Depression Treatment Recommendations
- Counseling and Therapy
- Exercise
- Nutrition and Supplements
- Sunlight and Lightboxes
- Negative Ions and Nature
- Social Support
- Spirituality and Meaning
- Volunteering and Service
What's Wrong With Drugs for Depression?
Reviews of Specific Depression Treatments
- 5-HTP and Other Amino Acids
- Acupuncture
- Chromium Picolate
- Fish oil and Other Omega Fatty Acid Sources
- Homeopathic Remedies
- Melatonin
- SAMe
- Selenium
- St. John's Wort
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation
- Vitamins (including B, D & E)
What to avoid
Other Resources
When a Loved One is Depressed
Postpardum?
Situational/grief?
If your loved one is an adolescent
Eric Stice, Jennifer Ragan, and Patrick Randall.Prospective Relations Between Social Support and Depression: Differential Direction of Effects for Parent and Peer Support? Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 2004, Vol. 113, No. 1, 155–159.
The authors tested whether deficits in perceived social support predicted subsequent increases in depression and whether depression predicted subsequent decreases in social support with longitudinal data from adolescent girls (N = 496). Deficits in parental support but not peer support predicted future increases in depressive symptoms and onset of major depression. In contrast, initial depressive symptoms and major depression predicted future decreases in peer support but not parental support. Results are consistent with the theory that support decreases the risk for depression but suggest that this effect may be specific to parental support during early adolescence. Results are also consonant with the claim that depression promotes support erosion but imply that this effect may only occur with peer support during this period.
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