Depression?

[Gramsci]

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You ******s depress me.

 

[TRUE]

DSM-IV criteria includes:

Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day
Diminished interest or pleasure in most activities
Significant changes in body weight or apperence
Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day
increased or decreased activity
fatigue or energy loss
feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt
diminished ability to think or concentrate
recurrent thoughts of death or suicide

5 or more of these including one of the first two

 

[finnpipette]

i say you get a full-spectrum light to fight off the SAD 😀

 

[G_Eagle]

Let's put it like this: if you get accepted to medical school, and you don't express great joy...you're clinically depressed! 😀

 

[LUBDUBB]

I think that being depressed means temporarily feeling down, lethargic, hopeless etc... But having clinical depression could result from a chemical imbalance in the brain which could be indefinite. Or clinical depression could result from some type of shock (eg losing a loved one, job, or thrown into a new and totally environment), which could last a number of years but eventually subside.


Just my 2 cents, hope I made some sense.

~lubdubb