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Newport Beach, Irvine, South OC - Our safe secure office quietly and effectively treats clients residing in many wonderful Southern California, South Orange County Ca communities, including Newport Beach, Irvine, Lake Forest, Tustin, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Orange, Fountain Valley, Anaheim, San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente, Dana Point, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Beach, Mission Viejo, Aliso Viejo, and even all of Orange County.
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Feelings of depression can be an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. A depressive disorder is not the same as feeling “down” or “blue.” It is not a “bad mood” or a condition that can be willed or wished away. People with a depressive illness cannot merely "pull themselves together" and get better. Without treatment, symptoms of clinical depression can last for weeks, months, or years. Appropriate treatment for clinical depression, however, can help most people who suffer from clinical depression. The exact cause of clinical depression is not clear. Sometimes, a stressful event can cause one to feel depressed. Sometimes it seems to happen for no reason at all.
-- Susan Melchior MFT
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Newport Beach, Irvine, South OC
What is Clinical Depression?
Source: University Health Services Berkeley.Edu
When we refer to depression in the following pages, we are talking about "clinical depression." Clinical depression is a serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Individuals with clinical depression are unable to function as they used to. Often they have lost interest in activities that were once enjoyable to them, and feel sad and hopeless for extended periods of time. Clinical depression is not the same as feeling sad or depressed for a few days and then feeling better. It can affect your body, mood, thoughts, and behavior. It can change your eating habits, how you feel and think, your ability to work and study, and how you interact with people. People who suffer from clinical depression often report that they "don't feel like themselves anymore."
Clinical depression is not a sign of personal weakness, or a condition that can be willed away. Clinically depressed people cannot "pull themselves together" and get better. In fact, clinical depression often interferes with a person's ability or wish to get help. Clinical depression is a serious illness that lasts for weeks, months and sometimes years. It may even influence someone to contemplate or attempt suicide.
People of all ages, genders, ethnicities, cultures, and religions can suffer from clinical depression. Each year it affects over 17 million American men and women (source: American Psychiatric Association). While clinical depression is common, it is frequently unrecognized and untreated.
There are different types and levels of clinical depression. Mental health counselors and psychiatrists are trained to diagnose and treat clinical depression. With the right treatment, most people who seek help get better within several months. Many people begin to feel better in just a few weeks.
Newport Beach, Irvine, South OC
Common Symptoms of Clinical Depression
There are different forms of clinical depression with different combinations of the following symptoms:
Types of Depression:
Clinical depression can come in different forms. It may start suddenly or build up over a period of weeks, months, or years. The following are descriptions of the three most prevalent forms, though for an individual, the number, severity and duration of the symptoms may vary.
Major Depression: a combination of symptoms (described above) that interfere with one's ability to work, sleep, eat and enjoy once pleasurable activities. These episodes can occur once, twice or several times in a lifetime.
Dysthymia: a less intense type of depression that involves long-term, chronic symptoms that are less severe, but keep one from functioning at full ability and from feeling good.
Bipolar Disorder (also known as manic-depressive illness): periods of depression alternate with periods of elation and increased activity, known as mania.
How Is Clinical Depression Different From Normal Stress and Sadness?
Feeling sad and depressed is often a normal reaction to a stressful life situation.
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Newport Beach, Irvine, South OC - Our safe secure office quietly and effectively treats clients residing in many wonderful Southern California, South Orange County Ca communities, including Newport Beach, Irvine, Lake Forest, Tustin, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Orange, Fountain Valley, Anaheim, San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente, Dana Point, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Beach, Mission Viejo, Aliso Viejo, and even all of Orange County.
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Feelings of depression can be an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. A depressive disorder is not the same as feeling “down” or “blue.” It is not a “bad mood” or a condition that can be willed or wished away. People with a depressive illness cannot merely "pull themselves together" and get better. Without treatment, symptoms of clinical depression can last for weeks, months, or years. Appropriate treatment for clinical depression, however, can help most people who suffer from clinical depression. The exact cause of clinical depression is not clear. Sometimes, a stressful event can cause one to feel depressed. Sometimes it seems to happen for no reason at all.
-- Susan Melchior MFT
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Newport Beach, Irvine, South OC
What is Clinical Depression?
