Who Gets Depression And How Common Is It?
It’s all in your head. Only women get depressed. If you have depression, you’re stuck with it for life.
Do any of these statements sound familiar? For all the misconceptions about clinical depression, it seems that there’s a depression myth for every truth — and this makes it difficult to get a real sense of the illness and its capacity to be treated.
Perhaps part of the problem stems from our vocabulary for moods and mental illness: We use “depression” to describe so many ranges of...
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