Tag: Major depressive disorder

Heard of perinatal depression before? Well, it’s a very common disorder amongst women yet very little is known about it. ...

Dr Joseph Osafo, a Clinical Psychologist and Suicidologist, is advocating the de-criminalisation of suicide from the laws of Ghana. He ...

Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, Monday joined the board of an Australian mental health company, a ...

The theme for this year’s celebration is ‘Depression and suicide - the role of the family physician’ Family Doctors fear ...

Sixteen years ago my family and I got involved in a traffic accident and unfortunately, our youngest brother Apache passed ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says about 322 million people around the world are affected by depression, and needed serious ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says about 322 million people around the world are affected by depression, and needed serious ...

The Mental Health Authority in collaboration with World Health Organization has today April 7, launched a campaign to talk about ...

Depression is a health condition which is prevalent in Ghana, with four to five out of every 10 persons suffering ...

According to an updated fact of the World Health Organisation (WHO, March 2017), one of the key facts of depression ...

A Clinical Psychologist at the Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, has advised the general public, ...

It was one Saturday afternoon, as I was relaxing on my bed and decided to follow some discussions on a ...

When John Legend learned that his wife, Chrissy Teigen, had been diagnosed with postpartum depression, he started doing his research. ...

Depression, also known as clinical depression and major depressive disorder (MDD), is one of the least understood disorders of our ...

The Mental Health Authority has decided to establish a temporary helpline for persons contemplating suicide. The authority is, as well, ...

“Suicide does not mean there was no killer”- unanimous My roommate woke me up this morning and told me about ...

Head of the Psychiatric Departmentat Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr. Gordon Donnir, has emphasized the need for suicide threats ...

Depression is characterized by a severe and typically prolonged feeling of sadness and dejection. It is basically a state of ...

The findings, published in the journal Stress & Health recently, was based on a study involving 203 people, indicate that ...

Women become brainier when they are at their most fertile – and their brains then shrink during period, according to ...