Ashley Judd, actress and daughter/half-sister of the singing duo The Judds, recently revealed that she had suffered from depression and an eating disorder. In February of this year, she checked herself ... Read More

According to Peter de Jonge, Ph.D. and colleagues, of the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, if you experience your first ever bout of depression following a heart attack, you ... Read More

A collection of articles about diet and nutrition and how they relate to mood.

An article published in Nutrition and Dietetics reports that certain supplements may be helpful for depression. Among the supplements that Australian researchers Dr. Diane Volker and Jade Ng identified ... Read More

Did you ever wish that you could take a vitamin for depression? Well, for some of you it may be just that simple. There are a variety of vitamin deficiencies ... Read More

The holidays can be a time of loneliness and sadness for many people. Learn more about this time of seasonal depression and get tips on how to cope.

Q: The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are always a time of depression for me. What can I do to cope this year?

Are you living with the pain of peripheral neuropathy? Peripheral neuropathy is nerve pain that may be a side-effect of HIV medications or a symptom of diabetes. For ... Read More

A. Nervous Breakdown is not a term that the medical community uses. Historically people have been embarrassed by mental illness and the term nervous breakdown is a euphemism ... Read More

Researchers out of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center reported in the recent issue of Biological Psychiatry that a serotonin transporter gene, which comes in two forms called SERT-s ... Read More

Do you experience depression in the dark, winter months? You may have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Learn what current research has to say about the symptoms of SAD, ... Read More

This article about Internet support groups was actually published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in June 2003, but I just ran across a PDF of the ... Read More

A new documentary called The Bridge is generating lots of attention. This movie, directed by Eric Steel, depicts people climbing over the railing of San Francisco's Golden Gate ... Read More