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Depression often runs in families. This may due to your genes (inherited), learned behavior, or both. Even if your genes make you more likely to develop depression, a stressful or unhappy life event usually triggers the onset of a depressive episo...

Source:ADAM

Date:January 20, 2009

Depression

The guidelines for diagnosis of major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder are found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , Fourth Edition ( DSM IV ). In addition to an interview, several clinical inventories or scale...

Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine

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