Rough Draft: Clinical Depression

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Depression Rough Draft Depression is an illness that can be either clinical or regular depression. If you are feeling down or sad for two or more weeks without improvement, it is likely you have clinical depression. Clinical depression is treatable with both medication and counseling.

A lot of people suffer from depression ( about 20% of people). That 20% of people could have a different serotonin and norepinephrine. Women are more prone to have depression than men.

People who have depression do not usually show it. About the only way that people find out that someone has depression is if somebody close to them notices different behavior in their normal routine or if they show any other signs of depression: not interested in things that

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