Bi-polar disorder, also known as manic-depression, is a mood disorder recognized by its periods of mania and depression. These periods can last hours, days, weeks or months. Often, there are periods of wellness between these episodes where there are few to no symptoms present. People with bipolar di...

It\'s nothing new, that everybody feels depressed at some time or another in their lives. However, it becomes a problem when that depression is so much a part a person\'s life that person can no longer see the happiness right in front him. Holden Caulfield, in J.D. Salinger\'s The Catcher in the Ry...

Childhood Revealed takes us into the hearts and minds of children who live with a specific challenge in their cognitive, psychological, or physical aspect of their life. For these children, drawing, and writing about their drawings, are ways of finding solutions or communicating with anyone that wi...

DepressionDepression is a word that is used by many people but understood by few. It is often taken and of context and interpreted as a bad day at work or an argument with a spouse. However, chances are that it is just an unhappy event of such. For some people, though, depression is a serious eve...

Depression and Everything That Comes With ItDepression is something that most people will experience at some point in their life (Patterson, 1). It can be a result of an external or internal influence. Depression can last for minutes or years. There are many different kinds of depression that can...

There are many Psychological Disorders: Bipolar Disorder; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Panic and Agoraphobia Disorder; Schizophrenia.... Disorders like depression, neuroses, anxiety disorders, psychosomatic diseases, posttraumatic stress disorders, are very common in ...

Half-full or half-empty? Cognition and depression. Introduction The etiology of depression can be illustrated from biological defects or abnormality, personal characteristics, and environmental factors. Over the last three decades cognitive functioning of the depressed patient has ...

Bipolar disorder is the third most common mood disorder after major depression and dysthymic disorder. The disorder (a.k.a Manic-Depression) effects an estimated three million (or 1%) of people in the United States with severe manic-depression and 5-6 million with milder forms of the disorder. Which...