Every year major depression affects well over 18 million people, 6 percent of the total population of the United States. Counting spouses, significant others, parents, children, grandparents, doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, and friends, depression touches the lives of about 200 million people in the United States right now. These figures are similar for other developed countries.
- What exactly do you mean when you talk about stress?
- Do you have to have the genes for depression in order to get depressed?
- What role does genetics play in depression?
- How does unipolar major depression start?
- Is major depression primarily physical or mental?
- Can’t anyone have these diagnostic criteria?
- Are there blood tests or brain scans that diagnose unipolar major depression?
- Why are so many physical symptoms in the definition of depression?
- My sadness seems reasonable and bearable how much sadness is normal?
- What is the single most important symptom of unipolar major depression?
- Is depression a fad diagnosis?
- Why can’t everyone diagnose their own depression?
- How is unipolar major depression diagnosed?
- Why are there so many different names for depression?
- All this information seems overwhelming what can I do to fight all these problems?
- How can I gauge the severity of my depression and understand how it changes over time?
- What should I do if I am feeling suicidal?
- It seems like the way I think is different now that I am depressed. Could this be true?
- Was my depression caused by recent disappointments and failures?
- Is indecisiveness a symptom of depression?
