They may look similar, but burnout and depression can have different causes and management strategies.
- Scientia Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW
Start by categorising tasks. Are they urgent and important, important but not urgent, urgent but not important or neither urgent nor important?
Psychiatrists rely on guidelines to prescribe medication for bipolar disorders. But beyond side-effects and clinical trials, ‘real-world’ effectiveness should be considered thoughtfully.
Two Australians with bipolar have been successfully treated with poo transplants, allowing them to come off, or reduce, their medications. Here’s where the science is up to.
Feeling exhausted, unable to concentrate and wanting to withdraw and disconnect from the world and those around you? You could be heading towards burnout.
Burnout is hard to diagnose, as it is not featured in the manual of mental disorders.
Some depression is caused by environmental factors, and some is biological.
Melancholia has a strong genetic contribution, so it’s largely biologically underpinned rather than caused by social factors (stressors) or psychological factors, such as personality style.
While there may be a connection between inflammation and depression, one doesn’t necessarily lead to the other.
People seeking therapy should always talk to a practitioner who provides good quality treatment that’s appropriate to their needs. Because research shows that even the innocuous-sounding “talking therapies…
We’ve all felt sad, anxious or down at one time or another, but where does the normal experience of emotion end and the clinical picture of a mood or anxiety disorder begin? Psychiatry has two widely used…
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