When January rolls around, the festive fun has come to an end, and we resume our regular day-to-day routines . . . good times, right? This month can be especially difficult for some because the party is over, the temperatures are dropping, and the days are awfully short. If you're experiencing any symptoms that feel like major depression, you may be suffering from seasonal affective disorder Read more

This question is from a Group Therapy post in our TrèsSugar Community. Add your advice in the comments! I worry about my mental health, and it's been taking a toll on my relationship. Has anyone had to deal with depression while in a relationship? How did you cope? Or has anyone been on the other side and had a family member or significant other with depression/other mental health issues? How Read more

Happiness might be overrated, depending on how you define it. On the one hand you have pleasure, or hedonistic happiness, an immediate feeling of satisfaction, amusement, or joy. And on the other, there's contentment, or eudaimonic happiness, which you can think of as a general feeling of well-being and fulfillment. Researchers say pursuing the former might actually make us less happy, while Read more

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The benefit of exercise stretches way beyond the ability to fit into our "skinny jeans." It reduces stress, combats fatigue, and is good for the brain. It also helps with depression. Having dealt with PMDD for most of my adult life, exercise became my natural form of Prozac. It's good to remember this for times when you might be feeling down and out. Out of rehab for less than a week, Lindsay Read more

In my interview with Stefanie Michaels a.k.a. Adventure Girl, the travel and tweeting expert shared a great tip on how to get out from an unemployment funk. Here it is: I try and tell people to instead of focusing on the "me," the "I," the "oh my god, what’s happening to me," they need to realize that there’s a lot of people out that need support, not necessarily financial. There’s a lot Read more

Time on the psychiatrist's couch has long been viewed as a beneficial treatment for those with depression, but a new study has found that more patients are forgoing therapy sessions while antidepressant use has risen. The report found that depression rates have risen significantly since 1987, and while the rate of antidepressant use boomed to 74 percent amount among depressed patients, up Read more

“I contemplated suicide. I will not give up on life. There's so many people that will never get the chance to have their voice heard . . . I do it for them.” —"Philanthropist of culture” (his words) and Twitterer extraordinaire (our words) confessed to contemplating suicide during the Los Angeles screening of Runaway, a short film he wrote, directed, and starred in. Read more