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Brain Chemistry Imbalance

Information about the role that serotonin and other neurotransmitters play in mood disorders. Also, how antidepressants and other psychiatric medications affect brain chemistry.

Can Chronic Stress Cause Depression?

Can chronic stress cause me to become depressed? How are these two related to each other?

Cortisol and Depression

Q. What is the effect of the stress hormone cortisol on serotonin levels? Are cortisol and depression related?

How Antidepressants Affect Brain Chemistry

How antidepressants relieve depression by affecting brain chemistry.

How Can You Be Depresed for No Reason?

Q: Wow, I read your bio, your poem, your accounts of depression and stared at your picture. I guess that I can't fully understand depression and who it effects. I am awaiting a liver transplant (4 years) and I am on depression medication. How can someone with a beautiful face like yours and your health, be so sad? Sorry if it's hard for me to understand, but I want to.

Manufacturing Depression?

Are we too quick to medicate life's normal ups and downs?

The Chemistry of Depression

You've probably probably heard the term neurotransmitters before, but what does this really mean? What role do they play in depression?

Vitamin B12 and Depression

Can a vitamin B12 deficiency cause depression? Learn more about the link between vitamin B12 and depression.

What Happens in the Brain That Causes Depression?

What is it that goes wrong inside the brain that causes depression?

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