Natural Remedies for Depression

For those who wish to use natural remedies for depression, a number of studies have shown an improvement in depression using natural remedies such as herbal remedies, vitamin D, the alleviation of sleep apnea etc. These articles also cover the controversies over anti-depression medication drugs as well as postpartum depression, depression during pregnancy, moderate depression and major depression.


A Natural Remedy for Depression - Alleviating Sleep Apnea?
For more than twenty years studies have suggested the existence of a relationship between depression and obstructive sleep apnea in the general population. A researcher at Stanford University found that in the general population of the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain about 800 of 100,000 individuals have both a breathing-related sleep disorder and a major depressive disorder with nearly 20% of the subjects who had one of these disorders also having the other...Read full article


Anti-Depression Medication Drugs Found to be of Little Benefit
Study finds that there was virtually no difference in the improvement scores for anti-depression drugs and placebo in patients with moderate depression and only a small but clinically insignificant difference among patients with very severe depression. The findings also show that the effect for very severe depression patients seems to be due to decreased responsiveness to placebo, rather than increased responsiveness to anti-depression drug medication...Read full article


Depression and Repressed Memories in the Aged
Repressed memories of past life experience can lead to depression in the aging population, according to a professor at Kansas State University.Leon Rappaport, professor of psychology at K-State, said sometimes, in later life, a memory of a person or event from years earlier can trigger feelings of guilt, remorse or anxiety and lead to depression...Read full article


Omega 3 Fish Oil and Depression
A number of studies have found decreased omega-3 content in the blood of depressed patients. This article includes the effects of omega-3 eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) in depressive symptoms, premenstrual syndrome, anorexia nervosa syndrome, bipolar depression, borderline personality disorder and agoraphobia...Read full article


Dealing with Depression during Pregnancy – Part 1
Background Information - Pregnancy and Severe Depression
Canadian researchers, reporting in BMC Women's Health September 2007, explored the experiences of 19 women in Ontario who were diagnosed with depression during their pregnancy...Read full article


Depression During Pregnancy – Part 2
Depression During Pregnancy - The potential side effect of many drugs having the ability to cause defects in a developing fetus and the behavioral impact of antidepressant use on the infant...Read full article


Women With Depression During Pregnancy – Part 3
The women who have had anxiety and depression during pregnancy talk about their experiences...Read full article


Pregnancy: Depression, Antidepressant Drugs and The Baby – Part 4
Depression During Pregnancy – Depression Deepens – Doubt: Can they cope throughout the pregnancy and after the baby is born. Perceived consequences of depression and antidepressant use and the baby. Conflicting information provided by physicians and psychiatrists...Read full article


Pregnancy and Depression Seeking Support – Part 5
Management and treatment of their depression. Support from husbands, parents, siblings and friends? Their husbands accompanied them, on at least one occasion, to the psychiatrist, and participated in discussions about treatment strategies. However, being seen by their husbands as...Read full article


Dealing With Depression During Pregnancy – Part 6
Whether or not to take antidepressants drugs was a difficult decision. Receiving a definitive diagnosis, while difficult for some women, created a sense of relief and hope, and was a turning point for the women: it signified an identifiable, manageable disorder, justified and explained how they were feeling, and created a sense of relief, comfort, and hope upon hearing that they were “not the only one” to feel this way. Many of the women had knowledge of postpartum depression, but few knew that depression could occur during pregnancy. One woman summed up this turning point as follows:...Read full article


Depression During Pregnancy Regaining Control – Part 7
Depression During Pregnancy: Consequences of Becoming the best mom that I can – Re-grounding self and regaining control. Re-grounding self and regaining control describes the consequences of the strategies undertaken in confining the threat. All women had undergone counseling; ten took antidepressant medication during pregnancy, five commenced antidepressant medication within two months of delivering, and one woman delayed commencing antidepressant medication until she had weaned her baby. Three women elected not to use antidepressants at anytime during the pre- and postpartum periods. The properties of this category are: Being in a better place and Knowing self...Read full article



Depressed? Drink Tea
Researchers at the Kuopio University Hospital in Finland, using a questionnaire to 2011 people in the general Finnish population, found that those who reported drinking tea daily were less depressed than the others...Read full article