Depression (depressing from Latin "depressing") is a mental disorder. Typical symptoms of depression are depressed mood, pondering and a reduced drive. Often joy and pleasure, self-esteem, performance, empathy and interest in life are lost. Joie de vivre and quality of life are often impaired. These symptoms also occur in healthy people in the context of mourning after a loss experience and must not differ in appearance from depression; However, they usually pass by on their own. Disease is present if the symptoms remain disproportionately long or if their severity and duration are disproportionate to the symptom-triggering factors. In psychiatry, depression is associated with affective disorders. The diagnosis is based on symptoms and history (eg single or repeated depressive episode). The standard treatment for depression includes psychotherapy and, beyond a certain level of severity, the use of antidepressants. In everyday language, the term depressive is often used for a normal sad-depressed mood without disease value [1] (the correct term would be depressed). However, in the medical sense, depression is a serious illness that requires treatment and that often has serious consequences, which eludes the influence of the willpower or self-discipline of the person concerned. It is a major cause of disability or early retirement and contributes to about half of the annual suicides in Germany.
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