Do You Have Depression? 5 Symptoms Provide the Answer
You’ve probably heard of depression if you’ve listened to a radio or watched a TV in the past 25 years.
Accessing faith through treating depression
“I don’t believe in medication, I have faith and just need to be more connected to God.”
What’s the difference between depression and manic depression?
Sometimes people are confused about the differences between clinical depression and manic depression.
Mental Ophthalmology
This post is one extended metaphor and may illicit a strong “yes I get it, move on” reaction. Proceed with caution.
Telephone therapy benefits depression
Imagine a treatment that was so powerful and useful, it could even be delivered by the telephone.
How to find affordable psychotherapy
Finding affordable psychotherapy can sometimes seem like an oxymoron.
What’s a struggling teen?
What, exactly, is a struggling teen? The term struggling teen describes youths who show signs of ...
Yvette Sheline, M.D.
Dr. Sheline is currently conducting fMRI studies of emotional dysregulation in depression, studies of treatment outcome in late-life depression, and studies investigating abnormal amyloid binding in late life depression, among others. She has received a number of awards and currently holds an NIMH Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research.
Dr. Sheline received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree in Physiology from Yale University and her medical degree from Boston University. She is the author of a large number of scientific publications and...
Connie
Connie, a former elementary school teacher from Philadelphia, PA, was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder two years after her husband viciously assaulted her. Minutes after leaving her with a broken finger, a cervical spine injury, and a concussion, he then threatened to jump off the roof of his mother’s house. Connie had him hospitalized and cared for him for six months.
Before the attack, which was the culmination of a series of mental and physical assaults, Connie had been outgoing and social. In addition to...