By K.D. Daniels
Nearly everyone suffers from depression at one time or another, but if you notice that your depression seems to occur primarily and regularly during the winter months (or only during the summer months), chances are that you are suffering from seasonal affective disorder (SAD). The most common type of seasonal affective disorder involves symptoms that occur during winter months. However, it is...
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Periodic depression strikes most people at some time during their lives, often after a personal tragedy or a major lifestyle change. However, for some individuals, severe depression is a way of life, and they struggle to complete day-to-day tasks. There are different types of severe depression, and diagnosis is linked to symptom types, symptom intensity and the duration of a depressive episode....
By Jason Chavis
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder most notably characterized by an abnormal perception of reality. Victims of this disease commonly suffer from paranoia, delusions and hallucinations. While no physical tests exist for the disease, a number of common statistics have identified the prevalence of schizophrenia across the world. Currently, there is no cure for schizophrenia, although number of...
By Andrea Coventry
Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is a form of depression that most sufferers have in the winter months. Less common is its reverse, known as Summer SAD, which tends to occur in the summer months instead. Its onset is in the spring and it goes away in the fall. Both symptoms and treatment of Summer SAD differ slightly from that for Winter SAD. Summer SAD is cyclical in nature, meaning that ...