Depression-Related Insomnia
For reasons we don’t fully understand, sleep disturbances are a hallmark of clinical depression. Many depression sufferers find their hours spent in bed lengthening and have trouble getting out of bed, but for others, it’s impossible to get anything close to sufficient sleep. Some individuals tormented by insomnia have…
Depression and Your Nutritional Health
Last fall I started to feel that my antidepressant medication (Wellbutrin) wasn’t working. I had noticed that I hadn’t really been getting anything done around the house for a while, but things started to get worse. I started actually having depressed thoughts, and having more issues with anxiety. I…
Depression and Thyroid Disease
Did you know that Linda Ronstadt, Mary-Louise Parker, Oprah, Kim Cattrall and George and Barbara Bush have thyroid disease? Probably not. Thyroid problems don’t make the news, at least not as often as mental health issues do. But if you believe that you have clinical depression, or have been…
How Vitamin D Affects Depression
Two years ago, I spent nine months with sinus infections. I had one after another, and if I didn’t go to the doctor and get antibiotics, I got so sick that I would throw up. None of the doctors I saw could figure out why all of a sudden…
Depression and Illness
Last November I started getting sick with a sinus headache and fever. At the end of a week, I was so sick that I ended up throwing up in a bathroom stall at work. The doctor diagnosed a sinus infection. Not unusual for someone with allergies, but I hadn’t…