Depression Days

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Depression affects most people at one or more times in their lives.  This fact leads some to question if depression is really an illness.  Yes is the answer to that question, especially if we are talking about clinical depression.  Over 12 percent of residents of the United States will more than likely suffer from clinical depression.  While some may only become depressed one time in their entire lifetime, others will have many episodes of depression.  Half of the people who suffer depression once in their lifetime will suffer at least a second time.  The second time leads to a threat of a third episode of depression.

This very real illness involves the emotional, physical and mental faculties of the depressed person.  This is not just a passing feeling of sadness that you can will away whenever you wish.  There are signs and symptoms and there is proper treatment.  When not immediately and properly handled, the condition may become worse.  Just as any disease, depression will vary from person to person. Read the rest of this entry »

There are millions of people in America suffer from depression. There are also millions of America suffer from some form or another of anxiety. Usually the two disorders coexist.  There are between 60 and 70% of all those millions that suffer from both anxiety and depression.

At least half of the people that are diagnosed with anxiety also suffer from depression. These two overlap so often that more and more psychologists and scientists see these two as aspects of the same illness.

Let face it there are many people who feel sad at one point or another in their lives. A loss of a job, death in the family or various other disappointments will cause a lot of the symptoms of depression. At the same time, most people experience the above at some point of their life when stressful situations are brought to life. These are normal feelings to a certain point. Read the rest of this entry »