Source: University Health Services Berkeley.Edu
When we refer to depression in the following pages, we are talking about "clinical depression." Clinical depression is a serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Individuals with clinical depression are unable to function as they used to. Often they have lost interest in activities that were once enjoyable to them, and feel sad and hopeless for extended periods of time. Clinical depression is not the same as feeling sad or depressed for a few days and then feeling better. It can affect your body, mood, thoughts, and behavior. It can change your eating habits, how you feel and think, your ability to work and study, and how you interact with people. People who suffer from clinical depression often report that they "don't feel like themselves anymore."
Clinical depression is not a sign of personal weakness, or a condition that can be willed away. Clinically depressed people cannot "pull themselves together" and get better. In fact, clinical depression often interferes with a person's ability or wish to get help. Clinical depression is a serious illness that lasts for weeks, months and sometimes years. It may even influence someone to contemplate or attempt suicide.
People of all ages, genders, ethnicities, cultures, and religions can suffer from clinical depression. Each year it affects over 17 million American men and women (source: American Psychiatric Association). While clinical depression is common, it is frequently unrecognized and untreated.
There are different types and levels of clinical depression. Mental health counselors and psychiatrists are trained to diagnose and treat clinical depression. With the right treatment, most people who seek help get better within several months. Many people begin to feel better in just a few weeks.
Newport Beach, Irvine, South OC
Common Symptoms of Clinical DepressionThere are different forms of clinical depression with different combinations of the following symptoms:
- Sleep disturbances-insomnia, oversleeping, waking much earlier than usual
- Changes in appetite or eating: much more or much less
- Decreased energy, fatigue
- Headaches, stomachaches, digestive problems or other physical symptoms that are not explained by other physical conditions or do not respond to treatment
- Loss of interest or pleasure in activities that were once enjoyed, such as going out with friends, hobbies, sports, sex, etc.
- Difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions
- Neglecting responsibilities or personal appearance
- Persistent sad or "empty" mood, lasting two or more weeks
- Crying "for no reason"
- Feeling hopeless, helpless, guilty or worthless
- Feeling irritable, agitated or anxious
- Thoughts of death or suicide
Types of Depression:
Clinical depression can come in different forms. It may start suddenly or build up over a period of weeks, months, or years. The following are descriptions of the three most prevalent forms, though for an individual, the number, severity and duration of the symptoms may vary.
Major Depression: a combination of symptoms (described above) that interfere with one's ability to work, sleep, eat and enjoy once pleasurable activities. These episodes can occur once, twice or several times in a lifetime.
Dysthymia: a less intense type of depression that involves long-term, chronic symptoms that are less severe, but keep one from functioning at full ability and from feeling good.
Bipolar Disorder (also known as manic-depressive illness): periods of depression alternate with periods of elation and increased activity, known as mania.
How Is Clinical Depression Different From Normal Stress and Sadness?
Feeling sad and depressed is often a normal reaction to a stressful life situation.
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Newport Beach, Irvine, South OC
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Newport Beach, Irvine, South OC - There is a very big connection when you are talking about depression and memory loss and this is because of how depression works and how it affects the body and the mind. At its most unpleasant, depression leaves a small amount of corners of the human mind safe and sound. Countless people suffering from this unremitting illness misplace their appetites, their facility to forty winks more often than not, their sex drive, and the very capability to benefit from the simplest contentment's. Surrounded by the additional obvious of the fatalities is memory.
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Scientists are probing the association sandwiched between depression and memory-some in hopes of being on the road to recovery treatments, others to perk up considerate of the deep connections stuck between mind, mood, and memory. By means of brain imaging modus operandi, we are yet to see a commencement to observe a number of those connections.
-- Newport Beach, South Orange County
Comment by Depression Therapy Newport Beach on 11:34 PM May 12, 2009
Newport Beach, South OC - The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a report stating that the number of people who experience depression is doubling every ten years and that by 2020 it will be the most pervasive illness in the world and the second leading cause of death. WHO also states that depression currently ranks second only to heart disease as the leading cause of disabilities associated with illness.
IRVINE - Unfortunately, depression will touch almost every single person during their lifetimes. They will either experience it themselves or know someone who has. Those who do experience depression may suffer its hideous effects for decades or even for a lifetime. Why is depression currently so pervasive? Furthermore, why is the number of people who will experience it projected to increase at such a rapid rate? But, most importantly, is there a method for overcoming it?
Comment by Robert in Irvine So. Orange County on 11:39 PM May 12, 2009
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