( go here if you’re searching for general information on depression and REM sleep)
Psychotherapy is a specialised branch of education and feartheseeds has hit the nail on the head by asking a question on the comments for this post about how knowledge of the link between REM sleep (the brain state in which dreaming occurs) […]
Entries Tagged as 'Exhaustion'
How the link between REM sleep and depression affects the treatment of Bipolar Disorder
January 5th, 2007 · 17 Comments
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The link between dreaming and depression
December 9th, 2006 · 9 Comments
Our College Principal, Ivan Tyrrell, explains why depressed people wake up still feeling exhausted and tired and discusses the link between depression and dreaming.
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Posted by: Eleanor
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The Times: Parents demand prozac for high achieving children/anxiety “masks” depression?
November 17th, 2006 · No Comments
Two articles about depression in The Times today came to my attention.
Firstly, Lucy Bannerman reports on research which shows that 36% of medical professionals feel “bullied” by parents into prescribing dangerous anti-depressant drugs as a “quick-fix cure” for children who are under pressure to do well in exams. What is even more alarming is that […]
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New book “How to Master Anxiety” has just arrived!
November 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment
Hot off the press, the very first delivery of the next title in our ‘Essential help in troubled times - the human givens approach’ series has just arrived.
We experienced a lot of anxiety ourselves in getting this book to print, so it’s very satisfying to finally be able to hold a copy!
Here’s some further information […]
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How worrying leads to depression
November 1st, 2006 · 11 Comments
Anyone who worries unconstructively is in danger of clinical depression. Depression is not selective - to take recent examples from the media: the famous, single mothers, politicians, men, women are all susceptible to depression.
When you worry incessantly about something which can’t be immediately solved or is circular, you generate unresolved emotional arousal. Once an […]
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