Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

Hope everyone is doing well, navigating through the pandemic.

As I say every week, this is an absolute pleasure and something I look forward to doing on a weekly basis.

Today's topic, I'm going to start with, for introduce the topic, I'm going to start with, um, for introduce the topic, I'm going to start with a lyric out of a Springsteen song, um, racing in the streets.

And the lyric is she sits on the porch of her daddy's house.

All their pretty dreams have been torn.

She stares off alone and to the night with the eyes of one who hates for just being born.

Depression.

Another disorder, if you listened to my episode last week, that will take your God-filled soul and fill it with devils and dust.

There are several types of depression.

There's major depressive disorder, and we rated it as either mild, moderate, severe, single episode, recurrent, with or without psychotic features.

There's something called what used to be called dyshthymia, which is persistent depressive disorder.

And it could have specifiers such as with intermittent major depressive disorder,

our major depressive disorder episodes.

Think of New Guinea the Pooh-Ior.

That's dys stymia.

It's a low-line depression, similar to the blues.

Probably one of the most frequent disorders diagnosed from a neuropsychological perspective, from a psychiatric perspective, treated from a therapeutic

perspective, treated from a psychopharmacological perspective.

And the initial work on the development of cognitive real therapy was on individuals with major

depressive disorder now i think we have all experienced at different points of our lives

feelings of sadness feelings of despair feelings of despair, feelings of hopelessness, feelings of I just can't get out of my own way.

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