This nullifies the myths about a lack of will-power or deficiency of character of those who can suffer the gamut from major depression to the terrible world of depressive stupor.
For a diagnosis of atypical depression, you must first meet the general DSM criteria for major depression such as feeling down most of the day and losing interest or pleasure in activities you once enjoyed.
The WHO estimates that major depression shortens healthy active life by four years.
The researchers found that the more relatives a person had with major depression, anxiety disorder, or alcohol or drug dependence, the more likely he or she was to have that condition too.
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He was sent back for his third tour despite the nightmares, depression, major hearing loss and painful injuries to his back and both feet.
All the participants had a history of major depression prior to pregnancy, were less than 16 weeks pregnant, and were either current or recent users of anti-depressants.
Another finding of the report is that depression and other disorders which affect the brain have a major impact on a person's physical health.
It turns out that the more family members you have who have been found to have major depression, anxiety disorders, or drug or alcohol dependence, the greater the chances that you will too, according to Terrie E.
CNN: Are you at risk for depression? A quick family history could tell
They were scanned again two years later and a fifth of the at-risk group had developed major depression.
The last time we devoted a lesser proportion of our resources to defense, we were well protected by the oceans, in the midst of a depression, and without major international responsibilities, and even then it was a dereliction of duty.
In a small but groundbreaking study published in 2006 in the Archives of General Psychiatry, 17 people with major depression who had failed to get adequate relief from at least two other antidepressants were given a single injection of ketamine.
"I would argue that what we are in at the moment is not a recession, but essentially some kind of depression and it therefore takes something very, very major to get out of it in the same way as it took something major for us to get into it, " he said.
"Unquestionably, I think a major link is to the underlying temperaments of both bipolar illness and depression, of reflectiveness and so forth, " Jamison said.
It bears significant responsibility for almost every major economic upheaval of the past 100 years, including the Great Depression, the 1970s stagflation, and the recent financial crisis.
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To find out, they sifted through more than 100 studies on the effects of yoga on a variety of major psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and ADHD.
Stephen Stahl at the University of San Diego has shown these aches to be major component of depression.
Moreover, six months after the patients died their family members were much less likely to experience persistent major depression.
Study leader Dr Jeffrey Johnson said more research was needed to see if depression problems in teenagers were an early phase of major depressive disorder or if minor depression earlier in life contributed to the development of more serious problems later on.
Commentators pointed out that America's gross domestic product actually grew by 2% during the last quarter of 2008 and that the current recession's 8% unemployment level is far below that of the Depression and even a few points below unemployment levels during the last major recession, in 1982.
Even among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the best estimate was that just under 20 percent returned with symptoms of PTSD or major depression.
Asthma, congestive heart failure, depression, coronary artery disease and diabetes--they're the five major chronic conditions that drive the vast majority of health care costs.
When we consider the Great Depression, modern commentary from the left and right contends that bank failures were one of its major causes.
The shortfall in NGDP suggests that a major source of our economic woes is the Federal Reserve, just as was the case during the Great Depression.
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Depression, which affects many people within society, stands out as a major area for development in the mood foods category. 25% say there is strong growth potential and 51% average growth potential for NPD in 2012.
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