Causes of Depression Stress and anxiety in children and teenagers are just as prevalent as in adults. Stressed out and negligent parents, high expectations academically or other performances, abused or deprived childhood, growing up tensions and the demand for family responsibility at a young age a...

Depression is awful disease that affects almost twelve million Americans. Depression can be a crippling disease. It can cause withdrawal, anger, confusion, other diseases, or even death. Suicide caused by depression is the third biggest killer among teenagers. Every forty five minutes a teenager tak...

Depression is awful disease that affects almost twelve million Americans. Depression can be a crippling disease. It can cause withdrawal, anger, confusion, other diseases, or even death. Suicide caused by depression is the third biggest killer among teenagers. Every forty five minutes a teenage...

on Everyone goes through some kind of depression on time or another in his or her life (Cohen 20). Depression can be brought on by different events in someone's life. Traumatic or life-altering events, such as, death of a loved, can cause depression. Biological factors can also bring on depres...

1) Bipolar Disorder – What is it? - a condition where a person has an experience of alternating periods of depressed moods and periods of manic or excited moods - No one knows what exactly causes bipolar disorder. A study in the American Journal of Psychiatry reports "the extra signal-...

Many people have experienced a point in time in their life where he/she feels sad, lonely, or unhappy; having normal ups and downs with how he/she feels. For example, when you break up with your boyfriend/girlfriend, or when you have a argument with someone close to you. However, some people experi...

Teenage Depression Teenage depression is a growing problem in today's society and is often a major contributing factor for most adolescent problems. The statistics about teenage runaways, alcoholism, drug problems, pregnancy, eating disorders, and suicide are alarming. The common link t...

"About 1% of the world's population is thought to have some form of bipolar disorder, from mild to severe. Statistically, men and women are equally represented. Approximately 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder eventually commit suicide. This is 30 times higher than the general population!" B...

Bipolar disorder is perhaps one of the most tragic mood disorders, because it virtually taunts with the affected person's mind. Bipolar disorder (also known as manic-depressive disorder) is a mental condition in which the person alternates between feelings of mania and depression (Kalat, 61...

Have you ever felt like killing yourself? Like no one cares whether you live or die? Is there an empty feeling inside of you? Do you think that you are nothing and that nothing will ever-go right for you? If you feel this way quite often you may suffer from depression. Just because you can rel...

Depression in Women Sometimes sadness is feeling blue where someone just needs a caring friend or family member who can offer encouragement. Sometimes sadness is much more. Severe sadness can cause frequent crying spells, sleeping too much, or eating too much or too little. Women may resor...

Depression in Women Sometimes sadness is feeling blue where someone just needs a caring friend or family member who can offer encouragement. Sometimes sadness is much more. Severe sadness can cause frequent crying spells, sleeping too much, or eating too much or too little. Women may resort...

Depression can be a symptom, pertaining to when an individual "feels depressed", or it can be a sign, when an individual "observes" someone in a depressed state. Depression can also be a diagnosable disorder that affects millions of people around the world. Depression makes it ...