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Effects of Depression

In today’s day and age many different types of disorders affect people. Many of them people are born with, such as Down Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis. While some people get from their environment or activities they participate in, such as a sexually active person can acquire a sexually transmitted infection. But others occur for unknown reasons and they can just appear and attack the person, one of the most prevalent of these is Depression.
When one mentions the mental illness of depression, one can state one of many things. Such as Atypical Depression, Bipolar Depression, otherwise called manic- depressive disorder, and dysthymia are a few of the Depression types. (Goldberg) There are different causes of Depression, different depending on different situations. Some types of depression run in families, suggesting that a biological vulnerability can be inherited. This seems to be the case with bipolar depression. Studies of families in which members of each generation develo...

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