Tag depression
Meditation for Depression and Anxiety instead of Medication
Mindfulness meditation is a form of meditation where you withdraw your engagement with the incessant chatter of the mind, and draw your awareness toward your sensory experience of the present moment, while suspending judgement and mental commentary. It is a…
Depression – a few thoughts
This is the August 2012 issue of the Integrating Awareness Newsletter. The theme for this issue is Depression, with articles about: Depression; its causes, symptoms, and treatments, including scientific research findings; Anti-depressant medication; a critical perspective on the most common…
Treating depression – a case for psychotherapy
Feeling down and sad for a long time, feeling hopeless and worthless, finding it difficult to enjoy anything in life including that you used to enjoy before, struggling to make up your mind even about minor things, feeling fatigued a…
Anti-depressants for depression? A critical question.
According to the World Health Organisation depression is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, and yet only 25% of sufferers have access to effective treatments [Ref. 1]. The first-line medical treatment for people meeting current diagnostic criteria for…
Depression – causes, symptoms, treatments
According to the World Health Organisation depression is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Over the course of a lifetime 16% of the population will at some time be diagnosed with depression, and in any given year 7%…
