Five Facts About Atypical Depression You Need to Know
Despite its name, atypical depression is one of the most common types of depression, affecting between 25 to 40 percent of depressed people. Because the symptoms differ from those of typical depression, this subtype of depression is often misdiagnosed.
Atypical depression was named in the 1950s to classify a group of patients who did not respond to electroconvulsive therapy or to the tricyclic antidepressant Tofranil (imipramine). They did, however, respond to monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressants.
Some of the same treatments that work for classic depression work for atypical depression, such as selective sero...
Source: World of Psychology - April 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Mental Health and Wellness Atypical Depression Major Depressive Episode Mood Disorder Source Type: blogs
NIMH ’ s Inaccurate Depiction of Depression Treatments
One of my life-long battles is to ensure that people get the most objective, useful information they can about mental illness and its treatment. It’s painful to me when I come across a popular website that misrepresents these illnesses or their treatment.
So you can imagine my surprise when I reviewed the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) page on depression recently. This is a super-important page to get right, because it often appears as the number one or two search result in Google.
It starts off well enough, but then devolves when it gets to a section entitled “Treatment and Therapies.”...
Source: World of Psychology - November 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Depression Disorders General Policy and Advocacy Treatment Depression Treatment National Institute Of Mental Health Nimh Treatment For Depression Source Type: blogs
Should You Try TMS (rTMS) for Depression?
TMS refers to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a treatment method for clinical depression first developed in the 1980s. In the psychology research literature, TMS is often referred to as rTMS — the little ‘r’ is for repetitive, because the treatment needs to be delivered at regular intervals to be most effective. What exactly is it?
TMS is a simple, safe, external outpatient treatment procedure that pulses very specific wavelengths of magnetic fields to specific areas of your brain through your skull. It is believed these magnetic pulses help to reduce depression symptoms when administered in a co...
Source: World of Psychology - June 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Depression Disorders General Research Treatment Rtms Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation TRD Treatment Resistant Depression Source Type: blogs
A Serious Postpartum Disorder You Probably Haven ’t Heard About
Within 24 hours of her second daughter’s birth, Dyane Harwood felt elated. From the moment she came home from the hospital, she started writing. Furiously. She wrote while nursing her daughter and going to the bathroom. She wrote on her hands, on the bathroom mirror, inside books and on tabletops. She yearned to write down every thought she was having. She wrote so much that her wrists ached—her carpal tunnel returning—and she was in constant pain.
She also had endless energy and a newfound enthusiasm for life. She felt like she could run a long race. She couldn’t sit still, and her speech was fast and frenetic. Sh...
Source: World of Psychology - April 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Bipolar Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Sleep Women's Issues Johns mood disorder Motherhood Parenting postpartum bipolar disorder postpartum depression Postpartum Disorder Source Type: blogs
Choosing the right mental health provider
When faced with mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, or other symptoms of the mind and brain, it can be difficult to know where to find the best care. In part, the challenge of finding the right professional for you stems from the highly variable manner in which mental health concerns can emerge. One person’s depression, for example, may be very different than someone else’s, and the same can be said for anxiety, post-traumatic stress, obsessionality, attentional issues, substance use disorders, and even psychosis.
There are also lots of different kinds of mental health providers out there doing all ki...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Adam P. Stern, MD Tags: Behavioral Health Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): Hope for stubborn depression
Depression is the leading cause of disability in the United States among people ages 15 to 44. While there are many effective treatments for depression, first-line approaches such as antidepressants and psychotherapy do not work for everyone. In fact, approximately two-thirds of people with depression don’t get adequate relief from the first antidepressant they try. After 2 months of treatment, at least some symptoms will remain for these individuals, and each subsequent medication tried is actually less likely to help than the one prior.
What can people with depression do when they do not respond to first-line treatment...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Adam P. Stern, MD Tags: Anxiety and Depression Behavioral Health Brain and cognitive health Mental Health Source Type: blogs
How to Use Writing to Ease Your Depression
After receiving another round of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which she’d been receiving every other day, Elizabeth Maynard Schaefer, Ph.D., lay in a hospital room and felt hopeless. In the past ECT had “worked wonders” in treating her deep depressions, the devastating lows part of her bipolar disorder. But lately it’d seemed futile.
