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Introduction Depression is a serious medical illness, causing more disability than any other disorder except for advanced coronary artery disease. Depression also called clinical depression is a mood disorder caused and carried on by an interaction of genetic, biological, psychological and environmental factors. Depression affects not only the body, but also the mind; impacting thoughts, feelings, behavior and physical condition. Depression is not just simply feeling blue or disappointed or just plain down in the dumps. ... Depression is much more complex than that. ...
I feel depression is a serious issue that many people don’t understand. I strongly believe that depression is preventable if people understand the types of depression, symptoms and causes of depression, what happens once depression is formed in children, elderly, men and women.
Types of Depression
There are many forms of depression. ... Bipolar Disorder, also known as manic-depression, or manic-depressive disorder, is characterized by moods that alternate between two emotional extremes, or poles: the sadness of depression and the euphoria of mania. ...
Bipolar I illness is characterized by alternating, recurrent episodes of mania and depression. ...
Bipolar II is a milder for of bipolar, characterized by alternating periods of major depression and hypo-manic episodes. ... Depression occurs more frequently in younger people and often begins in a persons twenties.
Symptoms and Causes
Unfortunately, no one really knows what exactly causes clinical depression. There are numerous of theories that are brought up, such as: Biological and genetic factors, environmental influences, and childhood or developmental events, but however, it is generally believed that clinical depression is caused by the influence of more than just one or two factors. For example, a person whose mother had recurrent major depression may have inherited a vulnerability to developing clinical depression.
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