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Depression – NIMH

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad, but these feelings are usually fleeting and pass within a couple of days. When a person has a depressive disorder, it interferes with daily life, normal functioning,
and causes pain for both the person with the disorder and those who care about him or her. Depression is a common but serious illness, and most who experience it need treatment to get better.

 
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Bipolar Disorder – NIMH

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain
disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person

 
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Depression Symptoms and Screening

Thursday, July 15, 2010

“I am the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forbode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be [...]

 
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Are you at risk for depression?

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Most people know the risk factors for illnesses such as heart disease or high blood pressure, but not many people realize that clinical depression has risk factors associated with it also. Having these risk factors doesn’t mean you will suffer from depression, only that you may be predisposed to it. Below, in no particular order, [...]

 
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What is Depression (and what is it not?)

Thursday, July 15, 2010

“People who don’t know [what depression is], who say it’s self-indulgence, sound callous, but it’s not callousness born of indifference; I think it’s callousness born of ignorance. That kind of ignorance we’ve got to get rid of, and little by little I suppose, we will. You say to them, ‘It’s a pity you don’t know. [...]

 
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