Comorbid Depression: Depression and Another Mental Illness
HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- Comorbid Depression: Depression and Another Mental Illness
- Surviving PTSD on HealthyPlace TV
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- Sharing Mental Health Experiences
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
Comorbid Depression: Depression and Another Mental Illness
As if having an anxiety disorder, an eating disorder, ADHD or schizophrenia isn't enough, many with a mental illness also suffer from depression. What brings this to mind is this week's post by our blogger, Dan Hoeweler, who discusses his battles with schizoaffective disorder and depression.
Whether the depression is a by-product of the struggles of living with a separate mental illness or developed on its own doesn't really matter. Studies have shown that people who have depression, in addition to another disorder, tend to have more severe symptoms of both conditions. This decreases the chances of successful treatment and depending on the severity of the depression and other condition, comorbidity can increase someone's risk for suicide.
Research has yielded increasing evidence that treating the depression can also help improve the outcome of treating the other existing illness. That's why it's so important to discuss any depression symptoms with your doctor or therapist.
Related Stories
- Take a Short Depression Test
- What are the Symptoms of Depression?
- Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Depression
- Relationship Between Anxiety and Depression
- Depression Treatment Options
- Depression Support: Why You Need It, Where to Find It
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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:
- Things Verbal Abusers Say And Do
- Stop Minimizing Mental Illness: Worst Things to Say
- Immediate Relief of Negative Feelings
If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.
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Mental Health Experiences
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You can listen to what other people are saying by clicking on the gray title bars inside the widgets located on the "Sharing Your Mental Health Experiences" homepage, the HealthyPlace homepage, and the HealthyPlace Support Network homepage.
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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
Your comments and observations are welcomed.
- Mental Health Awareness: How Early Experiences Shape Self-Esteem (video) (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- Medicine for Anxiety (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- Writing Off People with a Mental Illness Hurts You, Not Us (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- Reality Check: Chronic Mental Illness Involves Relapse (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- Diagnosis: Mental Illness. The Moment of Truth (video) (Mental Illness in the Family Blog)
- The Depression Behind My Schizoaffective Disorder (Creative Schizophrenia Blog)
- My Experience With Mental Health Stigma (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- Not Everything A Verbal Abuser Says Is A Lie (Verbal Abuse and Relationships Blog)
- The Truth About Anorexia (Surviving ED Blog)
- Original Song: Not Beaten Yet (More Than Borderline Blog)
- An Alcoholic Bipolar Bear Reveals The Irony Of Reversible Stigma (Funny in the Head: A Mental Health Humor Blog)
- Addiction Stigma and Celebrating Mental Health (Debunking Addiction Blog)
- When Hyperfocus Becomes the Distraction (Living with Adult ADHD Blog)
- What’s Not True About Depression (Coping with Depression Blog)
- Discipline, School, and the Mentally Ill Child in Handcuffs: Social Stigma (Life with Bob: A Parenting Blog)
Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.
Surviving PTSD on HealthyPlace TV
Michele Rosenthal experienced trauma at the age of 13 but lived 24 years before a diagnoses. She talks about the process of recovery and understanding PTSD. As you might imagine, Michele notes she was a very different person after recovering from PTSD than she was before the trauma. Watch Surviving PTSD.
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