Blog 1-Depression Awareness

As being a common mood disorder, depression is also known as major depression disorder or clinical depression. Depression is a mood disorder that can affect an individual feeling of sadness that is persistent and tends to affect their cognitive, physical, and mood as being some of their symptoms. Major depression disorder (MDD) when it can lead to not being able to do daily activities and having the feeling of not worth of living which from Mayo Clinic site has mentioned as well (Mayo Clinic, 2018). According to National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM), it states that it causes severe symptoms of that affects how you feel, think and function throughout your day which is present for at least two weeks to be diagnosed with depression.  There are many forms of depression and they are: Persistent depressive disorder (also called dysthymia) is a depressed mood that lasts for at least two years and have episodes of MDD; Postpartum depression  is when women with postpartum d...