Alexandra Sacks, a reproductive psychiatrist and co-author of the forthcoming book "What No One Tells You: A Guide to your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood," says long-term alcohol use and abuse can lead to a depressant effect in one's neurochemistry, which can exacerbate depression symptoms.
Holding human beings in isolated confined spaces is well known to exacerbate depression and other mental health conditions.
The drug's warning label notes that it can impair coordination and exacerbate depression, which Boogaard showed signs of having.
Being young and depressed can leave you not wanting to get out of bed in the morning, which further exacerbates depression and vice versa.
In these cases, it is difficult to distinguish the original cause, especially when there is a vicious cycle in which, say, depression exacerbates alcoholism or heart disease exacerbates depression.
When a student flunks a test, ends a relationship, or is ostracized by friends, the school social worker is there to help deal with the many crises that contribute to and exacerbate depression.
Results offer preliminary support for the idea that participating in DBT-based skills training may help individuals with treatment-resistant MDD to develop skills that facilitate processing emotions in a way that helps to reduce rather than exacerbate depression symptoms.
Of course, no situation is perfect, and freelancing also brings with it a number of factors that are likely to exacerbate depression – the blur between home and work life, for example, and the weight of responsibility that comes from being your own boss.
"Being able to share experiences and receive support online has the benefit of making people feel less alienated and more connected, which is what often leads to and/or exacerbates depression," Dr Welansa Asrat, an adult psychiatrist in private practice in New York, told me via email.
It can exacerbate depression.
Cold, dark weather leads more melatonin production, which could exacerbate depression symptoms.
