People with atypical depression are distinguished by the ability to change moods as they react to different events or activities around them. A person can feel happy when good things happen or feel even worse when events are unhappy or bad. But, in both instances, the predominant daily mood is depression.
Atypical depression is uncommon.
It is treated with antidepressants. Psychotherapy may also prove effective. The following nine symptoms are the most common and recognised indications of depression If someone is depressed, he or she will experience at least three or four of these symptoms at the same time. The symptoms will last two weeks or more and will be present all the time. These symptoms can affect a person of any age, from any social, economic or cultural group.