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As a life threatening disease, cancer may trigger depression. Between 15 - 25% of cancer patients also suffer from depression. A study suggests that depressed cancer patients are more likely to die from the disease.
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Recognizing Dysthymia in Children: When Depression is Chronic at an Early Age
When I was finally diagnosed with depression at age 27, after twenty years of suffering from one type of depressive disorder or another, it was because I was going through a major depression at that particular time. It was only the third major depression I had experienced, and all three had occurred after the age of twenty. For all their ferocity,…
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