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Clinical Depression: a disease like any other. Clinical depression is defined as "a mood or emotional state that is marked by sadness, inactivity and a reduced ability to enjoy life"(2:21). Depression is very different from the blues that people feel at one time ....

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.... It was treated with exorcism, flogging and torture to drive the evil spirits from the body. It wasn't until the late 19th and early 20th centuries that physicians had a more scientific view on depression. Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer discovered that depression is a psychological and not a demonic force or organic abnormality. Depression is caused by many factors. The loss of a loved one during childhood or other traumatic experiments (ie. abuse) can increase person's chances of developing depression later on in life. The number one cause of depression is stress. The everyday stresses in life can build up and cause a pers ....