Overcoming Severe Depression and Severe Social Anxiety

Overcoming Severe Depression and Severe Social Anxiety – Alpental ski area skier, Donnelly Miller aka Ratboy, talks about his 32 plus year of battling shyness and social anxiety along with depression. He talks about how he needs to step it up and quit being a “nice guy” “Nice Guys” finish last. Through being active, I hope to defeat my lifelong social anxiety and depression!

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Exact cause of depression revealed

Filed under: severe depression

Major depressive disorder, for instance, which affects nearly 20 per cent of people at some point in life, is correlated with underperformance in the parts of the brain involved in motivation. But Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, a professor of bioengineering …
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Depression Can Increase Hospital Risk for Elderly Men

Filed under: severe depression

Investigators used the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale to determione if an individual was depressed. Of the 5411 participants, 339 (6 percent) had a score of 7 or greater, indicating moderate to severe depression. Almost half (45 percent) of the …
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