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Depression is a mood disorder that is defined by DSM-IV as a serious, persistent disturbance in a person’s emotions that causes psychological discomfort, impairs the ability to function, or both. The two most important mood disorders are Major Depression and Bipolar Depression. Depression generally may occur once in a person’s lifetime, or in clusters of episodes that typically last nine to sixteen months. Depression causes extreme negative thinking that is difficult, if not impossible, to control. Sometimes a stressful event or a life change, such as a death, divorce, or job loss will trigger depression. One belief is that continuous stress over a long period of time can make the brain go into operating in a stress mode all the time, in which a depression is triggered. Also another cause of depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain that involves the neurotransmitters dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin. ... Also family history of this illness can also create the onset of depression. However, just because someone in the family may have suffered from depression doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll get this illness, it’s that you have a greater chance in developing depression. Depression strikes people of all ages, backgrounds, lifestyles and nationalities, while unfortunately women tend to suffer from Major Depression twice as much as men.
Major Depression is the most common psychological disorder (Gotlieb1992; Kessler & others, 1994). It can affect twelve million Americans in any given year and the most vulnerable in developing major depression are those between the ages of 15 to 24 and 35 to 44. More than half of all the people who have been through one episode of major depression can expect a relapse, usually within two years. With each reoccurrence the symptoms tend to increase in severity and the time between major depression episodes decreases (Coryell,Winokur, & Others, 1994; Wells & Others, 1992).
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