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An analysis of Twitter posts suggests that people with depression show increased rumination on social media overnight
People with depression show distinct patterns of online activity, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. Twitter users who said they had a diagnosis of depression were more active on Twitter in the evening, less active in the early morning, and ruminated more on Twitter from midnight to around 6 a.m.
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Depression and New Year Resolutions
Yup, it's that time of year again. Out with the old, in with the new. Time to stand on the cusp of the next calendar year. Research reports about 45% of the American population make one or more resolutions at the turn of each New Year- with some of the top resolutions involving weight loss, exercising more, getting finances in order, stopping smoking or drinking, spending too much or other "bad" habits.
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A promising new treatment for depression
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Moving Through The Holidays With Depression
It's okay if it's not the most wonderful time of the year.
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Is Depression Actually a Unique State of Consciousness?
Researchers in psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience have struggled for years to define, understand, and analyze depression, which torments untold millions of people around the globe. In clinical diagnosis, depression is understood as a collection of symptoms, which must be present together in sufficient number and for a certain length of time.
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Depression is more than low mood – it’s a change of consciousness
Understanding depression as an altered state of consciousness, like a dream or drug trip, could help people awaken from it
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To Overcome Depression, Think Flexibly, Not Positively.
New research reviews thinking errors in depression. Suppose you are leaving a party, when, suddenly, you notice a guest looking at you and frowning. Why is the person frowning?
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Brain implant may lift most severe depression
An electrical implant that sits in the skull and is wired to the brain can detect and treat severe depression, US scientists believe after promising results with a first patient. Sarah, who is 36, had the device fitted more than a year ago and says it has turned her life around. The matchbox-sized pack in her head is always "on" but only delivers an impulse when it senses she may need it.
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Depressed People See the World More Realistically
And happy people just might be slightly delusional. Feeling blue? Strangely, it might mean that you're actually better at judging your performance—and reality in general—than when you're not.
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Kodak Black Says ‘I Feel Like Killing My Self’ Before Deactivating His Social Media Accounts
Kodak Black has raised concern among his fans after posting few abnormal tweets before deleting his social media accounts. The 24 year old rapper, seems to be feeling down as he declared in one tweet that "nobody" loved him.
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A ‘Pacemaker for the Brain’: No Treatment Helped Her Depression — Until This
It’s the first study of individualized brain stimulation to treat severe depression. Sarah’s case raises the possibility the method may help people who don’t respond to other therapies.
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Depression rates tripled and symptoms intensified during first year of COVID-19
Depression among US adults persisted—and worsened—throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by Boston University School of Public Health. Published in the journal The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, the first-of-its-kind study found that 32.8% of US adults experienced elevated depressive symptoms in 2021, compared to 27.8% of adults in the early months of the pandemic in 2020, and 8.5% before the pandemic.
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Happiness in Early Adulthood May Protect Against Dementia
Research has shown that poor heart health can increase the risk for dementia, but a new study shows that poor mental health in early adulthood may increase odds by 73%.
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Depression and insecure attachment might explain the link between child abuse and poor relationships in adulthood
Results from an ongoing longitudinal study provide strong evidence that childhood maltreatment predisposes victims to relationship difficulties in adulthood. The findings, published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, further suggest that this link between maltreatment and poor quality relationships can be explained by victims’ increased levels of depression and insecure attachment.
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Youth depression and anxiety doubled during the pandemic, new analysis finds
The kids are not all right, a new analysis suggests. During the Covid-19 pandemic, depression and anxiety in youth doubled compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to the research. One in 4 adolescents globally are “experiencing clinically elevated depression symptoms, while 1 in 5 youth are experiencing clinically elevated anxiety symptoms.”
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Are Vegetarians More Depressed Than Non-Vegetarians?
New study shows a surprising link between vegetarian diet and depression
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A Toxic Workplace Triples Your Risk of Depression, a New Study Finds
You know toxic workplaces are bad for mental health. You'll be surprised by how bad.
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AI algorithms show that self-esteem is one of the four major predictors of student suicidal behavior
Credit: CC0 public domain How can students predict suicide risk, especially when the COVID-19 pandemic is having a negative impact on the mental health of many? Self-esteem is an important predictor of suicide risk, according to researchers in Montreal and France. A team from McGill University, the University of Montreal...
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Psychedelic Mushrooms Can Regrow Brain Tissue Lost in Depression
It turns out, psychedelic mushroom trips may change your life. A psychedelic drug called psilocybin, which shows up naturally in some mushrooms, has shown signs of increasing durable connections between neurons in mouse brains, according to a new study published in the journal Neuron.
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‘Be not solitary, be not idle’: secrets of 400-year-old self-help book unlocked
Admired by everyone from John Milton to Nick Cave, The Anatomy of Melancholy has always been a text that has dazzled and confounded its readers in equal measure. Now, exactly 400 years after it was published, an academic has painstakingly traced the meaning of thousands of its sphinxlike allusions, enigmatic references and arcane quotations, allowing Robert Burton’s famous text to be fully understood for the very first time.
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