Sadness vs. Depression (Mental Health Guru)

Sadness vs. Depression (Mental Health Guru) – Everyone experiences sadness, loneliness and grief. But when depression symptoms don’t go away, the emotional toll can be devastating! mental.healthguru.com

World Mental Health Day To Raise Public Awareness About Mental Health Issues

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Apart from close family and friends, WHO advocates that health professionals work to diagnose depression in patients, especially young children and adolescents who are normally not thought to be affected by the illness. For people who are suffering …
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Depression up 'by half a million'

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She said more people were being affected by job losses and relationship breakdowns in the current economic climate. However, she said there had been a shift in society's perceptions of depression and doctors had become better at diagnosing it.
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Depression, a global burden disease

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"Thoughts of death, dying and even thoughts of killing oneself, these are the things that we look at when we talk about diagnosing depression," he said. "A person can be depressed and have one occurrence or it can be recurrent." He noted that dysthymia …
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