Subject Postpartum Depression is a serious disease that affects as many as 60 percent of new mothers. ... (Internet) There is no set pattern for those who are most likely to be affected by Postpartum Depression but one target group that has been receiving a lot of attention lately are substance abusive women. ... The purpose of researching Postpartum Depression and the treatments is to learn how to better care for the women and their children. ... They also used checklists and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to measure the progress and outcomes of the trials that were performed. .....

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A disease not to be taken likely that often affects pregnant women is postpartum depression. There are three phases of postpartum depression; postpartum blues (baby blues), postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. ... Postpartum depression is a psychiatric mood disorder that affects pregnant women. ... There are three stages of postpartum depression. ... Postpartum depression is an insidious onset and chronic course that complicates 10% t...

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But the most concrete reason Psychologists say there is, is the severe depression some teens go through. ... Often they show great interest in any news story or conversation that involves death. ... Extreme moodiness and depression can be signs of a meaningless and empty life. ... Increased use of drugs and alcohol can be a major warning sign of severe depression and possible suicide. ... Burdened by severe depression, they seem to care nothing for food. ...

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Depression is a killer. ... Learn to recognize the symptoms of depression. ... Exercise combats depression. ... • Symptoms of Depression: (major) 1. ... The great majority of people who commit suicide talk about their intention to kill themselves. ...

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Its purpose was to overcome the depression. Following the depression there were many programs and acts to help the nation recover from the depression. ... The AF of L was a division of many craft unions, sanctioned by the teamsters that had great political influence in during the depression. ...

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Nick Carraway the narrator of The Great Gatsby has qualities, which are the complete opposite of those of Tom Buchanan, his cousin-in-law. ... Gatz said something that Nick disagreed with, Nick still hesitantly, agreed with him, as to not hurt an old man's feelings; as apparent by the following quote: "If he lived, he would have been a great man. ... In The Great Gatsby, there are three illicit relationships: Gatsby and Daisy, Nick and Jordan, and Tom and Myrtle. ...

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Hiking is an inexpensive and simpler way to treat depression than by pills, injections, and therapy. It is impractical for a doctor to recommend that a patient suffering from depression go out and do something recreational like surfing or windsailing. ... (American Hiking Society) Since depression is usually an effect or the cause of inactivity, the release of these chemicals can make a big difference in the way a person feels. ... Imagine what it can do for you if you are already a happy person if it can revive someone down in the trenches of depression. ...

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The United Sates faced the Great Depression. The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually the entire industrialized world. ... The main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's, and the extensive stock market speculation that took place during the latter part that same decade. ... The weakness of the international economy certainly contributed to the Great Depression. ... As countries began to meet the Great Depression, powerful leaders arose from the ...

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The governments were more often in a state of disarray than not, the populace was disillusioned and scared, and the Great Wall Street stock market crash of 1923 saw the economy crumble before the population's eyes. ... This familiarity was significant for the Nazi's and Hitler, as public recognition was a building block for greatness to come. ... October 1929 marked a worldwide slide into the "Great Depression" due to the famous Wall Street Crash in the United States. ...

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After World War I, the United States went back to their old principle, "We shun political commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars,"" as FDR said in 1936 during the Great Depression . ... In 1929 a chain reaction from downward up to the crashing of the stock market began the Great Depression. ... But America was hit the worst by the Depression. ... Nazism brought Germany out of the Depression and prosperity back to the country. ... This caused other countries disturbance, but they were all busy with their own affairs "getting through the Great Depression. ...

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The symptoms of borderline patients are similar to those for which most people seek psychiatric help: depression, mood swings, the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol as a means of trying to feel better; obsessions, phobias, feelings of emptiness and loneliness, inability to tolerate being alone, problems about eating. ... Borderline people also show great difficulties in controlling rage; they are unusually impulsive, they fall in and out of love suddenly; they tend to idealize other people and then abruptly despise them. ...

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Another type of depression is bipolar disorder, also called manic-depressive illness. ... When in the manic cycle, the individual may be overactive, overtalkative, and have a great deal of energy. ... In some families, major depression also seems to occur generation after generation. However, it can also occur in people who have no family history of depression. ... Men are less likely to admit to depression, and doctors are less likely to suspect it. ...

