Depression

A bad day at work can lead many workers to ponder their worth, but it was an extraordinary set of circumstances that led London stock trader Asif Mohamedali to, he says, approach his boss and say that he felt as if he needed to kill himself. As the London Evening Standard reports, Mohamedali (pictured) ...

Many recent health books such as "The Vitamin D Cure" and "The Vitamin D Solution" are boasting the numerous health and weight loss benefits of Vitamin D. Did you know that nearly all overweight women have LOW levels of Vitamin D? ...

President Barack Obama hasn't given up on it. Having seen Congressional Republicans dash his hopes of passing his American Jobs bill as a whole, Obama is now seeking to get his plan through in what he calls "bite-sized pieces." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says he will try and introduce a ...

If corporations are people, as some politicians famously claim, then should they be expected to act like it? Not according to one UPS supervisor in Kentucky, should the charges against him be proven to be true. When 46-year-old Dona Kerger approached her superiors at her Kentucky UPS branch about finding a ...

Losing a job can be tough. Whether you're one of many cut during a mass layoff or singled out because you and the boss just didn't see eye to eye, getting fired for many workers is a life-altering event. In part that's because we're human, and losing a job -- and the income and self fulfillment that comes ...

The debate about whether working women can have it all has been going for decades, and there's no shortage of those who believe firmly one way or the other. A new study finds, however, that working moms can reduce the risk of depression if they at least admit that they can't do it all and acknowledge that ...

When a Wisconsin kindergarten teacher was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she requested a reassignment to a first grade class, thinking that would relieve some of her stress. She also was managing fibromyalgia and depression, but wanted to continue working with the students, and felt capable of it, with ...

Was it harder than usual to get up today? Are you feeling a little lackluster at work? Don't worry. The whole world is in the same boat, according to Cardiff University's Cliff Arnall. The third Monday of January is always the year's most depressing day. He calls it "Blue Monday." Arnall invented a formula ...

A man who was looking for help from an employment agency but was turned away, was recently accused of fatally stabbing the agency owner in her apartment in Flushing, New York. According to the police, the suspect previously served time for assaulting the victim and had multiple restraining orders taken out ...