All Forms of Depression - Depression Types
Depression is a very complex illness. No-one really knows for certain what causes depression, and everyone's experience of depression is different. People with a depressive illness cannot merely "pull themselves together" and get better.
Depression can also categorize in the following manner -
- Depression that is originating from a bad or disturbing event in your life,
- Depression which appears without apparent cause - the most common.
Depression is the most unpleasant experience a person can endure. It is far more difficult to cope with than a physical ailment. Most people with a depressive illness do not seek treatment, although the great majority-even those whose depression is extremely severe-can be helped.
Types of Depression
Here is the list of some of the common types of depression :
Major Depression :- Major depression is characterized by a combination of symptoms, including sad mood (see symptom list), that interfere with the ability to work, sleep , eat, and enjoy once-pleasurable activities. Disabling episodes of depression can occur once, twice, or several times in a lifetime.
Dysthymia Disorder :- Dysthymia is a less severe type of depression. It involves long-term (chronic) symptoms that do not disable, but yet prevent the affected person from functioning at "full steam" or from feeling good. Sometimes, people with dysthymia also experience episodes of major depression. This combination of the two types of depression is referred to as double-depression.
Unspecified Depression - This category is used to help researchers who are studying other specific types of depression, and do not want their data confounded with marginal diagnoses. It includes people with a serious depression, but not quite severe enough to have a diagnosis of a major depression. It also includes people with chronic, moderate depression, which has not been present long enough for a diagnosis of a Dysthymic disorder. (You get the idea!)
Adjustment Disorder, with Depression - This category describes depression that occurs in response to a major life stressor or crisis.
Bipolar Disorder :- (also sometimes called manic depressive illness) is another depressive condition that involves periods of major depression mixed with periods of mania. Mania is the term for abnormally high mood and extreme bursts of unusual activity or energy.
There are two types of depression:
- Depression originating from a bad or disturbing event in your life
- Depression which appears without apparent cause - the most common
Other Most common Types of Depression
Clinical Depression, Manic Depression, Postpartum Depression, Teen Depression, Bipolar Depression, Major Depression, Atypical Depression
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