Unlike everyday sadness, clinical depression is a potentially serious and highly treatable illness, Richard A. Friedman writes.
So how can you tell if you are depressed or just plain sad?
typically causes insomnia, loss of libido and appetite, social withdrawal, low energy, feelings of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts, feelings and actions.Sad people are unhappy about a specific event, while depressed people feel bad about themselves and have a loss of self-confidence. You might question whether depression is a medical illness in the same way hypertension or diabetes are. But you shouldn’t. There is abundant scientific evidence that clinical depression is associated with distinct brain changes in circuits that regulate mood, sleep, energy and appetite.have identified multiple regions where there is altered activity or structure in people with depression.
We don’t yet understand what causes the biological abnormalities in depression to come about in the first place, but we think it results from a complex interaction between genes and environmental stress. Still, we know a lot about how to treat depression. Both psychotherapy and antidepressants are highly effective for depression. Brief psychotherapies such as cognitive behavior therapy and interpersonal therapy are empirically proven treatments for depression.
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