts say their patients are experiencing anxiety and depression because of the economy.
The Associated Press-mtvU poll on college student stress, the economy and mental health was conducted April 22 to May 4, 2009. The survey is based on interviews of 2,240 undergraduate students at 40 randomly chosen four-year schools across the country having at least 1,000 undergraduates. The survey was conducted for The Associated Press and mtvU by Edison Media Research of Somerville, N.J., under the direction and supervision of AP's polling unit.
An influential government-appointed medical panel is urging doctors to routinely screen all American teens for depression — a bold step that acknowledges that nearly 2 million teens are affected by this debilitating condition.
Severe depression may silently break a seemingly healthy woman's heart. Doctors have long known that depression is common after a heart attack or stroke, and worsens those people's outcomes. Monday, Columbia University researchers reported new evidence that depression can lead to heart disease in the first place.
Many writers and politicians today have been quick to compare the current economy to the Great Depression of the 1930s. President Barack Obama has frequently made this connection, saying things like, “We are going through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”
By every measure — lost jobs, plunging stock prices, scarce credit and a profound loss of confidence in the banking system — the economy is in awful shape.
Barack Obama, it is said, will inherit the worst times since the Great Depression. Not to minimize the crisis we are in, but we need a little perspective here.
John Hill was a typical teenager in many ways: He started smoking when he was in high school, which upset his mother, and he spent a lot of time in his room alone, staying up until 5 in the morning playing video games. He went to school but often signed himself out sick after a couple of hours, and his grades plummeted.
Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal body fat — the kind that can lead to diabetes and heart disease — than people who are not depressed, a disturbing new study found.
The words have been repeated over and over: This is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression — a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull.
Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday.
The National Hurricane Center says a new tropical depression has formed far out in the Atlantic.
Doctors may want to give stroke victims antidepressants right away instead of waiting until they develop depression, a common complication, new research suggests.
A tropical depression formed Monday in the far eastern Atlantic, the fourth of the Atlantic hurricane season, meteorologists said.
Antidepressant drugs can improve people's sense of taste, a new study has revealed.
The large group of depression sufferers who haven't recovered with two common medications stand little chance of success from a third drug, says the latest report from the nation's most ambitious study of depression treatment.
The largest study ever done on treating depression has found that patients who didn't get well with the first medicine they tried had a good chance of succeeding the second time around.
Treating a mother's depression can help prevent it and other disorders in her child, say researchers in a provocative study that may influence family health care.
Depression in LTC Often Goes UntreatedOlder adults living in LTC are at risk for depression for a number of reasons. Factors include medication side effects, untreated or undertreated pain, and/or medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease or stroke, which often go hand-in-hand with depression.
BBC News : Iran doctor 'committed suicide'Iran's police chief says a doctor who died at a detention centre shut in July after the deaths of several opposition supporters committed suicide.
The Man Who Predicted the Depression Ludwig von Mises was snubbed by economists world-wide as he warned of a credit crisis in the 1920s. We ignore the great Austrian at our peril today.
Reflections on Glass-Steagall and Maniacal Deregulation"Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the passage of the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and related legislation.
Mark Spitznagel: The Man Who Predicted the Depression Contrary to popular belief, deregulation caused neither the depression nor our current recession. Great article about the man who predicted the depression because of government manipulation of the money supply through credit, which also applies to our problems of today.
U.S. Joblessness May Reach 13 Percent, Rosenberg Says (Update1)Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. unemployment rate may rise to a post-World War II high of 13 percent in the aftermath of the recession, said David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff & Associates Inc. in Toronto.
As Foreclosure Nightmares Increase, Will More Homeowners Pay Off Their Bankers in Violence?"The economic crisis revealed late-capitalism's central offense: Human beings are being transparently treated if they were mere transactions. And they're going postal over it."
Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%For all the pain caused by the Great Recession, the job market still was not in as bad shape as it had been during the depths of the early 1980s recession - until now.
True US unemployment rate stands at 17.5%"If statistics went back so far, the measure would almost certainly be at its highest level since the Great Depression," reporter David Leonhardt wrote in Friday's edition of The New York Times.
Ft. Hood shooting suspect endured work pressure and ethnic taunts, his uncle says -- latimes.comIt appears now that there were signs of stress that family and colleagues noticed in the Fort Hood shooter. How frustrating that no effective steps were taken to remove this man from the military. He just got passed along.
The root cause of the crash is the excessive inflation of bank credit. An entire nation cannot borrow for 50 years and then expect that all will be fine when the pay back time arrives. FED policies have inflated bank credit for decades. When we borrow, banks create new money.
The Man Who Never Died (Not Many Mighty Series)Though essentially unknown even by many Christians, Elijah holds several interesting distinctions in Scripture. Yet as we have seen already with Moses, even the giants of the Bible had flaws, and both these flaws and how they dealt with them can be of encouragement to us today.
By Thomas E. Brewton Since the advent of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, monetary authorities have repeatedly upped the narcotic dosage as a remedy for the pains of easy money and credit addiction.
Financial Armageddon: A Growing DivideA picture that shows us the inevitable.
Have the Very Wealthy Achieved Victory in Their Class-War?"In 2007, the most recent year with stats, households in America's top 1% averaged $1.4 million, well over triple what top 1% households averaged back in 1974—and, remember, this tripling came after adjusting for inflation.
Economic Crisis Hits States and MunicipalitiesCrises expose the system's irrationalities and wasteful resource allocations. For example, Madoff and his many, smaller imitators reveal the tips of corruption icebergs.
British break up several bailed-out banksLONDON -- The British government announced Tuesday that it will break up parts of major financial institutions bailed out by taxpayers, highlighting a growing divide across the Atlantic over how to deal with the massive banks that were partially nationalized during the height of …
Processed Food Linked to DepressionA diet heavy in processed and fatty foods increases the risk of depression, according to British research published on Monday.
Depression Linked to Processed food"Eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression, research suggests."
A year on, has Barack Obama met the hopes of the world?A long and fascinating "debate" conducted by several expert authors looking from different perspectives at the Obama administration's record after nine months.
US wages and salaries rise at record-low levels[M]ass unemployment has been part of a deliberate policy, allowing for corporations to exploit workers' fears over the poor labor market. The financial and corporate elite has used the economic crisis it created to carry out a massive redistribution of wealth.
Obama to Lift HIV/AIDS Travel BanIt appears that President Obama is doing everything in his power to enforce laws against the majority of Americans.
Prosecute The Financial Fraud - Economist James Galbraith's View Of The Recession - Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBSJames K. Galbraith, onetime executive director of Congress' Joint Economic Committee, teaches economics at the University of Texas, where he holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Public Sees A Tilted Playing FieldWhen Peter Hart Associates asked registered voters recently who they felt was benefiting from the government's economic policies, the resounding answer was that the hundreds of billions poured into the economy have done far more to help those at the top of the economic food chain …
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