The distinction, though clinically significant, makes no difference to the person experiencing the symptoms of mental illness. Future articles will delve into them separately and provide factual information on each one in detail. Major mental illnesses are those that present obvious and undeniable signs and symptoms, both to the person experiencing them and to those observing them. They are often severe enough to prevent a person from working, playing and fulfilling responsibilities.
Major Depression Is a major mental illness of mood or affect.
This is depression. There is no pleasure no excitement and no interst in people or a life once cherished. There is flatness, nothingness and psychic pain. Suicide is a result for too common in untreated depression. Despite the depressed person feelings to the contrary, depression is a highly treatable illness.