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- Melissa Breyer
- May 5, 2009
- 3:00 pm
- 69 comments
Headaches. Headaches and migraine headaches are fairly common in people with depression. If you already had migraine headaches, they may become worse if you’re depressed. The relationship between depression and migraine headaches, which affect more than 10 percent of Americans, is especially close. One study found that over a two-year period, a person with a history of major depression was three times more likely than average to have a first migraine attack, and a person with a history of migraine was five times more likely than average to have a first episode of depression.
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Melissa Breyer
Melissa Breyer is a writer and editor with a background in sustainable living, specializing in food, science and design. She is the co-author of True Food (National Geographic) and has edited and written for regional and international books and periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine. Melissa lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Thank you!!!
This is only another good reason,to be happy as a man.Thank you for the article...
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Very good advice, thank you.
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+ add your ownDepression is a serious illness
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Interestingly enough, I've recently become depressed again and been experiencing a few of the things listed here and have in the past.
Recently, I started feeling a lot better and actually in a good, positive area again. Guess what? As I felt better....the physical things went away and I also felt physically good again. Now that I've felt depressed again...I've started feeling physically bad as well.
Unfortunately I don't have the money or insurance to go to the doctor to get anything done about anything.
"The (psychiatric mental disorder') diagnosis is based on arbitrary symptom lists that are non-specific and almost always gleaned from self-report and pure speculation. We have no way of objectively validating anything" Dr. John Sorboro, Psychiatrist
"We have a (psychiatric) diagnosis for everything and everybody. We don't aim to make people healthy or even allow as to how they may be healthy, but we call them sick" Dr. Ronald Ricker, Psychiatrist.
"The more disorders there are, the more private business psychiatrists get" Dr. Richard Bentall, Clinical Psychologist
“We can manufacture enough diagnostic labels of normal variability of mood and thought that we can continually supply medication to you…But when it comes to manufacturing disease, nobody does it like Psychiatry.”-----Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, Psychiatrist
Thanks.
Some good information however all of these symptoms could be related to serious physical conditions as well, so it may have been a bit unwise to put them all under the depression title.
I suffer from a number of these conditions and my diagnosis was not depression, always make sure you get checked out by GP and don't let the depression tag be put on you without thorough testing
I second the person who said NLP helped them with depression. I've found it to be one of the best, most effective ways to overcome it.
http://www.understanding-depression-symptoms.com/physical-symptoms-of-depression.html
Not to throw a monkey wrench into the Great Unwashed Psychiatry Machine but let's hear the Health Guru explain how in the last 30 years, this 'psychiatric illness' went from 1 in 10,000 people as having 'depression' to 1 in 10, even 1 in 4 (some say) today.
There is NO biological change in human beings to account for this THOUSAND FOLD increase, and such a ridiculous supposed increase cannot be accounted for either by life being THAT much more stressful today than 30 years ago, so it comes down to the field of Psychiatry has simply changed what THEY interpret as 'depressiion' and the public buys it..
Not forgetting that there is NO biological or biochemical or genetic proof of depression whatsoever as an actual illness or disease or 'disorder' anyway...
thanks
Thank you, didn't know about some of those signs
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