Is Depression a Disability?
Mental health struggles can be debilitating. However, mental health issues are still health concerns, and you deserve the right to get the support you need when healing. Since mental illness can be more challenging to spot than a physical ailment, it can sometimes be hard to qualify a psychiatric condition as something that requires disability support.
What It Means to Have Clinical Depression
Depression is a mental health disorder characterized by episodes of persistent low mood. Most of the time, “clinical depression” refers to major depressive disorder. But there are other types of depression too, such as bipolar depression, seasonal affective disorder (SAD), formally diagnosed as major depressive disorder with seasonal pattern, and postpartum depression, now formally diagnosed as major depressive disorder with peripartum onset - to name a few.
Am I Depressed or Just Exhausted?
Depression and lack of sleep are closely linked. Although the two can sometimes be hard to distinguish, there are signs to look out for when your lack of energy may be more than just exhaustion
How to Cope With Depression and Anxiety at the Same Time
Depression and anxiety are both pretty common as mental health conditions go, and for some of us—myself included—they exist together. In fact, some studies have suggested that between 20% and 40% of those with depression or anxiety have both.
Your Guide To Somatic Symptom Disorder
Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is a mental health condition that causes obsession over physical symptoms you experience. This condition goes beyond just causing health anxiety. People with SSD excessively focus on any symptoms they may be experiencing (like pain or fatigue) and have distressing thoughts and feelings about them.
