What Are 7 Depression Scales Used to Diagnose Adult Patients?
Healthcare professionals have tools at their disposal to help determine the severity of a patient’s depression symptoms.
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10 Best Strategies for Helping a Loved One with Alzheimer’s Disease
One tip? Maintain a routine. Patients with Alzheimer's benefit from having a predictable environment. -
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Could My Memory Lapses Be Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in older adults, but it is not the only cause. -
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8 Benefits to Beginning Meditation in 2023
One of the most important things you can do for yourself is to meditate. It helps you learn to become more aware of your emotions and physical body. -
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Here Are the Top 10 Early Signs of Dementia You Need to Know
Early diagnosis and treatment is crucial in slowing the progression of dementia. -
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5 Top Tips for Caring For a Loved One With Dementia
Caring for a loved one with dementia can be challenging. We’ve created a list of 5 things to keep in mind as a caregiver.
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4 Physical Symptoms of PTSD Episodes and 3 'Quiet' Symptoms
Many people with PTSD will find themselves on the road to a level of psychological distress that can be intense and disabling unless they receive treatment. -
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5 Great Tips on Where to Start with Self-Care
Self-care does not have to be luxurious, glamorous or fun. Self-care can be all these things, but it can also be in the everyday mundane things that make our life better. -
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Sex and Gender Are Not the Same: Here's How to Understand the Difference
It's easy to confuse sex and gender. Just remember that “sex” is about biology, anatomy and chromosomes. “Gender” is about society’s set of expectations, standards and characteristics. -
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Why Is Excessive Alcohol Use a Danger to Men’s Health?
This blog will dive into the potential dangers of excessive alcohol use, specifically concerning men's health. -
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4 Strategies for Black Mothers to Protect Mental Health
Maternal mental health is a topic that is slowly gaining more traction in the healthcare community. Black mothers are still very much underserved. If you are a Black mother, here are some tools to remember. -
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Decline in American Social Life Leading to Loneliness Epidemic
Research shows that loneliness has the same effect as 15 cigarettes a day in terms of health care outcomes and health care costs. -
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How Do I Stay Calm and Prepared During Hurricane Season?
While some tension during hurricane season is inevitable, being aware of your anxiety is the first step to getting a healthy perspective on the situation. -
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Why Are More College Students Struggling with Mental Health?
Surveys show college-aged people had the highest prevalence of mental illness compared with older adults. -
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The Health Benefits of Helping Others on GiveNOLA Day 2023
Did you know charitable work can lower blood pressure and stress levels. Here are some of the ways that you can get involved. -
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9 Potential Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder severely impacts a person’s ability to regulate their emotions. -
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Black History Month 2023: 5 Easy, Meaningful Ways to Reflect
Learning about Black history isn’t just for school kids. -
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What Are the Top Symptoms of Anxiety in 2023?
The primary difference between worrying and anxiety is the impact each has on your life. -
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How Do I Know if I'm Having a Panic Attack?
In a classic panic attack, a person is going about their normal daily activities when they suddenly experience a deep feeling of fear, anxiety or impending doom. -
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5 Best Tips to Manage Postpartum Depression During the Holidays
For those struggling with postpartum depression or anxiety, the holidays can add an extra layer of pressure to an already overwhelming time. Here are five tips to make your holiday season a little less stressful and more manageable. -
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How Mindfulness and Gratitude Can Improve Your Well-Being
What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is a practice that enables us to experience life from a place of kindness and compassion. -
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The Best Ways to Cope with Holiday Depression
If you're struggling with holiday depression, reach out to others, including professionals. Remember, you are not alone. Help is available. -
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What is #GivingTuesday?
GivingTuesday was created to promote charitable seasonal giving and to give charitable activities their own special day. -
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7 Worst Habits for Your Brain
Did you know sitting slows brain function? When you sit, you are not allowing your muscles to pump fresh blood, oxygen and good chemicals to your brain. -
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The Golden Years - Live Your Best Life 65 and Up
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What Is the Difference Between Bipolar1 and Bipolar2?
One key difference: People with bipolar 1 have at least one episode of mania in their lifetime; bipolar 2 is a milder disorder. -
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Top Signs of Schizophrenia in Women
Schizophrenia is treatable. Medications and psychotherapy can help people manage symptoms and can often lead to remission. -
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Does Schizophrenia Get Worse as You Age?
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that affects how a person thinks, feels, behaves and relates to reality. But can it worsen with age? -
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6 Best Ways to Remember Where You Parked Your Car
Stop multitasking. If you don't use conscious awareness when you park your car or place your cell phone down on a table, you later will have to actively search to find them. -
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Can My Mental Health Condition Be Passed Down Genetically?
If you've ever struggled with mental health, you might be wondering if mental health conditions can be passed down genetically. We have answers. -
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How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Our Children?
