We all have either experienced or know someone battling depression, and it's one of the most challenging topics to discuss. On the always topical r/AskReddit subreddit, a user asked depressed people ...

I started 2014 on a high, as I told you earlier. Then I took big risks, faced failure, kept going in the direction of what I believed, and somehow, I ended the year on a high.  So how was it that ...

A new study suggests that depression diminishes a person’s sense of meaning in life by triggering feelings of loneliness and lowering their self-evaluation. The research identifies specific ...

I started to get extremely depressed at 19. I was a sophomore in college and doing well in school and socially but I had this weird existential angst and sadness and apathy that eventually morphed ...

A world-first study has shown that it is possible to determine who is likely to get depression in late-life based on a "genetic score." The longitudinal study of more than 12,000 people over 70 paves ...

The researchers found that depression present in late life and midlife significantly increased the risk for all-cause dementia. HealthDay News — Depression across the life course is associated with an ...

Judd's new book, "River of Time," details her descent into depression. — -- Naomi Judd is part of country music royalty who, with her daughter Wynonna Judd, skyrocketed to the top of country ...

CHARLOTTE — The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a treatment for use in young people with depression, and one local woman says it changed her life. For 20 years, Colleen Ellen said she ...

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 ...

Walking home from work yesterday, it was cold and dark at 5 pm. My house was bedecked with a Christmas tree in the window, and I paused to look at it, at the glowing lights and the front door with ...