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These are several questions and answers about the disease called depression. Please read all of these carefully, since it is very important that you understand your disease as thoroughly as possible.
l. WHAT IS DEPRESSION? It is a disease affecting the entire mind and body, causing a person to feel miserable in many ways. Changes in brain chemistry make it happen. It is a brain disease.
2. WHAT CAUSES DEPRESSION? We do not know. We used to think it was due to something unhappy in a person's life or to some psychological hang-up. We now know, however, that this disease happens to people who have no reason "to be depressed." In other words, depression can strike normal and healthy people.
3. DOES HAVING A DEPRESSION MEAN THAT A PERSON IS GOING " CRAZY "? NO, but it will very often make him think he is.
4. IS IT A COMMON DISEASE? Yes, it is the most common disease seen in all of medicine; however, it is often confused with other illnesses. For example, many people who think, or who are told, they have low blood, vitamin deficiency, sinus headaches, low sugar, menopause, burnout, and " all run-down and need a res t" actually have depression that causes their troubles.
5. WHAT TROUBLE DOES A PERSON HAVE WHO HAS DEPRESSION? A person who has depression will usually feel most of the following things:
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6. IS THIS REALLY A SERIOUS DISEASE?
7. CAN A PERSON DO ANYTHING TO FIGHT BRAIN DISEASE?
8. IS THERE ANY EFFECTIVE TREATMENT?
9. ARE THERE MEDICINES TRANQUILIZERS, SLEEPING PILLS, PAIN PILLS, HORMONE PILLS?
10. ARE ANTIDEPRESSANTS ADDICTING?
11. DO THEY HAVE SIDE EFFECTS?
12. ARE ANTIDEPRESSANTS THE SAME AS "PEP PILLS" OR "UPPERS?"
13. HOW LONG DOES A PERSON HAVE TO TAKE ANTIDEPRESSANTS?
14. DOES THIS DISEASE HAPPEN TO A PERSON WITHOUT ANYTHING IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE CAUSING IT?
15. WHAT SHOULD I TELL MY SPOUSE OR RELATIVES ABOUT DEPRESSION?
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