Major depressive disorder, also known as recurrent depressive disorder, is a mental illness that can cause significant problems in a person's life. People with MDD often experience a variety of symptoms that range from excessive fatigue to changes in appetite and insomnia or oversleeping and suicidal thoughts in more severe…
Family and friends say you’ve always been moody, but lately, you’ve noticed changes in your energy levels, and there have been moments when you can’t think coherently. Depending on how often this happens, you could be suffering from a mental health illness called bipolar disorder – and it may affect…
Fibromyalgia is an ailment that leads to pain all over your body, sleep trouble, tiredness, and abnormal emotional and mental pain. Someone with fibromyalgia may be more susceptible to pain than someone without it, known as abnormal pain perception processing. How many people get fibromyalgia? The U.S. Centers for Disease…
If you broke an arm or leg, it’s normal to experience occasional discomfort even after the injury heals. But if the pain is severe, lasts more than six months, and you begin noticing physical changes in the injured limb, you may be experiencing what’s known as complex regional pain syndrome.…
Millions of people experience anxiety symptoms every day, but they often subside on their own. However, for others, the fear, sleeping problems, avoidance, and other symptoms linger indefinitely and often worsen over time. This could mean you’re suffering from an anxiety disorder, but, fortunately, the symptoms are treatable with certain…
You won’t eat a fast-food hamburger until you’ve exposed exactly half the bun from the paper wrapper. You insist on arranging spices in your pantry in alphabetical order. You may just be odd, an eccentric perfectionist, but if these are true compulsions and obsessions, you could be suffering from OCD.…
You've likely heard about ketamine, but the key takeaway is that it's a medicine that can help reduce mental and physical suffering if you haven't found therapy or medicine that works for your condition. What Is Ketamine? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Ketamine is a versatile medicine and…
Everyone, thanks to the structure of the human brain and other factors, perceives discomfort in different ways. We can think of acute, localized pain as a temporary annoyance. But other pain, which lasts for months or longer without a cause, may then be described as chronic pain.Read More
What is chronic pain? “Chronic pain lasts months or years and happens in all parts of the body. It interferes with daily life and can lead to depression and anxiety. The first step in treatment is to find and treat the cause. When that isn't possible, the most effective approach…
Most people experience pain, mostly acute, which normally has a specific cause and disappears on its own. But some pain without an obvious cause lingers for six months or more, progressively becoming chronic and interfering with your daily life. Therapy and certain medicine like ketamine may help reduce its symptoms.Read…