As she writes in her beautiful, thoughtful, inspiring book Writing Through the Darkness: Easing Your Depression with Paper and Pen, “Desperate, I reached for an empty notebook. My brain was too flat and blurred to put together sentences, so I scribbled a list of words about my si...
Source: World of Psychology - February 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Books Creativity Depression Disorders General Habits Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Creative Flow Depressive Episode Journaling Sadness writing Source Type: blogs
Brain scan study provides new clues as to how electroconvulsive “shock” therapy helps alleviate depression
Pre-treatment, functional connectivity (FC) between fusiform face area and amygdala was reduced in depressed patients compared with healthy controls (HC), but increased after electroconvulsive therapy (from Wang et al 2017)
By Christian Jarrett
In the UK, thousands of people with depression continue to undergo electroconvulsive “shock” therapy (ECT) each year, usually if their symptoms have not improved following talking therapy or anti-depressants, and especially if they are considered to be at high risk of suicide, and the numbers may be rising. The technique, which involves using an electric shock to ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 5, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Mental health Source Type: blogs
Cardiology MCQ Test 3
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Source: Cardiophile MD - October 20, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Podcast: How Has Mental Health Advocacy Changed?
In this episode of the Psych Central Show, hosts Gabe Howard and Vincent M. Wales welcome Andy Behrman, veteran mental health speaker, writer, and advocate who is the author of Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania. Andy shares his views on how mental health advocacy has changed over the past fifteen years and the ways in which our views of stigma have evolved. He also shares the story of his interview with noted actor and bipolar advocate Stephen Fry, his ideas on how to help fund advocacy groups, and his experiences with electroconvulsive therapy and memory loss. And, yes, he tells us how he got the nickname of “Elec...
Source: World of Psychology - September 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: General Policy and Advocacy The Psych Central Show Treatment Source Type: blogs
The Suicide Squad Movie, Medically
I finally went to see Suicide Squad this weekend, and I enjoyed it much more than I expected. It’s certainly my favorite of the recent DC super-hero movies, which is admittedly a low-bar. Still, I look forward to seeing it again.
Without further ado or explanation, let’s jump straight to looking at the medical aspects of the movie. We’ll call them the good, the bad, and the ugly.
The Good: The doctor running to help the seizure patient on the subway platform. He detects no pulse, so he starts chest compressions. Simple, and correct. (Now, one could argue that he should have assessed the airway and breathi...
Source: Polite Dissent - September 5, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Words of Hope for Anyone Struggling with Depression
One of the worst parts about depression — and there are certainly many — is that it robs you of hope. Hope that you’ll actually feel better. Hope that the darkness will lift. Hope that the emptiness will fill up and you’ll feel motivated and excited. Hope that it won’t be like this forever. Hope that you’ll get through it.
“I’ve been struggling with depression for almost 35 years,” said Douglas Cootey, who pens the award-winning blog A Splintered Mind. “In that time, I have often felt hopeless, usually during times of suicidal ideation…Depression has a way of warping our outlook so that we onl...
Source: World of Psychology - August 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Depression Disorders Family Friends General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Relationships Self-Help Treatment Bipolar Disorder Colleen King Coping Coping Strategies Depressive Episode Douglas Cootey grief Happiness Source Type: blogs
The Rigid Patient
A 24-year-old man with a history of schizophrenia presented with altered mental status. His mother said he had become more catatonic and rigid over the previous two days. She reported that he was prescribed Abilify 5 mg by mouth daily for three years, but a long-acting depot of Abilify 400 mg had been administered two days before by court order. His vital signs include a heart rate of 120 bpm, blood pressure 140/90 mm Hg, temperature 38.5°C, respiratory rate is 14 bpm, and SPO2 is 98% on room air. The patient is alert and diaphoretic. Pupils are 3 mm. Cogwheeling, rigidity, and two beats of ankle clonus are also o...
Source: The Tox Cave - June 2, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Mock Test 26
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Source: Cardiophile MD - May 10, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Featured Source Type: blogs
