Tag: Depression

Book: The International Encyclopaedia Of Depression

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Book Title:

The International Encyclopaedia Of Depression.

Author(s): Rick E. Ingram (Editor).

Year: 2019.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Springer Publishing.

Type(s): Hardcover and Kindle.

Synopsis:

There is no more central topic to mental health professionals than depression.

In the last 20 years, theory and research in depression has grown rapidly.

The wealth of information now available on depression is enormous, but has not been summarised into a comprehensive encyclopaedia until now.

The entries in this book include: behavioural treatment, cognitive theories, cognitive therapy, epidemiology, heredity, personality disorders, double depression, and prevention.

In summarising the vast amount of information on depression, “The International Encyclopaedia of Depression” serves as an important resource for researchers, patients, students, and educated laypeople.

This book presents holistic, interdisciplinary coverage of an important but misunderstood medical disorder.

Book: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression

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Book Title:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Retrain your Brain from Wrong Behaviors, Irrational Beliefs and Negative Ways of Thinking. Open Yourself to Life, Happiness and the Freedom of Change.

Author(s): John Rich.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s): Hardcover and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Depression is said to affect more than 300 million people globally, from all age categories. This particular mental disorder is incredibly common, and yet incredibly challenging for people to face, overcome, and heal from. Depression is considered to be a serious and even life-threatening condition as it can progress into more advanced stages that lead to thoughts surrounding self-harm and suicidal ideation.

Learning how to face, navigate, overcome, and heal from depression is important in your ability to protect yourself from the painful symptoms that depression can present in your life. If you have been looking for natural, healthy ways to overcome depression, cognitive behavioural therapy may be exactly what you are looking for.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that is used to intentionally rewire the way your brain works through the power of specific thought processes and skills that are instilled within the individual that is healing from depression. As you learn how to navigate depression with CBT skills in tow, you will begin to realise how capable you are of overcoming this painful, dreadful, and often traumatising mental disorder that you might be facing in your life right now.

For some people, CBT is the only therapy that they need to support them in healing from depression. For others, CBT works in conjunction with lifestyle changes and even antidepressants to support a holistic form of therapy that helps the patient heal from depression in the immediate present while also being able to overcome episodes in the future.

The book seeks to shine a light on the power of CBT and how this particular psychotherapy can support you in having a healthier life, free of the struggles of depression. The goal is for you to learn to overcome depression in a way that supports you with increasing your mental strength, mental stamina, and emotional intelligence, while also improving your natural emotional resistance.

Some of what you will learn in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression includes:

  • What CBT is and how it works.
  • Who founded CBT and how.
  • What depression is and the specific symptoms to look for.
  • How you can use self-awareness to overcome depression.
  • How CBT works to heal depression.
  • How CBT supports mental and emotional strength and resiliency.
  • The exact steps for executing CBT in your own life.
  • How to monitor your CBT to make sure it is actually working.
  • How to use CBT to instantly boost your mood.
  • How to use CBT to boost your mood in the long term.
  • Natural methods for overcoming and healing depression.
  • And more!.

If you are ready to relieve yourself from the grasp of depression and heal yourself and your life, grab your copy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression today to get started!

Book: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression

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Book Title:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression: The Ultimate Step by Step Guide for Overcoming Negative Thoughts. How to Declutter Your Mind and Finally Relieve Sadness, Overthinking and Anxiety.

Author(s): Seth J. Adams.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s):Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Here is just a fraction of what is inside:

  • What is CBT and why it is better than other mental-healing therapies
  • Most common misconceptions about Cognitive Behavioural Therapy you should know before you start
  • How does it work? And why it is considered one of the very few scientifically approved self-healing therapies
  • The real causes of depression and other mental health issues
  • How can you integrate Mindfulness into your CBT Programme and achieve even better results faster?
  • Simple lifestyle changes you must make to maintain a healthy mind and body – very important!
  • Much much more…

Everybody wants to be healthy, not just for yourself, but also for the people you love and care about the most. And your own mind is where your true health starts!

Book: Bipolar Disorder – WPA Series Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry

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Book Title:

Bipolar Disorder – WPA Series Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry: Volume 05.

Author(s): Mario Maj, Hagop S. Akiskal, Juan Jose Lopez-Ibor, and Norman Sartorius.

Year: 2002.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Wiley.

