Tag: depression
member name: Michael C. Miller, M.D., Harvard Medical School
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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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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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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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May 19, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
I've written here in the past about the use of meditation for reducing anxiety and as part of comprehensive treatment for depression. Another technique that may help some people is hypnosis.
One . . .
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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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February 20, 2009 10:22 AM EST --
When I last contributed to this blog, I wrote about the field of positive psychology and how different therapies can help some people alleviate symptoms of depression. This week, I'd like to share . . .
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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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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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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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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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August 26, 2008 09:48 AM EDT --
When it comes to panic disorder, medication alone is rarely sufficient to provide relief from symptoms.
Part of the challenge in treating panic disorder is that it has many manifestations and varied . . .
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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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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 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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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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