Creative hopelessness reminds us that we have to face our circumstances sooner or later. Far beyond feeding that repertoire of avoidance behaviors, this technique invites us to accept our reality. We need to accept hopelessness and then create a new…
An antidepressant diet can’t cure psychological disorders on its own. However, nutrition is a key part of a multidisciplinary approach to treat depression. Something as simple as eating anti-inflammatory foods that are rich in antioxidants and vitamin C can help you…
Frustration is one of the worst feelings that we have to deal with since childhood. Managing frustration is difficult, despite having the ability to feel it a very young age.
Deprax is a second-generation antidepressant. Its active substance is trazodone and it’s used to treat chronic depression, insomnia, and anxiety. Although it works fast and has great effects, we can’t ignore its side effects.
We all have to deal with the daily demands of our jobs. When these demands are greater than our personal resources, we can experience work-related stress.
School shootings are a sad phenomenon, even more so if we take into consideration how often they occur. Behind these acts, and only in 5% of cases, there is a mental disorder. The rest of the profiles show other triggering…
Power walking is a good alternative for starting moderate exercise. It helps us not only to stay in good shape, but also allows us to disconnect from our problems and concerns. Therefore, promoting good health. This consists of walking at…
The defining feature of cyclothymia (also called cyclothymic disorder) is chronic mood fluctuations or changes. You could say that it’s like bipolar disorder’s “little brother”. For people with cyclothymia, the mood fluctuations consist of numerous, distinct periods of hypomanic and depressive symptoms. But the key feature is…
After the death of a loved one or a breakup, among many other situations that can happen, we all agree on one thing: we all feel grief. But sometimes we get stuck in that stage. We forget that grief doesn’t…
Persistent depressive disorder doesn’t always respond to a medicine-based approach. The chronic apathy, hopelessness, and depressive moods have a more complex origin than we would have thought. When we apply neuropsychology to the study of dysthymia, it reminds us that…
There is as much grief as there are important losses, and every person goes through it differently. However, as it happens with other phenomena, there are some myths about grief that should be clarified, especially because they condition the emotions…
We could devote hundreds of pages to the topic of stress itself. However, there are some people who are especially susceptible to the effects of stress. In this case, we’re talking about housewives. We may think that the role of a…
Everybody has dealt with depression at some point or another. Some people experience a mixture of sadness and anger combined with dejection. On the other hand, others feel a void and a total absence of emotions. Depression is like having lead…
Sertraline is one of the most well-known psychotropic drugs for the treatment of major depression, panic attacks, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and obsessive compulsive thoughts. You may also know Sertraline as its commercial name, Zoloft. Although the drug doesn’t cure…
Acute depression, anxiety, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder… These are all very real conditions, and many people suffer greatly with their symptoms. They also have something else in common: they are often treated with escitalopram (Cipralex). This is an antidepressant drug, one…
Positive thinking, if well-managed, makes us stronger against mood disorders. Depression has many causes. However, thoughts about low self esteem, of being unworthy, or not being good enough play an important role in depression. With positive thinking, you can change…
Human beings are, to a large extent, the product of their environment. The people who take care of us during our first years of life play a decisive role in what we’ll become. Hence, the children of depressed mothers have…
Some people have the habit of worrying too much about things. This is popularly known as extreme anxiety. It means thinking constantly, losing ability to function and filling oneself with anguish. In other words, thinking too much, doing little, feeling…
You start the day saying that today it won’t happen to you. Today will be a good day. And yet it it happens. Because when you suffer from chronic anxiety, fear is always there. It’s waiting to grip you, and,…
Most of the time we forget that a change in the year’s seasons means our bodies have to do some important adapting. Less sunlight during the autumn and winter seasons, for example, has a direct impact on your mood. Do you feel…