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What is Depression?
1. Severe despondency and dejection, accompanied by
feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy.
2. A condition of mental disturbance, typically with lack of
energy and difficulty in maintaining concentration or interest
in life.
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FACTS ABOUT DEPRESSION
• One of the most common illnesses found in human beings
• Serious and sometimes can be chronic
• Afflicts 20 percent of the population in the United States and
worldwide
• Women are two to three times more likely to fall victim to the mood
disorder than men
• Depression tends to run in families
• Approximately one in five adults in the United States suffer from
depression one time in their lives
• Affects more than 17 million Americans each year
• Hundreds of thousands of medications are given out each year to
treat depression
FERTILE GROUND THEORY
• The belief that depression must have a hereditary or physical
vulnerability to the condition that causes the mood-regulating
system to fail when life’s stresses exceed the person’s ability to
cope with them.
• Biological imbalances
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