Articles on Depression

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609083221.htm

Conducted by ScienceDaily on June 11, 2010. (Medical School in New Brunswick New Jersey)

Medical school evaluated that many students in high school don't get as much sleep, with 52% excessive daytime sleepiness, 32% with strong depression symptoms, and 32% had some depression symptoms. They found sleep deprivation as normal and also that midnight curfews causing stronger depression than 10 o' clock curfews.
The study was done on teens or generally just high school seniors. The high school steniors who had an age of around 17.7. who attended a school in New Jersey.
Doctors found many students to be sleep deprived and therefore strengthening symptoms of depression.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100802165402.htm

Conducted by ScienceDaily on August 3, 2010.(Lawrence T. Lam, Ph.D., of the School of Medicine, Sydney, and the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia, and Zi-Wen Peng, M.Sc., of the Ministry of Education and SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.)

Participants were evaluated with validated scales on depression and anxiety. In addition, they were asked to complete a questionaire upon their use of the Internet includign questions that ask of your behaviors according to.
The participants were done on 1,041 15 year old (on average) Chinese teens.
6.2% used the Internet moderately and 0.2% were at severe risk. Only, 9 months later it was shown that 0.2% had anxiety symptoms and 8.4% had depression. In conclusion, young people who were free of mental health issues but used the Internet later are subject to developing depression.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117094933.htm

Conducted by ScienceDaily on  November 18, 2009. (Researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway and the Institute of Psychology at King's College London.

Studies performed on a survey done by people and a mortality database. they compiled research based on mortality rates from people with depression, depression and anxiety, and smoking.
The people studied were basically patients with symptoms of anxiety and or depression and smoking.
In conclusion, it was found that people who smoke have a similar life or death to what depressed people have. Also, people who are depressed and anxious fare better because they are vulnerable to stress.

Basics of Schizophrenia

1. The most common symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia are:

• One begins to hear things that only they can hear.
• One believes that people are trying to hurt them when they're not.
• One has verbal conflicts.
• One speaks to others patronizingly.
• One begins to get suicidal thoughts or actions.
• One becomes anxious, aloof, violent, or angry.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/paranoid-schizophrenia/DS00862/DSECTION=symptoms

2. Symptoms for disorganized paranoid schizophrenia are:

• Being active but with reason and unproductively.
• Emotional responses can be odd or inappropriate.
• One has beliefs that are false.
• One can't respond pleasurably.
• One smiles and grimaces at the wrong times.
• One lack emotion and is not motivated.
• Has auditory and visual hallucinations.
• Behaves in a silly manner.

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/schizophrenia-disorganized-type/overview.html

3. Symptoms of catatonic schizophrenia include:

• One having delusions and hallucinations.
• One is incoherent or has frequent derailment, thus disorganized speech.
• Behavior is catatonic or disorganized.
• 'Negative' symptons being flattening, alogia, or avolition.

http://counsellingresource.com/distress/schizophrenia/dsm/schizophrenia.html

4. Positive schizophrenia symptoms:

• Hallucinations
• Delusions
• Racing thoughts.

5. Negative schizophrenia symptoms:

• Apathy
• Emotionless
• Poor or no socialization

http://www.schizophrenia.com/diag.php

6. Hallucinations vs. Delusions
 Hallucinations are were delusions come from the sense (visual and auditory) where one sees or hear things that aren't there
Delusions consist of beliefs that the person thinks are true even if they are denied through fact. It has to do with the mental responses, or emotional, instead of relying on the sense ( sense of grandeur or persecution).

http://www.wisegeek.com/are-delusions-and-hallucinations-different.htm

7. Cognitive schizophrenia symptoms:

• Thoughts that get you no where, circuitous and unending.
• Neologisms- making up new words.
• Incoherency and forming unrelated words together.
• Thoughts and speech are loose (forgetful).
• Has no goals or direction.

http://www.schizophrenia.com/earlysigns.htm

8. Avolition symptoms:

• Has no desires, motivation, or persistence.
• Failure to begin or finish goals.

www.lumrix.com/medical/symptoms/avolition.html

9. Catatonic symptoms:

•   Having a rigid and or motionless body.
• Repetitive behavior and movements
• Experiences catalepsy and negativism

 http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/c/catatonia/symptoms.htm 

10. Delusion of Grandeur 
  Someone way in over their head, meaning that they believe the amount of power they wield is incomparable thus making them really important.


http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-delusions-of-grandeur.htm

11. Delusion of Reference
  One believes that events that have nothing to do with them are directly related to them as if to convey to a message.

http://bipolar.about.com/od/glossaryd/g/gl_delusofrefer.htm

12. Somatic Delusions
When one has false beliefs about the image or function of their body.

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/somatic+delusion