Type(s): Hardcover and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder involving episodes of serious mania and depression and affects approximately one to three percent of the population.

Mario Maj provides an overview of recent research progress on the condition.

Major Depressive Disorder & Childhood Trauma

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Research Paper Title

Major depressive disorder with childhood trauma: Clinical characteristics, biological mechanism, and therapeutic implications.

Background

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a main type of mood disorder, characterised by significant and lasting depressed mood.

Until now, the pathogenesis of MDD is not clear, but it is certain that biological, psychological, and social factors are involved.

Childhood trauma is considered to be an important factor in the development of this disease.

Previous studies have found that nearly half of the patients with MDD have experienced childhood trauma, and different types of childhood trauma, gender, and age show different effects on this disease.

In addition, the clinical characteristics of MDD patients with childhood trauma are also different, which often have more severe depressive symptoms, higher risk of suicide, and more severe cognitive impairment.

The response to antidepressants is also worse.

In terms of biological mechanisms and marker characteristics, the serotonin transporter gene and the FKBP prolyl isomerase 5 have been shown to play an important role in MDD and childhood trauma.

Moreover, some brain imaging and biomarkers showed specific features, such as changes in gray matter in the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, and abnormal changes in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function.

Reference

Guo, W., Liu, J. & Li, L. (2020) Major depressive disorder with childhood trauma: Clinical characteristics, biological mechanism, and therapeutic implications. Journal of South Central University. 45(4), pp.462-468. doi: 10.11817/j.issn.1672-7347.2020.190699.

Pre-Clinical Dementia & Depression

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Research Paper Title

A cross-national study of depression in preclinical dementia: A COSMIC collaboration study.

Background

Depression commonly accompanies Alzheimer’s disease, but the nature of this association remains uncertain.

Methods

Longitudinal data from the COSMIC consortium were harmonized for eight population-based cohorts from four continents.

Incident dementia was diagnosed in 646 participants, with a median follow-up time of 5.6 years to diagnosis.

The association between years to dementia diagnosis and successive depressive states was assessed using a mixed effect logistic regression model.

A generic inverse variance method was used to group study results, construct forest plots, and generate heterogeneity statistics.

Results

A common trajectory was observed showing an increase in the incidence of depression as the time to dementia diagnosis decreased despite cross-national variability in depression rates.

Conclusions

The results support the hypothesis that depression occurring in the preclinical phases of dementia is more likely to be attributable to dementia-related brain changes than environment or reverse causality.

Reference

Carles, S., Carriere, I., Reppermund, S., Davin, A., Guaita, A. et al. (2020) A cross-national study of depression in preclinical dementia: A COSMIC collaboration study. Alzheimer’s & Dementia. doi: 10.1002/alz.12149. Online ahead of print.

Research: Age-specific prevalence and determinants of depression in long-term breast cancer survivors compared to female population controls

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Research Paper Title:

Age-specific prevalence and determinants of depression in long-term breast cancer survivors compared to female population controls.

Author(s): Daniela Doege, Melissa S.Y. Thong, Lena Koch-Gallenkamp, Lina Jansen, Heike Bertram, Andrea Eberle, Bernd Holleczek, Ron Pritzkuleit, Annika Waldmann, Sylke R. Zeissig, Hermann Brenner, and Volker Arndt.

Year: 2020.

Journal: Cancer Medicine.

DOI: doi: 10.1002/cam4.3476. Online ahead of print.

Abstract:

Depression is more prevalent in breast cancer (BC) survivors than in the general population. However, little is known about depression in long-term survivors. Study objectives were: (1) to compare the age-specific prevalence of depressive symptoms (a) in BC survivors vs female population controls, (b) in disease-free BC survivors vs BC survivors with self-reported recurrence vs controls, and (2) to explore determinants of depression in BC survivors.

Methods

About 3010 BC survivors (stage I-III, 5-16 years post-diagnosis), and 1005 population controls were recruited in German multi-regional population-based studies. Depression was assessed by the Geriatric Depression Scale-15. Prevalence of mild/severe and severe depression only were estimated via logistic regression, controlling for age and education. Multinomial logistic regression was used to explore determinants of mild and severe depression.

