To keep completely up to date on news relating to depression, your first step might simply be to enter “depression news” into a search engine. Most of the latest information will spring up right away, and you’ll just need to sift through it. You’ll find information on current and new treatments, as well as new [...]

Frequently, in the past, people with psychological illnesses have been diagnosed as having depression, post traumatic stress syndrome, or eating disorders, when in fact their real illness is a dissociative disorder. Part of the reason is that their underlying problem often shares symptoms with other illnesses. But dissociative identity disorder (DID), depersonalization disorder, dissociative amnesia [...]

Depression in teens can be very difficult to diagnose. Even in adults it may be hard, but they at least have finished with all of the emotional and physical complications of emergent puberty. With teenagers, it might take a while to distinguish a more normal gloom and the occasional bad mood from things like an [...]

Among the various psychiatric diagnoses, one of the hardest to establish and treat is delusional disorder. Diagnosis is difficult because the patient often lives quite normally in the world, with their delusions being “non-bizarre,” or theoretically plausible. In fact, so normal can some people appear that they are convinced they don’t have a problem, and [...]

For much of the last century, the psychiatric profession considered bipolar children to be non-existent. That is, they believed that bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, occurred only in adults, even though some early researchers had evidence suggesting that a few adults had symptoms that had indeed manifested before they were ten. But manic [...]