This post is in response to How Our Insecurities Can Reveal Our Deepest Gifts By Ken Page L.C.S.W. [Article updated on 6 September 2017] Today sadness, particularly if intense or prolonged, is ...

Around the time Andrew Solomon’s essay on depression, “Anatomy of Melancholy,” appeared in the New Yorker, a neighbor jumped from the roof of my apartment building. All that winter afternoon, ...

A multicenter research team used a new, automated technique to identify shrinkage of a mood-regulating brain structure in a large sample of women with MS who also have a certain type of depression. A ...

The brains of children who suffer clinical depression as preschoolers develop abnormally, compared with the brains of preschoolers unaffected by the disorder, according to new research at Washington ...

Growing up with a depressed parent takes its toll, reframing how you look at the world as a child. In 2007, Mike Bernstein recorded a moving dialogue between 12-year-old Cameron and his father, Bob.

Depression in older adults, also called geriatric depression, is a mental and emotional disorder affecting older adults. Feelings of sadness and occasional “blue” moods are normal. However, lasting ...