Depression Information

 

Summary

 

BELOW are the main topics we have covered in Depression Information, Section 1 of the Depression Learning Path. If you are not sure about any of them, you can check back now before progressing to Section 2, Understanding Depression.

 

• How a diagnosis of clinical depression is made
• The symptoms of clinical depression
• Some online depression tests
• The truth about the causes of depression
• The fact that the root cause of over 90% of depression is not a chemical imbalance
• The link between stress and depression
• Depression and genes
• The fact that the rate of depression is growing most quickly in children and teens
• How to spot if your child or teenager is depressed
• The incredible increase in major depression, and the reasons why