Logo of the United States National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Examining major depressive disorder (MDD) When a discussion of depression is in the news most people tend to think that there is only one kind of depression. It is those who are diagnosed with depression...Read More

Debt and Mental Health Have you ever thought about the impact of debt on mental health issues? Most adults in the United States have some kind of debt. The types of debt vary from student loans, to mortgages, to automobile loans, to various unsecured credit like credit cards or even medical services debt. The amount...Read More

What kind of work do you do? It is kind of an odd question for a Saturday morning, but over the last day or two we saw a number of articles that dealt with the cost of depression in the U.S. workplace. Yes, we said depression. Working at a job for an employer or being...Read More

Depression in the news If you have a minute, open an internet browser and search the news for the term “depression.” We did this search today on Google and there were 113,000 results. Of course, since our search was fairly general the search results included a few news items about weather, i.e. a tropical depression;...Read More

Picture of Aaron Swartz (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “Cryptic” message on Twitter feed… Do you use the social media software Twitter? If so, did you ever notice that sometimes you read a tweet about a person and you wonder “should I know this person?” On Friday, January 11, 2013, there was one such tweet posted around...Read More