I hope I got your attention. The seriousness of depression can range from mild symptoms to the lethality of a completed suicide. Most of us have already experienced a mild depression by the time we have reached young adulthood.
Mild depressions are usually a reaction to a loss of change that is experienced as stressful.
Examples include the break-up of a romantic relationship, feeling left out of your peer group, conflict with parents, changing schools, harassment, and moving. If enough of these stressors are present, depressive symptoms can be very serious. Sometimes, however, depression is more insidious and seems to come out of the blue without any change in life events. Psychological studies show that some types of depression are genetic and, therefore, run in families. In these instances, depression is usually associated with an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain that affect mood, sleep and appetite.