How does Chronic Stress Lead to Depression?

IntroductionA threat to your life or safety triggers a primal physical response from the body, leaving you breathless, heart pounding, and mind racing. From deep within your brain, a chemical signal speeds stress hormones through the bloodstream, priming your body to be alert and ready to escape danger. Concentration becomes more focused, reaction time faster, and strength and agility increase. When the stressful situation ends, hormonal signals switch off the stress response and the body returns to normal. So, the stress is good for humans.  It keeps us alert, motivated and primed to respond to danger.  As anyone who has faced a work...

Spiritual Causes of Depression through Eyes of Christians

“Spiritual” causes of depression are in some ways as speculative as psychological or even physiological explanations. Just as there are currently no way to exactly measure brain chemistry, there are no ways for us to “see” all of what is happening spiritually within a person. Many of the spiritual causes of depression are essentially refined or redefined versions of psychological causes. For example, instead of talking about behavior, Christians talk about sin. In the area of cognition Christians emphasize not only one’s faulty view of oneself, but also a faulty view of God and his character. Finally, while secular psychology recognizes a distinction...

Should you Disclose your Depression on Job Application?

Why would they hire me, if there were someone else out there with the same educational credentials and with no history of illness? The stigma is crazy. I guess because mental illness, in general, affects work performance badly, affects decision making, affects people mind (and body as well). I guess I fear disclosing that I'm mentally ill, because people wouldn't trust me or WORSE...start fearing me. People tend to stay away from things they don’t understand or don’t want to understand, or perhaps have no time to understand (From Healthboards Message Board).OverviewEvery employer is looking for the most appropriate employee, matching to the announced...