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Like many first-time mothers, Lisette Lopez-Rose thought childbirth would usher in a time of joy. Instead, she had panic attacks as she imagined that something bad was going to happen to her baby, and ...

Diagnosis of major depression is made when an individual endorses at least one of the cardinal symptoms (i.e. depressed mood and/or loss of interest) and a number of other symptoms as described in the ...

There are various self-report measures to assess depression that doctors may use to diagnose someone. While there are no diagnostic criteria for anger, tests can evaluate anger emotions and possible ...

MAJOR DEPRESSION is a serious illness, but also an elusive one. It wrecks lives and may drive people to suicide. It sometimes, though not always, alternates with periods of mania in a condition called ...

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NICE's medical technologies advisory committee considered evidence on digitally enabled therapies for treating depression in adults from several sources, including an early value assessment report by ...

Postpartum depression affects some one in eight women in the United States. It typically occurs in the first weeks after childbirth, after a sudden drop in levels of estrogen and progesterone.