Tag: depression
member name: Michael C. Miller, M.D., Harvard Medical School
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February 04, 2008 01:32 PM EST --
Depression is so common that it is sometimes easy to overlook. This is especially true when it occurs in men, who seem to have a harder time than women recognizing it in themselves. And they also are . . .
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March 10, 2008 01:49 PM EDT --
Several patients I'm treating for depression also suffer from migraine headaches. One of them asked me recent if there is any connection between the two. Definitely—but it's a bit complicated. . . .
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October 29, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
It’s been an unseasonably warm October here in the northeast, so it is hard for me to imagine that winter is coming soon. But it is, and some of us will be taking it hard.
A sunny disposition . . .
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June 16, 2008 03:00 PM EDT --
Positive psychology is sometimes dismissed as so much happy talk. But in some circumstances, these techniques provide a much-needed balance to psychiatry's traditional focus on psychic pain and pathology. . . .
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July 14, 2008 04:56 PM EDT --
As the treatment arsenal for bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder has expanded in recent years, some experts have become concerned that lithium — a mainstay of treatment since FDA approval in 1970 . . .
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July 28, 2008 04:51 PM EDT --
Although bipolar disorder is diagnosed largely on the basis of whether a manic or hypomanic episode has occurred, the condition’s most painful burden may be depression and disability.
Full recovery . . .
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August 11, 2008 10:20 AM EDT --
Some people find that the first medication they try delivers great results: their depression lifts, they feel more like themselves, and they have few or no side effects. But for many others, finding the . . .
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October 01, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
From time to time, people ask me whether diet really can have an effect on mood.
The answer is yes, though diet doesn’t usually provide a quick fix for depression. It may seem silly to say it, but . . .
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November 12, 2007 10:23 AM EST --
I was waiting on the checkout line at the hardware store the other day, when a man in front of me started yelling at his son, who was about six or seven years old. The boy had grabbed a candy bar, and . . .
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November 19, 2007 10:11 AM EST --
A few years ago, a patient of mine noticed some changes when he exchanged his brand-name antidepressant for the generic form. For the next month or two, he felt slightly apathetic and made some mistakes . . .
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January 04, 2008 04:52 PM EST --
About 20% of people who make an appointment with a mental health professional never show up, and another 20% never come for a second visit. Forty percent of patients who start taking an antidepressant . . .
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April 21, 2008 04:25 PM EDT --
The National Institute of Mental Health has estimated that more than 60% of men and more than 50% of women in the United States have experienced some type of traumatic event. Fortunately, the vast majority . . .
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May 05, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
Recently, a colleague told me about one of his patients who suffered a relapse of major depression. Her symptoms were so severe that she was hospitalized for several days. When we talked later about what . . .
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April 07, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
In January 2008, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a study that seemed to question the effectiveness of antidepressants. Since then, I've been fielding occasional questions from . . .
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December 03, 2007 05:55 PM EST --
One of my colleagues is married to a man who suffers from severe depression. “Sometimes I get so frustrated,” she told me recently. “I know this is an illness, but when he becomes depressed . . .
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October 09, 2007 01:10 PM EDT --
I know a lot of people who worry when a loved one — especially a spouse or a child — gets into therapy. They fear the therapist will drive a wedge in the relationship.
And in some cases there’s . . .
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October 22, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
When I was first in training to be a psychiatrist in the 1970s, I was skeptical about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The procedure seemed primitive to me, and I suppose I — like many people of . . .
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November 05, 2007 11:37 AM EST --
I have always been a fan of Charles Schulz’s "Peanuts" comics and the characters who fill those strips. With a new biography of Charles Schulz just out, it has got me thinking about the . . .
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November 26, 2007 01:58 PM EST --
I was in the drugstore recently, and happened to walk down the aisle where they stock herbal supplements. Bottles of St. John's wort were featured prominently, along with a display sign that promised . . .
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December 10, 2007 05:04 PM EST --
One of my coworkers was in her early teens when her mother died. This type of profound loss is difficult enough when it is experienced by adults. I can only imagine how hard it must have been for my coworker . . .
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