Depression

Depression A depressive disorder is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. A depressive disorder is not the same as a passing blue mood. It is not a sign of personal weakness or a condition that can be willed or wished away. People with a depressive illness cannot merely "pull themselves together" and get better. Without treatment, symptoms can last for weeks, months, or years. Appropriate treatment, however, can help most people who suffer from depression. There are approximately 1.7 million to 6.3 million American being treated for depression. “The researchers attributed the sharp increases to the emergence of aggressively marketed new drugs like Prozac, the rise in managed care and an easing of the stigma attached to the disease (Mercola).” Like other diseases and or disorders, depressive disorders come in different forms. However, within these types there are variations in the number of symptoms, their severity, and persistence. The three most diagnosed cases of depression are major depression, dsythymia, and bipolar disorder. Major depression, disorder, people, drugs, symptoms, one, men, treatment, medications, medication, drug, depressive, same, different, children, being, way, think, shown, parents, out, often, feel, factors, experience, due, day, causes, antidepressants, antidepressant, women, woman, underlying, through, thing