| BLOOMINGTON, ILL. (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Facing academic pressures, navigating new and changing relationships, and balancing responsibilities long have been worries at college.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The topic of suicide makes many people squirm. It's something we've been told we're not supposed to talk about. If you speak it, someone might do it.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Unemployed people are four times more likely to experience severe mental-health issues, including depression, than people with jobs, according to a survey released yesterday by the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health America.
(NewsRx.com) -- A new report from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which is published by Elsevier in the September-October 2009 issue of General Hospital Psychiatry, explores the management of pregnancy and depression.
(Chicago Daily Herald) -- The number of Americans taking antidepressants doubled to 10.1 percent of the U.S. population in 2005 compared with 1996, increasing across income and age groups, a study found.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Most workers who have lost their jobs during the recession have borrowed money from friends and family, have lost sleep and don't have health insurance, according to a Rutgers University study released today.
(NewsRx.com) -- Young people with asthma have nearly twice the incidence of depression compared to their peers without asthma, and studies have shown that depression is associated with increased asthma symptoms and, in some cases, death (see also University at Buffalo).
CHICAGO (AP) -- Depression in children as young as 3 is real and not just a passing grumpy mood, according to provocative new research.
(USA TODAY) -- Excessive newborn crying, also known as colic, can be one of the greatest tests of a parent's love -- and sanity.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- There is a school of thought that says having an entire condo tower floor or apartment building to one's self might be fun.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Increasingly powerful antipsychotic drugs available on the market, and growing evidence that starting these medications early can help children with conditions like bipolar disorder, is putting doctors under more pressure than ever to diagnose and treat young people with mental illnesses.
(AAP) -- Young people with a sibling who has cancer are more prone to depression and psychological distress, a new Australian study has found.
(USA TODAY) -- Children of parents with anxiety disorders are up to seven times more likely than others to develop anxiety problems themselves, research shows, and children of depressed parents also are at high risk for becoming depressed.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Depression symptoms have disappeared for four of 10 patients taking part in a new treatment approach offered by family doctors in Minnesota.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A persistent decline in the rate of Americans, especially children, newly diagnosed with depression followed the first federal warning on risks connected with antidepressant drugs, a study suggests.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows.
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