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Before we get deep into a conversation about depression, lets first make sure we understand exactly what it is. The term depression is used to label a wide range of disorders from a sense of the blues or blahs, SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), Dysthymia a longer lasting but mild form, and bi-polar disorder, marked by pendulum periods of depression and exhilaration. The first and most common type of depression is sometimes referred to as feeling blue or having the blahs. ... Statistics published by The National Institute of Health estimate that every day 1 in 7 of us experiences depression. This leads me to believe that as the common cold is to physical wellness, so is this type of depression to emotional wellness. Another category of emotional wellness that is covered under the label depression, is SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), which like its name implies, is seasonal in nature and has to do with the effect that lack of sun has to do with feelings of sadness or elation. ... The two other more severe types of depression are Dysthymia a longer lasting but mild form, and bi-polar disorder (formerly known as manic depression), marked by alternating periods of depression and exhilaration. ... There are many signs that signal whether a person is suffering from depression. ... Mild depression usually lifts in some period of time related to the severity of the loss or event and life returns to its normal pattern.
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