Recent research identifies the physiological causes of depression as sometimes originating in the gut. Serotonin is one of ...

Written by Nancy Sweeney, CLC, and Cara Gardenswartz PhD at GroupTherapyLA. Watching someone you care about slip away into the shadows of depression is a painful, helpless experience. You want to ...

Mental health and depression have taken the forefront of social conversations lately. People are willing to speak more on the issue and even singer undefinednot too long ago. More people are coming ...

I lied to the first person who asked me if I had postpartum depression. Four days after giving birth, I was sitting on a chair in the pediatrician’s office, holding my crying newborn, who was there ...

DEAR ABBY: I need advice about a friend who is constantly downcast and clinically depressed. I have tried praying for her, lifting her up and encouraging her, but to no avail. At this point, I feel ...

I have a friend (for the past 20 years) who is extremely negative and depressed, impossible to deal with, irrational and who is completely draining me. Any and all suggestions I give to better her ...

MARIA: 5 ON YOUR MENTAL HEALTH TONIGHT, NEW STRATEGIES TO HELP YOUR PARTNER FEEL BETTER WHEN THEY’RE SAD OR DEPRESSED. HERE TO EXPLAIN IS DR. MICHELLE DIBLASI, A PSYCHIATRIST AT TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER.

If you suspect your child might be struggling mentally, but they haven’t explicitly said so, it can be difficult to know what to do or say to help them. Such was the predicament one parent faced ...

Dear Amy: My 83-year-old widowed mother is depressed, and I don’t know how to help. She refuses to see a therapist and sees drugs as a crutch. She has always been a very private person, is generally ...