Clinical Depression Essay

Depression (major depressive disorder or clinical depression) is a common but serious mood disorder. It causes severe symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities, such as sleeping, eating or working. To be diagnosed with a form of depression symptoms must be present over a period of two weeks (Health, 2016).
When a person state that they are sad or down, this does not necessarily mean that the person is depressed, everyone will have moments in their life where they feel unhappy. This may be caused by a certain event in the person’s life, example are, bad grades, death of a loved one, or a bad day at the office, for a person to be diagnosed with depression, they must visit a doctor where he will ask pertinent questions …show more content…
The reason for this is that there are different forms of depression that can affect a person, such as persistent depressive disorder, which lasts two years whereby the person may have less severe symptoms, but must last two years, postpartum depression, also called baby blues, which affects women after a birth of a child, this can last up to two weeks, causing the mother to feel overwhelmed with sadness, anxiety, and exhaustion and may have an effect on how she cares for the baby and herself, (Health, …show more content…
In my opinion, gender does not take a great part in depression but is the cultural, biological and environmental aspect of life that take a toll on the different individual in different