This article gives you information on what you need to do about the disorders of mood and depression.

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Mood and Depression
By Marcus M. Mottley, Ph.D.
In the past 15 years, the number of people seeking treatment for mood and depression in the U.S.
has doubled to25 million a year. Thats bad news, but what is worse is that according to recent
research, 90% of these people left their doctors offices with a prescription for antidepressants. It is
downright frightening that prescription drugs have become the treatment of choice instead of
psychotherapy and other less dangerous and more effective therapies.
We arein a bad mood epidemic andina pharmaceutical/drug epidemic and crisis! We need other
ways of treating people forthis exploding mental health disorder.
One in four women will have a severe or major mood and depression disordersin their lifetime. For
men it is one in eight. And, 35 million Americans each year suffer from SAD according to JAMA.
One in five Americans are depressed or unhappy, and report high levels of stress, anxiety and
sadness. And internationally, 121 million people have been diagnosed with mood and depression
disorderswhile countless others remain undiagnosed because of low access to mental health
services. Depression can affect a persons ability to work, form relationships, and destroy their
quality of life. At its most severe mood and depression disorder can lead to suicide and is
responsible for 850,000 deaths world-wide every year.
How do you know if you need help? Answer some of the question below. Caution: The questions
below are not clinically diagnostic questions. They are being shared as information only and to
provide you an incentive to get additional information on mood and depression from other
resources.
1. Do you have a tendency to be negative, to see the glass as half empty rather than half full?
2. Do you often experience a dark mood and pessimistic thinking?
3. Do you really dislike the dark, dreary weather, or is your mood triggered by a fall/winter
depression (SAD)?
4. Are you often worried and anxious?
5. Do you often feel guilty, critical of yourself, have low self-esteem, or suffer from a lack of
confidence?
6. Is your drive, optimism and motivation low?
7. Do you have difficulty concentrating and focusing, and is your will-power low?
8. Are you easily upset, frustrated, irritated, and snappy while under stress?
9. Do you often feel moody, pressured, stressed, uptight, overburdened, and that you dont have
enough time to complete your tasks?
10. Do you tend to avoid painful issues or situations where you will experience painful emotions?

2. 11. Have you experienced a great deal of emotional pain and hurt?
12. Do you have the feeling that your emotional health needs to be boosted?
13. Do you have crying spells?
14. Do you have intermittent mental confusion, forgetfulness, and difficulty concentrating?
If you answered yes to five or more of the above questions, then you might consider getting more
information on how to move from emotional hurt to emotional health. You need information that
might help you avoid the nightmare of having to use prescription drugs to treat your condition for
the rest of your life! You can get this at my site identified above and below this post or at
www.HealYourHurt.com.
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This article provides you with helpful information on what you need to do about the exploding
mental health mood and depression problems.
www.healyourhurt.com
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