Our panel of experts will discuss how people get through this difficult time, and places you can turn for help. Watch the video . Many people, doctors and patients alike, think of depression as a natural consequence of having a chronic or terminal illness. Yet being depressed is not part and parcel of being ill or facing an illness. In fact, people meet the emotional challenges and adjustments of illness in a myriad of ways.
Major depression is a potentially severe complication.
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