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Clinical Depression
Clinical depression (also called major depressive disorder, or unipolar depression when compared to bipolar disorder) is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living.
Although a low mood or state of dejection that does not affect functioning is often colloquially referred to as depression,
clinical depression is a clinical diagnosis and may be different from
the everyday meaning of "being depressed." Many people identify the
feeling of being clinically depressed as "feeling sad for no reason",
or "having no motivation to do anything." A person suffering from
depression may feel tired, sad, irritable, lazy, unmotivated, and apathetic.
Clinical depression is generally acknowledged to be more serious than
normal depressed feelings. It often leads to constant negative thinking
and sometimes substance abuse. Extreme depression can culminate in its sufferers attempting or committing suicide.1
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_depression
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