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Depression: A Growing Epidemic
Symptoms of Depressive Illness
- Sleeping more or less than normal
- Eating more or less than usual
- Extreme fatigue and loss of energy
- Difficulty making decisions
- Intense feelings of sadness, guilt or grief
- Feeling worthless, hopeless or helpless
- Decreased interest in sex
- Isolating and avoiding others
- Difficulty with concentration
- Thoughts of suicide or death
Depression Can Cause Isolation
Resources for Clinical Depression
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- Depression is increasingly recognized as a serious and growing problem. Depression is known as the common cold of mental illness. It is estimated that 1 in 5 people will develop a mental illness at some time...
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Depression
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity. While often described as a dysfunction, there are also strong arguments for seeing depression as an adaptive defense mechanism.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines a depressed person as experiencing feelings of sadness, helplessness and hopelessness. In traditional colloquy, feeling "depressed" is often synonymous with feeling "sad", but both clinical depression and non-clinical depression can also refer to a conglomeration of more than one feeling.
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Depression is Treatable
Depression is a highly treatable illness. Talk therapy and antidepressants have been proven successful in the treatment of depression. It is essential for a depressed individual to seek professional help. Antidepressants are commonly prescribed to treat depression. For those who do not want to take antidepressants, there are several natural options for the treatment of depression. Once the depression is treated, mood and sleeping patterns will improve. 
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CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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CBT stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. CBT can help you to change how you think ("Cognitive") and what you do ("Behavior)". The objective of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is to identify illogical or problematic thought patterns, assumptions and...
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- Care_4_you Care_4_you Sep 1, 2009 @ 1:19 am
- Good solid lens. Thanks!
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- poutine poutine Mar 4, 2009 @ 9:16 am
- Very well done lens. A 5
Depression has touched me in my earlier life.
But now, I'm okay and hope to never have tha
feeling ever again.
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