Together the two rob a person of their happiness and self-worth, and easily wreak havoc on innocent lives. It's amazing to look at the statistics and discover the multitudes of people that suffer from depression while this, just as with eating disorders, still appears to be an enigma to understanding. Over 19 million over age 18 are considered to be clinically depressed, or 1 out of 5 people in general society.
Depression is so common that it is second only to heart disease in causing lost workdays.
There are indeed three different kinds of depression - normal, mild, and then severe. What is different about normal depression from mild and severe cases is that most people eventually recover and return to their typical moods after encountering normal depression. When the moods of a person do not lift, and instead continue, then mild depression is setting in. Many times the mildly depressed person has nothing to hold accountable for their change of moods. Doctors and therapists should carefully watch over a person with mild depression because often times the mild depression will start out this way, but eventually progress into severe depression.