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Kern's depression by extending his day length and creating an artificial summer. ... Within a short period the patient's depression lifted, and the practice of "light therapy" or photo therapy for the treatment of seasonal pattern depression was born. ... The reason for this is that in order to properly diagnose a person with SAD there has to have been a pattern of depression and remission from depression, concurrently 2 years. ... These symptoms can easily be mistaken for major depression as well. ... Depression - constant or close to constant feelings of hopelessness, sadness a...

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In a study done, of the 24 percent of terminally ill patients who requested assisted suicide, all had also been diagnosed with clinical depression (Euthanasia.com). ... They made a great analogy between euthanasia and heroin: As far as I am aware, all countries outlaw the sale and use of heroin. ... Yes, there ARE cases where society must protect people from themselves- whether from addiction to harmful drugs or from compulsive gambling or from a depression or other mental ailment that dictates that they destroy their own lives. ...

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Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. ... Garraty argues that Nazi and New Deal anti depression policies bear striking similarities, and because the systems were perceived to be so fundamentally different his comparison is expository of how people handled the crisis. ... He contends that until the Great Society is converted into a Great Community the public will remain a formless and an incoherent body of citizens. ... Garraty compares the response to the Depressi...

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This is a story of the Great Possibility, what America COULD be, and what it has lost by not working past its prejudices and fears. ... Marx, of course, was the great nemesis of capitalism, because he believed that capitalism inevitably would result in the loss of freedom for the majority. ...

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Drugs have become a very serious problem in the United States. They have become a component of one's every day lives. This Nation's reliance on drugs for pleasure, depression, and medical relief dominates the political and economic scene. Much debate over the drug issue occurs daily. Pleasure i...

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As the drug's effects wear off, the user can get into some kind of depression, sometimes the users feel jumpy, fearful, and anxious. ... Mantel complications, including serious mantel illness (schizophrenia), depression, delusions, anxiety disorders and paranoia. ... When taking a great amount of inhalants, there will not be a pleasant high but mental confusion, and delusions, sometimes it can also cause paranoia. ... The danger is especially great if inhalants are taken along with, alcohol or sleeping pills. ...

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One result of learned helplessness can be depression. ... Self-esteem and feelings of competence are extremely important in protecting against feelings of helplessness and depression. ... His rage is so great that it blinds his control over his behavior. ... Often they tell of a great many trivial annoyances that occurred during phase one. ...

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The great majority of them would not. ... The factory system that began around 1800 brought great changes. ... Their conditions became desperate in times of business depressions. ... Probably the most violent confrontation between labor and employers was the Great Railway Strike of 1877. The nation had been in the grip of a severe depression for four years. ...

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She does an excellent job of pairing the challenges her family has faced being African Americans growing up during the Great Depression with essential life-lessons that are important for every person to understand. ... She grew up during the Great Depression, which her father compensated for by working three jobs for seventeen years ("Toni Morrison Biography"). ... As soon as she learned how to read, it became one of her favorite things to do; she read the works of great authors such as Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, and Gustave Flaubert, who all impressed her in different ways. ... In an...

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This is the result of westward expansion and the establishment of several companies along the Great Lakes. ... Fortin and Hebert both see as Montreal experiences an unprecedented phase of industrialization and urbanization that continues until the Depression. ...

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A child living in poverty is under a great amount of stress. ... Some of these problems include anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, aggression, and not being able to get along with their peers. Anxiety and depression also involve treatment and many times require some medication. ...

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Kathleen O"Connell Corcoran Ph.D. show that "divorce is associated with an increase in depression: people experience loss of partner, hopes and dreams, and lifestyle". ... Researchers say in the Journal of Marriage and The Family, divorce elevates a girl's risk for depression because it increases the chances that her mother will become depressed, which in turn reduces the quality of her parenting. ... The Journal of Marriage and The Family says that they encounter the sleeper affect in their late adolescence or early adulthood when they enter their first serious relationship, some of the ...

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The great depression of the 1930s affected a majority of the world population. ... This depression started with the Stock Market Crash of 1929. ... The great hegemon was not leading the world out of the depression. ... These were the reasons why countries agreed to join GATT after the WWII; they didn't want depressions to happen again. ...

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