Depression

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This paper examines the emotional state of depression, explaining that it is a major health problem worldwide. The paper looks at the number of people affected by depression, what can happen to people suffering from depression when they don't receive help, the two main types of depression recognized by the medical community, typical symptoms of depression and how depression can impact the lives of its victims. The paper also describes how depression can be distinguished from healthy forms of sadness or grief and then describes some of the approaches that have been taken in order to learn why depression manifests itself in certain people and not in others. Finally, the paper discusses what has been learned in terms of the forms and symptoms of depression, its risk factors and treatment methods.

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"Fundamentally, depression is merely a form of mental disorder that disturbs an individual's "mood." Naturally, people tend to experience moods as positions on a spectrum of particular underlying emotions. Human moods "range from severe depression through mild depression, normal sadness, everyday moods, mild mania, and euphoria." Sadness, of course, is extremely common and relatively healthy as a part of ordinary human life; depression however--sometimes called major depression, or clinical depression--is deep, debilitating, despondency, which typically lasts for long periods of time. This type of mood, also, tends to significantly interfere with the individual's social, familial, or work-related life. In this way, clinical depression is distinct from the common meaning associated with the word "depression": people who are medically depressed cannot climb out of the pits of sadness quickly, and have difficulty functioning in their day to day lives."

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