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Every fall I get nostalgic for college. I usually give in to the
impulse to sign up for an adult learning class. I think last year it
was jewelry making. The year before, we lived in the middle of nowhere,
so I took an online course. Now that I'm working at a large university,
my college nostalgia is mostly satisfied by just being at work forty
hours a week.
Despite my (undiagnosed) depression, I
really loved college. I cried for about half an hour after my parents
left me at my dorm and went home (I think my mom cried longer). I had
never been very good at being away from home and my parents, but for
some reason the homesickness didn't last at college. That night I went
out with friends to all the MIT and Boston College fraternity parties,
and my college life was off and running.
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Israeli scientists have confirmed the usefulness of established molecular imaging approaches in the treatment of depression.
"Individuals in a depressed emotional state have impaired
cerebral blood flow," said Associate Professor Omer Bonne at
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem.
"Clinical improvement in depression is accompanied by diverse changes
in cerebral blood flow, according to whether patients are treated with
medication or electroconvulsive treatment."
The researchers found antidepressant medicines normalized
decreased brain blood flow in patients with depression, while
electroconvulsive treatment was associated with additional decreases in
blood flow.
"Currently, clinical psychiatry is based almost solely on
subjective observer-based judgment," said Bonne. "Our findings suggest
that objective imaging evaluations could support subjective clinical
decisions."
The study appears in the August issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
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- Your
place is a mess; laundry and dishes are piled up, mail is unopened, etc. (Assuming
you usually stay on top of these things).
- You've
been making excuses to friends why you can't get together with them, or you're
telling them you're "just too tired."
- You've
really let yourself go - you're wearing clothes that make you look dumpy, you've
stopped exercising, you're not shaving unless it's absolutely necessary.
- You're wearing
mostly dark colors.
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The Army has launched a nationwide program to teach soldiers and
their families how to identify signs of possible psychiatric injuries
suffered in the war on terrorism that may have gone unnoticed.
The Army is responding to widespread reports that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mild brain damage and post-traumatic stress disorder were treated as malingerers or unfairly dismissed from the service.
The training program, called "chain-teaching," was implemented last week at the Pentagon and is intended to reach all active-duty soldiers and reservists within 90 days.
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Depression is a tricky thing. For some people, it can hit them all
at once, like a paralyzing wave. But for most it just sneaks up on you.
If you’re like me, you have lots of external reasons to be depressed –
raising a challenging child, coming to terms with that child’s
disabilities and what the future might hold, financial strain due to
the need to quit my job to care for my child, the emotional and
financial burden of a lawsuit with the school system…just to name a few.
So,
I’ve got lots of reasons to be depressed. But my goofy thought patterns
tell me that I can just will myself to be fine. “I’m coping,” I kept
telling myself.
And I was coping…in a near survival mode…and a
nearly numb emotional state. The one thing that was bugging me the most
was my inability to concentrate or to multi-task and accomplish all the
things I used to be able to accomplish in a day. It was as if I was
going in slow motion. And the more I worried about this, the worse it
got.
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