This time in our kids’ lives could shape how they connect with others and the world around them for years to come. -
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Signs Your Child May Be Struggling with Their Mental Health
Here are things to look out for that could signal your child is struggling with mental health and how to best address it. -
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3 Simple and Quick Steps to De-Stress
If you are looking for ways to manage your stress better, try these three simple strategies that take less than five minutes a day. -
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The Top Signs of Depression in Women: What to Watch Out For
Depression is more common among women than men, likely due to certain biological, hormonal and social factors that are unique to women. -
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Why Does ADHD Have a Strong Connection to Depression?
Depression and ADHD can have some common symptoms, although the reason for those symptoms may be different. -
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How Important is Mental Health for Student Athletes?
Student athlete mental health is just as important as physical health. Learn how to help them cope with the pressure to perform. -
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Perinatal Depression: How Can I Feel Better?
Perinatal depression is a mood disorder that occurs during pregnancy or in the first year after childbirth. With the proper treatment, most women will feel better, and their symptoms will subside. -
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Food and Brain Health: What’s the Connection?
The MIND diet (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) has been linked to lower rates of dementia and better cognitive performance. -
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Top 10 Things to Know About Brain Health
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6 Symptoms of High-Functioning Anxiety
People who struggle with high-functioning anxiety tend to not only be fully functional, but often highly successful. -
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How Can I Take Care of My Mental Health?
Wellness and self-care may seem like buzzwords, but they are the mental health equivalent of washing hands to avoid contamination or infection. -
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Maternal Mental Health: Why It Matters
Many new moms experience the baby blues, while still others suffer from postpartum depression. Learn how to recognize the symptoms and what to do next. -
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Suicide Prevention in Men
If you or someone you are with is in a suicidal crisis situation, immediately call a suicide prevention hotline. The National Suicidal Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. -
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Eating Disorders in Men
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8 of the Top Reasons to Do Yoga
One study found that a consistent yoga practice improved depression and an increase in serotonin levels. -
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What Causes Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer's disease can take root and go on for many years without symptoms. -
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What Is PTSD?
PTSD, or posttraumatic stress disorder, originally was diagnosed only in soldiers returning from war. That's changed. -
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The Definition of Depression
Clinical depression is very different from feeling bummed out. The pain is deeper, more intense. -
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How to Deal With a Broken Heart
Sooner or later, we all must experience getting our hearts broken. While time heals all wounds, it doesn’t help when you are in the thick of a heartbreak. -
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Benefits of Weighted Blankets: Do They Help with Sleep?
The deep pressure stimulation provided by the weighted blanket during sleep can help reduce pain, lessen anxiety and help improve moods. -
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Why Do I Feel Sad?
Did you know sadness and depression aren't the same thing? Sadness comes and goes. Depression comes and stays. -
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How to Help Someone Who Is Having a Panic Attack
Panic attacks typically go away in about 30 minutes, but that half hour can be tough. Here's how to calm the situation. -
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6 Reasons to Talk to a Therapist
A popular way to address and manage mental health issues is talk therapy (also known as psychotherapy). Here are five common reasons to see a therapist. -
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Can Meditation Help My Mental Health?
Meditation can help with common mental health struggles including stress, anxiety and depression. -
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Mindfulness for Parents: How to Practice Gratitude
Mindfulness and gratitude can go a long way in helping you change the way you feel. Here are some tips for parents on how to practice gratitude. -
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Mindfulness for Parents: Letting Go of Parent Guilt
It's common for parents to experience parent guilt at some point during their parenting journey. But increased parent guilt leads to burnout. Here are mindfulness tips for parents to let go of parent guilt. -
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Mindfulness for Parents: Parent Burnout
Parent burnout is more common than we think. Here are ways to decrease parent burnout, prevent future burnout and rediscover your peace. -
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Mindfulness for Parents: How to Cope with Stress
Parents are no strangers to stress, but too much stress can cause burnout. Here are some ways parents can cope with stress and also practice mindfulness. -
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Mindfulness for Parents: Tips to Practice Self-Care
Self-care is an important part of a person's life, but parents don't always have the time. Here are tips to practice self-care and mindfulness for parents. -
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Mindfulness for Parents: Prioritizing Self-Care
Parents oftentimes struggle to find time for themselves. Here are some ways for parents to become more mindful when it comes to prioritizing self-care. -
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How to Deal With College Anxiety on Top of COVID-19 Worries
Returning to college after spending more than a year in COVID-19-required quarantine may come with its own challenges. -
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Exercises to Relieve Stress and Anxiety
Whatever you find, discover what is fun and playful for you to do; this will make you want to continue doing it and even master it! Even gardening or dancing will help reduce anxiety and depression. -
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When a Loved One is Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis
While caring for your loved one with multiple sclerosis, don't forget to take care of yourself. -
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How to Deal with Occupational Burnout
Burnout doesn't happen overnight. It's the result of a long period of increasing stress at work that isn't being managed. It is important to recognize the signs of burnout so you can help mitigate these feelings. -
