"I was depressed for as long as I remember -- the long term kind of depression they now call dysthymia," says Mitchell.
At the Happy Red Box, the BROH trick is making its grand debut. The BROH trick a non-therapy technique used in helping to cope with depression. Vivien discovered the BROH trick after her last 'talking therapy' with a doctor who proclaimed to have the alleged cure.
This site has only been up for less than a year and has already helped a great number of people. "I've gotten some wonderful feedback from people telling me that the BROH insight was just what they needed. People say that its common sense, that it cuts through psychobabble and that it works," Vivien says.
Depression is a mood disorder that may occur only once in a lifetime or in clusters of 'episodes' that typically last 9-12 months. Depression is the most common mental disorder in adults and children regardless of age, background, or ethnic groups and affects 17 million adults each year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
No one is immune from depression. One in four women and one in 10 men can expect to develop depression, that 25 percent of women and 10 percent of men. Depression also affects at least one in 50 kids under 12 and one in 20 teenagers. However, the American Psychiatric Association says that 80-90 percent of depression can be treated effectively.
The World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2020, depression will be the greatest burden of ill health to people and depression will be the second largest cause of death and disability.
The most common symptoms of depression recognized by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual are depressed mood; loss of interest and pleasure in almost all activities; changes in appetite or weight; disturbed sleep, slowed or restless movements; fatigue; loss of energy; feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt; trouble in thinking, concentrating or making decision; and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide. Diagnosis of depression depends on the number, severity and duration of symptoms, usually a length of two weeks.
The cause of depression is not clear, though it is sometimes thought to be hereditary. A person, whose blood relatives experience depression ism are likely to develop depression, but is not necessarily true. People whose blood relatives suffered from depression were found not to have depression themselves. A chemical imbalance in the brain is believed to be the source of the problem.
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