Depression Links
These are very interesting.
Childhood abuse 'speeds up body's ageing process'. Physical or emotional abuse during childhood could speed up the body's ageing process, US research suggests. A team from Brown University focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes that keep a cell's DNA stable but shorten with age. They found the telomeres of 31 people who had reported abuse as children tended to shorten more rapidly, speeding up cells' ageing process.
Social Medicine. One day, perhaps we'll have public health campaigns of a different kind. "Be jolly: it’s catching." Or, "Eat less: do it for your friends."
Our Narrow View Of Depression Is Compounding The Problem. Depression is a multi-dimensional disorder. It has biological components based in genetics, neurochemistry and physical health, it has psychological components that involve many individual factors such as cognitive style, coping style, and qualities of personal behavior. And, it has social components, factors that are mediated by the quality of one's relationships, including such variables as the family and the culture one is socialized into, and one's range of social skills. The best, most accurate answer to the basic question, "What causes depression?" is, "Many things."
Depression is Contagious. Michael D. Yapko, the author of the above article, expands on his ideas by describing his book Depression is Contagious and how depression is spread like a social contagion through relationships with others.
Mental Illness: The Stigma of Silence. There has, in fact, been a lot of depression and alcoholism in my family and, traditionally, no one ever spoke about it. It just wasn't done. The stigma is toxic. And, like millions of others who live with mental illness in their families, I've seen what they endure: the struggle of just getting through the day, and the hurt caused every time someone casually describes someone as "crazy," "nuts," or "psycho".
Eric Millegan on Living (and Acting) with Bipolar Disorder, part 1 and Eric Millegan, part 2
Childhood abuse 'speeds up body's ageing process'. Physical or emotional abuse during childhood could speed up the body's ageing process, US research suggests. A team from Brown University focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes that keep a cell's DNA stable but shorten with age. They found the telomeres of 31 people who had reported abuse as children tended to shorten more rapidly, speeding up cells' ageing process.
Social Medicine. One day, perhaps we'll have public health campaigns of a different kind. "Be jolly: it’s catching." Or, "Eat less: do it for your friends."
Our Narrow View Of Depression Is Compounding The Problem. Depression is a multi-dimensional disorder. It has biological components based in genetics, neurochemistry and physical health, it has psychological components that involve many individual factors such as cognitive style, coping style, and qualities of personal behavior. And, it has social components, factors that are mediated by the quality of one's relationships, including such variables as the family and the culture one is socialized into, and one's range of social skills. The best, most accurate answer to the basic question, "What causes depression?" is, "Many things."
Depression is Contagious. Michael D. Yapko, the author of the above article, expands on his ideas by describing his book Depression is Contagious and how depression is spread like a social contagion through relationships with others.
Mental Illness: The Stigma of Silence. There has, in fact, been a lot of depression and alcoholism in my family and, traditionally, no one ever spoke about it. It just wasn't done. The stigma is toxic. And, like millions of others who live with mental illness in their families, I've seen what they endure: the struggle of just getting through the day, and the hurt caused every time someone casually describes someone as "crazy," "nuts," or "psycho".
Eric Millegan on Living (and Acting) with Bipolar Disorder, part 1 and Eric Millegan, part 2