Depression

Overall, the survey's results indicated that individuals ages 18 to 24 are experiencing symptoms of depression at much higher rates than they were prior to the pandemic.

An altered state of consciousness ( sometimes referred to as the non-ordinary state) is a mental state where the mind is not in its usual wakeful state but is still highly mindful, receptive, and sensitive to the environment. Altered states of consciousness can happen during the dream stage of sleep, hypnosis, trances, hallucinations, and even during meditation.

It's no wonder that a soulless economic and political system that disregards the well-being of its people produces chronic anxiety and despair.

The reflective relaxation component of yoga is devised to induce a sense of peacefulness, well-being, stress tolerance, and mental focus, all of which should reduce your feelings of depression.

West Virginia was ranked the unhappiest state in the U.S.

Depriving the body of sleep does not only cause grogginess. It causes more serious health issues than that.

New studies are showing that cannabis may be effective in providing immediate relief for the symptoms of depression.

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"Robin's Wish" features interviews with people who knew the actor talking about the disease he battled in his last days, Lewy Body Dementia.

The FCC voted to establish 988 as the National Suicide Lifeline's number in a vote on Thursday. Phone providers will need to route calls to the number to the Lifeline by July 2022.

Starting high school, I was still the little fat girl with chubby cheeks. It wasn't long before I was called "the beast" again. And a new nickname emerged from the boys on the school bus: "the bulldog."

Jump-starting an economy requires consumer confidence. But consumers only feel confident to start spending when broad economic markers are improving. Understanding the underlying impulses could help.

Only 14 percent of Americans say they are very happy with their lives, according to a new nationwide tracking survey which found U.S. adults are the unhappiest they've been since 1972.

Federal policymakers must act boldly in order to prevent the coronavirus recession from becoming a depression.

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Depression "is not a mood, it's a psychological disorder," says John Moe, podcaster and author of "The Hilarious World of Depression." "Simplistic solutions [are] useless to the point of being insulting. It's like saying, 'Just go for a nice walk and you won't have such leukemia.'"

"I won't unfriend depression. While the friend wants to kill me, I have learned to deny it the means and opportunity to do so, so we're good. Honestly, the perspective that depression has on the world can be edifying even if it is full of distortions," says podcaster John Moe.

The federal government is lined up to borrow and spend trillions of dollars to combat the economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.

The company Mindbloom just opened a new center in New York to treat people with depression and anxiety using ketamine.

The study was based on surveys with more than 18,000 adult Hong Kong residents.

The rock icon talked about his struggles with depression during the holiday season in a very personal Instagram post.

Action needs to be taken to tackle air pollution, experts told Newsweek.

Researchers gave participants a dose of psilocybin and watched their reactions to see whether the drug is safe.

Scientists monitored rats reaction to stress over a 21-day period to find out what brain mechanisms affected their susceptibility or resilience to anhedonia.

Most parents think children should be screened for depression at school.

"We're only just beginning to understand what the therapeutic potential of cannabis may be for a variety of health conditions," an author of the study said.

A researcher told Newsweek the study suggests smoking is not only bad for our physical health, but our mental health, too.

The study evaluated more than 200,000 cases over a two-year period, discovering lower survival rates among veterans with pain, even when controlling for a history of suicide attempts.

A play on "emotional support dogs," Horizon Foundation coined the phrase, in part, to be funny. It's also supposed to reduce the sense of hesitation some feel when their loved ones struggle with depression or anxiety.