Clinical Depression

Clinical depression is a state of intense sadness, melancholia. Clinical depression is characterized by a combination of symptoms, including sad moods that interfere with the ability to work, sleep, eat, and enjoy otherwise pleasurable activities. Disabling episodes of clinical depression can occur once, twice, or several times in a lifetime. Clinical depression affects about 15% of the population on at least one occasion in their lives. Clinical depression is not just grief or sadness. It is an illness that can challenge your ability to perform even routine daily activities. At its worst, clinical depression may lead you to contemplate or commit suicide. Depression can make you feel hopeless and helpless. But just taking the first step, deciding to get treatment, can make all the difference. depression is very treatable. Most patients, even those with severe depression, show improvement after they seek treatment. Your doctor will prescribe treatment based on the pattern of your depression, its severity, persistence of symptoms, and history.