Depression

If you are depressed, you feel a sense of helplessness, hopelessness or despair. You lose interest in your favorite activities, may experience changes in appetite, weight and sleep patterns, have difficulty concentrating and may be preoccupied with death or suicide. READ MORE

Depression

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True or False? Mental Health

How much do you know about women’s mental health? Take our quiz to find out.

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10 Ways to Treat SAD

The change in daylight hours can leave people feeling depressed. For some, it can be more than just unhappiness — it can be seasonal affective disorder. Find out how you can treat SAD.

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Are Medical Mushrooms Really Magic?

A growing number of practitioners are looking to the power of psychedelics to treat mental health conditions. Are they worth the trip?

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Ketamine Therapy Gave Me the Joy I Never Had with Treatment-Resistant Depression

I finally know what it feels like to be happy — an emotion I’d only ever heard about before

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For Years, I Lived with Seasonal Affective Disorder, Thinking It Was Just the Winter Blues

There’s no cure for SAD, but I’ve learned ways to keep it under control

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The Life-Changing Hope of New Treatments for Clinical Depression

For thousands who find no relief in traditional antidepressants, new treatments may bring light to the darkness of depression

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Is It Just Sadness or Is It Clinical Depression?

Should you just deal with sad feelings on your own, or ask for help?

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What Dr. Virginia Lindahl Wants You to Know About Suicide

Educating yourself about suicide risks and prevention could help you save someone's life

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Getting Help for Your Mental Health Is Not a Weakness, but Try Telling My Asian Parents That

As Chinese immigrants, my parents taught me their cultural values of hard work and overcoming challenges through helping yourself — but when the challenge is mental health, that approach doesn’t work.

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When Stigma Kills

Attitudes about mental health in the Black community are changing, but there’s still stigma surrounding mental health diagnoses

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I Thought I Conquered Insomnia. Then I Didn’t Sleep for Four Days.

Lifelong perfectionism and a need to please robbed me of my ability to truly relax

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This Is Your Brain on No Sleep

We need those 7 to 9 hours to keep our brains healthy in the short term — and for the long haul

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