http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/feeds/dancing-with-depression?key=dancing-with-depression Healthline Health Blogger Adrienne Santos - Dancing with Depression en-us Copyright (c) 2013 Healthline, All rights reserved. en-us Copyright (c) 2013 Healthline, All rights reserved. http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/twitching-eye As I sit here watching my left eye lid twitch five times in a row, every half hour like clockwork, I am reminded again of all the crazy things that stress can do to your body. I remember the last time I experienced the crazy eye twitch, an eye... Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/twitching-eye Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-09-24T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/latest-world-depression-research-meh Being up on the latest depression news and findings isn’t just something I do as a depression blogger but also as a sufferer of depression. No matter how good a grasp I have gotten on my depression, the possibility of a relapse and the memories... Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/latest-world-depression-research-meh Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-09-12T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/feeling-lump-or-something-stuck-throat-due-stress I am putting this one out there to share with others who are going through the same and in hopes of some answers myself. For the past 2+ years I have been dealing with a feeling of something in my throat. Endless trips to the doctor have found... Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/feeling-lump-or-something-stuck-throat-due-stress Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-09-10T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/mental-breaks-things-kept-me-sane-when-i-thought-i-wasn-t I make no secret of the fact that I think that medication played a small role in my recovery in comparison to the things that I did—or was forced to do—to try to keep myself from giving into depression entirely and falling into the abyss of da... Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/mental-breaks-things-kept-me-sane-when-i-thought-i-wasn-t Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-08-20T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/depressed-after-nap I say all the time that I feel that depression stays a part of you even long after you feel that you’ve been “cured” and for me it seems most true after naps. I know it sounds strange, but I find that if I am going to feel upset/ sad/downright ... Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/depressed-after-nap Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-08-14T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/efexor-making-you-problem-gambler-or-thief I read an article in the news about the antidepressant Efexor, and a possible link between the medication and problem gambling. Now, the “link” they are referring to in the article isn’t a scientific one or one with any real substantiated clini... Mon, 06 Aug 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/efexor-making-you-problem-gambler-or-thief Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-08-06T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/antidepressants-and-low-sex-drive-just-do-it This is not a promo for antidepressants or sex or even Nike—though I do thank them for the awesome slogan! This is some straight talk about antidepressants and the havoc they can wreak on your sex drive and some advice from a bona fide sex writ... Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/antidepressants-and-low-sex-drive-just-do-it Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-07-23T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/sting-being-accused-faking-your-depression How many times has someone implied or even all-out accused you of “faking” or “exaggerating” your depression? Stings, doesn’t it? I can sympathise because years later being accused of faking still feels like a slap in the face. As I have go... Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/sting-being-accused-faking-your-depression Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-07-18T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/exercise-and-depression I snicker when I read about exercise being the best way to treat depression naturally. Not because I don’t believe it, because I know better than many the rush a good workout is capable of providing and just how incredible you can feel after p... Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/exercise-and-depression Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-06-27T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/things-you-shouldn-t-say-someone-who-s-depressed I recently read an article about the things that you shouldn’t say to a person who is depressed. I was drawn to the article because I could see how some things could drive you (me) up the wall while depressed and prove pretty useless, but at th... Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/things-you-shouldn-t-say-someone-who-s-depressed Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-06-20T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/10-things-you-probably-don-t-know-about-depression I have talked about how difficult coming to terms with and accepting my diagnosis was because what I was feeling felt anything but like depression, or at least what I thought it to be. Had I known more about the symptoms of depression and all ... Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/10-things-you-probably-don-t-know-about-depression Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-06-07T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/when-happy-pill-didnt-work-finding-right-antidepressant When you’re diagnosed with depression, you trust your doctor to put you on medication that will work its magic and make you all better. That’s what doctors do, isn’t it: know what to do to make you better. Perhaps that thinking is why my strugg... Fri, 25 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/when-happy-pill-didnt-work-finding-right-antidepressant Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-05-25T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/facing-my-father-s-death-and-my-fear-depression By the time my father was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, I had been “better” from my depression for a few years. By better I mean that I liked to believe I was cured, like it was just a dark little blip in my life that I took care of an... Thu, 17 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-depression/facing-my-father-s-death-and-my-fear-depression Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-05-17T07:00:00Z http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-with-depression/rude-awakening Years later, I still get emotional reading excerpts from the journal I kept when I was diagnosed with a chemical imbalance causing depression. I remember feeling sick in a way that I had trouble explaining because it seemed to be so many diffe... Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.healthline.com/health-blogs/dancing-with-depression/rude-awakening Adrienne Santos-Longhurst 2012-05-10T07:00:00Z