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How Do You Talk to Your Loved One Suffering With Depression?
Family members often feel frustrated and helpless as they do not know what to say or how to behave with their loved one who they may view as not being proactive in trying to get better or being irritable and negative with them.
ADAA Member Experts Share Tips for #HolidayDepression
On November 13, 2018, ADAA held a Twitter chat under the title #HolidayDepression.
Problematic Internet Use and Its Impact on Anxiety, Depression and Addictions: Patient-Centered Approaches and Digital Applications and Interventions
In this blog post we will provide a description of Problematic Internet Use, describe screening measures existing in the field and key unanswered questions, provide clinical patients examples, introduce COST project, suggest a design of an upcoming
Childhood Depression
Rates of childhood depression have been rising in the last several years. Yet, information and awareness about childhood depression has not caught on at the same rate. Millions of people across the world wonder and doubt if children can get depressed.
Depression Treatment – It Works
Updated October 2020
What You Need to Know About Treatment and Medication Options
Intimate Partner Violence – What Is It and What Does It Look Like?
Intimate partner violence (IPV) takes place in all settings, in all socioeconomic, religious, ethnic, and cultural groups. The overwhelming global burden of IPV is endured by women, and the most common perpetrators of violence against women are male intimate partners or ex-partners.
Anxiety and Depression in Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals
People who identify as sexual (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer) or gender (i.e., transgender, genderqueer, non-binary) minorities have similar symptoms of anxiety and depression as heterosexual and cisgender (non-transgender) individuals.
Treating Perinatal Mood Disorders Using Behavioral Activation Psychotherapy
Postpartum mood disorders are among the most common and debilitating mental health problems in the U.S. (1-2), with the capacity to interfere with maternal function, infant health (3-4), and maternal-infant bonds (5).
Using Exposure and Response Prevention in the Treatment of Fear of Failure
So, you’re a failure. Fine. Get on with your life! In my work as a psychologist treating anxiety disorders, I’ve learned that often an underlying driving fear in my patients is the worry that they are failures.
Watch Your Words: Why Mental Health Awareness Should be Year Round
Since 1949, May has been known as Mental Health Awareness Month. Each year, when May is over, I wonder why we’re not encouraged to be aware of our mental health all year, every year, just as we are for our so-called physical health.
What is Depression and How Do I Know If I Have It?
Reviewed October 2020
Psychotropic Medications: What You Should Ask Your Doctor
Updated October 2020