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What is Depression?
Depression is a mood disorder that causes constant sadness and loss of interest. Depression is also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression.
The feelings, thoughts and behaviors of individuals suffering from this condition are affected and various emotional or physical problems may arise due to this. There may be problems doing normal daily activities, and sometimes life may seem not worth living.
Depression is not just a feeling of malaise or momentary weakness. Depression is also not such a simple problem that it can be solved in an instant. Depression is a treatable medical condition that requires treatment. This treatment process may take a long time in some cases.
Everyone goes through periods of not feeling well emotionally and psychologically from time to time. These periods generally last for a certain period of time, depending on the intensity of the troubles and sorrows you experience. However, if your bad periods last longer than two or three weeks and prevent you from doing many of the things you do in your daily life properly; this condition is called depression (major depressive disorder).
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Types of Depression
The symptoms caused by major depression are different for each individual. Medical professionals look for various markers or traits that clarify an individual's type of depression. A marker or feature may indicate the presence of a particular type of depression:
Anxiety distress : Unusual restlessness or depression with worry about possible events or loss of control.
Atypical features : Depression with temporary happiness from certain events, increased appetite, excessive need for sleep, hypersensitivity to rejection, and a feeling of heaviness in the organs.
Mixed features : High self-esteem, and energetic mania concurrent with depression involving too much talk
Catatonia : Depression with uncontrollable motor activity and purposeless movements or with fixed and rigid postures.
Melancholic features : Depression, which is seen as a cooling reaction to something that once brought pleasure, depression that may be accompanied by worsening mood, weakness or agitation during waking up early in the morning.
Seasonal features : Depression triggered by seasonal changes and less exposure to sunlight.
Peripartum onset : depression that occurs during pregnancy or in the weeks or months after birth, that is, in the "postpartum" period
Psychotic features : depression accompanied by personal inadequacy or other negative delusions or hallucinations
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