Results

Compared with population controls, BC survivors were more likely to report mild/severe depression (30.4% vs 23.8%, p = .0003), adjusted for age and education. At all age groups <80 years, prevalence of both mild/severe and severe depression only was significantly higher in BC survivors, while BC survivors ≥80 years reported severe depression less frequently than controls. BC survivors with recurrence reported significantly higher prevalence of mild/severe depression than disease-free survivors and controls, but prevalence in disease-free survivors and controls was comparable. Age, income, living independently, recurrence, and BMI were significant determinants of mild depression in BC survivors. Age, education, employment, income, recurrence, and BMI were significant determinants of severe depression.

Conclusions

Long-term BC survivors <80 years report significantly higher prevalence of depressive symptoms than controls, which might be explained by recurrence and individual factors. The findings suggest that depression in BC survivors is common, and even more after BC recurrence. Clinicians should routinise screening and normalise referral to psychological care.

Book: Depression in Japan

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Book Title:

Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress.

Author(s): Junko Kitanaka.

Year: 2011.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Princeton University Press.

Type(s): Paperback and EPUB.

Synopsis:

Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. In a nation that has traditionally been uncomfortable addressing mental illness, what factors have allowed for the rising medicalisation of depression and suicide? Investigating these profound changes from historical, clinical, and sociolegal perspectives, Depression in Japan explores how depression has become a national disease and entered the Japanese lexicon, how psychiatry has responded to the nation’s ailing social order, and how, in a remarkable transformation, psychiatry has overcome the longstanding resistance to its intrusion in Japanese life.

Questioning claims made by Japanese psychiatrists that depression hardly existed in premodern Japan, Junko Kitanaka shows that Japanese medicine did indeed have a language for talking about depression which was conceived of as an illness where psychological suffering was intimately connected to physiological and social distress. The author looks at how Japanese psychiatrists now use the discourse of depression to persuade patients that they are victims of biological and social forces beyond their control; analyzes how this language has been adopted in legal discourse surrounding “overwork suicide”; and considers how, in contrast to the West, this language curiously emphasizes the suffering of men rather than women. Examining patients’ narratives, Kitanaka demonstrates how psychiatry constructs a gendering of depression, one that is closely tied to local politics and questions of legitimate social suffering.

Drawing upon extensive research in psychiatric institutions in Tokyo and the surrounding region, Depression in Japan uncovers the emergence of psychiatry as a force for social transformation in Japan.

Book: The International Encyclopedia of Depression

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Book Title:

The International Encyclopedia of Depression.

Author(s): Richard E. Ingram, PhD (Editor).

Year: 2009.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, LLC..

Type(s): Hardcover and Kindle.

Synopsis:

There is no more central topic to mental health professionals than depression.

In the last 20 years, theory and research in depression has grown rapidly. The wealth of information now available on depression is enormous, but has not been summarized into a comprehensive encyclopedia until now.

The entries in this book include: behavioral treatment, cognitive theories, cognitive therapy, epidemiology, heredity, personality disorders, double depression, and prevention.

In summarising the vast amount of information on depression, The International Encyclopedia of Depression serves as an important resource for researchers, patients, students, and educated laypeople. This book presents holistic, interdisciplinary coverage of an important but misunderstood medical disorder.

You can find a copy of the book here.

Book: Healing Depression without Medication

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Book Title:

Healing Depression without Medication: A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Balancing Mind, Body, and Soul.

Author(s): Jodie Skillicorn, DO.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: North Atlantic Books.

Type(s): Paperback.

Synopsis:

What if everything we thought we knew about depression – and how to heal from it – was wrong?

Many antidepressants – the first line in our standard of care for treating depression – bring with them potential health risks, yet 1 in 6 Americans takes medication to alleviate feeling sad, anxious, stuck, or unable to focus or sleep. More and more, conventional medicine pathologises how we respond to life’s challenges – like feeling trapped in an unfulfilling job, grieving the death of a loved one, or being anxious about a bad relationship – telling us that they are symptoms of disease.

Psychiatrist Jodie Skillicorn presents a new path, debunking the myth of the neurochemical imbalance and exploring the roots of depression, such as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and poorly managed day-to-day stress. Evidence-based and fully supported by current depression research, Dr. Skillicorn’s holistic methods for beating depression – including nutrition, mindfulness, fostering meaningful connections, exercise, sleep, nature, and breathwork – empower readers to become agents of their own wholeness and healing.