Women and Depression
WHAT IS "DEPRESSION"?
There are three types of depression:
- major depression, also known as unipolar or clinical depression, people have some
or all of the symptoms (listed on the next page) for at least 2 weeks or as long as
several months or even longer. Episodes of the illness can occur once, twice, or several
times in a lifetime.
- In dysthymia, the same symptoms are present though milder, but lasting at least
two years. People with dysthymia also can experience major depressive episodes, which is
sometimes called a "double depression."
- Manic-depression, or bipolar illness, which is not nearly as common as other
forms of depressive illness each year, and involves disruptive cycles of depressive
symptoms that alternate with euphoria, irritable excitement or mania
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