Depression
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What to Do When Your Depression Treatment Isn't Working
Find the best therapy for you and learn how therapy can help ease your depression symptoms.
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What is Ketamine? How it Works and Helps Severe Depression
Is it a club drug or an antidepressant? Ketamine has been available for pain relief for years. Now it may be a breakthrough for treating severe depression.
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How Pets Help Manage Depression
Having a pet can help improve mild or moderate depression in many people, experts agree, as well as provide other benefits, such as better sleep and overall health.
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How Writing in a Journal Helps Depression
Find out how writing your thoughts in a journal can let you shift your perspective and help you manage the symptoms of depression.
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7 Key Facts About Depression
WebMD shares what you should know about depression.
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What to Do When Depression and Anxiety Mix
WebMD explains how to treat symptoms of anxiety and depression when both strike at once.
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Dan Harris Overcame Depression, Anxiety With This
Newsman Dan Harris tells WebMD how meditation helped him deal with depression and anxiety.
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10 Natural Depression Treatments
Being depressed can make you feel helpless. You're not. Along with therapy and sometimes medication, there's a lot you can do on your own to fight back. Changing your behavior -- your physical activity, lifestyle, and even your way of thinking -- are all natural depression treatments.
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Depression Traps: Social Withdrawal, Rumination, and More
WebMD identifies 6 behaviors that can worsen depression. Get tips for avoiding these traps.
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Depression: Effects on Your Sex Life and How to Increase Libido
WebMD provides tips for increasing libido when depression is taking a toll on your sex life.
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Depression: Why Aren't You Getting Treatment?
A look at common reasons why people avoid treatment for depression and expert advice on how to get past them.
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Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Depression
Tips on breaking the vicious cycle of depression to help you live your best life.
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Therapy for Depression
Find the best therapy for you and learn how therapy can help ease your depression symptoms.
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How to Manage Depression Triggers
Which situations trigger your depression symptoms? Learn how to recognize and cope with depression triggers.
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How Well Do You Function When Depressed?
Do you juggle a busy lifestyle even when you’re depressed? Tips on coping when you’re depressed.
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Depression: Are You Honest With Your Doctor?
Your doctor is your depression ally. Learn how your doctor can help you get the most from your treatment.
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Making the Most of Depression Support Groups
How to find a depression support group and what to expect from a supportive group of peers.
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Cognitive Therapy for Depression
Cognitive therapy for depression teaches people how to use a mental "toolkit" to challenge negative thoughts. Over the long term, this process can bring about positive changes in how a depressed person sees the world.
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Benefits of Exercise to Help With Depression
While therapy and medications can be vital to depression treatment, one often-overlooked treatment is exercise. It not only improves health, but may help your emotional health. WebMD explores this topic and explains how exercise can benefit those with depression.
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Antidepressants: Effectiveness, Trials, Realistic Expectations
WebMD discusses the use of antidepressants to treat depression, benefits of medications or other treatments, and who may not need medications.
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Antidepressants Take Time to Work, Time to Quit
Thinking about quitting your antidepressant? Find out what you should do before you take matters into your own hands.
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Serotonin: 9 Questions and Answers
There are many researchers who believe that an imbalance in serotonin levels may influence mood in a way that leads to depression.
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25 Ways to Find Joy and Balance During the Holidays
People with depression -- or who have had depression in the past -- need to be especially careful when coping with holiday stress. Here are 25 tips to reduce stress, and maybe even find holiday joy.
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Fat Pharms: Antidepressants and Weight Gain
Up to 25% of people who take antidepressants gain weight. Is there anything you can do about it?
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Depression Food Traps: Eating Too Much, Eating Too Little, and Unhealthy Choices
WebMD discusses common food traps that accompany depression including eating too much, eating too little, and making unhealthy food choices.
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