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Health Encyclopedia: Depression Basics

Introduction

Everyone experiences some unhappiness, often as a result of a change, either in the form of a setback or a loss, or simply, as Freud said, "everyday misery." The painful feelings that accompany these events are usually appropriate, necessary, and transitory, and can even present an opportunity for personal growth. However, when depression persists and impairs daily life, it may be an indication of a depressive disorder. Severity, duration, and the presence of other symptoms are the f...

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Expert & Community Posts

Anxious Mom Begets Anxious Teen

By Amy Hendel , Health Expert

...home environment lead to an increase of anxiety and depression symptoms when these children hit... Read more »

Stroke and Depression: Learn the Signs and How to Work through Them

By Cleo Hutton , Health Expert

...experience depression in different ways. For some people, depression symptoms are so severe that... Read more »

What Young People Worry About

By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert

Adolescence is one of the most unsettling periods of development. Some young people appear highly... Read more »

Is it Depression - or Loss?

By Deborah Gray , Health Expert

...8,000 Americans. A total of 157 participants had depression symptoms triggered by bereavement.... Read more »

Depression in Men

By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert

...is not that men are incapable of the same range of emotions as women so much as the kinds of... Read more »

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Health Guide

Bipolar Depression: What are the symptoms of bipolar disorder?

Bipolar disorder symptoms are cyclic. Patient's cycle into manic episodes, then return to normal before cycling into a depressive episode. This cycling makes it possible to divide bipolar disorder... Read more »

Depression Risk

...as opposed to emotional disorders, are those with abnormal behavioral patterns rather than abnormal emotions.)Insomnia and Sleep DisordersSleep abnormalities are an integral part of depressive... Read more »

Bipolar Disorder: Therapy and Lifestyle Changes

Therapy and Lifestyle ChangesClassic psychotherapy does not help most patients with bipolar disorder. Nevertheless, many newer approaches are proving to be very useful. Trained mental health... Read more »

Depression: Suicide and Complications

of DepressionDepression is often chronic, with episodes of recurrence and improvement. Approximately one-third of patients with a single episode of major depression will have another... Read more »

Bipolar Disorder Overview

Bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness, is characterized by moods that swing between two opposite poles:Periods of mania with exaggerated euphoria, irritability, or bothEpisodes of... Read more »

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