For example, I see patients and also supervise graduate students who see patients. I also teach abnormal psychology at the University of Houston and work with graduate students on their research. In addition, I do research. It's exciting to design a project, study a problem, reap the data, and then be able to look at the numbers and detect a pattern. Such research helps us better understand what we're doing in treatment and the nature of various kinds of problems that people have.
Clinical depression involves more than just feeling blue.
It's a change in mood that won't go away and interferes with daily functioning. Some of the symptoms are fatigue, loss of appetite, difficulty in sleeping, and loss of interest in sex. Depression has its roots in a person's psychological and biological make-up as well as in the person's environment. Depression is a common problem and one that many people don't recognize, even though they themselves may be severely depressed or living or working with a depressed person. I have also become interested in how to detect depression in different settings.