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 ...

Medically reviewed by Arno Kroner, DAOM Key Takeaways Exercise can boost mood by releasing "feel-good" chemicals. Meditation ...

Niamh Delmar is a Chartered Registered Counselling Psychologist and provides Psychological Support Workshops to work ...

If you have a profoundly depressed friend, you may need to set reasonable limits. Hi Irene, What do you do to safeguard your own sanity from an extremely depressed person, who sucks you dry, ...

If anyone is looking to support a friend with depression, they probably won't be able to do it alone. It’s a smart idea to recruit outside help when dealing with a mental health condition like ...

Sadness, discouraged, grief, these are all normal human emotions. Everyone has those feelings from time to time and they usually go away within a few days, maybe even hours. Depression is something ...

Another big cause is life stress. Sad or difficult events—such as losing someone close, going through a divorce, losing a job ...