The Symptoms Of Major Depression

Sadness is an emotion central to human experience. For most, it is an appropriate and adaptive response to loss, perceived failure, or rejection. It can inform us when something is amiss in our lives that we may need to address. Ideally, it is a transient emotional experience, that fades as circumstances change or evolve. For some individuals, however, sadness persists for weeks , months, or years, invariant to situation or time. Depression is an emotional disorder defined by this persistence. It is not unidimensional, but instead exists on a continuum defined by severity, chronicity, and subtype.
Major depression is the most serious and severe of the depressive mood disorders. Depression affects an estimated one in 15 adults –