Everybody's mood varies according to events in the world around them.
People are happy when they achieve something or saddened when they fail a
test or lose something. When they are sad, some people say they are
'depressed', but the clinical depressions that are seen by doctors differ
from the low mood brought on by everyday setbacks. Psychiatrists see a
range of more severe mood disturbances and so find it easier to
distinguish these from the normal variations of mood seen in the
community. General practitioners (GP's) need to be sensitive enough to
distinguish emotional reactions to setbacks in life from anxiety
syndromes, somatisation and clinical depressions. The general idea is
that anxiety disorders, depressive episodes, somatisation and adjustment
reactions are all different entities, but in practice it is not always
that clear-cut. Major depression, as defined by psychiatrists, is
unfortunately relatively common. What is depression? The term "affect"
refers......

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Title: Depression
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