Rolfing as Alternative Depression Treatment

Rolfing OverviewAccording to "Wikipedia Dictionary", Rolfing is a manipulation of the body and tissue to realign the structure of a body. The deep massage treatment was developed by Dr. Ida Pauline Rolf. Studies show the deep tissue rub is combined with pinpointing specific areas of the body in order to maintain or correct posture. Thus, Rolfing is referred to as Structural Integration, or Posture Realignment. Depression can be a devastating alternative when combined with tragedies such as divorce, and lead to medications prescribed by physicians. However, physicians will also advise patients to seek massage therapy, when they feel Rolfing can...

Psychotic Depression: Symptoms and Treatment

OverviewPsychotic depression (major depression with psychotic features) is one of the most severe forms of the general depressive disease, in which the person experiences occasional moments of delusional or paranoid being. Psychotic depression is characterized by not only depressive symptoms, but also by hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren't really there) or delusions. Psychotic depression is a chronic, cyclic condition. In general, the patient may have unremarkable general depressive episodes marked by moments of extreme psychoses. Suicide is most prevalent in patients affected by psychotic episodes. Psychotic depression is unlike...

Sleep Deprivation as Cure for Depression

History of ApproachNearly 30 years have passed since Anna Wirz-Justice, MD, first prescribed a night without sleep for a severely depressed 80-year-old woman. "She used to just sit around all day, feeling suicidal," says the Swiss neurobiologist. "She hardly spoke or moved.'' The remedy worked.  By the next morning, the elderly woman "was talking and moving around as if she were actually another person," Wirz-Justice says. "She told me that at about two or three in the morning, she felt like a black cloud had been lifted from her shoulders." Was Wirz-Justice on to something? She and other researchers thought so -- at first. There is no denying...

Difficulties for Depression Recognition in Primary Care

To fight the health disorder, it should be properly recognized first. The patient comes to the primary care with his problems, which might be seemingly unrelated to the clear case of the clinical depression, and unfortunately, the recognition of depression success rate in primary care is statistically less than we would like it to be. For example, 50% of people with major depression, identified by independent screening in Great Britain, were not recognized as depressed by the primary physician. The recognition of depression is particularly difficult in certain patient groups such as the physically ill, or in certain cultures, when depression...

Agitated Depressive Disorder

Agitated Depression a state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and restlessness. This term is applied to depressive disorders in which agitation is prominent. Agitation occurs in many severe depressive disorders but in agitated depression, it is particularly severe. Agitated depression is seen more commonly among the middle aged and elderly than among younger patients. However, there is no reason to suppose that agitated depression differs in other impotent ways from the other depressive disorders. Definition of Agitated DepressionA major depression with agitation that may be driven by hypomania. Although many people...

Reichian Therapy against Depression

Reichian Theory When we are open, we experience pleasure, liveliness, and vitality. Many of us, however, find that our lives and relationships feel painfully constricted. We develop coping strategies early in life to ward off difficult, uncomfortable feelings. These defenses become habitual and can inhibit us from experiencing joyful, expansive feelings as well as pain. We become frozen and trapped in our defenses, and can become physically ill. These symptoms are cries for help from our wounded past, a past that may keep us from being fully available to the present. Our contracted self reveals itself in our character structure and body armor....

Link between ADHD Drug Ritalin and Depression

What ADHD is?Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has become America’s number one childhood psychiatric disorder. It has been estimated that more than 5 million children are presently affected by this disorder in the U.S., which represents as many as 7 to 12 percent of preadolescent children. These percentages mean that almost every classroom can have children with ADHD. This disorder usually begins in infancy and continues into adulthood.  Usually there is a gender skew with this disorder, where boys are usually affected more often than girls, at a ratio of 4 to 1 for boys and 9 to 1 for girls. It seems that the problem with...

Childhood Abuse and Clinical Depression in Adults

OverviewChildhood abuse and neglect is an insidious problem with far-reaching consequences. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, in 2007 close to 800,000 children were determined to be victims of neglect or abuse. These statistics likely underestimate the actual incidence of abuse because an unknown but significant amount of abuse is never reported or investigated. Abuse has devastating, enduring effects on children. Adults who were abused as children continue to suffer from their childhood trauma. One of the many effects of childhood abuse is treatment-resistant depression.Types...