Alcoholics and drug addicts are familiar with the problem of relapse–in fact, it’s a regular part of many of their lives until they finally get "clean." Now researchers say that patients who use anti-depressants are much more likely to suffer relapses of major depression than those who use no medication at all.
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Can depression be good for you–or make you more creative? Or is the whole depression thing a big hoax? It’s been discovered that some of our greatest leaders were severely depressed people. We can understand why people become depressed AFTER taking power, but it turns out that most of the powerful people of history were depressed BEFOREHAND.
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Sadness, apathy, preoccupation–these traits come to mind when people think about depression, the world’s most frequently diagnosed mental disorder. Yet there’s new evidence that depression has a positive side-effect: Depressed people perform better in certain types of tasks. Should this make you happy?
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With the holiday season in full swing, many people find themselves battling a form of the "holiday blues." And for many women coping with obesity and depression, new research finds that improving your mood might be the link to losing weight–something that’s good to know during the holiday season, which is a time filled with fattening foods!
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