Depression, Catatonia, & Melancholia
Literature related to depression and melancholia spans centuries, and at different times, the medical community has referred to it by myriad different terms and sought to relieve its distress with just as many treatment approaches. Here, we seek to offer you information that spans more than the most recently-published findings, that includes a comprehensive understanding of humankind’s eons-long effort to understand and treat this potentially debilitating but highly treatable condition.
The Importance of Sleep
If our culture focused as much on sleep as our myths suggest it should, I probably wouldn’t have any patients. Out of all of the various treatments in psychiatry and neurology, from diet and exercise to supplements and medications, improving sleep is probably the most universal and consistent treatment available to patients, and one of the hardest.