Diagnostic labels usually describe symptoms, attempt to answer the question of what is wrong, and lead to a treatment plan. But “borderline personality disorder” fails on all three counts.
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Combination drugs are considered an innovation of India’s medicines industry but they are not as safe as they should be.
Research published today has found an association between commonly used antidepressants and birth defects. But pregnant women face greater harms from stopping their medication abruptly.
Brain damage is caused by persistent depression rather than being a predisposing factor for it, researchers have finally concluded after decades of unconfirmed hypothesising.
While there may be a connection between inflammation and depression, one doesn’t necessarily lead to the other.
A study has shown that it is possible to lift rats out of depression by reactivating happy memories. But could it work in humans?
What happens to kids who survive school shootings? What are some of the damaging effects they are left to cope with?
Postnatal depression affects around one in six women. In this sense, it’s the most common complication of pregnancy.
Children who were bullied had more than a two-fold increase in odds of depression later in life compared with children not victimised by their peers.
The mindfulness technique is being blindly sold and we are buying it hook line and sinker.
There is lot on the minds of teens other than school, grades and friends. Research shows being asked “prying” questions could make a real difference to their mental health.
Suicidal thoughts among college students are more common than we think. Graduate students, especially those in the humanities, are at a greater risk.
Ever felt depressed just from scrolling through Facebook? This might be why.
Doctor sick notes could be disclosed to employers without endangering confidentiality.
If you or someone you care about experience an emotional problem it won’t be long before you hear that cognitive behaviour therapy, or CBT, is probably the treatment of choice.
Tabloid assumptions that depression lay behind the Germanwings tragedy are damagingly premature.
One in three adults in the UK – or 16m people – rarely or never read for pleasure. A new survey of 4,164 adults, including both those who read and those who don’t, found that adults who read for just 20…
It was 1930. Winston Churchill was a 55-year-old Conservative Party politician who had been a member of parliament for three decades. He had eventually risen to the position of chancellor of the exchequer…
Already widely prescribed as antidepressants, SSRIs such as fluoxetine (the non-brand name for Prozac) have gained increasing acceptance over the past 20 years in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome…
Around 350 million people worldwide have depression. Antidepressant medications are often prescribed to treat the condition, alongside talking therapies and lifestyle changes such as regular exercise…
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