High-functioning depression, often called persistent depressive disorder or dysthymia, is a tricky condition where people seem to have it all together on the surface but are quietly battling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mental health counselor Jeffrey Meltzer sees clients nearly every day who suffer from “high-functioning” depression, so he decided ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers explored how structural and functional aspects of the brain, as seen through neuroimaging, differ between individuals with high exposure ...

High-functioning depression can sit behind a polished life, making it hard for friends, colleagues, and even the person experiencing it to recognize what is going on. Instead of obvious collapse, the ...

“I don’t even remember the last time I was truly happy. Yet I go to work, pay my bills, see my friends. But I’m constantly, severely depressed.” This is just one of over a thousand comments on a ...

Some people don't even realize they're dealing with a form of depression. Oscar Wong via Getty Images While it’s not an official medical diagnosis, high-functioning depression is more common than most ...

Depression is often linked with a lack of energy or inability to do small tasks. A new term which has entered the pop psychology zeitgeist paints a very different picture of depression.

On a special episode (first released on May 16) of The Excerpt podcast: Many people have some experience with depression. Often the condition goes away, but what if it doesn't? What if it's something ...

Judith Joseph has spent most of her life building an impressive résumé. She is a board-certified psychiatrist, chair of the Women in Medicine Initiative for Columbia University’s Vagelos College of ...

This was a two-group cross-sectional comparative design. The convenience sample of postpartum women also participated in another component of the study (not reported here) that compared sleep quality ...

Depression and other mental health issues reduce the number of productivity-adjusted life years (PALYs) more than musculoskeletal diseases or cardiovascular diseases, according to a recent joint study ...