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7 Surprising Benefits of Yoga for Men
Think yoga is just for women? Think again. Here are seven ways a regular yoga practice can benefit men. -
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Boost Your Energy in Less Than a Minute
Studies have shown that cardio exercise helps to increase well-being and mental health. Here’s the best part - You don’t need to do a long or intense workout to relieve stress and anxiety. -
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Signs of Depression in Men
If left untreated, depression in men can lead to further withdrawal and isolation, or even worse, harm to themselves as men suffer a higher rate of depression-related suicide. -
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How to Deal with Gaslighting
Have you ever been manipulated by someone where you doubt your own judgment? This is called gaslighting, and it’s a form of psychological abuse. -
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Differences Between Postpartum Depression and “Baby Blues"
What distinguishes "baby blues" from postpartum depression? OB/GYN Alexandra “Sashi” Band, DO, explains the differences between the two. -
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How Multiple Sclerosis Can Impact Your Mental Health
Depression is fairly common among people living with MS. We explore why as well as different coping strategies. -
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Strategies for Caregivers of Patients with Cancer
Small steps to decrease stress and increase positivity when caring for a loved one with cancer. -
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Symptoms of Postpartum Depression
OB/GYN Alexandra "Sashi" Band, DO, explains the symptoms of postpartum depression and when you should reach out for help. -
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Couple Finds Love Through Ochsner's Golden Opportunity Program
Golden Opportunity is a membership program for men and women age 50 and over offered by Ochsner that promotes an active, healthy and independent lifestyle, offering a broad array of wellness services, educational information, social activities and travel opportunities to keep members on track for optimum health. -
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Mental Exhaustion and COVID-19
With the COVID-19 pandemic a year old now, a growing number of people have been experiencing mental exhaustion or mental fatigue. Here is a list of simple steps that you can do to help with mental exhaustion. -
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Mental Health Treatment for Children
There are specific signs that your child may need help from a mental health professional. -
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How Not to Blow Your Diet When Your Team Loses
When a team loses, fans tend to consume more calories from saturated fat and added sugar the next day. -
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Tips to De-Stress Your Holiday Charitable Giving
Simple recommendations and things to consider when you’re making a charitable gift at the end of the year. -
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How to Create a New Year's Giving Goal
Make your New Year's giving goal small, measurable and be specific. You will be surprised how easy it will be to develop a long-term habit of doing good. -
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Coping With Stress: Election Edition
If politics are affecting your anxiety, follow these suggestions to reduce your stress levels. -
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Meet Mako: Ochsner’s Comfort and Security Canine
Meet Mako, a Belgian Malinois and the newest member of the Ochsner security team. -
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COVID-19 and Christmas: How to Celebrate Safely and Merrily
Regardless of how you celebrate this year, it’s essential to keep yourself and your family safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
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Why Giving Back Feels Good
Research has shown that fellow-feeling and altruistic behavior is associated with greater well-being, health and longevity. -
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Giving Back to Get in the Holiday Spirit
With many organizations hurting because of the pandemic and more people relying on public and non-profit programs than usual, your gift will go so much further this year. -
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How to Prepare for Your Massage
Massage is about stress relief and healing; you should treat the entire experience with this in mind, beginning with your arrival. -
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Supporting Nonprofits During COVID-19
COVID-19 has shown us how people have stepped forward to help others in need. Here are seven ways you can support a nonprofit organization, like Ochsner, during the COIVD-19 pandemic. -
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COVID-19 and Thanksgiving: How to Celebrate Safely and Joyfully
By practicing the art of gratitude and following some commonsense COVID-19 safety protocols, Thanksgiving 2020 can still be a joyful event. -
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COVID-19 and Brain Fog: A Possible Long-Term Effect
New reports are raising concerns about lingering “brain fog” some COVID-19 patients are experiencing. -
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Foods That Boost Mental Health
Research shows that what you eat can affect the way you feel mentally by impacting your mood and how your brain functions. -
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4 Tips for Maintaining Mental Health During COVID-19
Here are a few tips to cope with and maintain your mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
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Do Kids Like Men With Beards?
Children of men with beards had more positive reactions to facial hair than children of dads who were clean-shaven, researchers have found. -
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8 Inexpensive Ways to Reduce Stress
Stress is an expected part of daily life, so it’s important to learn healthy ways to manage it. Eight free (or very inexpensive!) ways to cut stress in your life. -
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Are My Symptoms from Stress or COVID-19?
Stress disrupts our immune systems and can cause you to experience a range of symptoms including headaches, stomach issues and fatigue. -
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What are the long-term effects of COVID-19?
Since the onset of COVID-19, millions of people have contracted the disease. While many have recovered, they still may face some long-term effects post recovery -
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What's Your Workout Personality? Take Our Quiz
Are you a go-getter? A social butterfly? Take our workout personality quiz! -
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COVID Insomnia - Yes, It's a Thing
Understand the causes of COVID-related insomnia and steps that can be taken for a more restful sleep as we move toward the new normal. -
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Good News Stories from Around Ochsner
During times of fear and uncertainty, the very best of humanity can triumph, as is the case in these good news stories we've witnessed here at Ochsner Health.
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