Depression can influence emotional state, mood and the physical body. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMSHA, depression affects approximately 18.8 million American adults. SAMSHA explains that...
According to the National Comorbidity Study, more than 16 percent of Americans experience depression at some point. It remains a costly but treatable condition that's ignored far too often. Most people associate depression with changes in nothing...
Depression not only affects your mood, it also has a negative impact on your physical health. Depression can cause a series of physical events leading to other diseases, both acute and chronic. Depression is often unrecognized or under-treated,...
Massage therapy is an often-overlooked healing art form that can provide not only physical benefits but also mental benefits, such as relief of stress and tension. A study published by Reuters in March 2010, conducted by Dr. Wen-Hsuan Hou of...
Depression is a feeling of hopelessness and anxiety that can affect every area of life for the one who suffers from it. It can be caused by a traumatic or stressful event, or medications. The Merck Manual Online Medical Library reports that...
Depression is an emotion that everyone goes through at some point. Under normal circumstances, it goes away in short amount of time. But when it gets so severe that you are unable to function physically and mentally, it is considered major...
Physical symptoms of depression are common but can become chronic and fuel a person's feelings of sadness and hopelessness if left untreated. Physical symptoms such as chronic pain may get better as the emotional and mental symptoms of depression...
While the emotional symptoms of major depression are easily recognizable, patients experiencing this condition may have some physical side effects. A study published in the October 2009 edition of the journal Psychosomatic Medicine found that...
Depression is a common mental illness that strikes millions of Americans each year. While a relative few have only one episode, most struggle with the disorder multiple times during their lives. A checklist of symptoms can be useful to determine...
Pain is a physical sensation and an emotional experience that affects mood, thought and behavior. Ongoing pain can intensify these effects. A circular relationship exists between pain and depression. Individuals with ongoing pain have an...
Sleeplessness, or insomnia, is a condition characterized by an inability to fall asleep, or an inability to stay asleep throughout the night. Depending on your circumstances, you may develop occasional, short-term or long-term forms of this...
Musculoskeletal pain can undermine physical abilities and challenge our basic beliefs and perspectives about ourselves and our bodies. The disabling effects of acute musculoskeletal pain can result in depression. The demands of managing a life...
If a child or teenager is suffering from depression, often he displays different symptoms from classic adult depression. Look for signs in children that include a major change in school performance or persistent boredom. A child that cries...
It seems that for every ailment, there is a pill. While modern medicine offers a host of options for the ill, some of these remedies are risky, resulting in addiction to potent medications for pain. To help reduce the risks of addiction to pain...
The Merck Manual Home Edition notes that less than 4 percent of the United States population has bipolar disorder, a mood disorder that causes patients to cycle between high and low moods. Patients with bipolar disorder I experience mainly mania...
Fibromyalgia is characterized by pain in the muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as bouts of fatigue and sleep disturbance. This condition is more prominent in women and the risk for developing fibromyalgia increases with age. The exact cause...
In general, the elderly are in good mental health. However, due to major milestones that people face on their voyage through the drama of life, and the subtle change in brain chemistry that aging produces, people over 65 are the most susceptible...
Winter depression, formally known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD), is similar to other forms of depression except that it occurs at the same time each year. The symptoms typically begin in the fall and continue through the winter months....
Each year, about 32,000 Americans decide that the pain, hopelessness, shame or anger they feel has made continuing to live an overwhelming burden, and they commit suicide. Knowledge of the characteristics of people who attempt suicide empowers...
Up to 50 percent of people who experience depression also experience physical pain, according to a 2002 article in Psychology Today. Pain occurs because the neural pathways that regulate mood also regulate pain perception. Research has also...
Fatigue and weakness may present individually or together as symptoms of another disorder. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, weakness is the lack of physical or muscular strength and effort needed to move the body or engage...
Potassium deficiency, called hypokalemia, has a negative impact on numerous health conditions. These include muscle weakness and muscle cramps, as well as clinical depression. Chronic pain is a physical and emotional condition, asserts researchers...
Approximately 9.5 percent of the total U.S. adult population suffers from depression. Symptoms of depression can manifest in all areas of the body and a person's functioning--cognitive, emotional and physical. Physical complaints like stomach pain...
Depression is a widespread problem in society. The National Institute of Mental Health suggests that at any given time 6.7 percent of the adult population in the United States is suffering from major depression as of the time of publication....
Losing weight after an operation may seem much more difficult than at any other time in your life, and most people will agree losing weight is difficult enough already. In addition to the normal issues associated with losing weight, you may also...
More than 700,000 Americans suffer a major stroke each year, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Two-thirds of them require intensive rehabilitative therapy in order to regain independence, mobility and...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a nervous system disorder that results in severe muscle weakness, paralysis and eventually death. ALS attacks motor neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain and the spinal cord,...
Approximately 20,000 Americans have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with an additional 5,000 diagnosed each year, according to the ALS Association. Often referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease after the famous baseball player who passed away from...
Alcoholism is a chronic and treatable disease that is characterized by the excessive physical and psychological dependence, craving and loss of control. Alcoholism is a term that is often used interchangeably with alcohol dependence and alcohol...