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Definition of Schizophrenia – What Makes Schizophrenia Different?
Schizophrenia is distinct from other mental illnesses because the affected individual often does not realize that there is a problem – because they truly believe in the delusions thatcharacterize this...
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Paranoid Schizophrenia Treatment: Fine Line Between the Real and the Unreal
Paranoid schizophrenia is the most well-known kind of schizophrenia because of its frequent portrayal on television and in movies such as A Beautiful Mind, which demonstrates that paranoid...
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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia Symptoms: A Mental Mixed Bag
Psychiatrists are often eager to classify actions and emotions into one or more of the illness categories found in the “bible of psychiatry”, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...
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Vitamin D and Depression: Nature’s Cure for Your Blues
Clinical depression statistics reveal that one in every seven North Americans suffers from major depression. However, over half of us will experience mild depression symptoms at some point in our...
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Not Feeling Like Yourself? Boost Low Levels of Serotonin Safely and Effectively
Have you been feeling unusually sad, uninterested, or unmotivated? Has a stressful situation in your life been resolved, yet you still feel frazzled? Do you get anxious easily in groups of colleagues...
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Mild Depression Symptoms: And How to Kick Them!
One in seven North Americans suffer from major depression at some point in their lives, but more than half will experience mild depression symptoms. Luckily, there are several natural solutions that...
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Winter Depression Symptoms and Seasonal Affective Disorder
Many people experience mild depression symptoms during late fall and winter months, because of the link between Vitamin D and depression. Vitamin D, which we absorb primarily through sunlight, leads to...
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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia: One Illness, Many Faces
There are five types of schizophrenia: three that are characterized by distinct symptoms – paranoid, catatonic, and disorganized schizophrenia; and two others defined by other factors. Undifferentiated...
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Holistic Depression Treatment
Holistic literally means seeing one’s being – body and spirit – as a whole. Holistic medicine posits that there are five causes of illness: physical, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental...
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Adderall Withdrawal: Seven Steps to Stop Symptoms
Adderall withdrawal can interfere with your ability to function in daily life. Common symptoms, last for approximately two weeks to three months, depending upon how high your Adderall dosage was, how...
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What Does Depression Mean?
What does depression mean? Depression is a medical condition that affects at least 7 percent of the population, although only 20 percent of these people get help. Many others experience mild...
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Serotonin Imbalance Symptoms
Serotonin, a chemical in the human body necessary for life, has a “sweet spot” in regard to the favorable level for health and happiness. Too little serotonin results in depression, anxiety, decreased...
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Different Types of Depression: Many Shades of Blue
As you will find in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), there are many different types of depression. As many of these types are classified as subtypes under other...
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Inpatient Depression Treatment
When someone in need of severe depression treatment is suicidal, or too depressed to care for themselves, in terms of daily necessities such as eating, sleeping, and hygiene, the hospital may be the...
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Too Much Serotonin Symptoms: Serotonin Syndrome and Antidepressant Drug...
Too much serotonin symptoms may signify a condition known as serotonin syndrome, which is a condition that occurs when the interaction between two or more drugs – including prescription and...
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Low Serotonin Symptoms: Signs That Your Serotonin Levels Are Below Normal
We are living in a stressful, fast-paced society. The western world is recovering from a devastating economic recession, and most people have been forced to work longer hours than ever before. As...
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Childhood Schizophrenia Symptoms: Brave New Illness
Only in the past decade has childhood schizophrenia been recognized as a legitimate disorder. Schizophrenia history is only 100 years old, and until the 1950s when the first antipsychotic,...
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Treatment of Schizophrenia: No Longer a Life Sentence
Due to advances in the treatment of schizophrenia, this mental illness is now, in well more than half of cases, no longer a lifelong illness as it was for much of schizophrenia history. Catatonic...
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Does Xanax Cause Weight Gain? …And Other Questions About Benzodiazepines
Unlike many psychiatric medications, those belonging to a class called benzodiazepines, including Xanax, Klonopin, and Ativan, do not cause weight gain. Xanax may be prescribed to temporarily relieve...
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Bipolar Relationships: Tips for Loving Someone With Bipolar Disorder
Relationships are difficult. Add a mental illness and a whole new degree of difficulty emerges. When you love someone who has bipolar disorder, it is easy to be consumed by the illness, as you find...
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