Depression

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Term Paper Title	Depression
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                  Depression

     Depression is one of the most common mental disorders affecting 340 million people in the world today, accounting for a full 10% of productive years lost throughout the world.  About half of all cases of depression are unrecognized and untreated.  About 10-15% of all depressed people take their own lives.  No one is immune to depression – it occurs in people of all social classes, all countries and all cultural settings.  At least one in fifty children under the age of 12 and one in twenty teenagers are affected by depression.

Depression is a symptom of mood disorder by intense feelings of loss, sadness, hopelessness, failure, and rejection.  The two major types of depression are unipolar, also called major depression, and bipolar disorder, or manic-depression.  Major depression often causes despair and hopelessness so profound that the person loses interest in life, becomes incapable of feeling pleasure and sexual arousal, and may be unable to get out of bed or eat for days at a time.  It is also possible to suffer a major depression and “not feel blue”.  Such symptoms as weight loss or gain; anxiety, irritability, or agitation; chronic indecisiveness; or sleep disturbances will also occur.  Major depression often strikes without any triggering loss.  The biggest risk in major depression is suicide.  Within five years of suffering a major depression, an estimated 25 percent of sufferers try to kill themselves.  Manic-depression involves major depressive episodes alternating with high-energy periods of wildly unrealistic activity.  “A manic friend might, for example, call at 3 a.m. to announce in all seriousness that she’s flying to Hollywood immediately to marry Robert Redford, and star in his next movie.”  Bipolar disorder develops without any clear cause.

The World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2020 depression will be the greatest burden of ill-health to people in developing world, and that by then severe depression will be the second largest...

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