Take Control of Your Depression: Advice for Teens

This article explains depression to teens and what they can do to alleviate the symptoms.

Submitted By Dorothy Edison

Dysthymic Disorder - A Type of Depression

Learn more about the symptoms and treatment for dysthymia, a chronic form of depression.

Submitted By Deanna Couras Goodson

What Causes Depression?

Read about the causes of depression here.

Submitted By Deanna Couras Goodson

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Commoner Than You Think

PTSD is more common that once thought. In the wake of Katrina, expect to see numbers of afflicted soar. Fortunately, once diagnosed, PTSD is easily treated.

Submitted By Arachnae

Lets Discuss: Past History

The past is a part of us. It is the foundation of what our present as been built on. Are we permanently imprisoned by our past? NO.

Submitted By Kay L. Schlagel

How Having A Baby Cured My Depression

Actress Brooke Shields recently wrote a book chronicling how the birth of the child she tried so hard to conceive pulled her into a crippling depression. Postpartum depression is talked about more frequently in this day and age, but rarely do women say having a child helped lift their depression. In this article one mother who experienced depression and took medication for it for several years does just that.

Submitted By lknmom