Sep 23, 2012 | Mental Health
New studies continue on the affect of memory on depression. The memories we choose to fall back on can positively or negatively impact mood.The idea that memory affects mood is not new. This link will take you to the newest study as well as offering an opportunity to...
Sep 12, 2012 | Mental Health
From An Unquiet Mind There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you’re high it’s tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and...
Sep 12, 2012 | Mental Health
Epigenetics is the study if how people’s experiences and the environment affects the function of our genes. This would be the science of nature /nurture. It seems what happens in the womb and after can affect the development of mental illness. Epigenetics is an...
Sep 12, 2012 | Mental Health
I was diagnosed at 40 with low (hypo) thyroid. I had no symptoms other than exhaustion which was my norm. I had been mothering for 17 years. My doctor discovered it during a routine checkup. I was diagnosed with depression when I was 49. My doctor always checks to be...
Sep 12, 2012 | Mental Health
I had terrible trouble with my memory after I had undergone four surgeries in six months. I was sent to a neurologist after I found myself at the side of the road wondering where I was and where I was going. My brain scan was clear. I talked to the doctor for a while...
Sep 11, 2012 | Mental Health
I just came through a manic high. Haven’t had one for a long time. My teeter-totter ride tends to land on depression. When I am manic I become light-headed, giddy. I feel like champagne bubbles exploding at the top of the glass. I talk faster and I don’t edit. Some...
