First blood test to diagnose depression in adults — ScienceDaily – http://t.co/IZoINcXqRV (via @n_rimmington). Interesting. Who knows? – Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) September 21, 2014 The first blood test to diagnose major depression in adults has been developed by Northwestern Medicine® scientists, a breakthrough approach that provides the first objective, scientificContinue Reading

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jessica-larsen/the-secret-to-being-happy_b_5680613.html When I was in the murky depths of depression, I used to love it when it rained. The more gray, gloomy and miserable the weather, the better. My then-partner was always puzzled by this meteorological preference. “Who prefers bad weather?” he asked, “Why on earth do you like itContinue Reading

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lloyd-i-sederer-md/stronger-together_b_5682989.html? Twenty-five hundred years ago, well before Christ, Hippocrates, the Greek father of medicine, identified melancholia as a common condition of dark mood and physical malaise. He even attributed melancholia, which today we think of as clinical depression, to a biological disturbance, namely an excess of a bodily fluid heContinue Reading