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The Guardian » Depression
2d ago
Perhaps the problem might not be the world itself, but the way you see it
The question I am writing to you from the edge of the abyss… Hello! Despite the privileges I’ve had, my life has been a constant struggle. Since I was four, I’ve had little joie de vivre, thanks to a stew of mental health issues, a difficult home life and a recent discovery that I’m on the autistic spectrum. I don’t blame my autism for everything – my personality would be difficult regardless – but it explains a lot.
My life runs in cycles: denial of my feelings, stoicism, breaking point, sabotage and starting over. As a ..read more
The Guardian » Depression
1w ago
You need to process your grief by letting other people in. That means telling them about it
• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a reader
Six months ago I lost my partner. We were lovers for 22 years. You are the first person I have told about this.
Our relationship was secret, because of his complex family situation. I totally loved everything about him, and I dreamed of a time when we could be openly together ..read more
The Guardian » Depression
1w ago
It was important for the daughter to acknowledge her sadness but to disentangle it from concepts of guilt, shame and responsibility
The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work
For some of us, the death of a parent brings a period of bereavement and deep grief which slowly abates with the passing of time. For others, the story is more complicated.
Some find themselves unable to move past this loss and may continue grieving intensely for years and be unable to function because of the depth of the grief. Others find that they experience p ..read more
The Guardian » Depression
2w ago
Signed off with depression, I began gardening. Being able to grow my own food brought me hope and a career change
In 2012, I had taken to hiding and sobbing in a meeting room at the London advertising agency I worked for. I held a senior position at the company and, if I had been found, it would have been deeply embarrassing. But most days, I woke up feeling as if a lead weight was pressing on my chest; I would spend my commute overwhelmed by an inexplicable feeling of sorrow. Every ringing phone in the office felt like an electric shock. Hiding in the barely used meeting room, hoping for resp ..read more
The Guardian » Depression
1M ago
Devices may have potential to help patients with conditions such as depression, addiction, OCD and epilepsy
A groundbreaking NHS trial will attempt to boost patients’ mood using a brain-computer-interface that directly alters brain activity using ultrasound.
The device, which is designed to be implanted beneath the skull but outside the brain, maps activity and delivers targeted pulses of ultrasound to “switch on” clusters of neurons. Its safety and tolerability will be tested on about 30 patient in the £6.5m trial, funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria ..read more
The Guardian » Depression
1M ago
Wider sample used data from across 29 countries and 5m people, with a quarter from non-European ancestries
A global study has identified 300 previously unknown genetic risk factors for depression because it included a much wider population sample.
According to the World Health Organization, 3.8% of the population has depression at any one time, affecting about 280 million people ..read more
The Guardian » Depression
1M ago
If the dark nights and bleak days are getting you down, Poetry Pharmacy founder Deborah Alma has treatments available from Philip Larkin, Imtiaz Dharker, Edward Thomas and more
‘Last year is dead, they seem to say,” wrote Philip Larkin in his poem The Trees. “Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”
In the heart of the winter (both literally and metaphorically, as the world is in such turmoil), the distilled quality of poetry can work its particular kind of alchemy, as we attempt to make sense of things. I have been “prescribing” poetry at festivals, conferences, hospitals and schools from the back of m ..read more
The Guardian » Depression
1M ago
The makers of a device that delivers small electrical impulses to the brain are hailing the technology as a groundbreaking mental health treatment, but others are sceptical
“Flow helps the vast majority of people to improve their depression,” reads the latest marketing email from Flow Neuroscience, a Swedish-based company that has been making headlines over the past year with what it describes as an “innovative brain-stimulation treatment” that patients can use in their own homes.
Flow’s users receive a headset that delivers small electrical pulses to an area in the front of the brain called t ..read more
The Guardian » Depression
1M ago
Thomas Kingston, son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, had been prescribed SSRIs
A coroner has issued a warning about the effects of antidepressants prescribed by a Buckingham Palace doctor to the son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent before his suicide.
Thomas Kingston, 45, whose marriage to Lady Gabriella at Windsor Castle in 2019 was attended by the late Queen, killed himself last February after “suffering adverse effects of medication he had recently been prescribed”, an inquest found last month ..read more
The Guardian » Depression
1M ago
A toppled reindeer? A window of pink balloons? These images explore Dana Stirling’s depression - and remind us how ‘beauty and sorrow walk together ..read more