Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), also known as winter depression or winter blues, is a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or, less frequently, in the summer,[1] spring or fall, repeatedly, year after year. Read on.

Approximately 75 percent of women experience symptoms in the years leading up to their last period. Some have a tougher time than others. Declining hormones can be linked to a range of symptoms from hot flashes and insomnia to irritability and poor concentration...and for some women, depression. Read on.

Depression can significantly impact quality of life for heart disease patients and can increase the risk for additional cardiac events or even death. Read on to find out more about the relationship of heart disease and depression.

If you suffer from asthma, you know that coping with the condition can be extremely challenging. But can you imagine ending your life as a result of having this condition? While this may sound very extreme, some of the latest research has found that there is a real link between asthma symptoms and suicidal tendencies. The study findings suggest that the connection may not specifically be because people suffer from the asthma symptoms themselves, but nonetheless, that asthma-suicide risk does seem to be linked in some significant way.

Several studies have identified a connection between creativity and mental illness, particularly depression and bipolar disorder, formally referred to as manic depression. One study out of Stanford University School of Medicine showed for the first that time that children who have (or at risk for developing) a bipolar disorder got higher creativity scores than children without the same health problem.