For decades, psychiatrists have told patients that conditions like schizophrenia and severe depression arise from a tangled ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), first global report on suicide ...

Postpartum depression (PPD), sometimes called perinatal depression, is a type of severe depression that happens to some people after giving birth. In most cases, PPD occurs within the first three ...

A newly published analysis reveals that individuals with severe depression who received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were 34% less likely to die by suicide compared to those treated with standard ...

Mood disorders include depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. These types of psychiatric disorders affect a person’s emotions and may cause severe lows, called depression, and highs, called mania ...

Feeling persistently sad, exhausted, or hopeless doesn’t always mean you’re dealing with clinical depression. Several medical conditions create nearly identical symptoms that can fool both patients ...

Caplyta (lumateperone) was approved for the treatment of schizophrenia in 2019 and for depressive episodes linked to bipolar I or bipolar II disorder (bipolar depression) in 2021. Caplyta can be used ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), first global report on suicide prevention published this week, roughly one person dies of suicide every 40 seconds. More than 800,000 die by suicide ...

Wendy Wisner is a journalist and international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). She has written about all things pregnancy, maternal/child health, parenting, and general health and ...