The emotion may be the same, but it is accompanied by a set of physical and psychological symptoms, and is unrelenting, inescapable, and disabling. The failure to think of depressive disorder as an illness is probably one of the most serious mistakes in medicine today. About 5.2 percent of men and 10.2 percent of women can be expected to have a depressive disorder during their lifetime. They are different than their usual selves. The symptoms are usually present every day in a kind of relentless way and lead to inability to perform in school, work, or home.
Depression affects all aspects of life.
People who were independent become dependent, people who were happy and outgoing become quiet and withdrawn, people who were sensitive become painfully over-sensitive and anxious. It can happen to anyone. There is no distinction in race or socioeconomic status. Although the most common depression has a genetic vulnerability and runs in families, clinical depression can also occur with other psychiatric disorders such as drug and alcohol abuse as well as physical disorders such as stroke, myocardial infarct, and endocrine disorders and can be precipitated by certain medications. All these things need to be determined by your physician.