Showing posts with label Depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Depression. Show all posts

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Parents' depression may harm children's health

When a parent suffers from depression, children are more likely to need costly health services like emergency room visits, and less likely to get preventive healthcare, according to a new study (Yahoo News).


The findings bolster evidence that parents' depression can take a toll on their children's health. The effect can be seen as "one of the hidden costs of adult depression," the researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.


For the study, Dr. Marion Sills and her colleagues at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver reviewed data on nearly 70,000 infants, children and teenagers enrolled in a single healthcare insurance plan.


Between 1997 and 2002, they found, children with at least one parent diagnosed with depression were more likely than other children their age to have an emergency room visit, see a specialist or visit their doctor due to an illness.


On the other hand, teenagers with a depressed parent were less likely to make routine visits for a check-up and preventive care.


The study was not designed to answer the question of why parents' depression affected their children's healthcare, Sills told Reuters Health. She hopes these findings will spur more research into that question.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

What is tiredness actually?

People through out the world suffer from a very common type of problem called tiredness. People in USA and Europe suffer from one or other type of tiredness. Tiredness is quickly affecting. During working careers everybody experience tiredness at one stage or other, which is generally due to lack of sleep or over work. A sound sleep or a little rest may generally resolve this problem. But it may be due to some other reason.


Some people can only manage to sleep for a couple of hours every night but actually they don't suffer from tiredness. A number of things cause tiredness and sometimes these cause tiredness in combination. A list of main reasons causing tiredness is given below.


Physical exhaustion can cause tiredness and as a consequence avoid the body from laborious activities and through not participating in physical activities one will become more unfit and suffer more. Stress and worry are two bad companions of today's men, which cause tiredness. These took a lot of energy and can leave you feeling drained and tired. Depression can also make you tired.


Many different illnesses and medications can cause you to feel tired. It's worthwhile looking at the side effects of any medication you are going to take and mentioning to your doctor that you suffer from chronic tiredness. If you don't take proper and enough sleep you then you may feel tired.


If you look after small children, or dogs it can be very exhausting!, this type of lifestyle can cause tiredness. When we are down in the dumps we often dread getting out of bed in the mornings, and we are also irritable. We can improve daily life through the following steps. Through increasing your energy levels you can improve your concentration, social life and memory and you will never say " I feel tired".


You need to avoid alarm clocks for waking up because waking without an alarm means you have taken a sound sleep, which is fantastic. Tiredness is a physical condition, which need to be cured. You can only get rid of tiredness & can change your life through acquiring the upper instructions.