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Clinical depression is known by a number of terms, including:

- Major Depressive Disorder
- Unipolar Depression
- Unipolar Disorder
- Major depression

Depression is perhaps the most common psychiatric complaint and involves feelings of sadness, hopelessness, pessimism and personal uselessness. These feelings are quite normal for everyone to experience at some stage in their lives. Clinical depression, however, involves these feelings when they are disproportionate to the determined cause of the depression – being disproportionate in length of time or severity.


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