Posted in Anti-Depressants, Background Information, Clinical Depression, General Depression, Manic Depression, Post Natal Depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Treatments • Tags: Anti-Depressants, Clinical_Depression, General_Depression, Manic_Depression, Post_Natal_Depression, Seasonal_Affective_Disorder, Treatments
By Courtenay Cameron
What is depression?
Many of us say “I’m feeling depressed” when we feel sad or miserable. But usually, these feelings pass after a while. But clinical depression is when these feelings are disabling and interfer with your life. Clinical depression can stop people from leading a normal life, it makes everything harder to do and everything may seem less worthwhile. At its most severe depression can be life-threatening, because it can make people suicidal or simply give up the will to live.
How do I know if I am depressed?
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Posted on December 12, 2006 by HART (1-800-HART) • There are no comments, hop to it!
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Singer/songwriter MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER suffers from clinical depression - an illness which has plagued her since childhood.
The 48-year-old country star kept her battle private until last month (APR06), when she revealed her lifelong secret at a book festival. The singer explains, “I was so…afraid people would find out.” She adds her illness, “Is so mysterious to me. It’s caused me a lot of pain.”
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[MORE: CHAPIN CARPENTER BATTLED CRIPPLING DEPRESSION]
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Posted on May 4, 2006 by HART (1-800-HART) • There are no comments, hop to it!
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Clinical depression is a state of sadness or melancholia that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual’s social functioning and/or activities of daily living. The diagnosis may be applied when an individual meets a sufficient number of the symptomatic criteria for the depression spectrum as suggested in the DSM-IV-TR or ICD-9/10. An individual is often seen to suffer from what is termed a “clinical depression” without fully meeting the various criteria advanced for a specific diagnosis on the depression spectrum. There is an ongoing debate regarding the relative importance of genetic or environmental factors, or gross brain problems versus psychosocial functioning.
Although a mood characterized by sadness is often colloquially referred to as depression, clinical depression is something more than just a temporary state of sadness. Symptoms lasting two weeks or longer, and of a severity that begins to interfere with typical social functioning and/or activities of daily living, are considered to constitute clinical depression.
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