by Harper West | Sep 3, 2024 | Depression
Patrice came to therapy complaining of being “depressed.” Her doctor had already her on an “anti-depressant” to supposedly help her mood. She said she has difficulty completing projects of any size, has no hobbies, and is unmotivated at all except for the most...
by Harper West | Aug 21, 2017 | Depression
Video games literally cause part of your brain to shrink, according to a neuroimaging study out of Canada. Adults who played just 90 hours of popular shooting games like Call of Duty had a loss of brain cells in the hippocampus, a part of the brain responsible for...
by Harper West | Jun 12, 2016 | Depression, DSM
Edward Shorter’s blog on Psychology Today attempts to parse the difference between supposed differences in types of depression: melancholic and one that is a mixture of “anxiety, dysphoria, fatigue, insomnia and somatic symptoms” or “non-melancholic...
by Harper West | Nov 2, 2015 | Depression, Psychoactive Medication
Blogger Phillip Hickey, PhD, has another great Mad in America post debunking the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression based on an article on Florida State University’s DigiNole Commons. The article is a very easy read and I recommend it highly...
