A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.
Possible causes include a combination of biological, psychological, and social sources of distress. Increasingly, research suggests these factors may cause changes in brain function, including altered activity of certain neural circuits in the brain.
Depression can have a major impact on people's lives
Depression affects millions of people. Every patient is different and responds to treatment differently. For healthcare professionals seeking another option
Depression affects many...
MDD is the #1 contributor to disability worldwide5
MDD is the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting almost 16 million adults6,7
In many different ways...
MDD is a heterogeneous disease—every patient can present with different symptoms8
Persistent depressed mood or loss of interest are common defining features of MDD*8
Other symptoms are also persistent and vary by patient8
Insomnia or hypersomnia
Weight gain or weight loss; increase or decrease in appetite
Psychomotor agitation or psychomotor retardation
Fatigue or loss of energy
Feelings of worthlessness or excessive/inappropriate guilt
Diminished ability to think/concentrate or indecisiveness
Recurrent thoughts of death/suicide or suicide attempt
Diagnosis of MDD requires five (or more) of the symptoms listed above, must be present for at least 2 weeks, and represent a change from previous functioning. At least one of the symptoms is either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure.
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Community's & Disorders
De TodoHello everyone like I said this book isent going to be like the ones I normally write but this will be about different community's so It will take awhile for me to explain some community's because of how much things are in it but that's fine anyway...
