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There are of course different types of depression.

The most common,

what many people casually refer to is depression, but the most common forms of this

mood disorder is dysthymia and what it's known for is Anadonia, which is a loss of interest or pleasure in our daily activities,

along with a lack of productivity and certain degrees of psychomotor impairment and I'll talk

about that in a little while. There is in addition to that, cognitive results, including pessimism, feelings of

pointlessness and gravitation towards isolation,

as well as feelings of inadequacy.

Distemia is, can generally be low grade to the degree that people can still function, they can still show up for jobs. They can still be in relationship. They can function, but still there's this

ongoing mood state that doesn't very often, people fall back into this baseline state of a low grade

disappointment and a sense of bleakness, a sense of pessimism, and so forth.

Now, major depression differs from dysthymia not only due to its severity but due to the inevitability of what's called

decompensation. Decompensation is when it's not just a mood disorder but the behavioral changes or the

behavioral implications are severe. The individual can no longer function.

Very often an inability to feel any reason to get out of bed, to clean, to eat. And of course, most commonly there will be constant suicidal ideations.

Major depression as opposed to dystemia, very often will require at different points psychiatric

intake and it has very often, if it happens in older populations, neurological underpinnings.

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