About depression
Depression is a very common problem. Studies indicate that between 5 and 20 percent of people will suffer from depression at some time in their lives. More than eleven million people in the United States suffer from depression each year. Depression can affect all age groups and genders, but is more prevalent in women.
Depression is both a physical and a psychological disorder. It affects chemicals in the brain. Depression is a mood disorder that causes you to feel sad or hopeless for an extended period of time. Low mood level or sadness is often the most prominent symptom.
Depression can be a mild disease that only causes some annoyance in the daily life, but can also get very serious and make a person totally unable to work and unable to participate in social life. By depression of some severity, there is also a greater risk of suicide.
Depression causes a serious imbalance of brain chemicals and many other internal changes that need serious medication and treatment.
With proper treatment, many depressed people live full, happy, successful lives.
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